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June 25, 2026
A recently sentenced insurance magnate is asking a North Carolina federal court to order the federal Bureau of Prisons to grant him daily access to computers and his attorneys as he continues to fight a $1.6 billion restitution order.
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June 25, 2026
Both federal prosecutors and a Stephen Miller-founded public interest group believe that a Maryland federal judge let a woman accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh off too easy because of her gender identity and want the Fourth Circuit to order resentencing.
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June 25, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general have filed one of three amicus briefs urging the Ninth Circuit to fully preserve a preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the states challenging the deal have standing to sue and that only a broad block is appropriate.
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June 25, 2026
A North Carolina woman who owned a tax return preparation business will be ordered to pay just under $13.9 million after she pled guilty to conspiring to prepare false tax returns, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina.
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June 25, 2026
A clinic manager who paid patients in gift cards is challenging her six-year prison sentence, telling the Fourth Circuit on Thursday that a federal judge failed to consider other mitigating factors when sentencing her for healthcare fraud and failing to file a tax return.
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June 25, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from implementing the president's March order to compile a federal list of eligible voters and to set new restrictions on the use of mail-in ballots in this fall's general election.
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June 25, 2026
A company that specializes in call center sales is using wrong phone numbers to trick home security customers into switching providers, ADT Security Corp. says in a North Carolina federal lawsuit claiming the company has intentionally registered phone numbers one digit off from ADT's customer service line to engage in a predatory telemarketing scheme.
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June 25, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday declined to reinstate a medical supply company's contract dispute against a U.K. corporation over COVID-19 test kits, after finding that the lack of a U.S. citizen on the supply company's side destroys the court's diversity jurisdiction to hear the case.
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June 25, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has granted preliminary approval to a $30 million deal Otter Tail has inked to resolve certain plaintiffs' claims in litigation alleging that two of its subsidiaries conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices.
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June 24, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has said a Virginia federal court got it right the second time when dispensing with a long-running dispute between cybersecurity company Vir2us and a cloud-enabled cybersecurity firm that Vir2us says owes it royalties under a patent licensing deal.
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June 24, 2026
A Connecticut federal court tossed the claims against Pfizer Inc. in one of three cases by state enforcers accusing dozens of generic-drug makers of price-fixing, finding Pfizer was not responsible for the alleged price increases on several drugs.
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June 24, 2026
Lack of oversight and transparency within a private investment fund resulted in the purported loss of nearly $60 million after a board member is said to have siphoned the money away, according to a putative class action filed in the North Carolina Business Court.
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June 24, 2026
A Maryland State Police sergeant must face a lawsuit alleging he excluded two Black task force members from meetings and failed to address a subordinate officer's racist text message, with the Fourth Circuit ruling Wednesday that a reasonable supervisor would've understood his actions violated civil rights law.
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June 24, 2026
The former minority owner and vice president of sales for a custom molding manufacturer in North Carolina forfeited his stake in the business after he was fired and must repay his distributions, the company has alleged in a Business Court complaint.
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June 24, 2026
The Fourth Circuit ruled Wednesday that Virginia prison officials can be granted qualified immunity from a federal lawsuit alleging they subjected an incarcerated person to an unconstitutional number of strip searches.
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June 24, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and a pair of hemp product companies are butting heads in the Fourth and Ninth circuits over a newly enacted DEA rule expressly listing hexahydrocannabinol, or HHC, as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.
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June 24, 2026
Chemours has agreed to a settlement totaling more than $450 million over its release of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, across West Virginia, North Carolina and New Jersey, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
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June 23, 2026
A coalition of 23 states and a group of former high-level Internal Revenue Service officials have pressed a Florida federal court to reopen Donald Trump's suit against the IRS and carefully scrutinize the resulting settlement, arguing that the litigation was "colored by fraud from the beginning."
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court messed up when it ruled in an antitrust suit against Johnson & Johnson that the company bringing the suit needed to show specific intent in order to prop up a monopolization claim over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara.
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June 23, 2026
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. confirmed that the road to its controversial settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice went all the way to the White House in a New York federal court filing that leaves many questions unanswered about a deal Democrats have cast as corrupt and failed to mollify state enforcers.
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June 23, 2026
A recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals hit Truist Financial Corp. division Sheffield Financial and an Oklahoma motorcycle dealership with a proposed class action alleging he was wrongfully denied credit based on his immigration status despite having an above-average credit score.
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., as receiver for Silicon Valley Bank after its collapse in 2023, is the sole owner of the bank's claim for coverage of a $73 million fraudulent scheme and is entitled to recover proceeds for losses the bank suffered, a North Carolina federal court ruled.
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June 23, 2026
A former senior clinical trial manager at BioNTech US Inc. told a North Carolina federal court Monday that she was wrongfully fired after complaining to higher-ups about an "epidemic of safety issues and protocol deviations" in clinical trials.
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June 23, 2026
Environmental groups' challenge to a discharge permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for work on a natural gas pipeline stretching across several Eastern states was voluntarily dismissed Monday at the Fourth Circuit.
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June 23, 2026
North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.