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July 09, 2026
A South Dakota hotel must pay an Indigenous advocacy group about $2.5 million in attorney fees following a trial jury's $63,191 verdict in a civil rights case claiming the business discriminated against Native American tribe members based on race, a federal judge has ruled.
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July 09, 2026
An attorney named in a business owner's sprawling racketeering suit against his former business partner and numerous alleged co-conspirators has asked a California federal judge to throw out the claims, arguing the lawyer's actions were protected litigation activity and that the business owner lacks standing to sue.
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July 09, 2026
Texas Tech University's chancellor and board have been hit with a federal lawsuit alleging their policies on course content amount to an "extraordinary system of censorship," including by barring law students from receiving factual information about race related to the U.S. Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision.
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July 09, 2026
Individuals working in then-special counsel Jack Smith's office may have mishandled classified information while investigating President Donald Trump, according to messages obtained by the Senate Judiciary Committee, committee Chair Sen. Chuck Grassley has told the U.S. Department of Justice.
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July 09, 2026
The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday declined to punish a Georgia lawyer accused of disparaging an opponent while running for a state attorney position, saying a Florida Bar rule invoked against him is unconstitutional because it imposed "content-based" restrictions on his speech.
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July 09, 2026
An Arizona federal judge is mulling fee sanctions against an attorney found to have included erroneous quotations in a brief she filed in her client's employment discrimination case, amid what he called her history of "improper litigation conduct" in the pending matter and previous cases.
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July 09, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has suspended an Allegheny County attorney for a year over accusations that she continued to represent clients after she received an administrative suspension, failed to respond to communications from the Office of Disciplinary Counsel and misrepresented her status to get her license reinstated.
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July 09, 2026
The Fourth Circuit will not rethink its decision last month affirming the convictions of two St. Louis attorneys accused of engineering a $22 million tax avoidance scheme.
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July 09, 2026
Indeed has dropped a federal lawsuit over what it described as at least $1.2 million in fire code compliance and renovation problems with its new Connecticut co-headquarters building after its landlord said it had previously been advised by McCarter & English, the same firm representing Indeed.
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July 09, 2026
A former associate attorney who was on the partnership track at Jackson Lewis PC has brought suit against the employment law firm in California state court, alleging that it refused to accommodate her temporary medical restrictions after she returned from leave and pressured her to accept a demotion or resign.
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July 09, 2026
Levona Holdings has urged a New York federal judge to order Reed Smith LLP and Greenberg Traurig LLP to turn over privilege logs in discovery related to the company's motion for sanctions, saying there are "reasons to doubt" the firms' privilege claims.
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July 09, 2026
A former Wisconsin state judge convicted of obstructing immigration authorities trying to arrest a defendant after he appeared in her courtroom lodged an appeal before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, after avoiding a prison sentence but being fined $5,000.
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July 08, 2026
Samsung has kicked off yet another lawsuit in its long-running intellectual property dispute with Netlist, this time claiming that Netlist is trying to "double dip" with a demand that Samsung take a second license to Netlist's patents covering semiconductor technology, according to a complaint filed in Delaware federal court Wednesday.
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July 08, 2026
A California federal judge has declined to reopen an asbestos suit by an insurance exchange for the trucking industry against a group of reinsurers as the parties battle whether to remove a supposedly "side-switching" arbitrator, saying the arbitration is proceeding in New York.
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July 08, 2026
A Washington federal judge ordered Amazon to give the Federal Trade Commission several documents sought in the agency's antitrust case and said a "re-review" of the online retailer's discovery is needed to ensure the company "does not continue to withhold documents based on an improper application of the attorney-client privilege."
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July 08, 2026
A landmark social media addiction verdict and a U.S. Supreme Court decision overruling state law claims against Monsanto over the labeling of alleged Roundup cancer risks are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from the first six months of 2026.
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July 08, 2026
Fans accusing Ultimate Fighting Championship of monopolizing the market for mixed martial arts pay-per-view events said Wednesday they are entitled to access discovery from a set of previous antitrust cases called the "fighter cases."
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July 08, 2026
The Hartford judge presiding over a $22.5 million lawsuit against McCarter & English LLP and a former partner said Wednesday he had "serious doubts" about allowing testimony from a defense expert, but let him proceed as long as he did not claim to interpret New York law.
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July 08, 2026
Costco was hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court Tuesday alleging the wholesale retailer knew the Orgain protein powders it sold at its warehouses and online risked containing dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals, but marketed them as providing "good, clean nutrition" and having "quality ingredients."
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July 08, 2026
The Delaware vice chancellor presiding over litigation regarding a $570 million payout to Apollo Global Management Inc. insiders has disqualified herself from the case after a possible conflict of interest arose due to her former role as an attorney with Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, which was involved in a merger with ties to the payout.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago has agreed that a group of anti-ICE protesters whose criminal case was dismissed when prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that indicted them came to light is entitled to recover attorney fees, but argued Tuesday that their bid to conduct discovery into any bad faith by the government amounted to a "fishing expedition."
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July 08, 2026
Ohio has enacted a sweeping law that bans all foreign litigation funders from doing business in the Buckeye State, drawing praise from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and outrage from the litigation finance industry.
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July 08, 2026
Georgia's judicial ethics commission has asked a federal judge to dismiss a suit filed by two unsuccessful state Supreme Court justice candidates, arguing that an Eleventh Circuit decision allowing it to release public statements accusing them of possible ethical violations can't be undone.
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July 08, 2026
The Trump administration cannot rely on the presidential communications privilege to block disclosure of communications related to allegations that the president sought to intimidate BigLaw firms into conforming with his policy initiatives, the American Bar Association told a D.C. federal judge.
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July 08, 2026
A Georgia federal judge reportedly disciplined for having sexual intercourse in her chambers and attending a political event has opted not to recuse herself in the case of a former UPS employee in his dismissed racial discrimination lawsuit.