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April 22, 2026
Investor AIM Ventura Capital Fund LLC and Gabb Wireless founder Stephen Dalby clashed Wednesday before the Delaware Supreme Court over whether a lower court wrongly denied a contract remedy and imposed a multimillion-dollar fee award in a bitter governance dispute.
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April 22, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel sharply questioned both sides Wednesday over when, if ever, Parliament-Funkadelic co-founder George Clinton clearly rejected a decades-old royalty deal with the band's former keyboardist, signaling uncertainty about whether the late musician's estate waited too long to sue.
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April 22, 2026
New York's highest court has dismissed a murder charge against a man who was convicted by a jury after three others had deadlocked, finding that prosecutors failed to justify a more than three-year delay in going for the fourth trial.
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April 22, 2026
The North American Soccer League pressed the Second Circuit for a new antitrust trial against Major League Soccer and soccer's U.S. governing body Wednesday, arguing that it was hamstrung by the trial court's jury instructions regarding a "relevant market" for professional soccer.
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April 22, 2026
The Tenth Circuit is allowing part of the Comanche Nation's challenge to the Fort Sill Apache Tribe's Oklahoma casino to continue, finding on Tuesday that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act invalidates sovereign immunity in the dispute, while rejecting claims that the defense also applies to racketeering allegations against tribal officials in individual capacities.
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April 22, 2026
Telecommunications giant Liberty Global is not entitled to a $2.4 billion deduction tied to transactions with its foreign affiliates, the Tenth Circuit ruled in a long-awaited opinion, siding with the U.S. government in finding the arrangement is a tax shelter lacking economic substance.
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April 22, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by Philip Morris USA Inc. to impose rules aimed at curbing big-dollar punitive damages awards, declining to wipe out or further reduce a verdict against the tobacco company that was already slashed from $1 billion to $56 million.
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April 22, 2026
Uber and DoorDash cannot temporarily block New York City laws regulating how they display gratuity options as an appeal moves forward, the Second Circuit ruled, finding the companies failed to show that an injunction is warranted.
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April 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying his claims are not preempted by the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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April 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to overturn a Sixth Circuit decision that rebuffed Enbridge's efforts to transfer from state court to federal court a lawsuit from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel seeking to shut down a pipeline between the U.S. and Canada.
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April 21, 2026
The full Fifth Circuit Tuesday narrowly signed off on a Texas law requiring public schools to post copies of the Ten Commandments in classrooms, ruling that the law is indeed constitutional and reversing a lower court's injunction blocking the measure.
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April 21, 2026
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP announced Tuesday it is amping up its appellate practice with the addition of four Sullivan & Cromwell LLP litigators, including former acting Solicitor General Jeffrey B. Wall and Morgan L. Ratner, who have worked on the appeal of President Donald Trump's New York hush money conviction.
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April 21, 2026
An Ohio appeals panel raised several questions on Tuesday about the manageability of a bid to designate Google's search engine as a common carrier and whether the effort would regulate online speech.
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April 21, 2026
A staffing company and New Jersey's public transportation provider must face in court claims they negligently caused a vehicle crash that killed a woman, a state appeals court ruled, saying there isn't proper evidence to support the claim the woman signed an arbitration clause.
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April 21, 2026
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court.
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April 21, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel tossed on Tuesday an award of $123,000 in attorney fees to defense counsel after their win in a medical malpractice trial, ruling that a state judge failed to show how she arrived at the figure.
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April 21, 2026
A Texas appellate court wanted to know when the clock started ticking to file suit in a trespassing case involving an energy company that allegedly interfered with nearby wells by injecting toxic gas underground, asking Tuesday whether the nearly $42 million verdict against the energy company should stand.
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April 21, 2026
Several U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed convinced Tuesday that Federal Communications Commission fines are nonbinding unless enforced and don't deprive alleged rule violators of the right to a jury trial, but some colleagues still questioned whether the parties sanctioned by the agency have a meaningful chance of facing a jury.
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April 21, 2026
This round of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues includes a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court appeal with global implications for copyrights, and OpenAI's setback in its effort to register "ChatGPT" as a trademark.
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April 21, 2026
The Seventh Circuit declined Tuesday to revive vaping interest groups' bid to halt enforcement of a Wisconsin law banning sales of e-cigarettes that aren't approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, finding federal law doesn't preempt the state's authority to regulate the marketing and sales of tobacco products.
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April 21, 2026
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.
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April 21, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a Los Angeles man convicted of insider trading on tips from a JPMorgan Chase analyst, holding that a lower court erred by not excusing a juror who expressed concerns about his ability to be fair.
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April 21, 2026
Disapproval of criminal gangs or opposition to them is not enough to establish a protected political opinion for asylum purposes, the Board of Immigration Appeals ruled on Tuesday, affirming an immigration judge's denial of an El Salvadoran woman's application.
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April 21, 2026
A Black former Tesla employee told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the company's win in arbitration over his race discrimination claims shouldn't stand because the process was administered improperly, while the electric vehicle company countered that the arbitrator was well within her authority.
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April 21, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a man's murder conviction but overturned part of a lower court's decision that found state prosecutors were not obligated to disclose that a state's witness in his trial gave false testimony in another case.