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July 31, 2026
A broadcast workers' union urged the Federal Communications Commission to scrap a plan by agency Chief Brendan Carr to lift the 39% national cap on TV station chains' audience reach, saying the proposal threatens local news operations.
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July 31, 2026
Meta sought to throw out a proposed class action claiming it flouted Illinois' biometric privacy law when it used the voices of journalists and voice actors to train their artificial intelligence models, arguing the suit is little more than "professional anxiety" over AI "in search of a cause of action."
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July 31, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday largely declined to dismiss Reddit's suit accusing SerpApi of illegally scraping its content to be sold to Perplexity for training its artificial intelligence models.
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July 31, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court has advanced Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a $25 million talc trial judgment, denying a Massachusetts real estate developer's attempt to dismiss the appeal based on what he argued was a late-filed brief.
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July 31, 2026
An ice cream sandwich maker has pulled a $4.5 million suit accusing its insurance broker of negligently failing to recommend and procure a policy that could have covered a recall of its popular Chipwich treats, Connecticut state court records show.
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July 31, 2026
A coalition of more than a dozen hemp beverage manufacturers is seeking to block enforcement of a new Ohio law that reclassified the products as "marijuana," at least the second federal lawsuit to challenge the new state policy.
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July 31, 2026
The Pennsylvania Superior Court has reiterated that "clickwrap" arbitration agreements are unenforceable, holding in the case of an amusement park patron dissatisfied over a roller coaster closure that the inconspicuous digital disclaimers weren't enough to deny a litigant's right to a jury trial.
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July 31, 2026
A top adviser to FIFA president Gianni Infantino resigned on Friday as Asia's soccer federation joined the condemnation of FIFA's proposed private investor sale, while the sport's international governing body defended the plan and said it would go forward.
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July 31, 2026
A federal plan would reinvigorate the 4.4 gigahertz airwaves for possible use in 6G wireless development, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Friday.
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July 31, 2026
The maker of Just For Men hair color products said in a new federal complaint that its excess liability insurers improperly refused to cover personal injury lawsuit settlements connected to allegations that products from the popular line permanently discolored users' faces, after millions in the company's primary policies were exhausted.
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July 31, 2026
Kean University failed to implement basic cybersecurity safeguards prior to a ransomware attack attributed to cybercrime group Qilin, exposing the personal information of thousands of students, applicants, alumni and employees and leaving them at lifelong risk of identity theft, according to a proposed class action brought in New Jersey federal court.
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July 31, 2026
A Massachusetts Toyota dealership claims in a lawsuit filed in state court on Friday that it was forced to pay back more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims made under a program for vehicles with a paint defect, as a result of collusion between two employees and an auto body shop it had long worked with.
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July 31, 2026
A putative class action accusing casino-style gaming website Stake.us, musical artist Drake and others of running an illegal gambling operation must be arbitrated, a Virginia federal court ruled, finding Stake.us' ability to unilaterally modify its arbitration provision doesn't render it unenforceable.
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July 31, 2026
Federal regulators on Friday launched their latest push to update long-standing community lending rules for banks, issuing a new proposal that officials say would better tailor requirements by bank size and ensure financing isn't "diverted to activist causes."
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July 31, 2026
In addition to mulling newly minted Gov. Mikie Sherrill's first budget proposal, New Jersey lawmakers have spent the first half of 2026 tackling buzzy topics like artificial intelligence and perennial issues like greenhouse gasses.
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July 31, 2026
New York sued Kalshi in state court early Friday, alleging that the prediction market giant is running a vast "illegal gambling operation" by allowing customers to trade on the outcomes of events across sports, politics and culture.
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July 30, 2026
Kalshi faced a setback in its bid for a temporary shield against a potential New York enforcement action when a Second Circuit judge said she wouldn't rule on the request on her own, and sent the matter to a three-judge panel to decide.
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July 30, 2026
A divided Fourth Circuit on Thursday refused to block a new North Carolina law that regulates and prohibits the sale of certain e-cigarette or "vape" products, saying a coalition of vape retailers and manufacturers are not likely to prevail on their theory that the statute is preempted by federal law.
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July 30, 2026
A Seattle federal judge on Thursday granted Valve Corp.'s bid for a quick appeal of an order declining to halt antitrust arbitrations brought by hundreds of individual gamers, pausing the litigation for the video game developer to seek the Ninth Circuit's input on whether the arbitrations can proceed under its subscriber terms.
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July 30, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission is not pleased that EchoStar is trying to convince a bankruptcy court to let it use a trust fund created to pay contractors to build its now-abandoned 5G network to instead pay a loan one EchoStar subsidiary made to another.
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July 30, 2026
North Carolina state leaders and environmental organizations asked the federal government to walk back a proposed settlement with Chemours over so-called forever chemical pollution from three factories, saying the deal amounted to a slap on the wrist.
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July 30, 2026
The company behind Apartments.com on Wednesday said its costs are clearly disclosed and users have options for avoiding them when paying rent, in a bid to have a Washington federal judge throw out a proposed class action accusing it of charging "junk fees."
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July 30, 2026
Tech trade group NetChoice is urging a federal court to reject Minnesota's bid to keep alive its new law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels at the login page, arguing the statute forces these companies to become "mouthpieces" for the state, violating the First Amendment.
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July 30, 2026
Health plans and pharmacies backed by Cigna are asking the Second Circuit to revive a proposed class action alleging Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and its Celgene subsidiary fraudulently obtained patents, filed sham lawsuits and paid off generic-drug makers to maintain a monopoly on the blockbuster blood cancer drug Pomalyst.
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July 30, 2026
A proposed class action against tractor manufacturer Daedong USA over a 2025 network breach that exposed sensitive employee information has been settled, according to a docket entry in North Carolina federal court.