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April 13, 2026
A Washington state court judge has denied an attempt by Exxon and other major oil and gas producers to pause a first-of-its-kind lawsuit over a 2021 Seattle heat wave death until the U.S. Supreme Court decides on the viability of climate torts in a Colorado case.
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April 13, 2026
An Oregon man has not shown that he is entitled to a share of profits from a purported joint venture in cryptocurrency investment involving a once close friend, the Second Circuit said Monday, affirming a Manhattan federal judge's dismissal of the claims.
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April 13, 2026
A woman's personal injury claims against the city of Colorado Springs, Colorado, are time-barred because she failed to notify the city within 182 days of the injury, despite not being told for over a year that the city was the liable party, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.
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April 13, 2026
Admiral Insurance Co. has no duty to defend or indemnify a group of smoke shops from claims they illegally sold nitrous oxide canisters to individuals, allegedly resulting in several fatal car accidents, the insurer told a Michigan federal court.
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April 13, 2026
Hyundai Motor America has asked a California federal judge to wipe out State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co.'s claims ahead of a bellwether trial next month seeking to hold the automaker liable for allegedly selling theft-prone vehicles that heightened the risk of insurance claims.
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April 13, 2026
Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.
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April 13, 2026
A Delaware state court on Monday dismissed more than 80,000 suits filed before December alleging that Boehringer Ingelheim's discontinued heartburn medication Zantac caused cancer, following a Delaware Supreme Court ruling on admissibility of the plaintiffs' experts.
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April 13, 2026
An attorney representing a doctor and patient challenging California's law severely limiting interstate telehealth medical consultations urged a Ninth Circuit panel Monday to reverse a lower court's order dismissing the suit, saying the Supreme Court's recent decision nullifying Colorado's ban on "gay conversion therapy" applies to the case.
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April 13, 2026
The Texas attorney general on Monday accused Lululemon USA Inc. of selling activewear tainted with so-called forever chemicals, announcing that his office will investigate the company for allegedly misleading Texas consumers.
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April 13, 2026
An Oregon jury on Monday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $14.5 million to a group of 11 survivors of 2020 fires, although the validity of the damages-only verdict is uncertain after an appeals court days ago overturned the liability verdict underlying it.
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April 13, 2026
A Houston compounding pharmacy misled consumers by marketing its weight loss and diabetes drugs as safe and pharmaceutical-grade while selling contaminated medicines, a deceased Texas woman's family claims in a wrongful death lawsuit, alleging the drugs led to the woman's death.
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April 13, 2026
On the eve of jury selection in a bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation against Uber over alleged sexual assaults, the ride-share company is asking a North Carolina federal court to exclude an offer of proof purporting to cast a driver's deactivation as an admission from Uber that an alleged sexual assault occurred.
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April 13, 2026
The limits of presidential immunity are once again set to be tested after a D.C. federal judge ruled President Donald Trump must face civil claims over the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, clearing the way for trial and potentially another high-stakes appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 13, 2026
After losing a bellwether trial last month in one of a slew of cases from plaintiffs who claim to have been harmed by social media, Meta has begun removing ads from attorneys seeking clients with similar claims.
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April 13, 2026
A Georgia state court judge has ordered a redo of a medical malpractice trial that landed an $18 million verdict for the family of a man who died weeks after surgery, ruling that her decision to not grant a mistrial over the family's opening statements "was unfair and led to a prejudicial error."
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April 13, 2026
Lomurro Munson is suing to prevent Block O'Toole & Murphy from accessing attorneys fees in a personal injury case in which the two firms served as co-counsel, claiming they failed to properly represent their client.
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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
A Florida appeals court on Friday affirmed a $20 million verdict finding Suzuki Motor Corp. negligent for failing to warn riders about risks associated with a motorcycle's braking system, ruling that a prior jury's rejection of a strict liability design defect claim did not bar a separate failure-to-warn theory.
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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 Wisconsin state appeals court erred when it held that a statute shielding healthcare providers from civil liability during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic violated a woman's constitutional right to a jury, the state's highest court ruled unanimously Friday.
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April 10, 2026
A Florida appeals panel on Friday freed a supervising physician and a nursing company from a suit alleging a physician sexually abused a patient during a vaginal exam, finding the claims were based in medical malpractice and the plaintiffs hadn't properly given presuit notice.
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April 10, 2026
The Supreme Court of Texas on Friday reversed an order calling for a new trial for a man suing his plastic surgeon over the loss of his finger, saying none of the trial court's reasoning for granting the new trial holds water.
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April 10, 2026
Maryland has reached a settlement in principle with the owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its March 2024 collapse, ending the state's claims that their negligence and mismanagement left six people dead and destroyed a vital transportation corridor.
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April 10, 2026
A Chinese postdoctoral research associate at Indiana University was sentenced to time served on Wednesday by an Indiana federal judge, spending more than four months in custody on smuggling charges for shipping an E. coli sample from China into the U.S. and lying about it when questioned by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents.
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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.