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May 18, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge ordered Aetna to comply with a preliminary injunction requiring it to reconsider coverage denials affecting two transgender health plan participants who sought gender-affirming facial surgery, refusing to stay the insurer's compliance obligations during its pending appeal in the proposed class action.
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May 18, 2026
A man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing a member of a rival group in 2008 should not have a new trial, although one juror told another she was concerned for her safety after interacting with someone attending the proceeding, the Connecticut Supreme Court has affirmed.
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May 18, 2026
Otterbourg PC Chairman Richard L. Stehl told a Connecticut federal judge that his attorneys should not be sanctioned for adding allegedly salacious and legally unnecessary statements to a lawsuit seeking $10 million from a former law partner, slamming his "purely performative" motion and "faux outrage."
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May 18, 2026
Pullman & Comley LLC has urged a Connecticut state judge to dismiss a challenge to its representation of the town of Woodstock's tax collector, saying a resident who owes money has pressed "the absurd claim that a municipality is forbidden from retaining counsel to assist in its collection of municipal taxes."
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May 18, 2026
Investment and development firm Industrial Realty Group and real estate lender Sachem Capital said May 18 that they have reached a deal to form a new industrial-focused REIT valued at $3.4 billion, using about half of IRG's portfolio in a transaction advised by King & Spalding LLP and Morrison Foerster LLP.
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May 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of celebrity estate litigation, merger disputes, investor suits, record demands, sanctions fights and questions over corporate moves away from Delaware.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to review whether a Federal Arbitration Act exemption applies to agreements between two business entities when neither is a worker, leaving intact a Second Circuit decision that sided with two delivery drivers seeking to pursue their claims in court rather than arbitration.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up former Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer's appeal of his insider trading conviction, after he urged the justices to correct what he deemed to be an "outdated" venue rule that steers many such cases toward the Southern District of New York.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned away eyewear giant Luxottica's bid for review of a Second Circuit decision that allowed certain claims in a proposed benefits class action to proceed in New York federal court rather than in arbitration.
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May 15, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the rising popularity of infrastructure districts to meet funding needs, tech-based solutions for developers to navigate building laws, and one BigLaw leader's view of how tariffs are affecting capital in real estate deals.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued Connecticut in federal court over a recently enacted state law that subjects in-custody deaths to state oversight, requires federal agents to wear identifying badges, and bans law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Friday dismissed Alex Jones' appeal over whether Infowars operator Free Speech Systems LLC's assets are part of his Chapter 7 estate, a move that continues to allow the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to pursue assets through state-court collection efforts that would help satisfy judgments exceeding $1 billion.
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May 15, 2026
A Second Circuit panelist said Friday that an argument advanced by a group of objectors to a $147.5 million cost-of-insurance settlement is "weird," noting that its logic depends on securing an even better outcome in separate litigation.
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May 15, 2026
About two months after losing a summary judgment bid, a plastic and paper bag manufacturer has settled a lawsuit claiming it punished two Black workers for complaining about colleagues' racist comments, Connecticut federal court records show.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of Infowars says bankrupt broadcaster Alex Jones has a legal right to "freely compete" with his former outlet, telling a Texas appeals court the website shut down because a court-appointed receiver failed to pay a third-party streaming service, not because Jones absconded with its property.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of one of the largest state fairs in the U.S., known as The Big E, alleged in a lawsuit removed to federal court Friday that its insurers are wrongly relying on a list of policy exclusions to deny coverage for a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a mixed martial arts fighter, who died following an event at the Massachusetts fairgrounds in 2022.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will take a closer look at a circuit split over the deference that should be allotted to U.S. Sentencing Commission commentary, and a man convicted in the killing of an infant has been released after 27 years served over evidence that points to pneumonia as the likely cause of death.
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May 14, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday accused the Yale School of Medicine of discriminating against white and Asian applicants, saying an investigation revealed Black and Latino students have a much higher chance of getting into the school.
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May 14, 2026
A Connecticut mayor placed the integrity of a wrongful conviction trial "at grave risk" by speaking to the media, a judge said in issuing a gag order this week, also noting that the jury will be instructed on the importance of ignoring news stories.
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May 14, 2026
United Rentals Inc. on Thursday asked a Connecticut federal judge to approve a permanent injunction blocking a former North Carolina salesperson from working for a competitor within 100 miles of United's Raleigh branch office through mid-January 2027, ending a 4-month-old noncompete suit.
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May 14, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday affirmed a 20-year sentence for an Ecuadorian man from Florida who pushed the $14 million, international Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, concluding that "any error" from a broadcast of the sentencing did not impact the outcome.
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May 14, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to let generic-drug makers seek Third Circuit intervention in their bid to disqualify the lead counsel for insurers Humana and Molina, concluding the fight would only further delay the long-running case ahead of its first trial in the price-fixing multidistrict litigation.
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May 14, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has delayed trials in two combined civil rights lawsuits by Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family cousin, over a Greenwich police investigation that ended with his since-reversed conviction for the high-profile 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
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May 14, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a subsequent award, affirming a Second Circuit decision enforcing an award issued in a discrimination case involving a former hotel employee.
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May 13, 2026
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families committed a "failure of epic proportions" when a father took custody of a 7-month-old he murdered five days later by throwing the boy into a river, an attorney for the slain infant's mother argued Wednesday in a $20 million lawsuit against the state.