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June 04, 2026
Airline passengers have asked the full Fifth Circuit to review a panel decision rejecting their proposed class action alleging the cybersecurity firm behind 2024's crippling global IT outage should be held liable for stress and physical injuries they suffered while stranded by delayed or canceled flights.
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June 04, 2026
Former Fox 2 Detroit news anchor Taryn Asher is accusing her ex-employer of sex discrimination and retaliation, alleging in a Michigan federal lawsuit that her male co-worker got prime assignments, interviews and scheduling and that she was excluded from key news meetings.
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June 04, 2026
Anthropic and China's DeepSeek are among a growing group of AI firms turning to new financing structures to meet surging demand for compute power. Reports indicate that private equity giants are assembling a $36 billion private credit vehicle to help fund Anthropic access to certain Google chips, while DeepSeek has reportedly broken from its earlier strategy by arranging more than $7 billion in outside funding.
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June 04, 2026
J.D. Power has hit Chime Financial Inc. with a lawsuit in New York federal court, accusing the fintech company of willfully infringing J.D. Power's trademarks to support a "widespread, multi-channel" deceptive advertising campaign falsely suggesting that the data analytics firm rated Chime "America's #1 Choice for Banking."
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June 04, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday granted final approval to most of Abbott Laboratories' $40 million deal to resolve shareholder claims over its management of a 2022 infant formula crisis, but questioned whether the settlement's corporate reforms justify a $15 million fee award for the investors' attorneys.
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June 04, 2026
The federal government has appealed the U.S. Court of International Trade's order requiring refunds on all duties paid under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act after the U.S. Supreme Court struck them down this year, according to filings in the trade court and Federal Circuit.
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June 04, 2026
Owners of General Motors trucks equipped with allegedly defective L87 engines have asked a Michigan federal judge to order the automaker to immediately produce studies concerning the fuel economy effects of its recall remedy, arguing the documents could narrow the litigation and test GM's public claims that the fix has only a negligible impact on gas mileage.
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June 04, 2026
Counsel for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a skeptical Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday not to block an enforcement action against Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue, arguing any "incidental" infringement of the group's First Amendment rights is outweighed by alleged evidence that it violated a Texas consumer protection law.
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June 04, 2026
A New York federal judge said that state attorneys general will have to wait on discovery to bolster their bid for a Live Nation Entertainment Inc. breakup, preferring to first tackle the live music giant's bid to upend jury findings faulting the company for monopolizing the industry.
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June 04, 2026
The Sixth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a lower court's refusal to block Procter & Gamble from selling its Spruce weed killer, holding that Scotts failed to show its Miracle-Gro packaging is distinctive enough to support trade dress claims or that the products are likely to confuse consumers.
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June 04, 2026
A trucking company has reached a $4.5 million deal to resolve a lawsuit in which a Black applicant who said the company walked back a job offer because of his race scored a $3.4 million jury award in 2023, according to recent filings in Georgia federal court.
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June 04, 2026
PayPal executives and directors were hit with a shareholder's derivative suit in Delaware federal court accusing them of damaging the company with positive comments about the growth potential of the company's branded checkout segment that were walked back earlier this year.
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June 04, 2026
A Texas Business Court judge shielded from discovery some of a party's personal ChatGPT conversations in car dealership buyout litigation, saying that the chats were protected work product and that using the OpenAI tool did not itself waive that protection.
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June 04, 2026
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP announced Thursday that a former associate who began her legal career at the firm has returned as a partner in the energy and infrastructure projects group after working in-house roles for nearly five years.
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June 04, 2026
U.S. middle market private equity dealmakers are signaling renewed optimism, with the vast majority expecting a meaningful jump in buyout activity over the next two years after a robust 2025, according to survey results published on Thursday.
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June 04, 2026
The House Appropriations Committee introduced a funding bill Thursday that would cut the U.S. Department of Labor's budget by nearly $4 billion, including a decrease in the Wage and Hour Division's budget and the elimination of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.
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June 04, 2026
The New York state trial court judge overseeing President Donald Trump's civil fraud case granted his request to preserve notes from private meetings between state litigators and Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen after the key witness said he felt "pressured" to testify.
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June 04, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. is fighting a petition from two women asking the Ninth Circuit for a full court rehearing of their suit alleging that Facebook's 2009 algorithms contributed to the destruction of their villages during the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying the circuit's interpretation of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act doesn't need revisiting.
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June 04, 2026
The level of coordination between the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has decreased under the Trump administration, resulting in disjointed investigatory efforts and misaligned timing in parallel investigations, experts say.
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June 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ended a patent suit over Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s generic version of a heart drug that uses a so-called skinny label, saying Amarin Pharma Inc. had not plausibly alleged that Hikma encouraged healthcare providers to infringe its patents.
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June 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday said that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission could collect ill-gotten gains from alleged fraudsters without having to identify victims who were financially harmed by the fraud, declining to place further limits on the agency's disgorgement powers six years after it last did so.
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June 03, 2026
Florida parents and their minor child have lodged a negligence suit against Campbell Soup Co. in federal court, alleging that the child and her mother discovered "worm-like organisms" moving in SpaghettiOs they ate and suffered parasitic infections as a result.
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June 03, 2026
A Mississippi federal judge on Wednesday threw out a suit brought by AbbVie and other pharmaceutical manufacturers that participate in Medicaid challenging a law barring their interference with the distribution of discounted prescriptions to pharmacies serving low-income patients.
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June 03, 2026
The backers of a Republican-led proposal to establish a long-elusive federal data privacy standard lauded the effort during a U.S. House of Representatives hearing Wednesday for being a commonsense extension of the nearly two dozen state laws already in place, while its opponents argued that the measure would establish a weak framework that favored companies over consumers.
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June 03, 2026
A former Integral Ad Science stockholder has launched a proposed class action in Delaware Chancery Court, asserting that a controlling stockholder sought the media measurement platform's $1.7 billion sale to affiliates of Novacap Management Inc. to eliminate exposure to his derivative claims alleging insider trading.