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August 25, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge gave a former Taro Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. marketing executive a partial victory in generic drug price-fixing litigation, tossing several claims by state attorneys general but allowing others to proceed after finding that a jury could conclude he joined certain conspiracies.
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August 25, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge who ordered the U.S. Postal Service earlier this month to stop work on a new rule restricting delivery of some mail-in ballots concluded Tuesday that the USPS flouted her pencils-down nationwide injunction by continuing to develop and promulgate the new rule.
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August 25, 2026
A former corporate officer has sued his ex-colleague and the colleague's attorney in Connecticut state court, alleging they named him as a personal defendant in a federal wage lawsuit without any factual basis and with the intent to pressure his company into settling claims it disputed.
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August 25, 2026
A Washington federal judge Monday partly granted a group of states' bid for expedited discovery in their suit over the Trump administration's attempt to cut nearly $1 billion in funding for K-12 mental health grants, finding the information could assist the court before a hearing for a preliminary injunction.
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August 25, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has put an end to a criminal case alleging Freepoint Commodities LLC bribed Brazilian government officials to get an edge over its competitors, dismissing a single felony count shortly after prosecutors said the firm had satisfied its obligations under a deferred prosecution agreement.
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August 25, 2026
A Connecticut plaintiffs firm specializing in mesothelioma litigation has asked a Superior Court administrative panel to reconsider a decision to move all asbestos cases to the Complex Litigation Docket in Hartford.
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August 25, 2026
Attorneys with Milberg PLLC, Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP and Hausfeld LLP will serve as class counsel, at least temporarily, in a consolidated class action alleging that hackers stole more than 40 million private records through a cyberattack on Charter Communications Inc., a Connecticut federal judge has ruled.
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August 25, 2026
A man given life in prison for a drug conspiracy and then resentenced under the First Step Act to time served and eight years of supervised release cannot further reduce the judgment, the Second Circuit has ruled.
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August 24, 2026
The Second Circuit has declared that the preliminary injunction blocking Nielsen from making Cumulus Media buy its local offerings to gain access to its national radio ratings data will go into effect Tuesday.
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August 24, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court has reversed a murder conviction and ordered a new trial, finding in an advance opinion Monday that a state trial court wrongfully refused to hear the defendant's challenge to potentially unreliable gunshot residue evidence.
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August 24, 2026
The Trump administration can proceed with plans to implement some new nationwide mail-in voting regulations ahead of this year's midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday, but questions remain about the enforceability of proposed U.S. Postal Service restrictions.
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August 24, 2026
DirecTV has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to grant a petition for review in the satellite provider's case accusing Nexstar of working with two other station owners to fix retransmission fees, arguing DirecTV's past licensing deals show it has standing to sue.
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August 24, 2026
The Second Circuit Monday vacated Amazon's temporary win in a wage class action, saying the Connecticut Supreme Court's more recent conclusion that state law requires compensation for employee time spent awaiting and undergoing mandatory security screenings is "squarely at odds" with a federal district judge's original decision.
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August 24, 2026
Federal prosecutors have moved to release a Connecticut-based commodities firm from a deferred prosecution agreement nearly four months early, telling a judge Monday that Freepoint Commodities LLC has satisfied its obligations and paid more than $106 million to resolve allegations that it bribed Brazilian government officials.
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August 24, 2026
A Massachusetts software company on Friday lost its bid to force the Connecticut Judicial Branch into private arbitration over claims it was not fully paid for working on a court case management system decades ago, with a panel concluding the state's waiver of sovereign immunity allowed only a Superior Court lawsuit.
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August 24, 2026
Connecticut's attorney general announced a second settlement with the landlord of a 544-unit apartment site to resolve an investigation into unsafe conditions at the property, a deal that comes after the owner paid out $5.1 million in February to compensate tenants for problems at the complex.
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August 21, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including interviews with real estate attorneys about the latest trends in the retail and hospitality sectors, among others.
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August 21, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday that a Vanderbilt Law School graduate can continue a suit against the town of Westport and two attorneys who defended him in a criminal case when he was a teen and, he claims, helped cover up critical information — causing him to be incarcerated.
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August 21, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.
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August 21, 2026
A Texas state appellate court Friday slashed a $45 million damages award against right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones in a defamation trial brought by parents of a Sandy Hook shooting victim, saying the family did not meet the legal standard to exceed the state's damages cap.
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August 21, 2026
RTX Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney aircraft unit prevailed a second time Friday against a female candidate's claim that she wasn't hired because of her gender, with a Connecticut appeals court affirming gender wasn't a motivating factor and that some of the woman's arguments rested on hearsay.
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August 21, 2026
President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election?
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August 21, 2026
A Virginia federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining a database containing information on 17 million commercial driver's license holders, ruling in favor of 21 states that allege it unlawfully demanded the records for immigration enforcement.
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August 21, 2026
Since the mid-1980s, DNA testing has exonerated hundreds of wrongfully convicted people and reshaped the criminal justice system. Rodney Reed's decadeslong unsuccessful effort to test the belt prosecutors say he used to kill a woman, however, shows how difficult access to post-conviction DNA testing can be, even for prisoners with credible innocence claims.
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August 21, 2026
Federal Trade Commission attorneys will appear before a Virginia federal judge Monday in what will likely be the FTC's only antitrust conduct trial this year, squaring off against a rental listings syndication deal it says amounted to Zillow's $100 million payout for the smaller Redfin to exit the market.