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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.
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May 04, 2026
Three California tribes have asked a federal judge to stay their litigation seeking to stop prediction market platforms from conducting what they say is illegal gambling on their lands, saying they can wait until the Ninth Circuit rules on their appeal challenging a denied preliminary injunction.
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May 04, 2026
More than a dozen individuals on Friday in California federal court hit Apple Inc. with suits alleging that stalkers had used AirTags to track them without their consent or knowledge, two months after a judge declined to certify a class of alleged stalking victims.
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May 04, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission says its effort to stop e-commerce platforms from selling devices that pose "dangerous" security risks has stamped out more than three million retail listings in six months.
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May 04, 2026
The federal government moved to halt Minnesota's state court lawsuit accusing Exxon Mobil Corp. and others of lying to the public about fossil fuels' effects on climate, alleging in a new lawsuit on Monday that the state is usurping federal authority.
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May 04, 2026
A Maryland federal judge has permanently tossed a lawsuit brought by Alliance Global Capital Fund and a cheese shop that sought $900 billion in damages alleging Wells Fargo refused to redirect funds it knew were credited to the wrong account, finding a majority of the case's claims were brought too late.
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May 04, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission is requiring 365 Retail Markets LLC to unload a food service kiosk business in order to move ahead with its planned $848 million acquisition of fellow self-service retail company Cantaloupe Inc.
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May 04, 2026
Federal officials said Monday an investigation into potential collusion and foreign ownership in the cattle meatpacking industry is continuing, as the Justice Department separately nears a settlement with Agri Stats over claims that it helped processors exchange sensitive information.
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May 04, 2026
The State Bar of Texas' disciplinary arm said Monday that a Harris County lawyer who later became a criminal judge accepted $15,000 to handle a DWI case while in private practice, then stopped handling the case and ignored a refund request.
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May 04, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has declined to revive arbitration claims against Kohl's over alleged false discounts that were nixed by the American Arbitration Association after the department store chain refused to register its arbitration agreement, a prerequisite for the claims to proceed.
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May 04, 2026
Trade law and contract claims by Cormidi USA Inc., the American arm of an Italian construction and landscaping machinery-maker, have been rendered moot by Wesco Inc.'s debt payments amid a lawsuit accusing two shared executives of self-dealing, Wesco and its owner Robert Testa told a Connecticut state judge Monday.