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June 15, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.'s challenge to a $168 million trade secret judgment for Computer Sciences Corp.
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June 12, 2026
A New York federal judge ruled Friday that actor Blake Lively can recoup legal fees from her "It Ends With Us" costar Justin Baldoni after the dismissal of his defamation claims, but found in an issue of first impression that federal procedure bars her from recovering treble and punitive damages under a new state law.
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June 12, 2026
Academic researchers are asking the Second Circuit to revive their proposed class action accusing six of academia's largest journal publishers of colluding to stifle their leverage and eliminate pay for peer review work, arguing the district court credited the publishers' "written rules" but "discarded" how those rules were implemented.
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June 12, 2026
A Washington federal judge denied a bid from toymaker Ravensburger and a game designer for $3.8 million in legal fees after the court mostly sided with them in Upper Deck's copyright case targeting a Disney-branded trading card game, noting that the suit was "neither unreasonable nor frivolous."
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June 12, 2026
Geico broke free of a bad faith and breach of contract suit that accused it of failing to settle a catastrophic-injury claim against an insured that resulted in a $2.8 million judgment, after a North Carolina federal judge backed a magistrate judge's finding that the suit failed to state a claim.
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June 12, 2026
E-commerce cannabis company Dutchie and a distributor of cash register monitors have reached a deal in their nearly $25 million contract dispute, according to a South Carolina federal judge's dismissal order, ending the case a couple of months before jury selection was set to start.
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June 12, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear an appeal from Exxon Mobil Corp. seeking to force an AIG unit to pay $25 million of a $35 million settlement arising from a deadly 2013 explosion at Exxon's refinery in Beaumont.
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June 12, 2026
A development company that sought to revive a 38-acre Detroit hospital campus and transform it into a $148 million commerce and innovation hub has filed a complaint in Michigan bankruptcy court claiming the city of Detroit and the Detroit Land Bank Authority are unlawfully obstructing the project and trying to reclaim the parcel for political reasons.
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June 12, 2026
The Kennedy Center has refused to return $17 million in funding to the Washington National Opera that the performing arts center managed under the parties' since-terminated affiliation agreement, the opera company said in a complaint at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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June 12, 2026
Lockheed Martin unit Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. paid a subcontractor only $8 million for $22 million worth of work on a multibillion-dollar military helicopter program after causing the project to "balloon in time and cost," according to a federal contract suit.
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June 12, 2026
Italian construction giant Webuild pressed the Third Circuit to reconsider its decision reviving a Chilean construction company's bid to enforce a $140 million arbitral award against it, saying the decision exacerbates confusion over whether minimum contacts are required to enforce a foreign arbitral award.
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June 12, 2026
A former intelligence agency contractor pled guilty in Maryland federal court to accepting $510,000 in kickbacks in exchange for using his access to sensitive government systems to influence the procurement process for IT products in favor of his co-conspirators, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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June 12, 2026
A California federal judge has paused a patent infringement suit brought by wireless technology outfit InterDigital Inc. against The Walt Disney Co. while letting play out a dispute involving a request from Dolby to declare one InterDigital patent invalid, as well as Disney's challenges over two other patents at the patent office.
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June 12, 2026
The University of Utah made its partnership with Otro Capital official Friday — marking the first time an individual institution of higher education has reached an investment agreement with a private equity firm for athletic department operations — in a deal counseled by Covington & Burling LLP and Ray Quinney & Nebeker PC for the university and Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP for Otro Capital.
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June 12, 2026
As the Big 12 considers sanctioning Texas Tech University following a court order permitting quarterback Brendan Sorsby to play football despite admitting to sports betting, it faces threats of legal action from both the quarterback's attorneys and the state attorney general.
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June 12, 2026
A Colorado architecture firm is accused of causing a nearly $4.8 million increase in the cost of constructing a residential housing development in Bozeman, Montana, in a complaint filed in Colorado state court.
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June 12, 2026
Consulting firm Applications in Internet Time LLC has failed to persuade the full Federal Circuit to revive its patent infringement suit against Salesforce Inc.
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June 12, 2026
Insurers for the failed Silicon Valley Bank are not entitled to a quick win in a $73 million fraud coverage dispute, the bank and its receiver told a North Carolina federal court, saying the carriers' interpretation of the financial institution bonds' extended forgery provision is not supported by policy language.
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June 12, 2026
The past week in London has seen the FCA bring a claim against a fund manager it accused of providing investment services despite having been banned, an Ardmore unit sue a contractor two days before the construction group's collapse, and shipping and cruise giant MSC hit back at an entertainment company following separate intellectual property litigation in the U.S. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 11, 2026
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation has urged a Washington federal court to invalidate a pair of state business licensing rules, including one that expanded the definition of "soliciting," saying the regulations are unconstitutional and beyond the authority of the state's licensing department.
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June 11, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education pressed ahead with its plan to end up to a billion dollars in school mental health grants, arguing Wednesday that a Seattle federal judge's December 2025 injunction barring the discontinuation of the grants shouldn't block the government from canceling the contracts outright.
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June 11, 2026
A Texas business court judge said the Southwest Airlines pilots union could continue its suit against The Boeing Co. for alleged economic losses resulting from the grounding of the 737 Max aircraft, but told the union it would have to better articulate the harm Boeing caused.
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June 11, 2026
Chiron Financial didn't pay 17 of its workers when it was having money trouble, a proposed class action in Texas federal court alleges, seeking to recoup the money that the workers say they're owed.
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June 11, 2026
An international tribunal has declined to grant a request from Texas-based investors that Mexico be ordered to halt the country's alleged wrongful conduct stemming from a dispute over the termination of an oil drilling contract and a related performance bond.