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September 02, 2025
Wealth Enhancement Group LLC cannot override privilege laws to view communications between a former financial adviser's new employer and its lawyers at Spencer Fane LLP, according to a Connecticut judge who viewed the contested documents privately.
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September 02, 2025
The former director of East Haven, Connecticut's before-and-after-school program will see a $500 monthly reduction in her pension for almost nine years after a state court judge docked the payments due to her 2021 conviction for stealing from the town's board of education.
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September 02, 2025
A Massachusetts state court judge reinstated the state's chief cannabis regulator Tuesday, finding that while her behavior may have been "abrasive, boorish, inconsiderate, ill-tempered, imprudent and/or otherwise unreasonable," it did not rise to the level of a firable offense.
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September 02, 2025
A group of cannabis companies said a Berkshire Hathaway unit must cover their defense in an underlying suit over a worker's death, telling a Florida federal court that the allegations trigger either the policy's workers' compensation coverage or employers' liability coverage.
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September 02, 2025
A charter school failed to convince the Fourth Circuit to block two former teachers from using the name "Inspire" for their dance company, with a panel finding Tuesday that the school's trademark infringement and false advertising claims didn't have enough juice.
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September 02, 2025
A University of Wisconsin football player's second bid for an injunction allowing him an extra year to play did not fix the problems that led to the first bid being overturned on appeal, the NCAA told a Wisconsin federal judge in its renewed defense of its eligibility rules.
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August 29, 2025
Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook didn't walk away from her emergency hearing with the temporary restraining order she was looking for, but a D.C. federal judge said she was willing to expedite briefing over the president's attempt to strip Cook of her position.
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August 29, 2025
A state court judge has pared down claims against a North Carolina doctor in a messy legal dispute with his former business partners, finding they failed to show how he breached a settlement agreement governing their separation and that his allegedly disparaging remarks about another doctor don't rise to the level of causing extreme emotional distress.
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August 29, 2025
Northwestern University has for now escaped the defamation suit of a former assistant football coach caught up in the program's hazing scandal, with an Illinois state court ruling that alleged defamatory statements were not specifically about him.
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August 29, 2025
More than a year after it began receiving complaints that a Florida lawyer was ghosting clients, the state bar has yet to take action — highlighting what experts call a slow-moving process that can fail to keep pace with expansive alleged frauds.
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August 28, 2025
Investment giant Barings LLC can't force five former employees to hand over their personal emails and text messages in a corporate-raiding suit because their current employer doesn't have them, nor does it have a right to them, a North Carolina Business Court judge ruled.
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August 28, 2025
Charlotte, North Carolina-based Truist Financial Corp. and its mortgage banking arm resisted a bid for a pretrial win by its former executives' new employer, arguing that troves of evidence sustain its claims that over 50 employees were illegally poached, costing the bank tens of millions of dollars in losses.
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August 28, 2025
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook filed suit in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Thursday challenging President Donald Trump's "unprecedented and illegal attempt" to remove her from her position.
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August 27, 2025
A district judge made multiple errors in an opinion and jury instructions underpinning a staggering False Claims Act verdict tied to Johnson & Johnson's drug marketing practices, and a fresh look is needed "under a correct view of the law," the U.S. Department of Justice told the Third Circuit on Wednesday.
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August 27, 2025
The Eleventh Circuit has ruled software company NCR Corp.'s "top hat" retirement plans didn't allow the company to issue lump-sum payments to plan participants as alternatives to promised life annuities, affirming former company executives' win in the contract breach suit alleging they were shortchanged payouts from the plans.
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August 27, 2025
A widower has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Sixth Circuit correctly determined federal law doesn't shield an Ohio-based freight broker from state-based negligence and personal injury claims over a 2019 accident that killed his wife.
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August 27, 2025
Two self-proclaimed religious leaders forced people to work in call centers to raise millions of dollars that the pair spent on jet skis and other luxuries in a money laundering scheme investigated by the IRS, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday in Michigan federal court.
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August 27, 2025
A co-founder of Armaments Research Co. sued the artificial intelligence-enabled weapons sensor company in North Carolina's business court, alleging that it failed to abide by their agreement to buy back his founding shares after he left the company.
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August 27, 2025
The Seventh Circuit has held that an Illinois public school teacher's First Amendment rights weren't violated when she was terminated for "inflammatory" Facebook posts she made during protests following the police killing of George Floyd, saying the school district's interest in addressing the disruption her posts caused outweighed her free speech interests.
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August 27, 2025
A Boston personal injury firm facing claims it ripped off another firm's marketing plan launched a countersuit claiming that the rival is using an illegal business model and lying to try to stop a growing competitor.
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August 26, 2025
A D.C. federal judge denied Monday night the Trump administration's request to stay his preliminary injunction requiring the government to commit certain foreign aid funds by Sept. 30, writing that the administration had said months ago that it could begin obligating money earlier this month if it had to.
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August 26, 2025
A split Fifth Circuit panel on Tuesday reinstated a suit brought by a widow accusing Tyson Foods of negligently failing to prevent the spread of COVID-19 at an East Texas plant that caused the death of a worker, saying certain claims were not preempted by a federal food safety law.
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August 26, 2025
A trio of healthcare and real estate companies couldn't secure a preliminary injunction meant to prevent their former CEOs from disclosing or using alleged trade secrets, as North Carolina's business court ruled the amended complaint relied too heavily "on information and belief."
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August 26, 2025
The Third Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive an estate's wrongful death suit against Port Authority Transit Corp. and Delaware River Port Authority, saying the trial court rightly found that the line on which the decedent was killed is not a railroad subject to the Federal Employers' Liability Act.
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August 26, 2025
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook is preparing to file a lawsuit over President Donald Trump's announcement that she has been terminated from her position, allegedly for committing mortgage fraud, her lawyer said Tuesday.