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April 09, 2026
Walmart misrepresents its Bettergoods line of almond, oat and soy milks as "Plant-Based," even though the labeling shows inorganic and synthetic ingredients such as vitamin A palmitate, which "naturally occurs in liver, fish and dairy products ... not plants," a class action by consumers says.
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April 09, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor urged the full Eleventh Circuit to overturn precedent making it the only appellate court requiring workers to exhaust administrative remedies before bringing any statutory claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. arguing that the standard is unfair and in conflict with ERISA.
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April 09, 2026
A Florida federal judge sentenced a former fuel executive to five years in prison after a jury found him guilty of defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense of more than $4.5 million.
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April 08, 2026
Live Nation on Wednesday concluded its defense case with glowing testimony about it from the manager for rap star Drake, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case said rival company AEG Worldwide and a Hogan Lovells lawyer may face sanctions for revealing confidential information about a witness.
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April 08, 2026
A nonprofit urged a Florida state appellate panel Wednesday to overturn an administrative judge's decision siding with an agency's proposed rules for protecting natural springs, arguing the permitting measures are essentially the same as existing ones and do nothing to prevent overconsumption.
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April 08, 2026
A Florida insurer and its former parent, which is a Delaware-based national partnership of insurance brokers, have agreed to pay $135 million collectively to resolve allegations of a scheme to enroll ineligible consumers into subsidized Affordable Care Act plans and of defrauding the federal government of more than $140 million.
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April 08, 2026
A car crash plaintiff who sought $1 million in damages but was awarded only $20,000 can't get a new trial because of juror misconduct, a Florida state appeals court ruled Wednesday, saying a juror's lengthy legal history could have been easily uncovered online.
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April 08, 2026
A Florida resident and his investment advisory firms agreed Wednesday to pay nearly $2.4 million to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle claims they made false and misleading disclosures to investors in the venture capital funds they managed.
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April 08, 2026
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Wednesday for signing off on a 10,000-acre residential and commercial development project in Southwest Florida that the groups say will destroy the rapidly shrinking habitat of the endangered Florida panther.
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April 08, 2026
Former executives of Tupperware and the company's investors have received final approval of their $21.8 million deal to end claims the executives misleadingly represented that Tupperware was taking significant efforts to correct dwindling profit margins.
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April 08, 2026
The states suing generic-drug manufacturers in one of three sprawling antitrust cases want a Connecticut federal judge to pause all deadlines for three months so they can focus on settling with the remaining defendants, according to a joint filing.
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April 08, 2026
The Board of County Commissioners in Hillsborough County, Florida, plans to hold an April 16 workshop meeting to talk about a proposal from Major League Baseball's Tampa Bay Rays for a 31,000-seat ballpark project, according to the board's chair.
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April 08, 2026
A Florida state appeals court issued a split opinion Wednesday upholding a lower court decision favoring a commercial developer in a dispute over the construction of a pump station, ruling a city can't rely on the introductory language of a contract to avoid paying cost reimbursements.
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April 08, 2026
American Ocean Minerals Corp. and Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. said Wednesday they have agreed to combine in an all‑stock merger that values the combined company at about $1 billion, with two law firms guiding each company.
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April 07, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday revived a Black former Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co. employee's suit alleging he was fired for complaining about racist harassment, saying the lower court relied too heavily on a long-established legal framework for analyzing workplace bias evidence when dismissing his case.
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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued an investment firm, its owner and an attorney in Florida federal court for allegedly misappropriating $2.4 million from at least eight investors in a purported high-yield investment program that promised access to global financial tools.
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April 07, 2026
Florida parents who paid for their kids' university educations in advance through a state-administered program urged the Eleventh Circuit to revive their proposed class claiming they were deprived of their full benefits, arguing Tuesday that the officials who implemented an additional fee aren't immune from the complaint.
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April 07, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit declined Tuesday to grant a trucking company a new trial on a $3.4 million verdict handed to an applicant who claimed the business walked back a job offer after learning that he is Black, ruling his attorney's "improper" arguments didn't taint the trial's outcome.
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April 07, 2026
The government's star witness took the stand Tuesday in the criminal case against former U.S. Rep. David Rivera of Florida, telling jurors that Rivera and others kept a $50 million consulting contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company quiet because of concerns about how it would be perceived in Miami.
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April 07, 2026
Florida argued Tuesday a lack of U.S. government funding and control can't support a lower court order finding the construction of an Everglades-based immigration detention center bypassed federal environmental laws, and urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a preliminary injunction halting the center's operations.
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April 07, 2026
A slew of urban hospitals, including a dozen Indian Health Service entities, are asking a D.C. federal court to invalidate a two-year Health and Human Services wage index methodology for Medicare reimbursements, alleging it assigned lower adjustments for rural hospitals in their states.
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April 07, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge on Monday denied the state's preliminary injunction request to release $243 million in Medicaid funds deferred by the federal government during a fraud investigation, holding that the "unprecedented" size and scope of the deferral action doesn't mean the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services isn't legally cleared to pursue the action.
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April 07, 2026
Fox Corp. is urging a Wisconsin federal court to issue a ruling on its pending bid to transfer Newsmax Broadcasting LLC's case accusing it of pressuring cable and streaming providers into not carrying the rival right-leaning broadcaster.
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April 07, 2026
The NCAA crowned its basketball champions this week, but college sports is no closer to sorting out thorny player compensation questions, causing some university leaders to rethink their opposition to collective bargaining for athletes.
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April 07, 2026
Womble Bond Dickinson has added a trio of attorneys to its finance, bankruptcy and restructuring practice in Florida from Burr & Forman LLP.