Utility Co.'s Insurer Had Duty To Defend Equipment Supplier

By Hope Patti

The insurer for a utility construction company had the primary duty to defend an equipment supplier in an underlying wrongful death suit, a Maryland federal court ruled Monday, handing a win to the supplier's commercial general liability insurer.

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CareFirst Says Intent Standard Was Misread In Stelara Case

By Jared Foretek

CareFirst is arguing that a Virginia federal judge created a new standard for monopolization claims when he dismissed claims from the company's antitrust suit challenging Johnson & Johnson's protection of its immunosuppressive drug Stelara, arguing he misread a Fourth Circuit decision in ruling that monopolization requires a showing of specific intent.

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NY Attys Call Texas Firm's 'Copy-Paste' RICO Suits Abusive

By Elaine Briseño

A New York law firm facing an insurance company's racketeering and fraud allegations took aim at the insurer's counsel, telling a federal court that the Texas law firm behind the allegations is abusing judicial resources with multiple identical lawsuits.

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Cognizant, Infosys Can't Shield Execs From Depositions

By Elliot Weld

Infosys Ltd. and Cognizant TriZetto Software Group Inc. will each have to produce executives to speak on certain topics for depositions in a Texas federal lawsuit over claims that Infosys stole Cognizant's trade secrets to build a competing healthcare software, a special master ruled Monday.

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Insurers Say Exclusion Bars Sex Trafficking Suit Coverage

By Danielle Ferguson

Insurers asked a federal court to declare that they don't have to defend a Florida bail bonds business against a lawsuit tying the owner to a sex trafficking scheme, arguing the criminal acts bar business liability coverage.

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Supreme Court Skips Challenge To $168M Trade Secret Award

By Ivan Moreno

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.'s challenge to a $168 million trade secret judgment for Computer Sciences Corp.

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Attys Want Up To $33M In Long-Running UBH Benefits Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.

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USAA Says School Assault Suit Not Covered By Policies

By Danielle Ferguson

An insurer asked a Washington federal court to declare it is not obligated to defend a family under their homeowners or umbrella policies after their son allegedly beat up a classmate on school property during a Seattle-area homecoming football game.

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Insurers Settle Coverage Fight Over Lung Transplant Suit

By Danielle Ferguson

Insurance companies Philadelphia Indemnity Insurance Co. and Texas Mutual Insurance Co. told a Texas federal court Monday that they have reached a settlement resolving their nearly four-year-old dispute over who should provide coverage for a suit over injuries caused by chemical inhalation.

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Insurer, Real Estate Co. Resolve Policy Misrepresentation Row

By Hope Patti

An insurer has settled a suit seeking to avoid covering a commercial real estate firm and its former director against a $6.5 million claim related to the sale of a client's properties based on misrepresentations made in an errors and omissions policy application.

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Reel Justice: 'Tuner' And Modern Juror Sympathy

In “Tuner,” the main character’s criminal behavior is framed as an extension of his vulnerability, talent and loyalty, demonstrating how narratives of sympathy shape perceptions of culpability, and why jurors may reinterpret wrongdoing through story and emotion rather than evidence and doctrine, says Veronica Finkelstein at WilmU Law.

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These Firms Secured The Most Damages In The Last 3 Years

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Government lawyers had a strong success rate in federal courts over the last three years, but intellectual property litigation saw certain firms secure damage awards worth hundreds of millions of dollars for clients, according to Lex Machina's Law Firms Activity Report 2026 released on Tuesday.

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Ex-Girardi Atty Hid Firm's Diversion Of Funds, State Bar Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

A State Bar of California prosecutor argued Tuesday at a disciplinary trial that ex-Girardi Keese attorney Robert Finnerty hid the firm's misappropriation of millions of dollars from a family's $53 million settlement, while Finnerty's counsel countered he's being blamed for the actions of his former boss, convicted and disbarred attorney Tom Girardi.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein Denied Acquittal Or Retrial

By Alison Knezevich

A Maryland federal judge on Tuesday denied SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, rejecting his claims that issues with jury instructions and excluded evidence warranted a do-over in his tax evasion and mortgage fraud case.

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Ex-Judge Loses Bid To Undo ICE Obstruction Conviction

By Britain Eakin

Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah Dugan has failed in her attempt to use a Fourth Circuit decision to vacate her conviction for helping a defendant in her courtroom evade immigration agents, with a federal judge ruling Tuesday the decision involves fact patterns that differ from her case.

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Senate Rejects Bid To Block Fast-Track Immigration Appeals

By Courtney Bublé

A Democratic-led Senate resolution that would have blocked a U.S. Department of Justice rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to quickly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues failed to pass Tuesday.

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Blanche To Go Before Senate Panel July 15

By Courtney Bublé

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche's nomination hearing is a month away, and the fate of his confirmation is likely in the hands of Sens. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.

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Oral Arguments In Comey, James Appeal Set For September

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Fourth Circuit has scheduled in-person oral arguments for the Trump administration's appeal of the dismissals of indictments against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James for Sept. 15-18.

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Brazil Says Justice Is Immune From Trump Media's Suit

By Carolina Bolado

Brazil asked Monday to intervene and dismiss a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders, saying the suit cannot overcome immunity under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act.

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