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March 31, 2026
In our inaugural Law360 Transportation Tracker, a New York district court walloped the Trump administration's effort to cancel Manhattan's congestion pricing, the federal government continued its assault on California's vehicle emissions regulations, and Boeing investors scored class certification in 737 Max-related securities fraud litigation.
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March 31, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday again pushed off a deadline for public colleges in 17 states to provide seven years of detailed admissions data to the U.S. Department of Education, as two organizations representing private schools seek to join a legal challenge to the new survey.
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March 31, 2026
An Illinois federal court refused to certify a class of State Farm policyholders who accused the insurer of systematically undervaluing claims for totaled vehicles by applying a so-called typical negotiation adjustment, saying individualized issues predominated.
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March 31, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service can assess and collect restitution against a former attorney who served prison time in connection with $7 billion in tax fraud, making the amount immediately due and payable, the Seventh Circuit ruled, saying it was the first circuit court to address the issue.
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March 30, 2026
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. urged a California federal judge to order a dozen states and Washington, D.C., to take corrective measures after they publicly filed thousands of pages of confidential documents related to the company's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks Inc.
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March 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a former Chicago Transit Authority employee whose retaliation lawsuit was dismissed by the Seventh Circuit as a sanction for spoiling evidence.
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March 30, 2026
The False Claims Act's whistleblower provisions are unconstitutional, drugmaker Eli Lilly has told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to overturn a Seventh Circuit decision upholding a $183 million trial win for a whistleblower who claimed the drug company hid how much it charged for Medicaid-covered drugs.
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March 30, 2026
Male employees at an Illinois cannabis dispensary sexually harassed their female colleagues on a "near-daily" basis, which forced at least one woman to quit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission told a federal court Monday.
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March 30, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has decided to give class treatment to a West Monroe Partners employee's claim that the consulting firm shortchanged workers by at least $50 million when it bought up their stock.
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March 30, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Friday rejected an insurer's bid for summary judgment in a suit seeking coverage for a $20 million settlement of biometric privacy claims, saying disputes remain over whether it waived an exclusion by failing to raise it in earlier litigation or if the company's change in strategy prejudiced the plaintiffs enough to bar its application.
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March 30, 2026
An insurer has no duty to defend a home goods retailer accused of using another company's trademark in its online advertising and marketing, an Illinois federal court ruled, finding that the underlying suit does not allege a covered personal and advertising injury.
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March 27, 2026
A former executive for AEG Presents on Friday testified that his former employer's ticketing system was subpar to that of Live Nation's Ticketmaster, as counsel for the latter portrayed the live entertainment giant's dominant position in the market as a natural result of its superior services to clients.
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March 27, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into a pivotal moment for private credit, industry perspective on undervalued multifamily markets and a look at the litigation over immigration detention center projects.
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March 27, 2026
A Texas federal judge ruled this month that the strongest tool to stop counterfeiters in so-called Schedule A cases doesn't apply to utility patents, which attorneys say cements a long-standing practice of retailers relying on trademarks and design patents.
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March 27, 2026
Parents bringing deceptive labeling claims against Colgate-Palmolive can pursue accusations that the company misleadingly markets certain fluoride mouthrinses as though they are safe for kids of all ages, but parents targeting kids' toothpaste have read too much into the product labels to proceed plausibly, an Illinois federal judge said Friday.
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March 27, 2026
State Farm policyholders scored preliminary approval of a $15.6 million settlement in Arkansas federal court Friday, resolving claims the insurer systematically undervalued totaled vehicles, almost a year after a civil jury found State Farm violated its contract to pay "actual cash value" of the cars by applying typical negotiation adjustments.
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March 27, 2026
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to broaden veterans' access to emerging therapies, including psychedelic-assisted treatments, that may be effective in addressing post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental health issues.
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March 27, 2026
A coalition of states told a federal judge that the Trump administration appears to have ignored an order limiting the types of Medicaid data that can be shared with immigration officials, potentially handing over reams of "off limits" data on citizens and green card holders.
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March 27, 2026
An insurer asked an Illinois federal court to reject a drug wholesaler's bid for sanctions in a dispute over coverage for underlying opioid litigation, saying the accusations that it intentionally destroyed pertinent evidence are, "at best, based on half-truths and misstatements of fact."
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March 27, 2026
An Illinois federal jury has convicted a man who posted a video online threatening to kill President Donald Trump and other public officials and who told a Lake County judge presiding over his foreclosure case that he would burn the courthouse down.
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March 27, 2026
An Alexander & Baldwin investor has dropped claims that the commercial real estate investment trust obscured its connections to Blackstone Real Estate in securities filings before a proposed $2.3 billion take-private deal, saying U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings last month moot the case.
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March 26, 2026
A coalition of state attorneys general on Thursday mostly concluded their antitrust case against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, following weeks of a trial that was nearly derailed after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped out, and Live Nation kicked off its defense case with a company executive who pushed back against claims of anticompetitive conduct.
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March 26, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has urged an Illinois federal court not to take up Tyson Foods' application of a Fourth Circuit decision in the turkey processor's bid to defeat consolidated antitrust litigation against poultry producers, saying the out-of-circuit decision conflicts with U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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March 26, 2026
Illinois cannabis regulators are not so "incompetent on an elementary level" as to be duped into allowing Acreage Holdings Inc. and other companies to mislabel vape products in a way that lets them skirt state-imposed THC-potency limits, a federal court ruled, tossing as "baseless" a consumer-led proposed class action.
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March 26, 2026
The top antitrust attorney at the Illinois attorney general's office predicted Thursday that state enforcers will continue to pick up the pace as the Federal Trade Commission and especially the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division "become less transparent and less active."