Trials

  • May 29, 2026

    Fla. Panel Upholds Reduced $4M Car Crash Verdict

    A Florida appeals court Friday affirmed the reduction of a $2 million medical expenses award as part of a $4.7 million verdict in an auto collision case to about $1.3 million, saying the cost of certain future medical procedures was based on speculation rather than sufficient evidence.

  • May 29, 2026

    Megan Thee Stallion Wins Back $75K Defamation Verdict

    A Florida federal judge reinstated a $75,000 verdict for Megan Thee Stallion, finding Friday that a Texas-based blogger wasn't entitled to a presuit notice required for media defendants because she engaged in a financially motivated campaign to defame the rapper. 

  • May 29, 2026

    NC Prosecutors Oppose Criminal Contempt For Witness

    A woman who was allegedly punched in the face by an attorney should not have been held in criminal contempt for giving too much hearsay testimony, North Carolina prosecutors told a state appeals court.

  • May 29, 2026

    Lockheed Beats Families' Birth Defects Suit At Trial

    A Florida federal jury returned a defense verdict in favor of Lockheed Martin Corp. after finding the company's chemical handling practices at an Orlando weapons manufacturing facility did not cause birth defects.

  • May 29, 2026

    'Pervasive Bad Faith': Uber Targets Sex Assault MDL Plaintiff

    Uber Technologies Inc. accused a bellwether plaintiff of numerous discovery violations Friday in multidistrict litigation over alleged passenger sexual assaults, urging a California federal judge to issue sanctions for "pervasive bad faith" that has "plagued the discovery process."

  • May 29, 2026

    Wrongful Death Claims Settled Before Baltimore Bridge Trial

    The families of the six construction workers who died in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have reached confidential settlements with the owner and manager of the cargo carrier that slammed into the bridge and triggered its collapse, according to court filings Friday.

  • May 29, 2026

    Nielsen Patent Survives Alice Invalidation Bid Before Trial

    A Delaware federal judge on Friday declined to invalidate a patent held by The Nielsen Co. covering audio recognition software under the U.S. Supreme Court's Alice test, saying the language of the patent was not abstract.

  • May 29, 2026

    Conn. City, Cops Must Pay $38M To Murder Exoneree

    A Connecticut federal jury on Friday awarded $38 million to felony murder exoneree Stefon Morant, who spent 21 years in prison for two shootings he did not commit, finding the city of New Haven engaged in a "widespread practice or custom" of suppressing evidence favorable to criminal defendants.

  • May 29, 2026

    Fed. Judge Rips Altice, Touchstream For Patent Case Delays

    A New York federal judge denied broadband and video provider Altice's request for judgment on the pleadings in patent litigation brought by Touchstream Technologies, calling it "a delayed, misfiled, hyper-technical and largely meritless motion," while criticizing Touchstream as "also responsible for tactical decisions which led to significant delays."

  • May 28, 2026

    WHO 'Changed The Rule' To Find Talc-Cancer Link, Jury Told

    A Johns Hopkins epidemiologist told a California jury Thursday considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women that a World Health Organization agency's recent reclassification of talc as being probably carcinogenic only came about because it "changed the rule" over what evidence it considered.

  • May 28, 2026

    Fla. Businessmen File Bid To Seize Ex-Official's $770K Payout

    Two Miami businessmen asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to garnish a former city commissioner's $770,000 settlement from a state court lawsuit as payment toward a multimillion-dollar political retaliation judgment, arguing the funds can't be shielded under state law as they are compensatory in nature.

  • May 28, 2026

    Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

    The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

  • May 28, 2026

    11th Circ. Says Damages Caps Misconstrued In Bias Verdict

    The Eleventh Circuit ruled on Thursday that a discrimination verdict against a Miami car dealership was slashed too far when a judge chose between federal and state damages caps, saying the caps should be added together.

  • May 28, 2026

    Chance The Rapper Controls His Business, Ex-Manager Says

    Chance the Rapper solicited opinions and received help from a team of people as he considered business deals, but retained all final decision-making power with the same level of control the rapper took to structuring his independent career, his ex-manager testified Thursday.

  • May 28, 2026

    Pa. Panel Orders Judge Replaced In Sex Abuse Retrial

    A county judge must step aside for the retrial of an accused child sex offender, a Pennsylvania appeals court said Thursday, finding that, because the judge repeatedly declared that the man was innocent of the crimes in a prior proceeding, his impartiality was questionable.

  • May 28, 2026

    3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In June

    The Federal Circuit's argument calendar next month includes a dispute between Micron and Netlist over Idaho's law against "bad faith" patent suits, and appeals of multimillion-dollar verdicts against Boston Scientific on a stent patent and TP-Link on Wi-Fi patents.

  • May 28, 2026

    NJ Prep School Defeats Clergy Accuser's Sanctions Request

    A New Jersey state judge denied a motion to sanction the Catholic order behind an elite prep school over claims it concealed investigative reports during years of clergy sex abuse litigation, ruling that the request from a former student was improper because a final judgment had already been entered.

  • May 28, 2026

    J&J Unit Cleared In Blood Pump Patent Suit In Mass.

    A Massachusetts federal jury on Thursday cleared a Johnson & Johnson MedTech subsidiary of allegations that it infringed a blood pump patent owned by a unit of Swedish medical device company Getinge AB.

  • May 28, 2026

    Tesla Must Face Calif. Agency's Race Bias Fight In July Trial

    A California state judge has mostly rejected Tesla Inc.'s bid for a summary judgment win in the California Civil Rights Department's lawsuit alleging the electric-auto maker has allowed racism to run rampant at its Fremont factory, sending the high-stakes civil rights dispute to a July 20 jury trial.

  • May 28, 2026

    Aerospace Co. Must Pay $2M In Network System Contract Trial

    A Texas federal judge has entered a final judgment ordering aerospace manufacturer Cabin Management Solutions Inc. to pay nearly $2 million to an audio-video network transmission company that accused it of reneging on a negotiated fee for the use of a signal transmission system.

  • May 28, 2026

    Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

    SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

  • May 28, 2026

    Split Fed. Circ. Says $452M Trade Secret Case Was Untimely

    A split Federal Circuit panel on Thursday erased Insulet Corp.'s trade secret victory against EOFlow Co. Ltd., holding that the medical device maker filed its claims too late and reversing a $452 million jury verdict that was later reduced to $59.4 million.

  • May 28, 2026

    J&J Gets Trial Win In Oklahoma Talc Mesothelioma Case

    An Oklahoma jury has cleared Johnson & Johnson in a suit from a woman who alleged that she contracted mesothelioma because she was exposed to asbestos-containing talc products made by the company and its affiliates.

  • May 28, 2026

    4th Circ. Rules IRS 'Cooperation' Doesn't Sink Tax Convictions

    The Fourth Circuit on Thursday affirmed the convictions of two software executives found guilty at trial of failing to pay employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service, rejecting the notion that their alleged cooperation with the IRS somehow undermined the charges.

  • May 28, 2026

    Justices Revive Mississippi Death Row Inmate's Batson Claim

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief, finding that Mississippi's courts improperly rejected his challenge to the prosecutor's juror strikes.

Expert Analysis

  • Teva Ruling Offers Patentees New Support For Genus Claims

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    The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Teva v. Eli Lilly, finding that the Teva patents at issue are not invalid, offers an interesting counterexample against the recent trend of courts invalidating patents claiming a broad, functionally defined class of compounds, say attorneys at Cooley.

  • Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

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    The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

  • Musk-OpenAI Verdict Shows Value Of Early-Stage Governance

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    A California federal court's ruling last week in Musk v. Altman preserves the status quo at OpenAI, but signals to the technology industry at large that courts will not relitigate the governance decisions of early-stage organizations on a founder's competitive timetable, surfacing questions that will outlast the litigation, says attorney Alan N. Walter.

  • Series

    Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

  • Opinion

    Murdaugh Reversal Masks Deeper Justice System Issues

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    The South Carolina Supreme Court's recent reversal of Alex Murdaugh's murder conviction leans heavily on improper jury influence by an ex-county clerk of court while underbilling other errors in the case, which are emblematic of larger issues with the justice system, says Barry Edwards at Fair Trial Analysis.

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    NY Times Word Puzzles Make Me A Better Lawyer

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    Every morning I let The New York Times humble me with word games, which offer a chance to recalibrate my brain before the day's chaos arrives and remind me that a solution — whether to a puzzle or employment law issue — almost always exists once I find the right angle, says Amy Epstein Gluck at Pierson Ferdinand.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

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    Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

  • Becoming The Biz-Savvy GC That Portfolio Companies Need

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    Candidates for general counsel roles at private equity-backed portfolio companies should prioritize proving their sector-specific experience, commercial judgment and ease with uncertainty — and attorneys hoping to be candidates in five to 10 years should start working on those skills now, says Dimitri Mastrocola at Major Lindsey.

  • AI Agents Will Test The Bounds Of Expert Witness Rules

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    Rule 702 of the Federal Rules of Evidence does not address whether a testifying expert must be human, but as the rule’s amended admissibility framework intersects with the accelerating capabilities of agentic AI, courts may be forced to confront whether AI-generated expertise fits within existing evidentiary doctrine, says Steven Cordero at Akerman.

  • Reel Justice: 'Project Hail Mary' Can Aid Cross-Examination

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    In the new science fiction film, "Project Hail Mary," a character understood that survival depended on eliminating ambiguity — a useful lesson that trial lawyers can implement by asking statements that are delivered in the form of a question during cross-examination, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University.

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    Judges On AI: How Courts Can Survive The Tech Revolution

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    Colorado Supreme Court Justice Maria Berkenkotter and Colorado Court of Appeals Judge Lino Lipinsky de Orlov discuss how artificial intelligence has already fundamentally altered the legal system and offer tips for courts navigating deepfakes, hallucinations and a gap in access to AI tools.

  • What Jury Holdouts Can Teach Trial Lawyers About Strategy

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    Though a hung jury can be a disappointment, a psychological understanding of jury holdouts can help trial lawyers shape their damages arguments and understand leadership and group composition as a function of jury selection, says Clint Townson at Townson Litigation.

  • 3 AI Adoption Mistakes GCs Should Avoid

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    The pressure in-house legal teams face to quickly adopt artificial intelligence tools, combined with budget constraints and the need to evaluate a crowded market of options, sets the stage for implementation mistakes that are often difficult to undo, says former 23andMe general counsel Guy Chayoun.

  • Series

    Playing Basketball Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    My grandfather used to say "I wear your jersey" as shorthand for wholly committing to support someone with loyalty and integrity — ideals that have shaped my life on the basketball court and in legal practice, says Tracy Schimelfenig at Schimelfenig Legal.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Georgia Court Has Business On Its Mind

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    Thanks to recent legislation, the Georgia State-wide Business Court will soon offer business litigants greater access to the court than ever before, further enhancing the court's emphasis on efficiency, predictability and accessibility for sophisticated commercial disputes, says former GSBC judge Walt Davis at Jones Day.

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