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It's true that Jennifer Bennett is undefeated at the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's also an understatement. Bennett's five wins, including two recent ones, were all unanimous decisions. They showed that the plaintiffs bar can still persuade a conservative supermajority. And they turned the tide after a spree of decisions keeping workers and consumers out of court.
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June 09, 2026
A split Texas appeals court on Tuesday permitted a fast-growing Texas county near Austin to proceed with $439 million worth of infrastructure projects, dealing a setback to a group of county residents who claimed the election approving the bonds was invalid.
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June 09, 2026
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians has for years been tied up in litigation with its sister tribe, the Cherokee Nation, over land rights, healthcare and more. Now, a recently withdrawn U.S. Department of the Interior memo over rights to 2.63 acres of land is again stoking tensions.
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June 09, 2026
A Florida federal judge dismissed a proposed class action against a car dealership company from ex-workers who alleged mismanagement of their employee stock ownership plan, faulting their amended complaint as a type of shotgun pleading prohibited by Eleventh Circuit rules.
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June 09, 2026
An Ohio appeals panel sided with Google and against a state attorney general's efforts to designate the company a common carrier subject to neutrality controls on its search results, affirming a lower court's rejection of the lawsuit because Google doesn't transport property and doesn't serve users "indifferently."
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June 09, 2026
A divided Eleventh Circuit has refused to overturn a narcotics dealer's double life sentence for an associate's overdose death, finding that although he did not personally provide the drugs to the woman who fatally overdosed, he is still liable under federal law for her death.
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June 09, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit ignored civil procedure standards when it said the district attorney's office in Fulton County, Georgia, could argue that a former top aide's position was exempt from anti-bias law, the fired worker told the U.S. Supreme Court, arguing the office needed to raise that defense earlier.
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June 09, 2026
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed on Tuesday that a high court justice had the discretion to deny bail to three men charged with first-degree murder, despite the fact that they had been incarcerated without a guilty verdict since 2021.
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June 09, 2026
Class members claiming headrests in several Dodge and Jeep vehicles can spontaneously deploy with a potential to cause serious injury accused automaker FCA on Monday of using arbitration claims to delay a federal court trial that has been pending for six years.
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June 09, 2026
The Environmental Defense Fund will challenge a new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule loosening methane emission standards for the oil and gas industry in the D.C. Circuit.
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June 09, 2026
The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Tony Mattivi, director of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, to serve on the bench in the District of Kansas.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of claims in a pair of Google's voice command patents challenged by Sonos after the speaker company was accused of infringement.
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June 09, 2026
A Pennsylvania county can charge Zillow more than $10,000 for a listing of all its property assessments under the state's Right-to-Know Law, given that the law allows the county to charge the "reasonable market value" for complex data sets, a state appellate court found Tuesday.
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June 09, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the convictions of a father-daughter attorney duo and an insurance agent in a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, rejecting their arguments that the calculations on the allegedly false tax forms were technically true and the venue was improper.
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June 09, 2026
A partnership improperly inflated the value of a North Carolina conservation easement donation to nearly $12 million to claim a sizable charitable tax deduction and failed to support the valuation, the IRS told the Tenth Circuit.
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June 09, 2026
A Hartford unit doesn't owe coverage to a drug testing company accused of reporting false positive drug tests due to substandard quality control, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday, saying the suit is related to an earlier claim that was covered by another insurer.
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June 09, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel refused to reconsider an Albanian man's petition to remain in the country and care for his ailing mother, finding the U.S. Board Of Immigration Appeals acted within its authority when considering his involvement in multiple crimes.
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June 09, 2026
A Second Circuit panel signaled skepticism Tuesday toward Nadine Menendez during a hearing on her bid for bail pending appeal of her bribery conviction, repeatedly questioning her claim that prosecutors had misled her about their plans to use her former lawyer as a witness against her.
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June 09, 2026
The race to build the legal industry's largest law firm accelerated in 2025, with major firms leaning on mergers, lateral hiring and strategic expansion to climb the ranks of the Law360 400.
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June 09, 2026
A Georgia county and a transgender sheriff's deputy who sued over her employee health plan's coverage exclusions for gender-affirming surgery have struck a deal to resolve her case, eight months after the en banc Eleventh Circuit issued a ruling that sided with the county.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Circuit seemed skeptical of a contractor's attempt to keep alive a challenge to the U.S. State Department's determination that it wasn't eligible to compete for an award to construct a new consulate in Turkey, after the project was canceled.
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June 09, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday granted expedited review but denied immediate relief to a defendant who claimed a trial judge violated his right to a fair trial and constitutional separation of powers principles by creating what defense counsel described as a new procedure for empanelling an anonymous jury.
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June 08, 2026
The "inflammatory" language used by the University of Texas to secure a $42 million patent infringement verdict against Boston Scientific is "about as good an example as one can possibly think of," U.S. Circuit Judge Richard G. Taranto told the university's attorney on Monday.
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June 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday identified a judicial misconduct complaint against U.S. Circuit Judge Ryan D. Nelson after he was charged with misdemeanor battery stemming from an argument in an Idaho Falls parking lot that ended with him allegedly stomping a man's eyeglasses on the asphalt.
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June 08, 2026
The American Intellectual Property Law Association, National Association of Manufacturers and others urged the Federal Circuit to undo a lower court's ruling that Moderna, and not the government, must face a multibillion-dollar patent infringement suit over its COVID-19 vaccine.
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June 08, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was allowed to reject a proposal by PJM transmission owners that would've allowed the regional grid operator to make grid-planning decisions without the approval of its members committee over an issue with a single amendment, the D.C. Circuit has said.