Top Stories

• 

  EBay, Former Execs To Pay $55.7M Over Couple's Harassment

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts couple who were stalked and harassed by a group of eBay employees over their blog's coverage of ...(read more)

• 

  J&J, Ovarian Cancer Talc Claimants Unveil $5.5B Global Deal

  By Lauren Berg

  Johnson & Johnson announced Monday that it has agreed to pay some $5.5 billion to put to rest tens of thousands ...(read more)

• Activists Shift Focus To M&A, AI In Quieter Proxy Season

  By Al Barbarino

  A surge in mergers and acquisitions-focused activist campaigns in the first half of 2026 came as companies adjusted to the universal proxy regime and activists increasingly turned to artificial intelligence to identify targets, according to a Diligent Market Intelligence report released on Tuesday.

• 1st Circ. Wary Of Reinstating 'Fork In The Road' Suit

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A First Circuit judge on Tuesday questioned the repercussions of a court nixing the Trump administration's deferred-resignation program more than a year after federal workers accepted the buyouts. 

• How A Casino Analogy Helped Win A Short-Swing Profits Trial

  By Katryna Perera

  To win a first-of-its-kind securities trial over short-swing profits, attorneys at Freshfields LLP knew they needed to find the right analogy to showcase their argument, even if it meant comparing the case to a craps table at a casino.

• Albright Preserves Verdict Clearing Roku On Streaming Patents

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said he wouldn't grant a new trial or a favorable judgment to a company that asserted two patents against Roku after a jury cleared the streaming device maker in 2024.

• Colo. Sports Complex Owner Files Ch. 11 With $100M+ Debt

  By Emily Lever

  Future Legends LLC, the owner of a sports complex in Colorado, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California with $100 million to $500 million in liabilities following legal battles with a local government, its lenders and the second-division U.S. men's soccer league, according to court filings.

• DC Circ. Backs EPA's Pollution Review Regulation Process

  By Jared Foretek

  A D.C. Circuit panel sided with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in its fight with environmental groups challenging rules for determining whether modifications to major pollution sources trigger new review, holding Tuesday the rule is neither inconsistent with the Clean Air Act nor arbitrary and capricious.

• Judge Pares Suit Challenging Empire Wind Project

  By Keith Goldberg

  A D.C. federal judge has trimmed a lawsuit contesting federal approvals for a wind farm off the New York and New Jersey coasts while preserving claims that the government wrongly allowed the project to harm migratory bottlenose dolphin populations.

• Penske Accused Of Scheming To Buy Golden Globes

  By Matthew Perlman

  The Hollywood Foreign Press Association sued Penske Media Corp. in California federal court Tuesday, accusing the company and owner Jay Penske of orchestrating a scheme to fraudulently acquire the Golden Globe Awards as part of a bid to dominate the market.

• Cava Board, Execs Sued In Del. Over $2.2B Stock Sales

  By Jarek Rutz

  A Cava Group Inc. stockholder has filed a derivative lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the Mediterranean restaurant chain's top executives and directors of using confidential internal forecasts to sell more than $2.2 billion worth of company stock before the company's growth outlook weakened and its share price fell.

• Pentair To Buy Water Biz Taco Group In $1.4B Deal

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP-advised water solutions company Pentair Inc. on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire hydronic and water-based solutions company Taco Group Holdings Ltd., advised by Loeb & Loeb LLP, in a $1.4 billion deal.

• Papaya Owes $719M, Atty Fees In Gaming False Ad Case

  By Elliot Weld

  A New York federal judge has granted Firy Inc.'s request to order Papaya Gaming Ltd. to disgorge $719 million and pay $10.1 million in attorney fees to Firy on top of a $420 million jury verdict in April for alleged misrepresentations about its mobile games being based on skill and not using bots.

• Fed. Circ. Won't Rethink Expert Decision In Microsoft Case

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Federal Circuit has turned down Microsoft's request that it revisit a panel's decision that reopened the damages amount issue in a patent infringement case brought against the tech giant by Israeli company Exafer Ltd.