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May 08, 2026
The Trump administration asked a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss challenges to the president's executive order limiting mail-in voting, saying it's premature to challenge the directive before any concrete steps are taken to implement it.
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May 08, 2026
Thirteen major book publishers have asked a New York federal court to enter a default judgment against Anna's Archive, seeking $19.5 million in damages after the alleged "shadow library" failed to respond to claims that it illegally distributes pirated books and research papers.
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May 08, 2026
New York City Council Member Sandy Nurse confirmed at a Thursday panel that she plans to reintroduce an updated version of the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act that grants some preapproved buyers a first shot at purchasing some residential buildings, after Mayor Eric Adams vetoed a previous version on his last day in office.
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May 08, 2026
A New York state appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexual assault, finding he was wrongly denied a short adjournment before prosecutors presented a last-minute witness to rebut his alibi.
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May 08, 2026
Parker Group Inc., a Valar Ventures-backed digital banking service for online businesses, has filed for Chapter 7 in Delaware bankruptcy court with $50 million to $100 million each in assets in liabilities.
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May 08, 2026
Two Harbors Investment Corp. said Friday that Ohio-based origination company CrossCountry Mortgage has amended a proposed merger agreement to match a competing $1.3 billion offer to acquire the real estate investment trust from UWM Holdings Corp.
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May 08, 2026
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP announced on Friday that it has hired two more attorneys from Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP to build up its litigation bench.
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May 07, 2026
A New York federal judge on Thursday sanctioned personal injury firm Betz & Baril PLC and its referral partner ClickFunds for misleading would-be class members in long-running antitrust litigation against Visa and Mastercard, ordering the firm and ClickFunds to notify clients about the misinformation.
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May 07, 2026
Estée Lauder investors on Thursday asked a New York federal judge to greenlight a $210 million settlement resolving their proposed class claims that the cosmetics company and its top brass announced unrealistic expectations for growth amid the ongoing effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business.
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May 07, 2026
Days after President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign settled negligence claims in a former aide's sexual assault lawsuit, an ex-campaign manager accused of rape faced doubts from New York state appellate judges that he could escape the case with their help.
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May 07, 2026
Combating "gamesmanship" remains top of mind for the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division as it reviews mergers, according to a New York speech Thursday from acting head Omeed A. Assefi warning parties against "altering" merger notification material or trying to "play games with documents and data."
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May 07, 2026
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff on Thursday explained his ruling last month dismissing securities fraud claims against cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, brought by investors in a digital asset associated with the now-failed Terraform blockchain ecosystem, stating in a new opinion that the suit fails to plead falsity, among other things.
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May 07, 2026
The former CEO of Texas financial services firm Beneficient was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday of securities fraud and other charges connected with a scheme to fraudulently loot more than $150 million from now-defunct GWG Holdings, a publicly traded company for which he served as chairman.
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May 07, 2026
A New York engineering and design firm that contracted to reconstruct a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Denver asked a Colorado state jury to award it $32.5 million for breaches it says a subcontractor made during the project's course.
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May 07, 2026
Bayer AG has been hit with a proposed class action in New York federal court alleging that claims on its Men's One A Day Pre-Conception Health Multivitamin supplements misleadingly convey that they could improve chances of conception and support sperm health.
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May 07, 2026
A New York federal judge on Wednesday declined to decertify a class action alleging that Bayer's "One A Day" gummy vitamins deceive consumers about serving sizes, allowing the case to continue since there's evidence that a significant number of consumers could be confused.
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May 07, 2026
An attorney for Nielsen urged a Second Circuit panel Thursday to undo an order, which is currently stayed, effectively blocking it from conditioning media company Cumulus' access to national radio ratings data on buying its local offerings.
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May 07, 2026
Venezuela's state-owned oil company has insisted it has no way to repay some $95 million in debt to bondholders due to banks being unwilling to work with it given the pariah status of the Venezuelan government.
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May 07, 2026
A New York bankruptcy judge Thursday told former talc miner Vanderbilt Minerals it can accept a $64 million bid for its mines and said she will give interim approval for $15 million in new Chapter 11 financing from the buyer.
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May 07, 2026
Though Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled her claims accusing his production company of orchestrating a smear campaign after she accused her "It Ends With Us" co-star of sexually harassing her, the actress' attorneys told a New York federal judge Thursday that there's still a dispute over damages and fees.
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May 07, 2026
The mother of a cancer patient urged the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday to revive her malpractice lawsuit alleging two New York physicians failed to detect her daughter's metastatic cancer, arguing that jurisdiction is satisfied with medical records produced by the out-of-state doctors.
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May 07, 2026
A New York federal judge asked state enforcers on Thursday to outline the remedies they intend to seek from Live Nation, along with the discovery they expect to need, before deciding a schedule for the next steps in the antitrust case against the major live entertainment company.
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May 07, 2026
Broadfield announced Thursday that two former BigLaw attorneys have joined the firm as partners in its U.S. corporate practice in New York.
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May 07, 2026
White collar compliance is getting trickier for companies that do business in Latin America, according to experts, who say they are seeing big shifts in the region connected to cartel crackdowns and efforts to strengthen corporate regulations, including relatively recent pushes for voluntary self-disclosure.
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May 07, 2026
A New York federal judge won't let IBM Corp. entirely out of a suit from the village of Endicott alleging that the computer giant's old headquarters contaminated groundwater with forever chemicals and other pollution, only tossing claims related to one of the three wells at issue.