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April 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying his claims are not preempted by the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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April 21, 2026
This round of Law360's look at emerging copyright and trademark issues includes a forthcoming U.S. Supreme Court appeal with global implications for copyrights, and OpenAI's setback in its effort to register "ChatGPT" as a trademark.
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April 21, 2026
A New Mexico husband and wife have admitted in North Carolina federal court to importing counterfeit Native American jewelry from Vietnam and marketing it to U.S. buyers as genuine handmade Navajo pieces, according to federal prosecutors and court documents.
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April 21, 2026
Counsel for a former administrative adviser in a national pesticide safety study organization named in an ex-worker's wrongful firing lawsuit urged a North Carolina federal court Tuesday to dismiss the matter, arguing the adviser is immune from constitutional claims that have already been litigated elsewhere.
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April 21, 2026
The U.S. Bureau of Prisons is capable of handling a St. Louis attorney's outpatient needs, a North Carolina federal judge said, denying her request to delay her prison report date after she was convicted of helping perpetrate a $22 million tax fraud scheme.
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April 21, 2026
A Novo Nordisk unit must face a former finance director's lawsuit claiming she was fired because she was an older woman who complained about a male co-worker's behavior, with a North Carolina federal judge ruling her allegations were detailed enough to stay in court.
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April 21, 2026
Joe Gibbs Racing LLC's bid to set a November trial date in a trade secrets suit against former competition director Chris Gabehart and rival team Spire Motorsports is "aggressive and unrealistic," Gabehart has argued in asking to instead push the trial to May 2027.
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April 21, 2026
A New York federal court has refused to rule immediately on Live Nation's bid to strike expert testimony and set aside the damages awarded to state enforcers in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.
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April 20, 2026
The former wife of a security guard, who is suing former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, alleging she destroyed their marriage, told a North Carolina federal court Friday that Sinema's "lascivious" texts to her husband while he was in the state help establish the court's personal jurisdiction over the case.
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April 20, 2026
A litigation funding firm has accused its insurer of wrongfully refusing to pay out its policy's guaranteed $200 million in coverage for an unpaid loan, saying the insurer buried it in duplicative and burdensome information requests to avoid paying a valid claim.
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April 20, 2026
Live Nation is asking a New York federal court to strike the testimony of a key expert witness for the states and to wipe the damages awarded by the jury based on her work, in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.
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April 20, 2026
Bank of America will pay approximately $21,500, including attorney fees and costs, to resolve a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit alleging employees were not paid for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers, after a North Carolina federal judge signed off on the settlement.
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April 20, 2026
A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, found Monday an Uber driver committed battery against a passenger who accused him of grabbing her leg in 2019, and it awarded her $5,000 in damages, capping off a four-day bellwether trial against the ride-hailing giant.
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April 20, 2026
Honeywell said Monday that it has agreed to sell its productivity solutions and services business to Brady Corp. as the company nears the completion of a multiyear portfolio transformation, with four law firms advising.
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April 20, 2026
Building products distributor QXO Inc. has agreed to purchase Florida-based TopBuild Corp. for about $17 billion, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advising QXO and Jones Day representing TopBuild.
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April 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't take up an appeal from a North Carolina drone operator who says his state's licensing and regulatory requirements for land surveyors restricted his First Amendment rights.
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April 17, 2026
A California federal judge on Friday issued a preliminary injunction barring, for now, the $6.2 billion merger of broadcast giants Nexstar and Tegna, ruling that state attorneys general and DirecTV are likely to prevail in proving that the deal is anticompetitive and will harm consumers as well as distributors.
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April 17, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a deep dive into how an uptick in lender-guarantor claims is shaping new loans.
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April 17, 2026
The Fourth Circuit ruled Friday that a surgery patient's missed expert disclosure deadline rightfully ended his case seeking to hold Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ethicon Endo-Surgery LLC liable for allegedly faulty staples used in his procedure.
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April 17, 2026
A psychiatrist testified Friday that a North Carolina woman who has accused an Uber driver of sexually assaulting her in 2019 has "pervasive" memory issues due to her history of substance abuse, telling a Charlotte federal jury she is a "pretty poor historian of her own history."
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April 17, 2026
The California Supreme Court tossed the conviction and death sentence in a double slaying over the trial court's failures to investigate claims of juror bias, and an Ohio man is believed to be the first person in the nation convicted under a federal law intended to battle revenge porn.
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April 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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April 17, 2026
A data science platform said Friday that a former executive, who claims he was not paid after investing $750,000 into the business, cannot drag three out-of-state people loosely connected to the company into a North Carolina federal court and that key claims should be trimmed.
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April 17, 2026
A Salvadoran man who escaped immigration custody by tying bedsheets into a rope to scale a fence cannot be convicted for obstructing a pending proceeding because his removal order was final when he ran to nearby woods, the Fourth Circuit ruled Thursday, reversing a Virginia federal court's decision.
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April 17, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Friday refused to revive an ex-Merrill financial adviser's proposed class action claiming he was shorted deferred compensation, backing a lower court's holding that the retention bonuses at issue were exempt from federal benefits law.