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April 14, 2026
A former University of California, Los Angeles, gynecologist on Tuesday pled guilty to sexually assaulting five patients and was once again sentenced to 11 years in prison, entering the plea at a pretrial hearing two months after a California appellate court tossed his initial convictions and ordered a new trial.
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April 14, 2026
A lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court Monday alleges the rapper Ye attacked a man at the Chateau Marmont for no reason, with the "cowardly" assault leaving him unconscious and injured.
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April 14, 2026
Harbor Freight Tools sold an allegedly defective miter saw with a plastic blade guard that shattered, allowing the exposed blade to slice a Pennsylvania man's forearm, inflicting severe and permanent injuries, according to a lawsuit filed in state court.
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April 14, 2026
A New York bankruptcy judge allowed creditors of bankrupt talc producer Vanderbilt Minerals to supplement the record with additional evidence related to the debtor's proposed hire of the Jones Day firm as its legal counsel Tuesday after they raised issues about statements made at a hearing last week.
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April 14, 2026
Six years after the first #MeToo verdict against Harvey Weinstein, a New York state judge on Tuesday began picking a jury for the disgraced producer's third rape trial in Manhattan and ruling on what evidence would come in.
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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.