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August 05, 2026
A key U.S. Senate committee Wednesday advanced four legislative proposals designed to shield children from online harms presented by addictive design features and artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, setting up a clash with a package of digital safety bills that has already passed the House but that several senators have blasted as "toothless."
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August 05, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge declined to fully adopt a magistrate judge's recommendation to dismiss a proposed class action accusing Bank of America of violating an interest cap law for military service members, though he trimmed some claims from the suit.
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August 05, 2026
Several grocery chains, including Albertsons and Kroger, have accused a group of refined sugar companies including Domino Sugar of conspiring to artificially raise the cost of refined sugar through a "give to get" arrangement.
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August 05, 2026
Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.
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August 05, 2026
Roland Christensen of Arnold & Itkin LLP said that for the life of him, he couldn't understand why C.H. Robinson didn't cut a deal offered by the families of victims who burned to death following an 18-wheeler crash.
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August 05, 2026
A panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Wednesday raised new questions about the Federal Communications Commission's oversight of the country's $9 billion annual telecom subsidy program after a U.S. Supreme Court decision kept the fund intact last summer.
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August 05, 2026
The Justice Department's Antitrust Division signaled Wednesday that it may take enforcement action against Institutional Shareholder Services, withdrawing a 1987 letter stating the division would not do so and flagging "significant competition concerns" about the concentration of proxy advisory market power.
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August 05, 2026
The mother of a child who suffered severe burns to her face after a Sunbeam pressure cooker allegedly exploded is asking a Florida federal court to approve a confidential settlement to end their claims, reaching the deal in the middle of the trial.
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August 05, 2026
Kalshi agreed to implement geofencing restrictions by Aug. 26 to prevent people in Washington from making bets on the platform in accordance with a state judge's preliminary injunction, but the prediction market is still at odds with state officials over the scope of the court order.
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August 05, 2026
A New York City law that would require DoorDash, GrubHub and other delivery apps to share customer data with the restaurants fulfilling food orders violates the First Amendment, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.
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August 05, 2026
Tesla has moved to nix a customer's proposed class action alleging the company duped him into thinking its vehicles can fully drive themselves, arguing in California federal court Tuesday that his claims are untimely and overlap with a similar consolidated consumer protection action.
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August 05, 2026
A Colorado federal judge sentenced a Texas man Wednesday to 3.5 years in prison for his role in the operation and promotion of a multimillion-dollar fraudulent investment fund, ordering nearly $6 million to be paid in restitution.
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August 05, 2026
Takeda Pharmaceuticals battled with a class of health plans over whether a Massachusetts federal jury's $885 million antitrust verdict against the drugmaker for conspiring to delay generic competition to anticonstipation drug Amitiza should be reduced by rebates the drugmaker paid and Medicare subsidies that reduced the health plans' costs.
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August 05, 2026
The companies behind Posh, a well-known disposable vape brand, have agreed to pay Illinois $20 million and to halt sales of the e-cigarettes in the state, ending a lawsuit that accused them of marketing unapproved nicotine to minors, with a Chicago judge signing off on the consent decree.
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August 05, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it has returned $881 million that went unused in the TV Broadcaster Relocation Fund.
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August 05, 2026
The Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust filed an emergency request Wednesday to pause an order requiring the trust to produce financial records relating to $10 billion of damages allegedly caused by BBC's documentary about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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August 05, 2026
A California federal judge said she won't reverse a magistrate's decision rejecting a bid by college athletes seeking to limit oversight of third-party name, image and likeness deals under their landmark $2.78 billion class settlement with the NCAA.
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August 05, 2026
A Utah federal judge has allowed the state's gambling regulators to crack down on Kalshi's sports event contracts, rejecting the prediction market giant's argument that it should be shielded by federal law.
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August 05, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has finished a proposal to overhaul its Biden-era open-banking rule and has submitted it for White House clearance, a move that signals the agency is nearing publication of the highly anticipated draft changes.
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August 05, 2026
A Connecticut state court judge has agreed to pause a proposed class action blaming a credit union for a breach of customers' private data while the parties head to a mediation session currently scheduled for September.
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August 05, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday granted private-label dry bath product-maker Vi-Jon LLC a range of first-day motions, including a cash management request, allowing the company to continue operating during its Chapter 11 case.
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August 05, 2026
Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' generic drug carvedilol, used to treat high blood pressure and congestive heart failure, was misrepresented as therapeutically equivalent to the brand-name drug Coreg but contained undisclosed nitrosamine impurities that changed its strength, quality and safety profile, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Washington federal court.
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August 05, 2026
T-Mobile has asked a Washington judge to address issues that the company says were overlooked in his June ruling finding that T-Mobile committed more than 722,000 violations of a state data breach notification law.
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August 05, 2026
A Texas federal judge has denied Revive Rx's bid to end Eli Lilly and Co.'s remaining unfair competition claims over the compounding pharmacy's sales of allegedly unapproved tirzepatide weight loss drugs that Eli Lilly says compete with Mounjaro and Zepbound, rejecting Revive's argument that compounded drugs fall outside state "new drug" laws.
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August 04, 2026
Los Angeles County fire authorities on Tuesday released an investigation report on the origins of the January 2025 Eaton Fire, finding that the devastating fire ignited after a "glowing material" fell from an electrical event on Southern California Edison transmission towers into a dry fuel bed.