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May 08, 2026
A Louisiana federal judge has awarded a total of $1.5 million to two former in-house attorneys at Louisiana State University following a jury trial over allegations that the university abruptly rescinded the attorneys' transfer offers as retaliation for raising concerns about gender equity.
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May 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Friday ordered a new trial for a man convicted of kidnapping and suffocating his girlfriend, saying a judge improperly coerced the jury, while also establishing for the first time that deception can satisfy the "holding" element of federal kidnapping charges.
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May 08, 2026
10x Genomics on Friday said it has agreed to end its suit accusing Curio Bioscience of infringing a series of Prognosys Biosciences genomics technology patents that 10x Genomics is licensed to use.
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May 08, 2026
Amazon urged a Federal Circuit panel on Friday to wipe out a $673 million judgment against it over data storage technology by arguing that the patents underlying the case are invalid for covering only abstract ideas, which led the judges to debate how the inventions differ from a library card catalog.
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May 08, 2026
A new report stating that Tesla faces billions in legal liabilities and a $140 million football brain injury verdict against the NCAA lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.
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May 08, 2026
A D.C. federal court rejected Google's request to pause parts of an order in the government's search monopolization case requiring it to give rivals syndicated search results and data, but will allow Google to try again once a competitor is lined up for access.
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May 08, 2026
A Florida federal judge sentenced a former NFL player to more than 16 years in prison for his role in a fraud conspiracy in which he and others bilked government health insurance programs out of nearly $200 million in a scheme using fake doctors' orders for orthotic braces that weren't medically necessary.
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May 08, 2026
In our latest Law360 Transportation Tracker, Boeing is still contending with litigation associated with the 737 Max 8 jets, while a proposed $99 million class settlement could end farmers' right-to-repair claims against agricultural equipment maker John Deere and an appeals court decertified a class of 90,000 State Farm policyholders accusing the insurer of systematically undervaluing totaled vehicles.
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May 08, 2026
A Florida appeals court on Friday revived a couple's suit claiming their home insurer wrongfully refused to fully pay a claim for storm damage, saying the lower court erroneously disposed of the case based on the insurer's pretrial motion to exclude the couple's evidence of damages.
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May 08, 2026
The Third Circuit has declined to reconsider upholding the conviction of a man who raked in $40 million from filing false tax returns.
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May 08, 2026
A man sentenced to four years for drug possession with an intent to sell after an officer testified that the intent was shown by the amount of marijuana he possessed, along with baggies and a scale, must have his conviction connected to selling reversed, a Florida appeals court said on Friday.
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May 08, 2026
A New York state appeals court has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of sexual assault, finding he was wrongly denied a short adjournment before prosecutors presented a last-minute witness to rebut his alibi.
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May 08, 2026
Federal prosecutors are claiming that SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein may have violated his pretrial release conditions when he racked up over $1.7 million in gambling income last year, telling a federal judge not to delay sentencing for the famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer.
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May 07, 2026
Buckle up: Efforts to modernize evidentiary rules amid artificial intelligence fears are getting bumpy, as judiciary advisers Thursday agreed to dramatically delay action while digesting an AI survey of nearly 1,000 judges and organizing a symposium of litigators and tech pros.
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May 07, 2026
California federal jurors weighing Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion on Thursday watched prerecorded testimony from a former OpenAI board member who voted to oust CEO Sam Altman in 2023 over concerns his pattern of lies and deception fostered a "toxic culture of lying."
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May 07, 2026
A damages expert for an artists rights holding company told a California federal jury on Thursday that Ye owes over $500,000 in damages for allegedly using an unauthorized sound recording in an early version of his Grammy-winning song "Hurricane," saying Ye used it to "lure" fans into the lucrative listening party.
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May 07, 2026
An online safety expert testified Thursday that Meta would not be unduly burdened by age-verification reforms New Mexico's attorney general is seeking in a $3.7 billion bench trial over harm to teen users of its social media platforms, given that European regulators in recent weeks announced nearly identical demands.
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May 07, 2026
Agri Stats has agreed to stop putting together certain sales reports for broiler chicken processors to resolve the U.S. Department of Justice's allegations that those reports enabled price-fixing by meat processors, according to an announcement made Thursday.
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May 07, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel struggled Thursday to pin down where the line is between patent enablement on cancer drug patents and U.S. Food and Drug Administration standards, as a Pfizer unit tried to revive its $107 million jury victory over AstraZeneca.
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May 07, 2026
A former U.S. Food and Drug Administration commissioner testifying Thursday in a Los Angeles bellwether trial over claims Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused three women's deadly ovarian cancer described an internal document showing J&J feared the FDA's "disturbing proposal" to test the talc instead of relying on industry self-testing.
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May 07, 2026
A father convicted of murdering his 7-month-old by throwing the infant into a river from a 90-foot-high bridge in 2015 "blacked out" most of the details, he testified Thursday in a mother's wrongful death lawsuit against a Connecticut child protection agency.
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May 07, 2026
The former CEO of Texas financial services firm Beneficient was convicted by a Manhattan federal jury on Thursday of securities fraud and other charges connected with a scheme to fraudulently loot more than $150 million from now-defunct GWG Holdings, a publicly traded company for which he served as chairman.
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May 07, 2026
A New York engineering and design firm that contracted to reconstruct a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in Denver asked a Colorado state jury to award it $32.5 million for breaches it says a subcontractor made during the project's course.
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May 07, 2026
The company behind academic file-sharing site Course Hero has asked a Connecticut federal judge for a new trial or to reduce the $75 million verdict it was hit with by a jury that found it had violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act more than 3,000 times by manipulating documents belonging to Post University.
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May 07, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge found himself in what he said was a "difficult position" in allowing an unusual defense to be advanced in a patent infringement case related to blood pumps in light of criticism of the defense from the Federal Circuit.