Connecticut

  • May 28, 2026

    'Socioeconomic' Remark At Atty's Homicide Trial Vexes Judge

    A prosecutor's "socioeconomic" description of the man shot to death by a former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner may have been improper, a Connecticut appellate judge said Thursday, casting some doubt on the integrity of Robert L. Fisher Jr.'s manslaughter conviction.

  • May 28, 2026

    King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

    King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

  • May 28, 2026

    Justices Say First Step Act Not 'Vehicle' For Innocence Claim

    The U.S. Supreme Court held Thursday that judges lack wide discretion to pare down sentences for criminal defendants under the First Step Act based on questions about the validity of a conviction, shutting the door on a potential wave of postconviction relief petitions, experts said.

  • May 27, 2026

    Conn. AG To Investigate Roblox Over 'Harm To Children'

    Gaming and chat platform Roblox, the subject of multiple lawsuits accusing it of harming minors with addictive design features that expose them to online abuse, is now facing an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general.

  • May 27, 2026

    3 Generic Drug Antitrust Deals Totaling $17.9M Get Final Nod

    A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to a $17.9 million generic drug price-fixing settlement between pharmaceutical companies Bausch Health US LLC, Bausch Health Americas Inc., and Lannett Co. Inc. and 48 states, territories, and governments, finding the terms reasonable despite an objection.

  • May 27, 2026

    2nd Circ. Says Creditor Agent Could Be Served In Ch. 11 Suit

    The Second Circuit has found that when a Chinese textile company authorized an insurer to fully collect on a $3 million bankruptcy claim, it authorized the insurer's agent to accept service for a suit that would reduce the amount of the claim.

  • May 27, 2026

    Live Nation Wants AGs' Discovery To Wait On New Trial Bid

    Live Nation has told a New York federal judge that its bids for a new trial or judgment in its favor should go before state attorneys general to get discovery as they seek the forced divestiture of Ticketmaster to address the live music giant's monopoly.

  • May 27, 2026

    Conn. Justices Fault Bank In Lost Mortgage Note Dispute

    The Connecticut Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed Wilmington Savings Fund Society FSB's appellate and trial court wins in a foreclosure case surrounding a lost $751,000 mortgage note, finding officials at a mortgage servicing firm submitted deficient and contradictory affidavits to support the bank's right to collect money.

  • May 27, 2026

    WWE Shareholders Win Sanctions Over Lost Signal Messages

    World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. investors won sanctions in the Delaware Chancery Court after a judge found former CEO Vince McMahon and other senior executives recklessly allowed encrypted and ephemeral Signal messages and other evidence tied to WWE's $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship to disappear during litigation over the deal.

  • May 26, 2026

    Conn. Tribes Seek Role In CFTC Betting Preemption Fight

    The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on Tuesday moved to intervene in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's suit over Connecticut regulators' attempts to shut down certain prediction markets.

  • May 26, 2026

    AGs Say House Child Safety Bill Weakens States' Authority

    A group of 44 attorneys general for states including California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan have created a coalition opposing the House version of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, and signed a letter to congressional leaders pointing out the shortcomings of the bill.

  • May 26, 2026

    Conn. Justices OK In-Court ID After Tainted Police Photo Array

    The Connecticut Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed a man's murder and firearms convictions, ruling a trial judge properly allowed an eyewitness to point to the defendant in court after suppressing the same witness's earlier out-of-court identification as the product of "unnecessarily suggestive and unreliable" police questioning during a photo array.

  • May 26, 2026

    Towing Co. Must Pay $8M More For Motorcyclist's Crash

    A Connecticut towing company is on the hook for an additional $8 million after a state court judge found that a co-defendant's portion of a $45 million award to a paralyzed motorcyclist is uncollectible.

  • May 26, 2026

    Conn. Drug Price Law Still Allows Hikes, 2nd Circ. Told

    Wholesale distributors that abide by Connecticut's drug price cap law can hike the cost of their other products to ensure they don't suffer losses, the state told the Second Circuit Tuesday, raising the ire of the companies trying to invalidate the new statute.

  • May 26, 2026

    Blogger Gets 20 Years For Cyberstalking Connecticut Judges

    A Virginia man convicted of cyberstalking three Connecticut judges was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison over blog posts described by prosecutors as having crossed the line from protected speech into criminal threats, though the blogger maintains the First Amendment protects him.

  • May 26, 2026

    Justices Won't Take Suit Against Teamsters Fund Overseers

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a Teamsters retiree's bid for review of the dismissal of his proposed class action alleging that union multiemployer plan trustees and advisers allowed risky investments and hefty plan management fees, leaving in place a Second Circuit decision from November.

  • May 26, 2026

    Justices Sidestep Question On NFL Arbitration Process

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review a Second Circuit opinion finding the National Football League's arbitration process unenforceable, in a case that sought clarity on whether district courts have authority to decide whether an arbitration process is fair.

  • May 22, 2026

    Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

    This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

  • May 22, 2026

    Ex-Prosecutor Among Latest To Challenge Trump 'Slush Fund'

    A former federal prosecutor who worked on Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection cases sued Friday over the $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund created by President Donald Trump's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service, calling it a "slush fund" that's "on a collision course with the United States Constitution."

  • May 22, 2026

    Real Estate Recap: $69B Merger, West Palm Beach, Congress

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a $69 billion merger in the residential sector, a dramatic transformation in Florida's West Palm Beach, and the landmark housing bill creating strange bedfellows in Congress.

  • May 22, 2026

    PFAS Judge Wary Of Bid To Sanction Town For 'About-Face'

    A Montana federal judge on Friday seemed slightly reluctant to sanction Connecticut municipalities for moving firefighter turnout gear PFAS claims to his jurisdiction after roughly two years of litigation on the East Coast, suggesting the process of shipping purchaser claims across the nation is typical when complex cases arise.

  • May 22, 2026

    Lyft Wants Sanctions For Expert Failures In Ax Murder Suit

    Lyft Inc. has asked a Connecticut federal judge to impose sanctions and block testimony from plaintiffs' expert in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2022 murder by a passenger, arguing the expert was not disclosed by the deadline and his proposed testimony is unfairly vague.

  • May 22, 2026

    States Seek Ticketmaster Sale As Live Nation Wants New Trial

    State enforcers say they want a federal court to split up Live Nation and Ticketmaster following a New York federal jury verdict that Live Nation had harmed competition by monopolizing ticket sales for large concert venues, even as the concert promotion giant sought to undo the verdict against it or to be granted a new trial.

  • May 22, 2026

    Nexstar Says It Needs Tegna Deal To Compete With Big Tech

    Nexstar Media Group Inc. told a California federal court it needs to merge with Tegna Inc. to compete more effectively, especially with streaming services owned by the Big Tech giants, as it faces a challenge to the deal from state enforcers and DirecTV.

  • May 22, 2026

    Justices' ERISA Ruling May Raise Withdrawal Liability Costs

    The U.S. Supreme Court's recent holding that multiemployer plan actuaries can retroactively change the assumptions used to calculate employers' withdrawal liability could increase the price tag for pulling out of those pension plans, attorneys say.

Expert Analysis

  • AG Watch: Texas Junk Fee Deal Shows Enforcement Priorities

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    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent $9.5 million settlement with online travel agency website Booking Holdings for so-called junk fee practices follows a larger trend of state attorneys general who have taken similar action and demonstrates the significant penalties that can follow such allegations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Integrating Practice Groups

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    Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig.

  • Opinion

    Supreme Court Term Limits Would Carry Hidden Risk

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    While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Identifying And Resolving Conflicts Among Class Members

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    As the Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Nova Scotia Health Employees' Pension Plan v. McDermott International illustrates, intraclass conflicts can determine the fate of a class action — and such conflicts can be surprisingly difficult to identify, says Andrew Faisman, a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • Navigating The New Patchwork Of Foreign-Influence Laws

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    On top of existing federal regulations, an expanding wave of state legislation — placing new limits on foreign-funded political spending and new registration requirements for foreign agents — creates a confusing compliance backdrop for corporations that demands careful preplanning, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • Steps For Cos. To Comply With Colo. Deceptive Pricing Law

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    Colorado's newly passed law protecting against deceptive pricing practices will take effect on Jan. 1, broadening the consumer protection framework and standardizing total price disclosure requirements across a variety of industries, and there are several steps businesses can take to comply, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

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    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

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    New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

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    Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

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