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April 17, 2026
Impossible Foods urged a California federal judge Thursday to reject lifestyle brand Impossible X's request to award it over $3 million in attorney fees and enhance a jury's $3.25 million verdict that found the food company willfully infringed its "Impossible" marks, saying the evidence shows no "actual harm" came from the infringement.
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April 17, 2026
A change of plea hearing has been scheduled for Monday afternoon for Konstantinos M. Diamantis, a former Connecticut budget official, elected politician and attorney facing an impending federal corruption trial for allegedly pocketing bribes while helping end a state Medicaid audit of an optometry practice operated by his friend's fiancée.
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April 17, 2026
A federal jury in the Western District of Texas let bitcoin mining company Riot Platforms off the hook Friday when it found the company didn't infringe a patent owned by Green Revolution Cooling Inc. covering ways to cool down electronics at data centers.
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April 17, 2026
A psychiatrist testified Friday that a North Carolina woman who has accused an Uber driver of sexually assaulting her in 2019 has "pervasive" memory issues due to her history of substance abuse, telling a Charlotte federal jury she is a "pretty poor historian of her own history."
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April 17, 2026
A Texas death row prisoner who gouged out both of his eyes and suffers from schizoaffective disorder is fighting efforts to move forward with his execution, arguing that his severe psychosis leaves him unable to rationally understand why the state wants to kill him. His case highlights a broader debate over whether the Constitution should bar the execution of people with severe mental illness, even when they technically know they are on death row.
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April 17, 2026
The California Supreme Court tossed the conviction and death sentence in a double slaying over the trial court's failures to investigate claims of juror bias, and an Ohio man is believed to be the first person in the nation convicted under a federal law intended to battle revenge porn.
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April 17, 2026
Christopher Ellis, a Brooklyn man who spent decades imprisoned for murder, was released after a New York trial judge vacated his conviction, finding his attorneys had been denied hundreds of pages of police notes pointing to at least 11 other suspects. He is now suing the Nassau County Police Department, alleging civil rights violations.
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April 17, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's final argument session of this term kicks off Monday, when the justices will consider the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's authority to seek disgorgement orders against alleged wrongdoers without proving investors were harmed. Here, Law360 breaks down the week's oral arguments.
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April 17, 2026
A Georgia appeals court panel backed a new trial Friday for a woman who was convicted of furnishing prohibited items to inmates and crossing a guard line with drugs, rejecting the state's claim that a lower court dropped the ball.
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April 17, 2026
An Illinois appellate panel on Friday affirmed a jury verdict clearing three physicians of liability in a wrongful death suit over a woman's death from septic shock stemming from an undiagnosed E. coli infection, rejecting arguments that evidentiary errors, expert testimony admissions and jury instruction issues warranted a new trial.
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April 17, 2026
Jail attire is not required for trial witnesses who are incarcerated, a Michigan state appeals court has said in a published opinion that vacates a lower court's decision, stating that appearing in a jail uniform could undermine the witnesses' credibility with the jury.
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April 17, 2026
A scaffolding company has hit Adams & Reese LLP with a legal malpractice suit in Texas state court that accuses the firm of botching its defense in a Louisiana workplace injury case, leading to a roughly $411 million jury verdict and ultimately forcing the business to settle the matter for millions.
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April 17, 2026
The insurer for a Florida lodge did not act in bad faith when handling an estate's claim over a fatal shooting that occurred at the Fort Pierce property in 2015, a federal jury found.
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April 17, 2026
In a unanimous precedential decision, the Federal Circuit on Friday largely reversed a California jury's $18.3 million trade secret verdict over a penile implant, holding that the asserted secrets were already publicly disclosed or generally known and therefore not protectable.
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April 16, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday held that a trio of animal welfare groups don't have the standing to fight the U.S. Department of Agriculture's revised practices for inspecting pigs at slaughterhouses, ruling that none of the groups have shown they are likely to be harmed by the rule.
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April 16, 2026
A Texas business court judge on Thursday contemplated how to interpret deals tied to a proposed oil export terminal, with one investor's requested declaratory and injunctive relief disputed by three defendants.
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April 16, 2026
A former ByteDance executive urged the Ninth Circuit Thursday to revive a suit he filed against the TikTok owner after he was fired, saying the case should've been heard in state court and a federal judge had no jurisdiction to order terminating sanctions after finding he perjured himself.
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April 16, 2026
The U.S. Sentencing Commission on Thursday voted to enact multiple revisions to the federal sentencing guidelines, including the first inflationary adjustment in over a decade for calculating penalties for economic crimes, but declined to take action on a series of more transformational changes that were under consideration.
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April 16, 2026
Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft agreed Thursday to a California federal judge's proposal to bifurcate the trial's liability phase from the remedies phase in a case challenging the artificial intelligence company's conversion to a for-profit entity, and that the jury for the liability phase should serve on an advisory basis.
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April 16, 2026
This year has brought major courtroom setbacks for tech platforms and app companies. Juries issued headline-making verdicts against Meta and Google over claims their platforms harm young users, while Uber lost its first federal bellwether trial over driver assaults and now faces a second sexual assault case.
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April 16, 2026
A Colorado federal judge upheld a jury's verdict and $11.5 million award to a former employee of a global human resources association in her discrimination lawsuit against her past employer, rejecting the association's bid for a new trial.
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April 16, 2026
A man convicted of possessing an untraceable gun should have been reexamined for competency and potentially prevented from representing himself after repeatedly making nonsensical legal statements that sounded like what an attorney might say but did not relate at all to the case, a New York state appeals court found.
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April 16, 2026
Live Nation Entertainment Inc.'s across-the-board trial rout by 34 state attorneys general underscores the ascendancy of state antitrust enforcers looking to fill perceived enforcement gaps left by the U.S. Department of Justice during President Donald Trump's second term.
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April 16, 2026
The Ninth Circuit found Thursday that it was fair game for a jury to consider whether a nuclear facility manager illegally fired a security officer due to his prescription opioid use, ruling the revocation of his fitness-for-duty certification didn't amount to a security clearance decision blocked from judicial review.
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April 16, 2026
A jury in the Eastern District of Texas said Thursday afternoon that SAP America Inc. owes $17 million after finding that the company infringed a pair of software patents owned by Cyandia Inc., including one SAP had unsuccessfully challenged at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.