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August 07, 2026
With under 200 lawyers, Legal Aid of North Carolina found itself at one point receiving over 300,000 calls to its hotline a year from people in need. So when the opportunity arose to deploy AI to help divert at least some of the call volume, the organization's chief innovation officer thought it was time to take a leap of faith and found a pro bono partner in K&L Gates.
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August 07, 2026
A Connecticut federal court on Thursday gave a preliminary OK to a settlement between a coalition of 48 states and territories and drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. that would pay out more than $29.6 million in restitution to eligible consumers and the coalition.
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August 07, 2026
A North Carolina federal court has ruled that police officers accused of raiding the wrong house while attempting to locate a stolen car are not immune from claims that they violated the rights of the homeowner and her fiancée and illegally destroyed their property.
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August 07, 2026
Grid operator PJM Interconnection LLC has challenged North Carolina-based energy efficiency aggregator American Efficient's request for $11.5 million of debtor-in-possession financing, alleging the debtor is not operating and that current regulations make its business impossible to operate.
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August 07, 2026
A football player hoping to join the North Carolina State University team sued the NCAA in federal court Friday over its review of his eligibility, alleging that the organization is using anti-competitive tactics to artificially restrict labor from the market.
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August 07, 2026
Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP has brought on six partners across offices in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, adding attorneys with experience in complex litigation, transportation, healthcare, product liability, employment and insurance matters.
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August 07, 2026
A coalition of 18 state attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urged federal regulators to block Opportunity Financial's proposed acquisition of BNC National Bank, saying the deal would allow the online lender to sidestep state interest rate limits and expand its high-cost lending nationwide.
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August 07, 2026
President Donald Trump on Friday picked Danielle Thumann Severs, an in-house lawyer at the Federal Communications Commission, to fill an open seat on the regulatory board.
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August 06, 2026
A California federal judge clarified Thursday that Nexstar executives and other affiliated personnel cannot serve as Tegna directors under a temporary injunction blocking the broadcast giants' $6.2 billion merger, while admonishing the companies for not disclosing the appointment of three Nexstar officials to Tegna's board.
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August 06, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Thursday struck a woman's lawsuit alleging a former romantic partner tracked her with Apple Inc.'s "stalker proof" AirTags, saying she must file a more specific complaint or else her claims will be dismissed.
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August 06, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge partly adopted a magistrate judge's decision to pause a military consumer lawsuit accusing Citibank NA of misleading service members about interest and fees after the Fourth Circuit determined that the arbitration agreements were enforceable.
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August 06, 2026
President Donald Trump on Thursday signed two executive orders that seek to limit automatic citizenship for babies born in the U.S., after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a previous birthright citizenship executive order as unconstitutional.
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August 06, 2026
Duke University School of Law intentionally discriminated against prospective white and Asian students in its efforts to pursue racial diversity in its incoming classes, the U.S. Department of Justice asserted Thursday.
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August 06, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge upheld a magistrate judge's finding that two Synchrony Bank customers must arbitrate their proposed class action challenging Synchrony's allegedly misleading 0% interest rate for military service members, though he partially disagreed with the magistrate judge's rationale.
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August 06, 2026
German chemical distributor Brenntag has consented to a remediation plan to stop contaminants leaking into public waterways from its storage facility in North Carolina, according to an agreement filed in state court.
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August 06, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has set a February trial date on claims from dozens of state attorneys general that generic-drug makers conspired to artificially inflate the prices of generic topical drugs.
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August 06, 2026
Republicans in the North Carolina House of Representatives have given the green light to a legislative proposal empowering the chief justice of the state Supreme Court to suspend trial court judges without pay if they're under investigation by the state Judicial Standards Commission.
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August 06, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel said an immigration judge denied a Guinean woman's application for cancellation of removal without an adequate chance to show her removal would cause exceptional hardship for her two U.S. citizen daughters.
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August 05, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge declined to fully adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Bank of America of violating an interest cap law for military service members, though he trimmed some claims from the suit.
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August 05, 2026
The U.S. Army soldier accused of reaping prediction market profits with his knowledge of the January operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wants to fight parallel actions from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Justice Department at once, and contends the government can't use his case as an "experiment" for how to police trading on platforms like Polymarket.
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August 05, 2026
A solo practitioner in North Carolina sanctioned for misleading a trial court judge with a misquote in his pleadings "stunned" an appellate panel when he made yet another quotation blunder in his brief on appeal, according to a published opinion Wednesday affirming his punishment.
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August 05, 2026
A Texas federal judge has denied Revive Rx's bid to end Eli Lilly and Co.'s remaining unfair competition claims over the compounding pharmacy's sales of allegedly unapproved tirzepatide weight loss drugs that Eli Lilly says compete with Mounjaro and Zepbound, rejecting Revive's argument that compounded drugs fall outside state "new drug" laws.
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August 05, 2026
Prosecutors have urged a New York federal court to revoke the bail of a close associate of ex-NBA player Terry Rozier, alleging he has been trying to intimidate potential witnesses in a sports betting case with threatening messages, including a social media post of a rat emoji.
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August 04, 2026
A New York federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request by some state attorneys general for discovery into the Justice Department's antitrust settlement reached midtrial with Live Nation, ruling that the scope of the request is "unclear" but the AGs can try again with "narrow and targeted requests."
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August 04, 2026
A consulting company flouted North Carolina's Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Act by charging veterans fees to file disability claims even while it lacked federal accreditation, a federal judge ruled in handing a partial pretrial victory to three classes of veterans.