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April 14, 2026
Businesses affected by a 2020 industrial explosion told a Houston jury Tuesday that 3M's gas detection servicing work failed to ensure alarms were operative prior to the fatal disaster, as opposed to claims by the company that fault falls on the facility's "culture of carelessness."
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April 14, 2026
An internet tabloid renewed its efforts to obtain investigative files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and urged a New York federal court to reconsider a decision blocking a public records request to the FBI, arguing that a documents release pursuant to an act of Congress isn't complete.
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April 14, 2026
Counsel for a Philadelphia injury firm that Uber accused of scheming to inflate the value of personal injury cases against the ride-sharing company told a federal judge Tuesday that the firm was shielded from civil racketeering claims because of legal doctrine that protects the filing of litigation — even in instances of alleged fraud.
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April 14, 2026
An Illinois appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a $2.56 million verdict awarded to a woman who was rear-ended at a drive-through ATM, saying that although the verdict might be "surprisingly" high, it's not so shocking that a new trial is warranted.
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April 14, 2026
Sig Sauer Inc. has added counterclaims of unfair trade practices and commercial disparagement to an ongoing multidocket battle with a Connecticut attorney whose clients say they were injured by the weapons manufacturer's allegedly defective P320 pistols, just days after losing a motion to dismiss the lawyer's lawsuit.
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April 14, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday granted an uncontested bid by school district plaintiffs to bar Meta and other social media companies from using nonpublic information — including their internal data — to investigate potential jurors for an upcoming bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over the alleged harms of social media addiction.
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April 14, 2026
California drivers have told the Ninth Circuit that they've offered sufficient evidence of Tesla's pervasive and misleading advertising to forge ahead with their certified class claims alleging Tesla deceived consumers into believing that its cars could fully drive themselves.
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April 14, 2026
The manufacturer of seat height adjusters in Chrysler and Dodge vehicles has said it never directly sold defective products to Texas drivers bringing fraud claims in a federal proposed class action alleging the producer concealed a defect alongside the carmaker.
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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.