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July 17, 2026
A group of mortgage lenders and software companies once again pushed for the dismissal of a proposed mortgage price-fixing class action filed by homeowners in Tennessee federal court, arguing that the claims should be tossed, in part, because the plaintiffs failed to allege that the software products at the center of their suit made pricing recommendations.
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July 17, 2026
A Virginia federal judge ordered tech industry group NetChoice to turn over any studies or reports it has examining social media's potential addictiveness or harm on young people Friday, partially granting a motion to compel from the state as it fights a suit challenging its law limiting children's access.
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July 17, 2026
--EDITING-- U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 impacting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.
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July 17, 2026
A Missouri hemp coalition is suing the state's governor, attorney general and head of its Department of Health and Senior Services in federal court, saying a newly signed law regulating hemp effectively eliminates the state's hemp product industry and contradicts both federal law and itself.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.
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July 17, 2026
Class counsel is urging a Pennsylvania federal judge to award it a fee award amounting to one-third, or about $39 million, of a negotiated $117.5 million data breach settlement with Comcast, saying it deserves that amount for the work put in and the "extraordinary result achieved."
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July 17, 2026
A Florida federal judge has ordered 73 online sellers accused of selling counterfeit Trump-branded merchandise to pay a combined $14.6 million, largely adopting a magistrate judge's recommendation to enter default judgments and permanently bar the sellers from unauthorized use of the "Make America Great Again" and "Trump" trademarks.
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing dominant search engines such as Google from engaging in anticompetitive tactics to monopolize the online search market.
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July 17, 2026
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has moved to disqualify a U.S. magistrate judge from a defamation lawsuit filed against him after she presided over the depositions of two of her own former clients, the co-founders of Dominion Voting Systems Corp.
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July 16, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. can, again, trim a proposed class action alleging it deceptively sold Meta Portal video-calling devices the company later "bricked" by dropping software support, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, while refusing to toss an unfair competition claim and giving the consumers another chance to rework the complaint.
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July 17, 2026
In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.
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July 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating whether certain dietary supplements imported from China are being sold at unfair prices and should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties, it said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
Two major rulings from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have left it up to the Legislature to address "skill games" and second-degree murder sentences, while other pending bills would tackle a long-standing challenge in administering elections, and make it harder for scalpers to snatch up high-demand tickets or products online.
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July 17, 2026
Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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July 16, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health information to Meta and others, trimming injunctive relief and negligence per se allegations while allowing state wiretap and six other claims to proceed.
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July 16, 2026
Kalshi said Thursday that it's working with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to address suspicious trades on the president's speeches that appear to have netted a federally employed teleprompter operator approximately $90,000.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge denied a preliminary injunction request Thursday from consumers challenging Paramount Skydance Corp.'s pending $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after challenging their attorney to cite more recent rulings beyond the 1960s-era U.S. Supreme Court cases he relied on.
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July 16, 2026
Washington, D.C.'s highest court refused to make a trial court vacate discovery orders requiring Meta to disclose certain communications concerning internal research related to the well-being of young social media users, saying Thursday that Meta failed to show it had a "clear and indisputable" right to such relief.
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July 16, 2026
Cannabis company Good Day Farm Retail Management has allegedly become an illegal monopoly in Missouri, capturing more than a quarter of the state's available dispensary licenses through an ownership and management scheme, according to a lawsuit by a consumer who seeks to push the case back into state court.
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July 16, 2026
Plaintiffs' counsel urged a Seattle federal judge Thursday to rethink dismissal of a proposed antitrust class action accusing Apple and Amazon of illegally restricting sales of iPhones and iPads, contending that attorneys at Hagens Berman couldn't have concluded from their client's "ambiguous" message that he wanted to get out of the case.
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July 16, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has announced his office will be investigating whether LinkedIn advertises and profits from "ghost jobs," listings for positions that don't exist or aren't actively being filled, saying it might have misled consumers who paid up to $69.99 a month for premium subscriptions.
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July 16, 2026
DraftKings asked a Pennsylvania federal court Thursday to stop the city of Philadelphia from enforcing its consumer protection ordinance, after the sportsbook platform received a subpoena related to an investigation into potential violations of the local statute, saying the ordinance "copies" the commonwealth's consumer protection law.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution condemning Sam Bankman-Fried's bid for a presidential pardon, making clear that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle oppose clemency for the imprisoned FTX founder.
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July 16, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge ruled Wednesday that investors of prostate cancer treatment developer Essa Pharma Inc. have not shown they were misled by the company on the efficacy of its lead drug candidate, which was not as effective as an existing treatment for certain cancer patients in a terminated clinical trial.