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June 24, 2026
Four environmental groups have asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Department of Energy's emergency orders extending the life of a fossil fuel power plant outside Philadelphia, joining other litigation challenging the Trump administration's efforts to keep alive oil, gas and coal power generators that had been slated to shut down.
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June 24, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and a pair of hemp product companies are butting heads in the Fourth and Ninth circuits over a newly enacted DEA rule expressly listing hexahydrocannabinol, or HHC, as a Schedule I substance under the Controlled Substances Act.
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June 24, 2026
The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.
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June 23, 2026
Kaiser Permanente's health coverage arm must pay more than $82 million to Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center to cover unreimbursed emergency medical services, a California state judge ordered Tuesday, after a state appeals court backed a jury's verdict concerning payment for roughly 4,000 disputed medical service claims.
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June 23, 2026
A split D.C. Circuit panel on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to move ahead with a plan to fast-track the deportation of more noncitizens, vacating a lower court's decision to put the plan on hold over what one judge called "woefully inadequate procedures."
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June 23, 2026
Paramount Global is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve a ruling that only consumers who directly subscribe to audiovisual goods and services can bring lawsuits under the Video Privacy Protection Act, arguing that a more expansive reading would allow plaintiffs to flood the courts and would wrongly "transform" the law into an "unworkable internet-privacy regime."
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Tuesday clearing Cisco in an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging it helped the Chinese government violate international law is a win for companies that do business in regions with possible human rights issues, experts tell Law360.
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June 23, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the conviction of a man who was found guilty of assaulting his wife over several days, with the high court finding that text messages the couple sent each other about their erotic fantasies were not relevant and thus inadmissible.
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June 23, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission has told the Fourth Circuit that a Virginia federal court messed up when it ruled in an antitrust suit against Johnson & Johnson that the company bringing the suit needed to show specific intent in order to prop up a monopolization claim over the immunosuppressive drug Stelara.
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June 23, 2026
Streaming services companies including Disney and Netflix have again prevailed against multiple Texas cities accusing them of evading a state franchise tax, with a Texas appeals court reaffirming that the companies do not need to obtain franchise licenses.
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June 23, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Department of Transportation sufficiently analyzed the competitive effects of Delta Air Lines' joint venture with Aeromexico — or considered alternative conditions — before ordering the airlines to dismantle their nearly decade-long partnership.
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June 23, 2026
A company that offers janitorial services to airports can compel arbitration in a former employee's wage and hour proposed class action, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, reversing a California district court's determination that the arbitration agreement was unconscionable.
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June 23, 2026
Colorado's highest court ruled Tuesday that detectives violated a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by interrogating a confession out of him while they executed a narrow court order to collect DNA samples.
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June 23, 2026
The dean of University of California, Berkeley School of Law, told the Ninth Circuit that a federal court in California is within its rights to refuse the federal government's request to drop already-tried charges against a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who was convicted by a jury of violating the constitutional rights of a Black woman during a shoplifting investigation.
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June 23, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday expressed doubt about Live Nation's argument that a putative class action seeking refunds for a canceled 2022 festival belongs in arbitration, with one judge calling Live Nation's arguments "puzzling" and another judge saying she's disturbed to see a "blatantly unlawful provision" in its terms.
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June 23, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with competing interpretations of state civil procedure rules surrounding whether a plaintiff can demand a jury trial in an amended complaint when one wasn't requested in the initial complaint at oral arguments.
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June 23, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived challenges to former President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, finding that the Antiquities Act puts discernible limits on the president's discretion.
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June 23, 2026
The Sixth Circuit refused Tuesday to upend a $205,000 verdict in favor of a former Michigan Technological University accounting professor who said she was given a lower raise because she took maternity leave, saying a reasonable jury could conclude the dean improperly considered her pregnancy.
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June 23, 2026
A doctrine limiting tort claims over contract losses did not bar a fraud claim tied to a fracking wastewater treatment project, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday, affirming a more than $215 million judgment for Antero.
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June 23, 2026
The Colorado Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that trial courts have discretion to order discovery before immediate possession hearings in condemnation proceedings, finding a lower court erred in concluding it lacked that authority.
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June 23, 2026
A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.
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June 23, 2026
Investors of collapsed cryptocurrency brokerage Voyager Digital on Tuesday told a Florida federal judge they are challenging his order dismissing their claims against Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks and his ruling denying the transfer of the case to Texas.
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June 23, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit, in a split decision, has declined to review whether it should halt the removal of a Jamaican man claiming he faces torture in his home country, finding it does not have jurisdiction without reviewing the final removal order at the same time.
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June 23, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals upheld a $1.8 million jury award against QuikTrip Corp. in a slip-and-fall case, finding Tuesday the trial court rightly refused to cap damages at $75,000 or set aside the verdict as excessive.
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June 23, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court has turned away an insurance company's appeal of a decision that said it can't rely on two policy exclusions to deny professional liability coverage to a fertility doctor accused of fathering two children by secretly impregnating patients with his own sperm.