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April 02, 2026
The government must publicly identify more than a dozen Department of Government Efficiency agents in a lawsuit alleging the U.S. Office of Personnel Management unlawfully gave DOGE access to millions of federal employees' personal information, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled, saying the staffers are not entitled to confidentiality.
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April 02, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge Thursday found that Lego competitor Zuru infringed Lego's copyright and trademark rights for its Minifigure line, rejecting Zuru's arguments that the registrations were invalid.
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April 02, 2026
A mobile power generation company sued one of its former managers in Texas federal court, saying he copied more than 1,100 files from his work computer and later accessed some of them while working at a competitor.
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April 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has ordered a former pharmaceutical executive to pay more than $5.3 million in attorney fees following years of litigation over alleged disloyal conduct and trade secret misuse, concluding that the award is reasonable despite objections that the amount was excessive.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission continued its bid to assert "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets on Thursday with a trio of suits against Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois regulators over the states' attempts to shut down certain event contract trading as unregistered gambling.
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April 02, 2026
The Washington Supreme Court determined in a 6-3 ruling on Thursday that an Aeropostale shopper who alleges she was duped into purchasing leggings based on a fake markdown cannot show harm under the state's consumer protection law based on dashed expectations alone.
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April 02, 2026
Amyndas Pharmaceuticals failed to specifically identify the trade secrets it claimed pharmaceutical company Alexion learned of during early partnership talks and improperly used to launch a business collaboration with another competitor, a Massachusetts federal judge has found.
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April 02, 2026
DLA Piper has struck a deal to wrap up a Christian former employee's lawsuit claiming he was fired for refusing to get the COVID-19 vaccine because of his religious beliefs, an Illinois federal judge said Thursday.
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April 02, 2026
Later this year, the U.S. will impose 100% tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, but drug companies could qualify for reduced tariff rates as low as zero if they agree to invest domestically and enter most-favored-nation drug-pricing agreements with the government, according to an executive order President Donald Trump signed Thursday.
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April 02, 2026
Broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna urged a California federal judge on Thursday to allow their $6.2 billion merger to proceed as state attorneys general and DirecTV challenge the tie-up, arguing that their allegations of harm are "generalized and speculative" and that DirecTV is merely trying to maximize its leverage in future negotiations.
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April 02, 2026
Amazon consumers lodged a proposed class action in California state court Wednesday, accusing the retail giant of employing a deceptive advertising scheme by touting earlier versions of its Fire TV Sticks as having instant streaming benefits, only later to discontinue critical software functionality and rendering them obsolete.
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April 02, 2026
A group of investors were told by a Tennessee federal judge that they cannot claim that a property holding company is liable for debts to investors under state statute in a suit accusing a purported green energy outfit and its executives of using promises of extravagant returns to induce investments.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. government's tariffs imposed last year likely raised consumer prices by 0.5% to 1%, the Yale Budget Lab said Thursday in a report that revised down its initial estimates.
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April 02, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Thursday granted initial approval to a $35 million deal that Teva Pharmaceuticals agreed to pay to resolve claims from a coalition of union healthcare funds that say the company schemed to delay generic competition for its QVAR asthma inhalers.
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April 02, 2026
Clifford Chance LLP has hired a former White & Case LLP attorney as a partner in its tax, pensions and employment group in New York.
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April 02, 2026
Baker McKenzie has hired a former deputy assistant in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, who worked with the agency for a decade and most recently as the top attorney on U.S. trade actions, tariffs and other policy.
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April 02, 2026
Amazon is considering an acquisition of satellite company Globalstar in a $9 billion deal, cosmetics giant Estee Lauder is in talks to merge with Spanish beauty firm Puig in a deal that would create a $40 billion beauty giant, and private equity behemoth Apollo is in discussions to acquire Atlantic Aviation from KKR in a $10 billion deal.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is moving forward with a case accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership stake in Twitter, with Musk telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the case may head to trial, just weeks after the parties told the judge they were negotiating a possible deal to end the case.
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April 02, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal court has once again trimmed claims against Wyndham Hotels & Resorts from a lawsuit alleging that three employees were "trafficked" at hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia by being forced to work solely in exchange for lodging.
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April 02, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement in which Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to as many as 75 women to settle allegations that it facilitated what the court called Jeffrey Epstein's "monstrous" sex trafficking and abuse.
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April 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday allowed stockholders suing The Kraft Heinz Co. to amend part of their complaint over a $1.2 billion stock sale, but sharply limited the case to newly uncovered evidence about a single director's consulting relationship.
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April 02, 2026
X Corp. and Elon Musk have agreed to settle claims by a group of six former Twitter employees that they were falsely promised severance benefits in connection with Musk's acquisition of the social media company.
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April 01, 2026
A Washington federal judge significantly narrowed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of surreptitiously recording Alexa device users' personal conversations, finding that the company had clearly disclosed the possibility of accidental device activations and that only some unregistered users had adequately asserted individual wiretap claims.
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April 01, 2026
A California federal judge has refused to certify proposed classes of consumers accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of illegally collecting sensitive financial data from tax preparation websites, finding that the currently proposed classes are "significantly" broad and would likely invite statute-of-limitations defenses that would require "extensive individual inquiries" into each class member.
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April 01, 2026
The Seventh Circuit held Wednesday that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies to every lawsuit pending at the time the amendment took effect, ruling that the amendment is only a procedural change to the law and, therefore, must be applied retroactively.