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April 14, 2026
Pennsylvania's Supreme Court questioned Tuesday whether a state law governing cleanup of hazardous sites allows neighbors of a long-closed zinc plant to sue for future remediation and health monitoring when the only costs so far had been incurred by lawyers who fronted the first round of testing.
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April 14, 2026
Albertsons Cos. Inc. and the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Illinois and Oregon on Tuesday said that the pharmacy and grocery chain had agreed to a $773 million settlement in principle to end claims brought by states, local governments and Native American tribes over its role in the opioid crisis.
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April 13, 2026
A Texas jury was impaneled Monday for the third bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation in a 2020 Houston disaster where an industrial explosion killed three people, setting the stage for opening statements over whether 3M Co. should be liable for damage.
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April 13, 2026
The estate of a man who it claims was driven by ChatGPT to murder his mother and commit suicide can proceed with its federal suit against OpenAI, a California judge ruled Monday, saying there's "substantial doubt" that a state court case brought by the mother's estate would resolve the federal action's claims.
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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.