Commercial Contracts

  • June 18, 2026

    I-70 Contractor Seeks New Trial After $1.3M Damages Verdict

    An engineering and design company has asked a Colorado state judge to order a new trial after jurors found it liable for more than $1.3 million in damages for breaching a subcontract linked to an Interstate 70 construction project in Denver.

  • June 18, 2026

    Costco Seeks Coverage For Chicken Drippings Slip-And-Fall

    A Liberty Mutual unit must defend and indemnify Costco against an underlying suit filed by a California man who said he was injured when he slipped on rotisserie chicken drippings, the bulk retailer said in a suit removed to Washington federal court.

  • June 18, 2026

    Otter Tail To Pay $30M To Settle PVC Price-Fix Claims

    Otter Tail has agreed to pay $30 million to resolve certain claims in litigation alleging it and two subsidiaries conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices, the company said in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.

  • June 18, 2026

    Mint Mobile Faces Class Action Over Deceptive Ads

    Mint Mobile is facing a proposed class action alleging that it is baiting customers into ordering home internet with nonexistent advertised discounts and overcharging them.

  • June 18, 2026

    Liberty Mutual Says It's Owed $1.5M In School Bond Row

    Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. told a North Carolina federal court that a construction company owes about $1.5 million for losses Liberty incurred in connection with the contractor's work on a school construction project for which Liberty executed bonds.

  • June 18, 2026

    5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

    The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.

  • June 18, 2026

    Mother Defends Punitive Claims In Boeing Door Plug Blowout Suit

    A woman and her son suing The Boeing Co. over a door plug blowout on a 737 Max jet flight out of Oregon are urging a Washington federal court to deny Boeing's bid to throw out their punitive damages claims, saying the question is a fact-intensive one unsuitable for dismissal.

  • June 18, 2026

    CME Group Sues CFTC Over Perpetual-Contracts Approval

    CME Group is challenging the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision to approve the listing of perpetual contracts, arguing in a lawsuit that the agency "overrode Congress's definition of the term 'swap'" when it gave Kalshi the green light last month to allow trading on bitcoin spot prices. 

  • June 17, 2026

    Grocery Chain Says Aon Put $40M In Opioid Coverage At Risk

    Supermarket chain Giant Eagle on Wednesday hit insurance brokerage firm Aon with claims in Pennsylvania federal court that it jeopardized $40 million in coverage allegedly owed to the chain for settlement and defense costs in opioid litigation.

  • June 17, 2026

    Niger Says Town House Off Limits In $7.6M Award Feud

    The Republic of Niger told a New York federal judge on Wednesday that its $35 million town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side can't be seized by a United Kingdom aviation services company looking to enforce a $7.6 million arbitral award because the property is used for sovereign purposes.

  • June 17, 2026

    Visa, Mastercard Say 'Old' Deal Bars 'New' Merchant Suit

    Visa and Mastercard asked a New York federal court to shut down a new proposed class action from merchants seeking to get around the future claims release in the credit card companies' $5.6 billion transaction fees antitrust settlement, arguing the new merchants are clearly bound by the old deal.

  • June 17, 2026

    Aetna Can't Bring Its Own Claims In $20M Air Ambulance Fight

    A Connecticut federal judge has agreed to throw out three Aetna entities' allegations that air ambulance operators misrepresented their services throughout an Independent Dispute Resolution award process, finding that the federal No Surprises Act bars the insurer's counterclaims.

  • June 17, 2026

    Crypto Mining Firm Gets $11M Award Confirmed

    A Texas federal court confirmed a crypto mining company's $11 million arbitration award after the opposing party failed to show up at an arbitration hearing and then failed to respond or appear before the federal court.

  • June 17, 2026

    NC Biz Court Narrows Fight Over Flopped Development Deal

    A private lender and its top brass have shaved a host of claims from a dispute with the part-owners of a real estate development project that never got off the ground, with a North Carolina Business Court judge finding that many of the allegations against them were too "thin" to advance.

  • June 17, 2026

    Luxottica, Ex-Worker End Pension Suit Over Annuity Benefits

    Luxottica and a former worker who challenged the company's methodology for paying annuity benefits agreed Wednesday to resolve a proposed class action, a month after the nation's highest court declined the eyewear-maker's bid to review a Second Circuit ruling keeping some of her claims out of arbitration.

  • June 17, 2026

    Nasdaq Private Market Says Rival Poached Staff And Secrets

    A Nasdaq marketplace for pre-IPO stock has filed suit against a competitor, alleging that it has poached employees and clients, stolen trade secrets and other confidential information, and infringed its patented technology in an effort to acquire what Nasdaq has built without fairly competing.

  • June 17, 2026

    $8.8M Deal In State Farm 'Diminished Value' Suit Gets 1st OK

    A Washington federal court granted preliminary approval of an $8.8 million settlement to resolve a class action claiming that State Farm failed to adequately pay for the diminished value of vehicles under its underinsured motorist coverage.

  • June 17, 2026

    MicroBilt Awarded $13M In Contract Fight With Bail Bondsman

    A New Jersey federal judge has adopted the recommendation of a special master to award more than $13 million to a credit reporting agency in its suit against a bail services company alleging a breach of contract over the provision of a mobile device verification service.

  • June 17, 2026

    IT Distributor Accused Of Withholding $27M In Tax Benefits

    An information technology distributor has refused to pay electronic components distributor Avnet at least $27 million of tax credits and refunds, breaching a 2016 acquisition agreement between the two companies, according to a complaint in a New York federal court.

  • June 17, 2026

    Lender Says Co. Defaulted On $5M Loan, Tanked Pot Site Value

    A cannabis real estate company and an affiliate gutted a $27 million cultivation facility, stopped paying taxes on it and defaulted on a $4.6 million clean-energy loan, according to a federal lawsuit by the lender, which seeks a court-ordered sale of the property.

  • June 17, 2026

    DOJ Deal Bars OhioHealth From Blocking Patient Steering

    OhioHealth swore off contract language inhibiting the ability of insurers to steer patients to cheaper healthcare providers, in a settlement resolving one of two U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuits targeting alleged hospital network efforts to force insurers to cover their hospitals in all plans.

  • June 17, 2026

    Doctors Defeat Most Claims In Life Insurance Fraud Dispute

    A life insurer failed to adequately allege that a pair of doctors were knowingly involved in a purported scheme to defraud the carrier into issuing $160 million worth of policies, a New Jersey federal court ruled, tossing all but one claim brought under the state's Insurance Fraud Protection Act.

  • June 17, 2026

    Justices Asked To Review 'Headscratching' Copyright Ruling

    A group of major music publishers has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to rein in a "headscratching" Fifth Circuit ruling that the music publishers say transformed U.S. copyright termination rights into a worldwide reset button for ownership of foreign copyrights.

  • June 16, 2026

    Landlord Says $158K Fine Over Alleged Pot Growing Illegal

    The city of Fresno, California, imposed an "excessive fine" for what it claimed was marijuana cultivation and allowed the plants to be destroyed before a landlord could challenge its finding, he contended in a federal lawsuit, saying he had no idea his tenant was allegedly growing cannabis.

  • June 16, 2026

    9th Circ. Rejects FCA Bid To Pause Headrest Class Trial

    The Ninth Circuit has rejected outright Fiat Chrysler's bid to pause class action proceedings over supposedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests during the automaker's preparation of a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court as it pushes for arbitration in the case.

Expert Analysis

  • Disney's OpenAI Deal Could Be Turning Point In IP Licensing

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    The Disney-OpenAI agreement last month is less an anomaly than an early attempt to define what licensed generative use of entertainment intellectual property looks like in practice, including how artificial intelligence user-generated content is permitted without eroding ownership and control, says Alex Locke at Meister Seelig.

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    Judges On AI: How Courts Can Boost Access To Justice

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    Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Samuel A. Thumma writes that generative artificial intelligence tools offer a profound opportunity to enhance access to justice and engender public confidence in courts’ use of technology, and judges can seize this opportunity in five key ways.

  • Opinion

    The Case For Emulating, Not Dividing, The Ninth Circuit

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    Champions for improved judicial administration should reject the unfounded criticisms driving recent Senate proposals to divide the Ninth Circuit and instead seek to replicate the court's unique strengths and successes, says Ninth Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace.

  • Series

    Muay Thai Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Muay Thai kickboxing has taught me that in order to win, one must stick to one's game plan and adapt under pressure, just as when facing challenges by opposing counsel or judges, says Mark Schork at Feldman Shepherd.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Intentional Career-Building

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    A successful legal career is built through intention: understanding expectations, assessing strengths honestly and proactively seeking opportunities to grow and cultivating relationships that support your development, say Erika Drous and Hillary Mann at Morrison Foerster.

  • Reviewing 2025's Artificial Intelligence Disputes Over IP

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    2025 brought the first major fair use rulings involving generative artificial intelligence, and in 2026 courts will weigh in on more discovery disputes, renewed motions to dismiss, class certification challenges and fair use defenses that could shape the course of future AI litigation, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • 4 Developments That Defined The 2025 Ethics Landscape

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    The legal profession spent 2025 at the edge of its ethical comfort zone as courts, firms and regulators confronted how fast-moving technologies and new business models collide with long-standing professional duties, signaling that the profession is entering a period of sustained disruption that will continue into 2026, says Hilary Gerzhoy at HWG Law.

  • Navigating AI In The Legal Industry

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    As artificial intelligence becomes an increasingly integral part of legal practice, Law360 guest commentary this year examined evolving ethical obligations, how the plaintiffs bar is using AI to level the playing field against corporate defense teams, and the attendant risks of adoption.

  • Nuclear Power Pitfalls And Opportunities To Watch For In 2026

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    Shepherding nuclear power projects to completion requires navigating more risks and obligations than almost any other infrastructure undertaking, but with the right strategies, states, developers, vendors and contractors can overcome these hurdles in 2026 and beyond, say attorneys at Squire Patton.

  • 2025 Calif. Banking Oversight Centered On Consumer Issues

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    The combination of statutory reform, registration mandates and enforcement activity in 2025 signals that California's financial regulatory landscape is focused on consumer protection, particularly in the areas of crypto kiosk fee practices, earned wage access providers and elder fraud, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • How Fractional GCs Can Manage Risks Of Engagement

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    As more organizations eliminate their in-house legal departments in favor of outsourcing legal work, fractional general counsel roles offer practitioners an engaging and flexible way to practice at a high level, but they can also present legal, ethical and operational risks that must be proactively managed, say attorneys at Boies Schiller.

  • Series

    Nature Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Nature photography reminds me to focus on what is in front of me and to slow down to achieve success, and, in embracing the value of viewing situations through different lenses, offers skills transferable to the practice of law, says Brian Willett at Saul Ewing.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practical Problem Solving

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    Issue-spotting skills are well honed in law school, but practicing attorneys must also identify clients’ problems and true goals, and then be able to provide solutions, says Mary Kate Hogan at Quarles & Brady.

  • How Workforce, Tech Will Affect 2026 Construction Landscape

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    As the construction industry's center of gravity shifts from traditional commercial work to infrastructure, energy, industrial and data-hosting facilities, the effects of evolving technology and persistent labor shortages are reshaping real estate dealmaking, immigration policy debates and government contracting risk, say attorneys at Cozen O'Connor.

  • Contract Disputes Recap: Delay, Plain Text, Sovereign Acts

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    Three recent decisions addressing familiar pressure points show that even well-worn doctrines evolve, and both contractors and the government should reexamine their assumptions, says Zachary Jacobson at Seyfarth.

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