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July 10, 2026
One of the biggest decisions to come down in Illinois so far this year applies a 2-year-old Biometric Information Privacy Act amendment retroactively in an appellate ruling experts anticipate will deflate settlement values even though it came from a federal court.
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July 10, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest on the federal housing bill, the rollout of Opportunity Zones 2.0, and a look at Florida at the midyear.
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July 10, 2026
A split Illinois state appeals court on Friday refused to disturb a jury's verdict awarding $45 million to the family of a woman who developed mesothelioma and died after using Johnson & Johnson's talc baby powder for decades, ruling that her case warranted both wrongful death and shortened life damages.
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July 10, 2026
Washington and 14 other states launched a preemptive lawsuit Friday to stop the Trump administration from ending federal grants for mental health programming in public schools, seeking to preserve the funding if the U.S. Department of Education succeeds in asserting new grounds for canceling the grants in a related case.
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July 10, 2026
A California federal judge has scheduled an early July 2027 trial date in DirecTV and a coalition of states' lawsuit seeking to stop Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s integration with rival broadcast company Tegna Inc.
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