Purdue Pharma's $5.5B Plea Deal Clinched As Survivors Protest

By Carla Baranauckas

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP has to pay a $3.5 billion fine and forfeit an additional $2 billion, more than five years after it pled guilty to criminal charges related to its role in the opioid crisis, a New Jersey federal judge said Tuesday.

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Makeup Ingredient Supplier Hits Ch. 11 Over Talc Torts

By Emlyn Cameron

Miyoshi America Inc., a supplier of cosmetics ingredients, filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas on Monday with a preapproved Chapter 11 plan aimed at putting to rest asbestos-related personal injury litigation with a $20 million trust.

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9th Circ. Finds Section 230 Blocks Meta Genocide Claims

By Mike Curley

The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of claims by two women who allege that Facebook's algorithms contributed to their villages being attacked as part of the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, saying that under circuit precedent, those claims are blocked by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

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5th Circ. Judge 'Hung Up' On FDA Vape Denial Reasoning

By José Luis Martínez

A Fifth Circuit judge on Tuesday pressed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on how it reviews applications from flavored vape manufacturers, asking why repeatedly denying applicants on similar grounds should not be treated as a rule requiring notice-and-comment.

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Suit Says Bissell Misled Buyers About Faulty Steam Cleaners

By Tom Lotshaw

A Michigan resident hit Bissell Homecare Inc. with a proposed class action accusing the company of selling about 1.7 million defective steam cleaners without informing customers that their attachment tools could unexpectedly detach and create a risk of burns.

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Defunct NJ Biz Fined $8M For Selling Dangerous AC Units

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday sentenced a shuttered home appliance company to pay an $8 million criminal fine after it pled guilty to failing to immediately report that portable air conditioners it imported and sold had caught fire.

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Tesla Seeks To Trim Mom's Suit Over Son's Death In Crash

By Kelcey Caulder

A Florida mother can't bring Georgia Fair Business Practices Act claims against Tesla over defects that allegedly caused the fiery crash that killed her son and his father, the auto company argued, urging a federal court to pare down the case.

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Boeing Says 737 Max Plaintiffs Can't Seek Punitive Damages

By Ben Adlin

The Boeing Co. has told a Washington state court that dozens of plaintiffs suing over a 2024 door plug blowout on a 737 Max flight are ineligible to seek punitive damages in the case because such damages aren't allowed under Washington law.

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Anti-Pot Group Says CMS Violated APA With Hemp Program

By Mike Curley

A group of advocates opposed to legal cannabis, as well as a cannabinoid company and two individuals, are fighting the government's bid to halt their challenge to a program to give Medicare beneficiaries access to federally legal hemp products, saying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services violated federal law by instituting the program without notice or comment.

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Smoke Shop Blames Vape Co. For Raids And Frozen $5M

By Jonathan Capriel

Two Texas smoke shop owners claim they suffered police raids, arrests and nearly $5 million of their business funds being frozen, all because one of their vape suppliers, Delta Munchies LLC, sold them products containing illicit levels of THC despite marketing them as legal hemp, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court.

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Mich. Panel Revives Consumers Energy Gas Blast Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan appellate judges have revived a negligence lawsuit against Consumers Energy over a house explosion that severely injured a Detroit-area man, finding factual disputes remain over whether the utility's gas line replacement work caused leaks that led to the blast. 

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PFAS OUT Cannot Replace Broad Drinking Water Protections

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's PFAS OUT initiative may help water systems deal with two specific per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances before federal compliance deadlines arrive, but it is no substitute for broader protections the EPA is withdrawing — and in PFAS litigation, that distinction could be important, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures

By Adrian Cruz

GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.

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Judge Publicly Scolds 'Disgraced' Ex-Prosecutor For AI Errors

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge has eviscerated a former federal prosecutor in a public reprimand for his use of artificial intelligence to draft a response brief that was riddled with hallucinations, calling out the prosecutor's "lack of candor" and saying he "disgraced not only himself, but also the entire office he formerly served."

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Comey Indicted Again As Feds Call Seashell Message 'Threat'

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey was again indicted Tuesday by the Trump administration, this time over a social media post last year of an image of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to form the message "86 47," which prosecutors characterized as a threat of violence against the president.

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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules

By Phillip Bantz

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case

By Gina Kim

ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict. 

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Nadine Menendez Says Feds Need To 'Look Into The Mirror'

By George Woolston

Nadine Menendez dug into her bid for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-politician husband, telling a New York federal court that prosecutors refuse to own up to their handling of the "forced withdrawal" of her counsel.

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Teleflex Settles Catheter Patent Case Against Medtronic

By Elliot Weld

Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.

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