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April 14, 2026
Warehouse robotics company Brightpick wants a Virginia federal judge to find that its artificial intelligence automation robot, Gridpicker, doesn't infringe a series of patents owned by a unit of the British grocery technology business Ocado Group.
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April 14, 2026
General Mills said it is entitled to defense and indemnity for a series of suits claiming it injured consumers through the distribution of ultraprocessed foods, telling a Pennsylvania federal court that its Liberty Mutual and Chubb insurers lack legitimate grounds to contest their coverage obligations.
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April 13, 2026
Massachusetts legislators sent a bill making numerous changes to the state's cannabis regulatory scheme to the governor, Oregon and Louisiana advanced legislation to expand medical marijuana access to seriously ill patients in healthcare facilities, and Virginia's governor approved legislation paving the way for medical psilocybin if the drug's federal status should change. Here are the major moves in cannabis and psychedelics legislation from the past week.
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April 13, 2026
Jack in the Box Inc. urged a Washington state judge to temporarily bar two franchisees from closing dozens of locations across the state, claiming that they owe nearly $1.4 million in unpaid marketing fees and that unilaterally shuttering the stores would violate their franchise agreements.
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April 13, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket this past week featured a mix of high-stakes settlements, fast-moving deal litigation, governance disputes and a notable post-trial ruling involving fraud-tainted loans.
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April 13, 2026
A group of Washington state restaurants will pay $750,000 to resolve a U.S. Department of Labor lawsuit alleging unpaid wages, child labor violations and retaliation, according to a consent judgment entered in federal court.
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April 13, 2026
Mars Inc. is urging a Connecticut state court to throw out a suit from a woman alleging that she had an allergic reaction after eating M&M's Minis, saying her revised complaint's admission that she bought Peanut Butter M&M's Minis dooms any claims she has for negligence.
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April 13, 2026
Molson Coors says its Colorado chemical contractor accepted and delivered a shipment of sulfuric acid that was nearly double what the beverage giant had ordered, causing a tank overflow that forced a full plant evacuation and caused $2 million in damages, according to a new lawsuit filed in Colorado state court.
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April 13, 2026
Costco has told a Washington federal judge that its popular rotisserie chickens pose no health risk to customers because the product is fully cooked, in a bid to dismiss a proposed class action claiming the product is processed in a plant contaminated with salmonella.
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April 13, 2026
A federal ban on home distilleries that dates to the early temperance movement violates the U.S. Constitution's limits on congressional taxing power, the Fifth Circuit said in siding with hobbyists, including one who said he wants to experiment with apple-pie vodka recipes in his garage.
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April 13, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its court-ordered tariff refund system will be available for its first entries in a week's time, but practitioners remain concerned that a potential government appeal of the ruling could narrow the amount of imports and companies that can qualify for the relief.
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April 13, 2026
Honey Baked Ham fraudulently assures website visitors they have control over whether their data is tracked or shared, but secretly records and discloses that information to third parties anyway without the visitors' consent, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in Georgia federal court.
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April 13, 2026
A New York federal judge has appointed Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP as lead counsel in a proposed class action against BellRing Brands, the owner of Premier Protein and other supplement brands, after finding a lead counsel bid that was filed six minutes past the deadline due to a technical glitch was excusable.
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April 13, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected a protest from a services provider, finding a revision that added food hall staffing for the U.S. Military Academy at West Point did not fall outside the scope of the original contract.
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April 10, 2026
A New York federal judge on Friday paused the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's civil suit against an Indiana man accused of participating in a $200 million Ponzi scheme, ruling that allowing discovery to go forward could interfere with the government's parallel criminal case.
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April 10, 2026
An Illinois federal jury has returned a $175.5 million verdict against a Boston Beer affiliate in a case alleging that the company didn't purchase the agreed-upon amount of beverage cans from Ardagh Metal Packaging USA Corp., according to a disclosure filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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April 10, 2026
A California federal magistrate judge Friday ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission and states on multiple discovery disputes in their litigation alleging Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, requiring Uber to hand over contact data on roughly 30 million Uber subscribers.
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April 10, 2026
President Donald Trump's business organization waded into a trademark fight in Texas federal court involving companies behind a Trump-themed burger eatery, accusing all of them of illegally using "Trump Burger," "MAGA Burger" and imagery tied to the president's likeness to mislead patrons into thinking they were affiliated with him.
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April 10, 2026
A Colorado state appeals panel interpreted for the first time an exemption to a Colorado law prohibiting the owner of a retail liquor license from owning more than one unless the license was obtained prior to 2016, finding the exemption applies to the original license holder, not a store's location.
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April 10, 2026
Former employees for food service company Compass Group USA have secured class certification for their Missouri federal lawsuit claiming the company's $48 bi-weekly health insurance fee for tobacco using-workers violates federal law.
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April 10, 2026
An Illinois federal judge wondered aloud Friday whether John Deere's $99 million class action settlement with farmers, and more importantly its promised facilitation of independent equipment repairs, mooted the Federal Trade Commission's still-pending right-to-repair lawsuit.
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April 10, 2026
The first phase of an electronic system allowing U.S. importers to claim refunds for tariffs paid under the global regime struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court will launch April 20, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Friday.
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April 10, 2026
An attorney for Agri Stats Inc. told a Minnesota federal judge Friday that a settlement resolving the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust case could be on the horizon ahead of an early May trial accusing the company of helping major chicken, turkey and pork producers hike prices.
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April 10, 2026
U.S. Court of International Trade judges heard oral arguments Friday on President Donald Trump's order imposing temporary global tariffs under the Trade Act, pressing attorneys for both sides on whether the White House can invoke the economic conditions specified by the law.
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April 10, 2026
Illinois jurors on Friday slapped another $17 million in punitive damages atop the $53 million they awarded the previous afternoon to four mothers who accused Abbott Laboratories of selling preterm infant formula that contributed to a serious and often fatal gut condition their babies developed.