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June 08, 2026
The "inflammatory" language used by the University of Texas to secure a $42 million patent infringement verdict against Boston Scientific is "about as good an example as one can possibly think of," U.S. Circuit Judge Richard G. Taranto told the university's attorney on Monday.
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June 08, 2026
Jurors who reached a landmark $6 million verdict in March finding Meta Platforms Inc. and Google liable for harming a teen's mental health didn't find Mark Zuckerberg credible, an impression that the plaintiff's attorney Mark Lanier credited to putting the well-prepared executive off his guard.
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June 08, 2026
A federal judge in Manhattan set a December trial date Monday in a "novel" and "complex" insider trading case against a U.S. Army soldier accused of unlawfully profiting off prediction market bets based on his knowledge of the January capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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June 08, 2026
A North Carolina doctor received five years of probation with eight months of house arrest for making false statements in an $11 million Medicaid fraud scheme, after a federal judge said he was struggling to balance the need to deter others with unwarranted sentencing disparities.
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June 08, 2026
Mobile game company Papaya Gaming Ltd. has asked a Manhattan federal judge to deny rival Skillz Platform Inc.'s request for a $420 million jury verdict based on false advertising claims to be boosted to $1.4 billion, saying the amount is unprecedented and far greater than Papaya's profits over the entire period relevant to the case.
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June 08, 2026
The Seventh Circuit revived a lawsuit alleging Kenosha County forced civil immigrant detainees housed at its jail to do unpaid janitorial work or be punished, ruling Friday the forced labor statute doesn't allow local jails to force detainees to work "on pain of solitary confinement" or loss of phone privileges.
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June 08, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld a Delaware federal court's decision that deemed invalid a Purdue Pharma patent covering an abuse-deterrent version of the opioid OxyContin, rebuffing the company's arguments that the lower court got its obviousness analysis wrong.
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June 08, 2026
A Colorado federal jury convicted four individuals Monday of conspiring to defraud the government by using their businesses to help promote and sell abusive and illegal trust tax shelters, leading to about $50 million in losses over more than a decade.
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June 08, 2026
In a split 4-2 decision Monday, the Colorado Supreme Court departed from federal precedent, finding that a defendant's double jeopardy protections were violated when a trial court declared a mistrial though a jury "spontaneously and unequivocally" signaled it acquitted a defendant of certain offenses.
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June 08, 2026
A medical professional liability insurer will pay its $1 million policy limit toward a $13 million verdict against a Washington state doctor in a botched cosmetic surgery case, a federal judge has ruled.
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June 08, 2026
A North Carolina federal court has refused to find that three Shoals Technologies Group solar energy patents were unenforceable in the company's infringement suit but said the court would keep certain issues in mind should the case result in a damages verdict.
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June 08, 2026
A court-appointed receiver argued Friday that Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz PC is on the hook for at least $2.8 million following a jury's verdict finding the firm committed negligent supervision amid a Mississippi timber company's $164.5 million Ponzi scheme.
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June 08, 2026
Two Florida men used their "hard-money" commercial real estate finance company to steal millions, prosecutors told a Manhattan federal jury Monday, calling their operation a scam designed to reap upfront fees before the defendants put up "roadblocks" to kill transactions.
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June 08, 2026
Reality television stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, who were pardoned by President Donald Trump in May 2025 after serving over two years in prison for financial crimes, filed suit against Balch & Bingham LLP and their former defense attorney, alleging they wouldn't have been convicted "had their lawyers done their jobs."
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June 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition for certiorari from a Mississippi death row inmate, leaving in place a state court ruling rejecting his challenge tied to racially biased jury selection at his capital trial.
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June 08, 2026
A split U.S. Supreme Court on Monday threw out an appellate decision upholding a reduced sentence for a defendant in a drug trafficking and manslaughter case, adding to a string of recent decisions defining the scope of the First Step Act.
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June 08, 2026
Volkswagen AG has settled a suit from a paraplegic woman who alleged that the seat heaters in one of VW's vehicles were too hot to be safe and left her with second-degree burns, ending the case on the eve of trial.
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June 08, 2026
Meta Platforms is again asking a judge to toss a complaint by Massachusetts over its allegedly addictive Instagram platform, saying any purported harms to teens are caused by third-party content rather than its own features, which it says are shielded by the First Amendment and federal law.
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June 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of a man seeking early release from a life sentence for a drug offense, after ruling last month that reductions to mandatory minimum sentences cannot be cited as a reason for compassionate release.
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June 05, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel on Friday seemed skeptical of a challenge by a pair of wireless networking device companies to the damages calculation supporting a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against them, with one judge wondering if the court's EcoFactor decision did not "clean up" the issue of damages experts.
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June 05, 2026
A New Mexico jury has awarded $13 million to the family of Nichelle Nichols, who played Lt. Uhura on "Star Trek," in a medical malpractice suit accusing a hospital of causing the trailblazing actress's death in 2022, according to news reports.
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June 05, 2026
A Los Angeles jury cleared Johnson & Johnson of any liability in the deaths of three women from ovarian cancer, finding Friday following a six-week bellwether trial that the company's sales of talcum powder were not negligent.
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June 05, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to a roughly $10 million verdict issued against a company that let corrosion deteriorate railcars it had rented, with the court set to weigh whether the suit was filed in time.
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June 05, 2026
Nexus Pharmaceuticals lost its appeal of an Illinois federal judge's finding that it infringed a pair of patents relating to a line of injections that treat infections, after the Federal Circuit on Friday shot down the drugmaker's challenge to the lower court's interpretation of key patent terms.
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June 05, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Friday rejected an inventor's attempt to revive claims in her computer-locating patents challenged by Google and Microsoft, backing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decisions that they were invalid.