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August 18, 2026
The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak havoc" without accountability, top tech companies have warned the U.S. Supreme Court.
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August 18, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit ruled Monday that a Florida county court clerk violated the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments by taking funds deposited in a court registry as part of an eviction proceeding, because the clerk's notice to the owner of the funds was not reasonably calculated to reach him.
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August 18, 2026
The Texas attorney general has asked the First Circuit to revive his Texas-based lawsuit against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue after a Massachusetts federal court blocked it, saying the federal judge improperly stymied his state-based fraud claims.
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August 18, 2026
The Fifth Circuit refused Tuesday to revive a private water utility's antitrust case targeting Texas' San Jacinto River Authority contract fees designed to reduce groundwater use, concluding that the contract was not designed to fix prices.
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August 18, 2026
The federal government urged the Fourth Circuit to review a split panel's decision requiring the CIA and Office of the Director of National Intelligence to allow intelligence officers who were fired for their involvement with assignments related to DEI and accessibility to appeal their terminations.
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August 18, 2026
Georgia's justices said they will not take up the case of a woman who alleged she was injured when a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus driver started driving while she was still paying her fare, allowing a summary judgment ruling in favor of MARTA and the driver to stand.
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August 18, 2026
A Florida entrepreneur and engineer accused of failing to deliver on a marijuana extraction system known as the Green Machine will get an opportunity to convince a jury he's not on the hook for the device, a state appeals court ruled, saying a trial is needed to determine whether he is personally responsible.
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August 18, 2026
A Texas appellate court tossed counterclaims brought by the former CEO of defunct conservative fintech company GloriFi against an erstwhile investor, saying he failed to show the investor defamed him.
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August 18, 2026
The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday reconsidered a challenge from banking groups to a Colorado law intended to curb high-cost lending by out-of-state banks, pressing counsel on the practicality of Colorado's law and the history of a federal interest rate law.
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August 18, 2026
The Third Circuit has ruled that the government was not required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt the chain of custody for narcotics shown to a jury in a drug conspiracy and distribution case.
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August 18, 2026
The deadline for filing a petition in the U.S. Tax Court isn't a jurisdictional bar that prevents the court from hearing a Maine company's late-filed challenge of a transferee liability notice for unpaid taxes, but the deadline can't be extended to create fairness, the First Circuit said.
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August 18, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to reconsider a ruling that Nielsen cannot tie together sales of its local and national radio data, sustaining a win for the troubled Cumulus Media New Holdings Inc. even as the company tries to enforce the lower court's order against the ratings giant.
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August 18, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a district court injunction blocking a 2025 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy that loosened prior restrictions on immigration enforcement in houses of worship, finding it likely burdens the free exercise of religion.
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August 18, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was right when it declined to eliminate claims in a pair of fuel injection patents owned by Westport Fuel Systems Canada Inc., saying that Mercedes-Benz and an engineering and technology company didn't prove the invention's obviousness.
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August 18, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the conviction and sentences of a Florida pain doctor and a salesman found guilty of participating in a kickback conspiracy for prescribing a fentanyl spray, ruling prosecutors had "overwhelming" evidence the men knowingly participated in "sham" drug promotion events.
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August 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court must deny President Donald Trump's bid to lift a ban on construction of a White House ballroom, a historical preservation nonprofit told the justices Tuesday, contending that a ruling in the president's favor would wrongly enable him to continue usurping Congress' authority and dodging judicial review.
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August 18, 2026
Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims' families have asked the Texas Supreme Court to dissolve an appeals court order blocking a receiver from deploying the assets of Alex Jones' Free Speech Systems LLC, saying the company is stalling a $1.3 billion judgment collection effort without posting the required bond.
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August 18, 2026
A Michigan appellate court panel on Monday revived Corewell Health's suit seeking recovery of nearly $900,000 from State Farm Insurance for hyperbaric oxygen therapy that was provided to a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bike.
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August 18, 2026
The Trump administration has urged the Sixth Circuit to revive its prosecution of Kilmar Ábrego García on human smuggling charges after the administration mistakenly deported him to El Salvador, arguing a Tennessee federal judge erred in finding a tainted investigation.
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August 18, 2026
A California state appeals court has affirmed a lower court's determination that a partnership agreement tied to a group of medical marijuana dispensaries could not be enforced because it called for operations that violated a Los Angeles city ordinance.
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August 18, 2026
The Third Circuit scrapped Tuesday an early win handed to a Kutztown University professor who claimed she faced disability discrimination when her requests to teach remotely to manage an autoimmune condition were denied, ruling the lower court was too quick to resolve the case given the disputes at play.
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August 18, 2026
MMA Law Firm has urged the Fifth Circuit to vacate a Texas federal district court ruling against it, arguing the district court did not have jurisdiction to hear an appeal of a bankruptcy court's decision to grant summary judgment in favor of a New Orleans law firm that took over hurricane damage cases that MMA had filed.
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August 18, 2026
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appellate court on Tuesday affirmed a pretrial win for the city of Chelsea in a suit by a building owner whose property was damaged by sewer water, pointing to an insufficient demand letter sent before the case was filed.
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August 18, 2026
Delaware's Department of Justice wants the state's high court to undo a ruling allowing the ACLU to obtain Saul Ewing LLP invoices for work on a federal lawsuit over prison medical care, saying the decision puts "a new burden of proof on agencies" when dealing with public records requests.
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August 18, 2026
A public school teacher can claim credit in Pennsylvania's pension system for her years of service in Arizona because of an apparent "loophole" that doesn't bar such carryovers if the employee has cashed out their other state pension, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.