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May 19, 2026
A Michigan appellate court panel has affirmed a tax ruling against a medical equipment company, holding that prescription gauze, bandages, gloves, wound dressings and related supplies sold to disabled patients do not qualify as tax-exempt prosthetic devices under the state's General Sales Tax Act.
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May 19, 2026
An Ohio appeals court has ruled that sufficient evidence exists that a man had the state of mind necessary to commit burglary and kidnapping offenses despite later being declared mentally incompetent to stand trial and confined in a mental hospital.
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May 19, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit has revived a suit alleging Alabama Power Co.'s plan to cap a 21-million-ton coal ash dump violates federal regulations, ruling that the environmental group suing the company clearly had standing and that its suit "should not have been dismissed."
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May 19, 2026
The District of Columbia said neither federal law nor the D.C. Code authorizes the president's deployment of the D.C. National Guard for law-enforcement activities in the district, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the deployment.
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May 19, 2026
A Second Circuit panel on Tuesday refused to grant the North American Soccer League a new antitrust trial against Major League Soccer and soccer's U.S. governing body, concluding that the defunct league waived any arguments about market definition, and even if it didn't, its assertions still fail.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission asked the Fifth Circuit to put its appeal on hold in a case challenging the agency's effort to overhaul its premerger filing requirements, to give enforcers time to consider developing a new revision.
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May 19, 2026
Chief District Judge Richard Seeborg is expected to conclude his time as the top judge for the Northern District of California in July, according to a spokesperson for the judiciary, to be succeeded by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
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May 19, 2026
Two onetime Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP attorneys accused of violating a joint defense agreement in a federal criminal healthcare fraud investigation should not be able to avail themselves of a Texas attorney immunity doctrine, according to two co-defendants who allege they were offered as "sacrificial lambs" in a "double-cross that would make good fiction."
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May 19, 2026
A man's conviction for attempting to influence a public servant was upheld by the Colorado Supreme Court, which ruled that a state law covers defendants who use another person to pass along false information to a public official.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a pair of patent infringement suits from patent owners that licensed their intellectual property to other parties, finding that the companies met the minimum constitutional requirements to show they had standing to sue.
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May 19, 2026
The U.S. solicitor general urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to wade into a religious bias case challenging New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing that a Second Circuit decision backing the case's dismissal did not undermine federal civil rights law.
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May 19, 2026
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices seemed torn Tuesday between the idea that the state's Department of Transportation doesn't "own" everything above and below its roadways and the concept that the agency could duck liability for obvious risks like falling branches or crumbling bridges.
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May 19, 2026
Potential splits emerged Tuesday between D.C. Circuit judges questioning the legality of the U.S. Department of Defense's move to bar Anthropic from government contracting, with the AI company claiming it had been targeted and smeared as a national security threat for nothing more than a contract dispute.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit won't reconsider its rejection of a chemical manufacturer's argument that federal law required its claim for a petroleum derivative duty refund to be processed automatically, despite the company's claim that the court misconstrued the relevant law and precedent.
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May 19, 2026
Two former marketing company employees said they're going to ask the Second Circuit to revive their proposed class action alleging that 401(k) plan forfeitures were misused after a New York federal judge dismissed their case in April.
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May 19, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court found Tuesday that the state's sexual harassment laws allow for suits against individuals in the academic world as well as their educational institutions, reviving a claim against a former MIT-affiliated lab director.
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May 19, 2026
A pair of plaintiffs attorneys running to unseat Republican-appointed justices on the Georgia Supreme Court asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate an Eleventh Circuit ruling that allowed Georgia's judicial watchdog to issue public statements about ethics violations they are accused of committing.
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May 18, 2026
Boeing must face claims that a factory worker's on-the-job chemical exposure caused birth defects in his child, a Washington Court of Appeals panel said in a published ruling Monday, finding that an employer "may be liable for negligence towards an employee's not-yet-conceived offspring."
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May 18, 2026
FirstEnergy Corp. is once again asking the Sixth Circuit to curb a class action alleging it defrauded investors by hiding its involvement in a $1.3 billion bribery scandal, urging the court to overturn class certification a second time.
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May 18, 2026
A split Eighth Circuit panel has upheld the sentences of a mother and son convicted of murdering a man on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation, rejecting their claims that home surveillance camera footage of the two beating the victim should not have been admitted because of alleged tampering.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida jury heard opening arguments Monday in a trial over the lung cancer death of a woman who started smoking at a time when Philip Morris was "wallpapering" the nation with pro-smoking messages, her family's lawyer said.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent holding that freight brokers can be held liable under state law for the negligent hiring of motor carriers that cause auto collisions is a "monumental" win for highway safety, plaintiffs attorneys said, as dangerous "fly-by-night" trucking companies could be put out of business.
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May 18, 2026
A Seventh Circuit panel seemed unconvinced Monday that a jury improperly awarded an Illinois wind farm contractor nominal damages in a subcontractor termination dispute, but suggested the $1 award may still be unwound if the court decides the subcontractor's claims were improperly kept from trial.
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May 18, 2026
The Seventh Circuit found enough "overwhelming" evidence last month to sustain the conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, but a U.S. Supreme Court that's spent years narrowing the reach of public corruption laws may be interested in whether prosecutors proved a sufficiently specific quid pro quo.
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May 18, 2026
The First Circuit denied a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs request to shelve its contract with a union representing government workers during an appeal, while also pausing a lower court's order that the VA must abide by grievance procedures in the contract.