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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.
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May 07, 2026
A Missouri appellate panel on Tuesday upheld a trial win of $95 million in compensatory damages and $400 million in punitive damages over bellwether claims that Abbott Laboratories' baby formula caused a premature baby to suffer a fully disabling condition.
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May 07, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals court has tossed a $2.5 million verdict in a lawsuit accusing Public Storage of causing a woman's fall injuries, saying it was a "miscarriage of justice" for the lower court to allow repeated references to irrelevant evidence by the plaintiff's counsel.
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May 07, 2026
Meta and its Instagram platform asked a Los Angeles judge to override a landmark jury verdict awarding millions of dollars in damages to a woman claiming she became addicted to the social media site as a child, saying in the alternative they deserve a new trial.
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May 07, 2026
A Georgia federal jury has sided with the FBI in a lawsuit brought by a longtime agent who claimed he was fired because he is Black and complained about discrimination in the bureau's Atlanta office, finding that race didn't play a role in his termination.
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May 07, 2026
New Jersey's highest court unanimously ruled that the state's no-fault insurance scheme for victims of automobile accidents bars claimants from asking a jury to award future medical expenses if those projected costs fall within their personal injury coverage limits.
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May 07, 2026
A Houston jury said Thursday that 3M Co. was not responsible for a 2020 fatal factory explosion, rejecting arguments from a group of business and property owners affected by the blast that the manufacturing giant shared responsibility.
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May 07, 2026
A New York federal judge asked state enforcers on Thursday to outline the remedies they intend to seek from Live Nation, along with the discovery they expect to need, before deciding a schedule for the next steps in the antitrust case against the major live entertainment company.
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May 07, 2026
A Texas federal judge dismissed 13 wire fraud charges against four men accused of running a $1 billion tax shelter scheme, ruling prosecutors improperly relied on a statute with a lower intent standard than the applicable tax fraud law.
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May 06, 2026
President Donald Trump has asked the Second Circuit to delay enforcement of the $83.3 million verdict against him for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals the appellate court's en banc refusal to rehear his appeal, noting that Carroll does not oppose the delay as long as he pays interest if it's upheld.
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May 06, 2026
Ex-OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis, who has four children with Elon Musk, took the stand in a California federal jury trial Wednesday over Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, defending her role as an intermediary between Musk and other OpenAI founders and testifying she twice raised concerns over Sam Altman's leadership.
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May 06, 2026
Ye took the stand on Wednesday to defend himself in a California copyright trial over whether early versions of his Grammy-winning hit "Hurricane" contained an unauthorized sound recording, saying that people try to "take advantage" of him despite him being "very generous" when it comes to giving artists their due.
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May 06, 2026
An executive for a child protection organization told a New Mexico judge Wednesday that "ongoing quality issues" with Meta's reporting and the use of message encryption have made it harder to deliver actionable reports to law enforcement, as the state seeks $3.7 billion in reforms at the social media company.
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May 06, 2026
A group of businesses affected by a Houston factory explosion told a jury Wednesday during closing arguments that 3M Co. should bear most of the responsibility for the disaster, while the manufacturing giant contends that the now-defunct owner of the factory is to blame.
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May 06, 2026
Beleaguered insurance mogul Greg Lindberg asked a North Carolina federal court to reject a special master's report recommending he pay $1.6 billion in restitution to companies he's accused of defrauding, arguing he should instead pay zilch.
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May 06, 2026
Johnson & Johnson and a consultant it hired in the 1970s altered the conclusions of tests that found alarming levels of asbestos in the company's talc products before giving different results to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, a former FDA commissioner told a Los Angeles jury Wednesday.
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May 06, 2026
The estate of an emerging global health advocate who died in the Boeing jet crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 should receive substantial damages for her experience in the six minutes before impact and how her death has affected her family, Illinois federal jurors heard Wednesday.
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May 06, 2026
A Connecticut Department of Children and Families attorney on Wednesday challenged an economist's estimate that a baby tossed to his death in a river would have earned $2 million to $3 million over the course of a normal life, questioning whether artificial intelligence could have diminished the slain 7-month-old's earning capacity.
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May 06, 2026
The Federal Circuit has rescheduled arguments in OpenSky's challenge to an attorney fee award that was part of a wide-ranging patent dispute with VLSI Technology after OpenSky's attorney asked for a delay because of the sudden onset of an illness and the death of a family member.
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May 06, 2026
An AIG unit fought against a new trial this week in a dispute over the claims process for damage from Hurricane Irma to a $95 million oceanfront mansion, arguing that the homeowners failed to prove compensable damages at trial and waived their right to a new trial.
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May 06, 2026
A patent owner that won a $78.5 million infringement verdict in the Eastern District of Texas against Samsung urged the court to reject the electronics giant's bid for a new trial, saying the South Korean company wants to turn the law "on its head."
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May 06, 2026
Two attorneys and an insurance agent faced a Fourth Circuit panel Wednesday that seemed hard-pressed to overturn their convictions for orchestrating a $22 million tax avoidance scheme, with the judges casting doubt on their venue objections and claims that the false tax returns contained truthful information.
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May 06, 2026
Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah C. Dugan can't use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling to overturn her conviction for obstructing ICE officers, the federal government said Wednesday, calling that ruling "merely relevant" and not at all binding.
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May 06, 2026
A former managing director at litigation funder Curiam Capital has launched his own boutique, focused on funding and underwriting for intellectual property litigation, he announced this week.