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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.
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May 13, 2026
Victorinox Swiss Army Inc. filed suit Tuesday in an effort to identify the authorized sellers of its iconic knives and other products who are allegedly diverting goods to unauthorized resellers, including merchants on Amazon.com.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Reserve has broad discretion to cut financial institutions off from master accounts, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, rejecting a Puerto Rico bank's argument that it has a statutory right to what is commonly referred to as "bank accounts for banks."
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May 13, 2026
Connecticut Supreme Court justices expressed doubt Wednesday that a 2022 opinion silently overturned a decades-old standing rule in foreclosure cases, musing about whether the General Assembly's choice to stay on the sidelines and the standards of other states meant that the original decision was right all along.
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May 13, 2026
The City of Stamford and a local fire district are pushing back against a bid by 3M and others to sanction them for moving their claims from Connecticut to Montana, saying the sanctions bid misrepresents the facts and circumstances motivating them to join the litigation.
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May 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday granted preliminary approval to two settlements totaling over $136 million that Atkore Inc. has agreed to pay to resolve allegations it conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices.
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May 13, 2026
Counsel for World Wrestling Entertainment shareholders urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday to draw evidence sanctions against former CEO Vince McMahon and other company leaders, arguing that deleted Signal messages, missing texts and discarded notes undercut the record in their challenge to WWE's $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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May 13, 2026
Two people who accused a reproductive endocrinologist of using his own sperm to impregnate their mothers have proposed that the doctor settle their suit against him for a total of $880,000, according to separate offers filed in Connecticut state court.
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May 12, 2026
A Webster Financial Corp. shareholder is challenging what he calls the bank's "deeply flawed, self-interested sale" to Banco Santander SA for $12 billion, telling a Connecticut state court that the proposed deal undervalues Webster while enriching its CEO with a tripled salary and $10 million "signing bonus."
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May 12, 2026
The grandmother of a murdered 7-month-old testified in a civil trial Tuesday that the baby's death "wasn't intentional," even though the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld her son's murder conviction for dropping the infant from a 90-foot-high bridge into the Connecticut River.
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May 12, 2026
Workers at material recovery facilities in Connecticut would throw out plastic bags that Reynolds Consumer Products marketed as "recycling" bags because they could get tangled in machinery, an environmental analyst testified Tuesday as a trial in the state's unfair trade practices lawsuit got underway.
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May 12, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit by Eversource Energy against the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority over $17 million in infrastructure improvements, saying the parties must resolve ambiguities in the settlement agreement before proceeding.
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May 12, 2026
A proposed group of Cigna health plan participants can't cite HIPAA to keep up their claims that the insurer improperly tracked their private information through its websites, since the privacy law doesn't cover the kind of information the company collected, the insurer told a Pennsylvania federal court.
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May 12, 2026
President Donald Trump can delay enforcement of the $83.3 million verdict for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals the Second Circuit's en banc refusal to rehear his appeal, as long as he puts up $7.5 million in interest that may accrue during Supreme Court proceedings, the panel said Monday.
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May 11, 2026
The mother of a pedestrian killed in a collision is suing Uber Eats and Instacart, claiming both companies are liable for negligently hiring an unqualified 18-year-old driver who was allegedly making deliveries at the time of the crash without a driver's license and using an unregistered vehicle.
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May 11, 2026
Live Nation Worldwide Inc. is not entitled to an early win in a negligence lawsuit over a "prolonged" fight at a Luke Bryan concert that seriously injured a concertgoer, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Monday, finding several factual disputes over whether the company failed to provide adequate security for its patrons.
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May 11, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday appeared poised to order sanctions favoring a sushi chef in a proposed class action accusing a Fairfield restaurant of wage violations, criticizing the eatery's attorney for engaging as a purported consultant a client and manager of another restaurant the same chef is suing in New York.
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May 11, 2026
Fans leading a proposed class action accusing the Boston Red Sox of deceptive ticket pricing have asked a federal judge not to send the dispute to arbitration, saying online buyers are unlikely to have read the terms and conditions before making the purchases they say were inflated with surprise "junk fees."
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May 11, 2026
A Connecticut Supreme Court justice told counsel for a criminal defendant Monday that he sometimes feels bad about the practical impact of his decisions, but he has "a job to do," suggesting that a juror's remorse about a guilty verdict is not relevant to the outcome.
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May 08, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Friday probed whether assets belonging to Infowars operator Free Speech Systems LLC are part of Alex Jones' bankruptcy estate, a finding that could block the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting from pursuing the assets through state-court collection efforts.
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May 08, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court's final term of 2025-2026 is only one week long, but the justices will decide whether one of their own 2022 opinions silently overruled an earlier opinion relied upon by a trial judge to order the foreclosure of a $35 million high-rise Hartford apartment complex.