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May 05, 2026
The Second Circuit ruled Tuesday that national banks are exempt from a New York law that requires interest to be paid on mortgage escrow accounts, handing a key victory to Bank of America NA in closely watched litigation testing the limits of states' banking regulatory authority.
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May 05, 2026
A ChatGPT user Tuesday filed a proposed class action against OpenAI in California federal court, claiming the artificial intelligence company disclosed private user information to Meta Platforms and Google without users' consent.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency told the D.C. Circuit Tuesday that the lower court rightly found farmers, who accused the agency of not regulating "forever chemicals" in sewage sludge, did not identify how the agency violated the Clean Water Act.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that Mexico has tentatively agreed to reconsider some of its restrictions on flights into Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport, signaling there's some headway being made in a dispute over alleged violations of a decade-old bilateral air transport agreement.
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May 05, 2026
Consumer surveys and social media posts introduced in a second amended complaint don't add any meat to claims that Buffalo Wild Wings deceived customers by marketing breast meat as "boneless wings," the restaurant chain argued Monday, asking an Illinois federal judge to throw out the lawsuit again, but this time for good.
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May 05, 2026
Five banking groups say proposed language governing interest and rewards payments on stablecoins, intended to advance a bill to regulate crypto markets, "falls short," while the lawmakers behind the proposal say they've worked directly with banks for months to "encourage compromise."
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May 05, 2026
College athletes' attempt to go through the courts to exempt certain revenue streams from NCAA oversight is an end-run around the resolution they reached in last year's $2.78 billion class action settlement, the association has told a California federal judge.
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May 05, 2026
Claims that General Motors knowingly installed defective brake vacuum pumps on three SUV models are unfounded, the automaker told a Michigan federal court Monday, saying that issues experienced by plaintiffs are nothing more than normal wear and tear on the braking system.
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May 05, 2026
Deutsche Bank AG and Pathward NA urged a New York federal court to dismiss a suit accusing them of improperly blacklisting a barter-based payment platform that the banks found was "transaction laundering" for companies selling gray-market pharmaceuticals, arguing that the suit's jurisdiction assertions are fatal to the claims.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to vacate his decisions that blocked subpoenas from its now-closed criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, arguing that the slate should be wiped clean on mootness grounds.
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May 05, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how AGs and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.
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May 05, 2026
Judges in Suffolk County Superior Court's business litigation session in Massachusetts sent two cases to arbitration and weighed in on disputes over trade secrets and tradespeople in recent rulings.
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May 05, 2026
Imports of Chinese adipic acid into the European Union will be subject to antidumping duties after the bloc found it was being sold at unfair prices and harming European domestic industry, the European Commission said Tuesday.
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May 04, 2026
OpenAI President Greg Brockman's private journal took center stage Monday in a California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, revealing that just days after telling Musk that OpenAI would remain a nonprofit, Brockman privately asked himself, "What will take me to $1B?"
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May 04, 2026
Subaru has sold hundreds of thousands of vehicles with a defect that drains their batteries, which forces owners to buy replacements and, in some cases, leaves drivers stranded, alleges a lawsuit filed in New Jersey federal court that seeks to force a recall or vehicle buyback.
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May 04, 2026
OkCaller.com is asking the Eleventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit accusing Google of monopolizing the market for search engine services, arguing that the lower court was wrong to adopt Google's "straw man" and treat the reverse phone number lookup website's argument as "incoherent."
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May 04, 2026
California's insurance regulator announced Monday that it's pursuing major penalties against State Farm over its alleged mishandling of claims related to 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, the same day the U.S. Department of Justice alleged in court that insurers conspired to cancel homeowners' policies in the years before the fires.
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May 04, 2026
Cannabis giant Cresco Labs Inc. has brought a permanent end to a proposed class action accusing it of mislabeling products to get around state-mandated THC potency limits in Illinois, securing a stipulated dismissal following a wave of unfavorable court rulings against consumers.
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May 04, 2026
Mobile app analytics provider Kochava Inc. has agreed to halt the disclosure of sensitive location data without consumers' affirmative express consent to resolve the Federal Trade Commission's longstanding claims that the data broker sold geolocation data from mobile devices that could be used to track people to reproductive health clinics, places of worship and other sensitive places.
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May 04, 2026
Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that its baby powder contained asbestos, even as it advertised the product as safe and "pure," attorneys for the families of three women who died of ovarian cancer told a California jury Monday during opening statements in a bellwether trial.
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May 04, 2026
Cento was hit with a proposed class action in California federal court Monday alleging it misleads consumers into thinking that its "certified" San Marzano tomatoes are authentic, despite lacking certification and approval from an Italian consortium that sets strict production and quality standards for these tomatoes.
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May 04, 2026
Kroger and Albertsons are urging an Oregon federal judge to reject a $10 million legal fee request from nine attorneys general who joined the Federal Trade Commission in successfully challenging a proposed $24.6 billion merger of the grocery giants, saying the plaintiff states played a "minimal role" in the litigation.
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May 04, 2026
Rival airlines have scrambled to boost routes, plug service gaps and snatch up Spirit Airlines customers in the two days since the budget carrier's demise, raising alarms about what other casualties might be in store for an airline industry reeling from skyrocketing jet fuel costs.
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May 04, 2026
Media Matters for America announced a "legally binding settlement" Monday resolving its retaliation claims against the Federal Trade Commission, securing a promise by the agency "to forgo ever reissuing or issuing a substantially similar" administrative subpoena to the left-leaning watchdog in the search for censorship of conservatives.