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June 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.
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June 23, 2026
The Second Circuit declined Tuesday to revive an Avangrid Management Co. worker's suit claiming the utility business wouldn't promote her because of her age, ruling she lacked evidence that hiring managers knew how old she was when deciding what candidate was the best fit.
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June 23, 2026
Connecticut's state judges on Tuesday issued a new requirement that attorneys and pro se filers independently verify all citations, legal authorities and evidence produced by generative artificial intelligence tools, threatening to impose case-ending sanctions on those who flout the rule.
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June 22, 2026
The Chapter 11 trustee overseeing the estate of billionaire fraudster Miles Guo is seeking approval of settlements reached in fraudulent transfer suits against insurance companies including Anthem Health Plans and Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield, as well as law firms like Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC and Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC.
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June 22, 2026
The ex-CEO of Sound Federal Credit Union asked a Connecticut state judge on Monday to dismiss portions of the credit union's two counterclaims asking him to return $80,000 for services he didn't perform because he was fired, saying it was not the correct party to bring such counterclaims.
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June 22, 2026
Yale New Haven Health Services Corp. has defeated Connecticut trade law, emotional distress and informed consent claims in a lawsuit accusing a doctor of fraudulently using his own sperm to inseminate a fertility patient, but the hospital network holding entity must face a fraud allegation, a state judge has ruled.
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June 22, 2026
State enforcers have urged a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's bid to upend a jury verdict finding the company monopolized key parts of the live entertainment industry, telling the court the jury carefully considered ample evidence and should not be second-guessed.
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June 22, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge Monday agreed to lift the automatic stay that has stalled an asbestos indemnification lawsuit since October 2021, granting a joint motion from the bankrupt Nash Engineering Co.'s Chapter 7 trustee and two umbrella insurers seeking declarations that they don't owe coverage.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a Second Circuit decision that wiped out a murder conviction stemming from the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz due to allegedly inaccurate jury instructions.
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June 18, 2026
Counsel for a convicted Florida bitcoin fraudster who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for failing to pay over $20 million in restitution stemming from his role in a crypto heist on Thursday told the Second Circuit that the lower court's resentencing trampled on the constitutional rights of her client, who "never got due process at any stage."
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June 18, 2026
A Connecticut attorney facing possible sanctions over fake case quotations in a taco restaurant trademark fight told a federal judge that he takes "full and unqualified responsibility" for the flawed filings, saying he is "mortified" and acknowledging that his verification process for AI-assisted legal work fell far short.
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June 18, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge said Thursday that he is "impressed" with the "growth" that a suspended attorney has shown in the months since his reinstatement hearing began, but he would not rule on readmitting him to the bar until a state-level committee makes its own recommendation.
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June 18, 2026
The Washington federal judge handling the Federal Trade Commission's antitrust case against Amazon asked both parties to provide more information about how he should consider attorney-client privilege when reviewing documents to resolve discovery disputes in the case.
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June 18, 2026
A man who stole COVID-19 relief money from a Connecticut city asked a federal judge on Thursday to reduce his "unusually lengthy" eight-year prison sentence to time served, noting that he has been behind bars for more than three years while all others involved in the scam, including a former state representative, walk free.
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June 18, 2026
Blackstone subsidiary LivCor LLC has agreed to pay North Carolina, California and seven other states $7 million in penalties to resolve allegations against it in a sprawling antitrust lawsuit alleging major landlords used software company RealPage to fix rent prices, according to documents filed in North Carolina federal court Thursday.
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June 18, 2026
Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have signed a cannabis compact allowing transactions between tribal enterprises and state-licensed entities, the first deal of its kind since Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in June 2021 and the tribe penned its own cannabis regulations that same year.
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June 18, 2026
DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.
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June 18, 2026
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.
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June 18, 2026
A Second Circuit panel Thursday seemed skeptical of an Avangrid Management Co. employee's attempt to resurrect an age discrimination lawsuit, appearing to accept the company's assertion that it passed the Connecticut worker over for a lead financial reporting analyst position because another candidate was better qualified.
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June 18, 2026
The nomination of Matthew Schwartz to be a judge on the Second Circuit advanced out of committee Thursday.
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June 17, 2026
Medline Industries and AdaptHealth have been sued by the estate and daughter of a Connecticut woman who allegedly died after suffering burns over 47% of her body when an electric-powered hospital-style bed caught fire in a Newtown home.
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June 17, 2026
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.
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June 17, 2026
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.
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June 17, 2026
The co-founder of a capital firm wants a Connecticut state judge to lift an order that allows for a hold on $10.36 million worth of his assets in favor of an investment bank that accused him of involvement in a securities fraud scheme, noting that the underlying verdict was overturned on appeal.
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June 17, 2026
A Mexico-born woman who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year is suing the government in Connecticut federal court, saying the agents violated agency guidelines and the Constitution when they arrested her in front of her young children while they were on the way to school.