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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 17, 2026
A proposed class of consumers has sued retailer Five Below, claiming the discount-store chain should direct money it receives from the government's tariff refunds to the customers since they, not companies, bore the brunt of the economic pain from higher prices.
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July 17, 2026
A federal judge granted final approval to wholesalers on settlements worth a total of at least $62 million with Glenmark Pharmaceutical Inc., Pfizer Inc. and Pfizer subsidiary Greenstone LLC over claims the companies colluded with others to keep generic drug prices high, according to court orders.
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July 17, 2026
Constellium Automotive USA, a Michigan-based Tier 1 automotive supplier, on Friday formally denied the allegations in a countersuit brought by its own supplier, Aalberts Surface Technologies, and asserted Aalberts caused over $4.2 million in damages by delivering defective engine carriers for a BMW program.
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July 17, 2026
Connecticut is again asking a state court to issue a $7.7 million civil penalty against an out-of-state seller of "ghost guns," arguing that the court needn't consider the geographical scope of Connecticut's unfair trade practices law, but that even if it does, the state can reach the seller, and the penalty is appropriate.
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July 17, 2026
Plaintiff-side litigation veteran Jerry Schlichter, founding and co-managing partner of Schlichter Bogard LLP, told Law360 that highlights among the firm's recent legal victories include a reported settlement to end 401(k) investment litigation against ADP, as well as a $150 million settlement in a toxic lead emissions case.
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July 17, 2026
Two former members of the FDIC's board of directors, one of whom also led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, filed an amicus brief urging the Tenth Circuit to uphold a panel's ruling reinstating a Colorado law intended to curb high-cost lending in the state that a lower court initially shot down.
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July 17, 2026
Change is on the way for the Universal Service Administrative Co., which manages the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, with the agency signaling its plans to consider slashing the company's board by more than a third.
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July 17, 2026
A group of mortgage lenders and software companies once again pushed for the dismissal of a proposed mortgage price-fixing class action filed by homeowners in Tennessee federal court, arguing that the claims should be tossed, in part, because the plaintiffs failed to allege that the software products at the center of their suit made pricing recommendations.
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July 17, 2026
A Virginia federal judge ordered tech industry group NetChoice to turn over any studies or reports it has examining social media's potential addictiveness or harm to young people Friday, partially granting a motion to compel from the state as it fights a suit challenging its law limiting children's access.
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court rulings determining that freight brokers can face state-based negligence lawsuits and that last-mile drivers can also be exempt from arbitration are among the biggest court decisions of the first half of 2026 affecting the transportation industry. Here, Law360 highlights a few of the biggest transportation-related rulings of 2026 so far.
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July 17, 2026
A Missouri hemp coalition is suing the state's governor, attorney general and head of its Department of Health and Senior Services in federal court, saying a newly signed law regulating hemp effectively eliminates the state's hemp product industry and contradicts both federal law and itself.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.
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July 17, 2026
Class counsel is urging a Pennsylvania federal judge to grant it a fee award amounting to one-third, or about $39 million, of a negotiated $117.5 million data breach settlement with Comcast, saying it deserves that amount for the work put in and the "extraordinary result achieved."
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July 17, 2026
A Florida federal judge has ordered 73 online sellers accused of selling counterfeit Trump-branded merchandise to pay a combined $14.6 million, largely adopting a magistrate judge's recommendation to enter default judgments and permanently bar the sellers from unauthorized use of the "Make America Great Again" and "Trump" trademarks.
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July 17, 2026
U.S. Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at preventing dominant search engines such as Google from engaging in anticompetitive tactics to monopolize the online search market.
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July 17, 2026
Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne has moved to disqualify a U.S. magistrate judge from a defamation lawsuit filed against him after she presided over the depositions of two of her own former clients, the co-founders of Dominion Voting Systems Corp.
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July 16, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. can, again, trim a proposed class action alleging it deceptively sold Meta Portal video-calling devices the company later "bricked" by dropping software support, a California federal judge ruled Thursday, while refusing to toss an unfair competition claim and giving the consumers another chance to rework the complaint.
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July 17, 2026
In the second of a two-part series on the Virginia Revival Courtroom in the Charlotte federal courthouse, judges, architects and a trial consultant explain the strategy behind designing a space they see as more conducive to justice.
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July 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating whether certain dietary supplements imported from China are being sold at unfair prices and should be subject to antidumping and countervailing duties, it said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
Two major rulings from the Pennsylvania Supreme Court have left it up to the Legislature to address "skill games" and second-degree murder sentences, while other pending bills would tackle a long-standing challenge in administering elections, and make it harder for scalpers to snatch up high-demand tickets or products online.
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July 17, 2026
Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
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July 16, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has mostly refused to toss a putative class action accusing Warren General Hospital of illegally deploying tracking technology that divulged website visitors' private health information to Meta and others, trimming injunctive relief and negligence per se allegations while allowing state wiretap and six other claims to proceed.
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July 16, 2026
Kalshi said Thursday that it's working with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to address suspicious trades on the president's speeches that appear to have netted a federally employed teleprompter operator approximately $90,000.