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April 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel affirmed a lower court judgment requiring convicted Ponzi schemer Robert Allen Stanford to fork over $6.76 billion to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in its 16-year-old suit over Stanford's $7 billion fraud scheme, finding that he failed to properly raise many of his arguments during the summary judgment stage.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit Thursday against the estate of an investment adviser and his advisory firm, claiming they stole $1.7 million worth of client funds to pay for personal and business expenses.
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April 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is moving forward with a case accusing Elon Musk of failing to timely disclose his ownership stake in Twitter, with Musk telling a Washington, D.C., federal judge that the case may head to trial, just weeks after the parties told the judge they were negotiating a possible deal to end the case.
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April 02, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement in which Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to as many as 75 women to settle allegations that it facilitated what the court called Jeffrey Epstein's "monstrous" sex trafficking and abuse.
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April 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday allowed stockholders suing The Kraft Heinz Co. to amend part of their complaint over a $1.2 billion stock sale, but sharply limited the case to newly uncovered evidence about a single director's consulting relationship.
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April 02, 2026
X Corp. and Elon Musk have agreed to settle claims by a group of six former Twitter employees that they were falsely promised severance benefits in connection with Musk's acquisition of the social media company.
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April 01, 2026
Robinhood has launched a federal lawsuit seeking to shield itself from potential Washington state enforcement action over its prediction market offerings in the wake of Attorney General Nick Brown's Friday announcement that he's going after Kalshi for allegedly breaking Evergreen State gambling laws.
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April 01, 2026
April is the coolest month, at least for appellate aficionados, featuring numerous important arguments with famous litigants, including U.S. senators, delivery apps Grubhub and Uber Eats, impresario Sean "Diddy" Combs, prediction platforms Kalshi and Robinhood, and a political giant known as the Velvet Hammer.
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April 01, 2026
The founder of crypto payments firm Evita on Wednesday admitted to what prosecutors say was a scheme to launder over half a billion dollars in cross-border transactions through the U.S. financial system, including funds held by sanctioned Russian banks.
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April 01, 2026
A Texas federal judge dismissed claims brought by Southwest Airlines investors that the airline caused a disastrous 2022 holiday travel season with outdated technology and a unique flight route structure, but left room for the investors to refile.
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April 01, 2026
Elon Musk's SpaceX has reportedly filed confidential plans with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a blockbuster initial public offering that could value the private space exploration company at up to $1.75 trillion, setting up the highly anticipated IPO to be one of the largest ever.
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April 01, 2026
Investors in X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, have been granted class certification in litigation alleging tech billionaire Elon Musk secretly amassed a significant stake in the company while its stock traded at artificially depressed prices.
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April 01, 2026
Data storage company Quantum Corp. asked a Colorado federal judge to throw out a proposed class action against it, claiming the investor did not show that the company or its executives acted with actual knowledge of the alleged securities fraud or deliberate recklessness.
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April 01, 2026
An Illinois federal judge said equity funds alleging Boeing defrauded investors by downplaying the 737 Max jets' safety flaws can pursue claims related to certain statements made after two deadly crashes in 2018 and 2019, but not claims tied to a separate door-plug blowout in 2024.
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April 01, 2026
An Oregon federal judge has dismissed nearly all the claims in a securities class action against Nike over what investors say was a failed business strategy, finding that most of the suit's challenged statements are nonactionable corporate optimism, but she allowed one alleged misstatement about Nike's innovation pipeline to proceed.
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April 01, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has voluntarily dismissed cases against five defendants accused of manipulating the cryptocurrency markets through wash trading, telling a Massachusetts federal court it will not pursue monetary remedies against one convicted fraudster who had already consented to an agency settlement.
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April 01, 2026
A Georgia investment adviser firm will pay $6.7 million to what federal and state securities regulators allege are victims of a $140 million Ponzi scheme that preyed on elderly and right-leaning investors, Georgia's secretary of state said Wednesday, adding that a former employee used his position to recruit marks.
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April 01, 2026
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission Wednesday announced a New York federal court had entered an order resolving fraud charges against the former chief engineer of defunct cryptocurrency investment platform FTX.
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April 01, 2026
Virginia-based healthcare system Sentara Health will pay $1.5 million to settle a class action claiming it failed to remove an underperforming investment fund from its employee retirement plan, according to federal court filings.
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April 01, 2026
A Delaware Court of Chancery judge has ruled that Astellas Pharma Inc. is not obligated to pay up to $115 million in disputed drug development milestone payments tied to its acquisition of Potenza Therapeutics Inc., finding that the clinical trials at issue never met the contract's definition of a Phase II study.
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April 01, 2026
Peloton has extinguished a second attempt by investors to hold the company and its top brass liable for how Peloton handled a recall of its defective bicycle seats, with a New York federal judge finding that the company did not make any material misstatements or omissions to investors.
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March 31, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's enforcement chief said Tuesday that the agency plans to give entities a "clear path" to avoiding cases if they self-report issues early, but warned that the agency plans to staff up to pursue fraud and manipulation, including in burgeoning prediction markets.
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March 31, 2026
Before taking inactive status late last year, U.S. District Judge William H. Alsup presided over historic litigation in California's Northern District for 26 years, arriving at his San Francisco chambers every weekday before dawn to prepare for the day's work.
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March 31, 2026
Georgia lawmakers gave final approval to legislation that would allow state securities regulators within the secretary of state's office to force fraudsters to repay damages directly to investor victims.
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March 31, 2026
A D.C. federal judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction to a shareholder advocacy group suing Chubb for excluding its climate-related proposal from Chubb's yearly proxy materials, ruling Tuesday it hasn't shown the proposal falls outside U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regulations exempting proposals involving issues related to a company's ordinary business operations.