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April 13, 2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court in April will tackle a long-simmering fight over the state's obligations to provide health insurance to retired public employees, who are battling to keep their class status.
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April 10, 2026
The full Fourth Circuit on Friday vacated and remanded a preliminary injunction blocking the government's access to sensitive data held by the U.S. Social Security Administration, ruling that unions and retiree advocates failed to show they were likely to suffer serious harm without it.
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April 10, 2026
Apple has asked the Ninth Circuit not to undo its order staying a decision in Epic Games Inc.'s favor while Apple petitions the U.S. Supreme Court to review the ruling that largely affirmed an injunction barring Apple from charging developers "prohibitive" commissions on iPhone app purchases.
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April 10, 2026
A California federal magistrate judge Friday ruled in favor of the Federal Trade Commission and states on multiple discovery disputes in their litigation alleging Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, requiring Uber to hand over contact data on roughly 30 million Uber subscribers.
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April 10, 2026
Uber is a "common carrier" and thus it owed a "non-delegable duty" to safely transport a woman who alleged that a driver on its platform sexually assaulted her, a California federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the ride-hailing company's contention that it doesn't carry passengers but merely connects them to others who independently provide transportation.
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April 10, 2026
A group of judges in the Fourth Circuit have called for rethinking circuit precedent about whether oral pronouncements made at in-person sentencing hearings should have more weight than written judgments, saying existing case law creates a "tangled web of inconsistencies."
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April 10, 2026
A California federal judge Friday ordered a seven-day extension of the temporary restraining order blocking broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna from fulfilling their merger, seeing "no evidence" contradicting the initial reasons for the TRO that DirecTV and Democratic attorneys general want solidified into a preliminary injunction.
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April 10, 2026
Oracle Corp. says one of its recently laid off sales employees has been trying to extort "an unreasonable and outsized fee" by threatening to sell the software firm's trade secrets to the "highest-bidder," asking a North Carolina federal court to prevent the former employee from exposing any sensitive business information.
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April 10, 2026
The Fourth Circuit Friday enforced a nearly $4.5 million arbitral award issued to a Danish subcontractor enlisted on a renovation project for the U.S. Embassy building in Copenhagen, saying the award did not violate U.S. public policy by failing to apply U.S. contracting rules.
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April 10, 2026
The Trump administration is urging a Massachusetts federal judge not to expand his order blocking the U.S. Department of Education's collection of detailed college admissions data for several states' public institutions to cover additional schools, including private colleges.
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April 10, 2026
Uber wants to be able to bring up a passenger's mental health history during a sexual assault trial to discredit her damages theory, saying the jury should be able to evaluate her alleged emotional distress in the context of her preexisting conditions.
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April 10, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has declined to reinstate a suit from a minor student against the assistant principal at his school and a school resource officer alleging they violated his constitutional rights by investigating whether he had nude photos of another student, finding that the evidence doesn't show that his confession was coerced or that the search of his phone was unreasonable.
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April 09, 2026
Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.
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April 09, 2026
An Irish entity of drugmaker Mallinckrodt waited too long to seek dismissal of a price-fixing lawsuit brought by states based on a lack of personal jurisdiction or proper service, a Connecticut federal judge has ruled, finding that the company first raised that argument more than five years after the complaint was filed.
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April 09, 2026
The Chinese manufacturer of Geekvape is asking to limit discovery in a lawsuit seeking to hold it liable for burns a man suffered when the battery for his vape exploded while in his pocket, arguing that what the plaintiff asked for was too broad.
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April 09, 2026
The plaintiff in a lawsuit accusing data brokers of violating a West Virginia state law barring the dissemination of public officials' addresses and phone numbers defended the law's constitutionality Wednesday, arguing to the Fourth Circuit that it regulates speech "integral" to criminal conduct and shouldn't be subjected to strict scrutiny.
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April 09, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel struck down an order barring West Virginia from applying a compulsory vaccination law to a student whose parents alleged the law violates her religious rights, ruling the law serves the state's interest in reducing the spread of infectious diseases.
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April 09, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's efforts to subpoena cellphone providers for deleted text messages is a "desperate" ploy to dig up proof its trade secrets were stolen when there is no evidence to suggest that is the case, the NASCAR team's former competition director said.
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April 09, 2026
A former college football player is urging North Carolina justices to take up his appeal and rule that a lower court was wrong to hand a pretrial win to Gardner-Webb University, arguing a jury should decide if the school took reasonable care to protect him from "attempted murder."
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April 09, 2026
Auto services holding company Driven Brands is facing a proposed class action from a shareholder accusing it of misleading the public about the firm's internal controls over financial reporting, leading to a 30% single-day share price drop when investors learned that results of several quarters were inaccurately reported.
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April 09, 2026
Ecolab and its self-funded employee benefit plan have accused a North Carolina personal injury firm of withholding around $148,000 in settlement funds the food safety company says it's owed for covering a worker's medical bills after a car accident.
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April 09, 2026
North Carolina prison officials defended their bid for an immediate appeal of a ruling finding correctional officers may be entitled to pay for all time spent inside prison facilities, rejecting the guards' argument that the court's reliance on a "robust" factual record precludes such an appeal.
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April 09, 2026
Uber should not be allowed to introduce evidence that a rider in North Carolina saw attorney advertisements before she sued the ride-hailing giant claiming she was sexually harassed by her driver, the passenger said, arguing it has "no relevance to any issue" in her upcoming trial.
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April 09, 2026
A class and collective action accusing insurer Elevance Health of misclassifying its nurses as overtime-exempt has been transferred from North Carolina to Virginia federal court, where the company faces related claims.
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April 08, 2026
Live Nation on Wednesday concluded its defense case with glowing testimony about it from the manager for rap star Drake, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case said rival company AEG Worldwide and a Hogan Lovells lawyer may face sanctions for revealing confidential information about a witness.