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March 19, 2026
Private equity firms, including TPG and Bain Capital, are considering forming a $10 billion joint venture with OpenAI, Finnish lift maker Kone Oyj is mulling an acquisition of its rival TK Elevator, and Australian investment firm Macquarie has backed out of a bidding war for a stake in Kuwait's oil pipeline network due to the conflict in the Middle East.
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March 18, 2026
A Florida federal judge denied Carnival Corp.'s attempt to throw out a suit alleging a child slipped and suffered a brain injury in the pool area of a cruise ship, agreeing Wednesday with a magistrate judge's finding that the company "misses the mark" with its arguments.
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March 17, 2026
A Pizza Hut franchisee told a Texas federal judge Tuesday that it will pay $35,000 to end a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit alleging the business fired a manager for complaining that her boss sabotaged her store because she ended a romantic relationship with him.
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March 17, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel has reversed the dismissal of a suit alleging an Idaho-based doctor overprescribed drugs to a Washington woman, leading to her death, finding that the doctor and her clinic had enough contacts with Washington for a federal district court in that state to have jurisdiction.
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March 16, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday dismissed Marriott International from a woman's lawsuit alleging that Sean "Diddy" Combs raped and threatened to kill her at one of its Manhattan area hotels in 2004, finding her assertions that Marriott enabled him "pure legal conclusions that do nothing to state a claim."
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March 16, 2026
New Jersey high court justices on Monday appeared skeptical that the township of Jackson properly used eminent domain when it combined condemned land with other public property in an exchange for land intended for use as open space.
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March 16, 2026
The last of nine consolidated lawsuits stemming from a 2022 mass shooting at a Pittsburgh Airbnb has settled, according to court records.
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March 16, 2026
Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino required table game dealers to count up theirs tips while they were off the clock and continued to pay for their rest breaks under a tip credit, a dealer said in a suit in New Jersey federal court.
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March 13, 2026
A Florida federal judge has denied a bid by Norwegian Cruise Lines to avoid trial in a lawsuit alleging negligence after a Pennsylvania man drowned in Bermuda, finding the company had a duty to warn passengers about the risks of swimming at a nearby beach.
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March 13, 2026
American Cruise Lines sued an ex-deckhand involved in an alcohol-related car crash that occurred on shore just after her five-and-half-week stint on the ship was complete, arguing that it's not obligated to cover her costs under maritime law because she violated the company's zero-tolerance drug and alcohol policy.
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March 13, 2026
In London, Estée Lauder accused Jo Malone's founder of intellectual property infringement, the wife of an Iranian businessman linked to a £75 million fraud sued several Iranian oil companies, HSBC sued U.S. property tycoon Michael Fuchs, and Charles Russell Speechlys brought a claim against a United Arab Emirates company it once represented in an international arbitration.
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March 13, 2026
Trial strategy by Uber ahead of a second bellwether trial in sexual assault multidistrict litigation and a $4 million injury verdict against Publix in Florida lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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March 12, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday revived employment retaliation claims against Harrah's and Caesars Entertainment by a former table games dealer, finding the lower court abused its discretion by making "speculative assertions" about the need to add as a defendant a related tribal gaming enterprise.
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March 12, 2026
This edition of emerging copyright and trademark cases and trends looks at an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court that questions the definition of trademark "use in commerce" under the Lanham Act and a battle over the use of "Popeye" as a trademark.
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March 12, 2026
Two more casinos were hit with proposed class and collective actions in New Jersey federal court by a dealer who alleges the Atlantic City-based casinos paid less than minimum wage to tipped employees and illegally required them to pool tips.
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March 12, 2026
Billionaire Tilman Fertitta is in exclusive negotiations to buy Caesars Entertainment for roughly $7 billion, superseding a competing all-cash offer from Carl Icahn's Icahn Enterprises, and Papa John's received a bid from Qatari-backed investment firm Irth Capital Management that could value the pizza chain at $1.5 billion.
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March 12, 2026
The IRS and the parent of Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell agreed that the company's total deductions for domestic production activities during 2013-2015 were $1.6 million — roughly 15% of the $10.7 million the company had claimed as deductions for the three years.
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March 12, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday backed a lower court ruling that tossed a suit filed by investors who claimed the Maryland federal court wrongfully refused to return seized assets that were taken to satisfy its $120.2 million judgment for the federal government's real estate fraud suit.
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March 12, 2026
One-stop travel service provider Trip.com and its executives "recklessly understated" to shareholders the risks of their business activities running afoul of China's antimonopoly laws, according to a new proposed class action in New York federal court.
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March 11, 2026
A Minnesota federal judge refused to rethink forcing Triumph Foods to face trial alongside other pork producers accused of price-fixing, concluding that even though one key theory was "inadequately pled," there remains enough of a dispute on another theory to go to a jury.
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March 10, 2026
A Connecticut church that leases part of its property out to a private for-profit day care should be allowed a property tax exemption for the entirety of its property, the state Appellate Court affirmed.
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March 10, 2026
A comedy club in Louisville, Kentucky, will pay nearly $373,000 to close the book on a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigation into whether a manager sexually harassed female employees, the agency said Tuesday.
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March 10, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge has ordered the Chapter 11 case of vegan restaurant group Planta to be converted to a Chapter 7 liquidation, after the debtor said it has no other option.
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March 09, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Monday to reversing at least portions of a lower court's ruling that scrapped a $4.7 billion class action antitrust jury verdict against the National Football League, with one judge saying the "fundamental problem" is the trial court took the verdict away from the jury.
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March 09, 2026
The Table Mountain Rancheria has asked a California federal judge to deny another tribe's motion to dismiss its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of the Interior over a 40-acre land transfer for a casino project, saying the DOI will protect any interest the tribe might have.