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September 25, 2026
A North Carolina company that builds digital race car setups for eNASCAR's competitive simulator racing series has accused the owner of a rival shop of using a fake name to pose as a customer in an elaborate ploy to steal its data.
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September 25, 2026
A federal judge in North Carolina on Friday granted a request from former FBI Director James Comey to delay his formal arraignment on charges related to an allegedly threatening photo of seashells he posted online, saying "the gravity of the charges, pending motions, and the need to provide defense counsel additional time to prepare for trial promote need for continuance."
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September 25, 2026
Drivers who say State Farm systematically undervalued claims for totaled vehicles urged a North Carolina federal court to reject the insurer's renewed request for dismissal, saying the carrier's arguments have already been overruled by the court.
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September 25, 2026
A Maryland federal judge gave preliminary approval to a settlement agreement that would see NextEra Energy pay $9.5 million to resolve class action allegations it conspired with other nuclear energy producers to fix worker wages.
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September 24, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission issued a flood of decisions this week on investigations in which imports are being evaluated to see if they infringe patents or misappropriate secrets, including three cases where it will reconsider holdings from administrative law judges.
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September 24, 2026
Labcorp will pay nearly $2.3 million and adopt data security changes under a multistate settlement resolving investigations into a 2019 breach at its former debt collection vendor, a group of state attorneys general announced Thursday.
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September 24, 2026
Nearly half the attorneys general in the United States implored Congress in a letter Thursday to "immediately" regulate the artificial intelligence industry and prohibit federal action from preempting state laws, telling U.S. House and Senate leaders that national security is at stake.
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September 24, 2026
A North Carolina hotel operator fired an employee rather than accommodate him after he faced disabling injuries from a bus crash, stating he needed to be fully healed to return to work, according to a Thursday lawsuit from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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September 24, 2026
A former Joe Gibbs Racing LLC competition director and a rival NASCAR racing team where he currently works asked a North Carolina federal court on Thursday to enter default judgment against Joe Gibbs Racing after it accused them of trade secrets theft.
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September 24, 2026
Nonprofit groups and two voters are asking a North Carolina federal judge to block the Tar Heel State's new mail-in ballot restrictions ahead of the November midterm elections, saying the rules threaten to disenfranchise eligible voters over "innocuous, technical errors."
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September 23, 2026
The Fourth Circuit balked late Wednesday at freeing Tom Goldstein from prison as he fights felony convictions, and it rejected fast-track review of the renowned appellate advocate's trial, indicating he'll likely spend substantial time behind bars even if his appeal succeeds.
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September 23, 2026
Honeywell Aerospace is facing an investor suit alleging it failed to disclose a federal investigation that led to a $2 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice and that a small set of suppliers had a "disproportionate impact" on the aerospace and defense company's revenue.
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September 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice told the U.S. Supreme Court in an amicus brief that the Ninth Circuit wrongly faulted Apple for charging a 27% commission on transactions linked out from apps, but it backed other parts of the California federal court's contempt order won by Epic Games.
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September 23, 2026
Legal advocacy groups are standing behind the law firm Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP in asking North Carolina's highest court to find that the state's four-year statute of repose on legal malpractice claims creates an immovable end-date to liability.
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September 23, 2026
A proposed class action accusing Bank of America NA of illegally sharing customer information with law enforcement after the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack has quietly come to an end, according to a notice filed late Tuesday in Florida federal court.
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September 23, 2026
A coalition of state lawmakers has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Third Circuit decision allowing Kalshi to keep its sports offerings online in New Jersey, emphasizing that sports betting oversight must be left to the states.
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September 22, 2026
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a new leader for artificial intelligence, is participating in a pilot program for a global intellectual property recordation system and is launching the latest outreach office. Here's what you need to know.
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September 22, 2026
Former nuclear plant workers are asking a Maryland federal court to let them refile a proposed class action, saying they have new, direct evidence that companies worked together to fix wages in the nuclear energy industry.
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September 22, 2026
The Trump administration implored the U.S. Supreme Court to cure a circuit split over noncitizens filing habeas petitions to challenge their detention during pending removal proceedings, warning of "intolerable disuniformity" in how the Immigration and Nationality Act is administered.
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September 22, 2026
A Baltimore attorney asked the Fourth Circuit to reverse a lower court's order that he cover unpaid federal income taxes owed by his client's holding company, saying he didn't engage in self-dealing.
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September 22, 2026
A former city council member in Charlotte, North Carolina, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in federal prison on one count of wire fraud conspiracy after prosecutors said she submitted sham applications for COVID-19 relief funds with her two daughters.
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September 22, 2026
Womble Bond Dickinson can't withdraw from a trademark feud that's dragged on for more than five years between U.S. and Dutch software companies, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, saying the firm's exit at this late stage "would be completely disruptive."
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September 21, 2026
The Fourth Circuit declined Monday to reconsider its decision cutting nearly $2.9 million from a former Wells Fargo employee's $22 million jury award and overturning portions of the verdict in his disability discrimination suit against the financial giant.
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September 21, 2026
Environmental groups have told the D.C. Circuit that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission botched its analysis of the effects of a Williams Cos. unit's pipeline expansion project on streams and other aquatic resources in Virginia and North Carolina.
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September 21, 2026
Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema has denied she started an affair with a former member of her security detail and U.S. Senate staff while he was married, according to an answer she filed in the ex-security guard's wife's federal suit under North Carolina's rare alienation of affection law.