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February 17, 2026
A Connecticut state judge on Tuesday chastised the parties in a medical malpractice case where the plaintiffs have sought more than $12 million, saying they were "completely unprepared" and "utterly ignored" a previous scheduling order.
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February 17, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled in an opinion published Tuesday that a man cannot have his intentional-manslaughter conviction overturned, after a jury sided with prosecutors in finding his self-defense claims were disqualified under state law.
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February 17, 2026
Bayer AG unit Monsanto has agreed to pay up to $7.25 billion over as many as 21 years to resolve current and future claims that exposure to the weed killer Roundup caused non‑Hodgkin lymphoma, under a proposed nationwide class settlement filed Tuesday in Missouri state court in St. Louis.
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February 13, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has mostly refused to side with pharmaceutical companies facing states' generic drug price-fixing litigation against them, ruling that there are genuine disputes of material fact as to drug distribution chains and the states' antitrust standing and teeing up the case for trial.
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February 13, 2026
Forty state attorneys general have joined in urging Congress to support the U.S. Senate's version of the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act, a measure that would require online platforms to default to their most protective settings for children.
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February 13, 2026
Since the beginning of the year, lawmakers in several states have introduced and advanced numerous bills regarding psilocybin, the active compound in psychoactive mushrooms, including bills decriminalizing it, funding research into its medical uses and establishing a regulated medical program.
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February 13, 2026
A federal judge handed the state of Connecticut a narrow win Friday in a lawsuit challenging a state law barring employers from forcing workers to attend mandatory anti-union meetings, finding that one of the business associations in the coalition challenging the measure lacks standing.
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February 13, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into the office conversion puzzle and a look at multifamily oversupply heading into 2026.
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February 13, 2026
Connecticut title insurer CATIC and related entities have settled a state court lawsuit that real estate attorney Tony E. Jorgensen brought over his removal from boards of directors after audits of his firm identified "alleged bad acts," according to court records.
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February 13, 2026
A food service business told a Connecticut district court it plans to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to take up two distributors' misclassification case, asking the lower court to pause litigation after the Second Circuit ruled that the workers could dodge arbitration.
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February 13, 2026
Former Otterbourg PC partner James M. Cretella has asked a Connecticut federal judge to toss a $20 million lawsuit by two firm leaders over purportedly improper file access, arguing that chair Richard L. Stehl and president Richard G. Haddad forum-shopped their case to Connecticut because New York doesn't recognize the injury they allege.
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February 13, 2026
Zillow Group Inc. and Redfin Corp. backed up their attempt to escape a Virginia federal lawsuit from the Federal Trade Commission by arguing that the agency had overlooked the value to both renters and advertisers in a partnership between the companies not to compete for ads.
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February 12, 2026
A D.C. federal judge who said she has been receiving threats and personal insults after she temporarily blocked the Trump administration from terminating Temporary Protected Status for Haitians refused to pause her ruling, saying judges will not be intimidated by public threats.
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February 12, 2026
Democratic attorneys general challenging the controversial Justice Department settlement permitting Hewlett Packard Enterprise's $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks have urged a California federal judge to let them see who's bidding for assets up for divestiture, arguing the would-be buyers are an integral part of the agreement's viability.
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February 12, 2026
A lawsuit accusing Brookfield affiliates of seizing control of solar company PosiGen and driving it deeper into insolvency has been dismissed with prejudice in Connecticut federal court, ending a closely watched dispute that preceded the company's Chapter 11 filing in Texas.
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February 12, 2026
A suit by parents accusing a Little League Baseball organization of inadequate training of coaches and unsafe conditions for players was thrown out by a Connecticut state judge, who ruled that the parents never proved any harm by the league.
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February 12, 2026
A former pharmaceutical marketing executive urged a Connecticut federal court to reject summary judgment sought against him by state attorneys general pursuing wider price-fixing litigation against most of the generic drug industry, arguing key cooperating witnesses' questionable credibility makes a trial necessary.
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February 12, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has capped an insurer's potential liability in an injury suit filed by a former Yale Law dean of students who was struck by a driver, saying she cannot pursue damages exceeding policy limits on claims alleging the insurer was negligent while denying coverage.
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February 12, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday rejected the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's bid to close the door on a more than half-century-old race discrimination case against a union and its affiliated apprenticeship program, upholding a lower court's determination that a proposed settlement in the case falls short.
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February 12, 2026
Two insurance companies have urged a Connecticut Superior Court judge to maintain a $22.3 million professional negligence lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP, saying document production delays don't warrant killing the case less than a month before trial.
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February 12, 2026
Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Union Capital Associates on Thursday revealed that it wrapped fundraising for its fourth fund after securing $450 million from investors.
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February 12, 2026
A Connecticut judge did not abuse her discretion when she suspended an attorney who formerly represented conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones in a $1.4 billion defamation case, the state's professional misconduct watchdog has told the Connecticut Supreme Court in asking the justices to skip Norman A. Pattis' appeal.
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February 12, 2026
The Second Circuit appeared skeptical Thursday of investors' bid to revive a proposed class action against Norfolk Southern alleging that the company botched disclosures about how an efficiency plan might cause derailments, as judges seemed open to a lower court's interpretation that railroad statements about safety were puffery.
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February 11, 2026
The Legal Aid Society and Freshfields US LLP have filed a Second Circuit appeal on behalf of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients whose food benefits were stolen in widespread "skimming" scams, arguing that a lower court wrongly denied the victims replacement of their stolen benefits.
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February 11, 2026
The chief executive officer of Prime Capital Investment Advisors LLC on Wednesday testified that he emailed a rival CEO during litigation to warn him that "crazy lawyers" could be burning millions of dollars to fight an unfair trade practices case Prime believed involved business worth $50,000 to $100,000.