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May 13, 2026
Apple has lashed out at Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for trying to withdraw a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case in California federal court without discovery into any directions she received to preserve now-deleted emails, raising concerns that the withdrawal is meant to "paper over lost evidence."
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May 13, 2026
Military technology company Anduril, led by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, on Wednesday announced it reached a $61 billion valuation after raising $5 billion in its latest funding round.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Wednesday backed a California federal judge's ruling that a contract under which Finelite buys LED chips from Samsung does not require Samsung to indemnify Finelite in a patent suit by Seoul Semiconductor.
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May 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday granted preliminary approval to two settlements totaling over $136 million that Atkore Inc. has agreed to pay to resolve allegations it conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices.
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May 13, 2026
The National Federation of Federal Employees and a group of federal workers are accusing the secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture of unlawfully imposing her religious views on a "captive audience" of agency employees through agency emails, according to a lawsuit filed in California federal court Wednesday.
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May 13, 2026
Packaging company WestRock violated federal labor law by changing a health insurance plan for employees without bargaining to a good faith impasse with a Teamsters local, a National Labor Relations Board judge found.
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May 13, 2026
Stiiizy, the largest cannabis retailer in California, allegedly concealed tracking tools on its websites to monitor users' shopping and purchasing habits, which it then secretly sold to data brokers, according to a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by consumers who claim they never gave their consent.
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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Tuesday to partly unwinding a jury's decision to convict a former Google engineer of trade secret theft and economic espionage, saying he's "somewhat skeptical" of the economic espionage charges since he doesn't see sufficient evidence the engineer intended to benefit China.
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May 12, 2026
OpenAI Inc. CEO Sam Altman took the stand Tuesday in the California federal jury trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion, acknowledging that colleagues have accused him of being deceptive while testifying that "I believe I'm a trustworthy person."
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May 12, 2026
A cannabis company CEO testified Tuesday as the first witness in Citron Research founder Andrew Left's criminal securities fraud trial, telling a California federal jury that Left published an inaccurate short sale report on his company that quickly tanked its stock even though it appears he lacked the "conviction" of his attack.
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May 12, 2026
A California producer of lab-grown chicken has asked a Florida federal judge to rule that the state's regulation against its product is unlawful, arguing a total ban on cultivated meat has no basis in public health and amounts to "economic protectionism" in violation of the U.S. Constitution's dormant commerce clause.
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May 12, 2026
An actor's suit alleging that director James Cameron improperly used her likeness in "Avatar" makes no mention of artificial intelligence and targets a film from nearly two decades ago, but even so, the case raises questions about how much people can protect themselves against unauthorized AI-generated content.
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May 12, 2026
An attorney representing authors accusing OpenAI of feeding their copyrighted works into training data for large language models told a New York federal magistrate judge Tuesday that the AI startup was asserting vastly different positions in New York and in an ongoing trial in California about whether it ever intended to become a for-profit enterprise.
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May 12, 2026
A group of journalists and voice actors has hit Google, Meta, Microsoft, chipmaking giant Nvidia and speech synthesis software company ElevenLabs with proposed class actions in Illinois federal court accusing the companies of wrongly using the plaintiffs' voices to train their artificial intelligence models.
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May 12, 2026
The artist once known as Kanye West and his companies infringed an uncleared sound recording in an early version of his Grammy-winning song "Hurricane," showcased at one of his 2021 "Donda" album listening parties, a Los Angeles jury found Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
The leader of the U.S. Copyright Office, Shira Perlmutter, told senators Tuesday they may need to respond to the U.S. Supreme Court's March decision that narrowed contributory liability for internet service providers, saying the ruling "left a bit of a hole in the law."
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May 12, 2026
The parents of a college student who died of an overdose sued OpenAI on Tuesday in California state court, alleging that ChatGPT coached him to mix kratom and Xanax without telling him that this mix would likely kill him.
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May 12, 2026
A medical software company has told a California federal court that claims in a pair of health monitoring patents Apple has accused it of infringing are actually invalid, saying they only cover abstract ideas without a technological innovation to save them.
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May 12, 2026
A federal pipeline regulator told the Ninth Circuit on Monday it reasonably asserted jurisdiction over an oil pipeline system near Santa Barbara, California, and approved a Texas company's restart plan, saying challenges brought by California and environmental groups are unfounded.
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May 12, 2026
An Idaho federal court wrongly denied a man of Mexican descent a new trial after discovering a juror had made racially biased comments about people of Mexican ethnicity during deliberations on whether to convict him of preparing false tax returns, a split Ninth Circuit panel said Tuesday.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has rejected an incumbent contractor's protest over the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's selection of an $803 million proposal to provide security screening at San Francisco International Airport, finding no issue with its price analysis.
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May 12, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with PayPal Inc. to end an investigation into what the department said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses.
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May 12, 2026
A California federal judge has held that Impossible Foods owes attorney fees after lifestyle brand Impossible X won a $3.25 million verdict in the parties' trademark dispute, but she refused to boost the jury's award.
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May 12, 2026
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has added a former WilmerHale attorney to expand its global emerging companies and venture capital practice group and capacity to handle venture capital financing matters.
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May 12, 2026
The Trump administration will challenge a California federal court decision that ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to continue drawing funding from the Federal Reserve, setting the stage for renewed litigation over the agency's access to cash.