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  • July 07, 2026

    Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

    A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's antitrust claims against Align.

  • July 07, 2026

    Mass. Court Orders New Sex Abuse Trial Over Testimony

    A man found guilty of raping and sexually abusing girls in his family is entitled to a new trial, a Massachusetts appeals panel said Tuesday, finding that evidence of his prior bad acts was admitted improperly and may have overwhelmed and prejudiced the jury.

  • July 07, 2026

    Judge Defends Decision Keeping Paraquat Cases In Philly

    The Philadelphia judge who blocked a bid to move several of the paraquat Parkinson's Disease mass tort cases out of the city is standing by his ruling, recommending that the Pennsylvania Superior Court adopt his rejection of the companies' arguments to the contrary in its appellate review of the case.

  • July 07, 2026

    DC Circ. Backs Tax Bribery Convictions Despite Jury Error

    A D.C. Circuit panel refused on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's judgments against two men in connection to a bribery scheme carried out to evade $2.3 million in business tax obligations, finding a jury instruction error "harmless," among other unsuccessful arguments.

  • July 07, 2026

    8th Circ. Says Murder Charge Backs Sentence Enhancement

    The Eighth Circuit held that a prior third degree murder conviction counts as a crime of violence for purposes of a later sentencing enhancement in a gun case because the Minnesota state law in the murder case was substantially similar to the generic definition of murder.

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