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May 19, 2026
Verizon has sought the FCC's blessing to retire older voice and data transmission services in eight different states, but New York state officials want the agency to hold off, arguing the suspension would put "essential public services and critical community functions" at risk.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a pair of patent infringement suits from patent owners that licensed their intellectual property to other parties, finding that the companies met the minimum constitutional requirements to show they had standing to sue.
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May 19, 2026
A Delaware vice chancellor has told Friedlander & Gorris PA and two other firms to provide more information in their second bid to disqualify her from presiding over Chancery Court litigation because she previously was an attorney at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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May 19, 2026
A proposed $32 million settlement would end consolidated Delaware Chancery Court litigation challenging private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners LP's $2.5 billion take-private acquisition of medical equipment company Agiliti Inc., resolving claims that minority stockholders were squeezed out at an unfair price.
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May 19, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Tuesday said she would grant boating supply business West Marine Inc. a range of first day relief on an interim basis as it gets underway in its voyage through Chapter 11, including permission to use its cash collateral and to pay employees and vendors.
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May 18, 2026
Nikola Corp. founder Trevor Milton "has not paid a dime" of his $2.5 million share of an eight-figure settlement resolving shareholder litigation over a fraud-shadowed special purpose acquisition company merger, the bankrupt electric vehicle company's trustee claims, asking the Delaware Chancery Court to hold the billionaire in contempt.
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May 18, 2026
Investors have agreed to end a lawsuit against the former CEO of cannabis firm Devi Holdings Inc., claiming the executive and early investors hid over $13 million in unpaid taxes to induce $25.9 million in stock purchases that later became worthless, according to a Florida federal judge's order.
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May 18, 2026
The Third Circuit revived a Chilean construction company's bid to enforce a $140 million arbitral award against Italian construction giant Webuild, alleged successor to award debtor Astaldi SpA, ruling Monday in a precedential opinion that a lower court was wrong to nix the suit on jurisdictional grounds.
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May 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday dismissed a shareholder suit against Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and several investors, ruling a fight over control of the China-based vaccine maker belongs in Antigua and Barbuda, where Sinovac is incorporated, rather than in Delaware courts.
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May 18, 2026
Three Florida insurance attorneys found to have committed numerous "bad faith" actions in their representation of a policyholder were hit with sanctions for what a judge in Delaware federal court called "sloppy lawyering" occurring before, during and after a February 2025 trial.
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May 18, 2026
The IRS can slap a tax assessment against a taxpayer without time constraints when a return is fraudulent, even if a third-party preparer was the scammer, the agency told the U.S. Supreme Court in opposing a woman's petition for relief from what she alleges was her accountant's deception.
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May 18, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a broad mix of celebrity estate litigation, merger disputes, investor suits, record demands, sanctions fights and questions over corporate moves away from Delaware.
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May 18, 2026
Boating supply retailer West Marine commenced a Chapter 11 case in Delaware to deal with almost $550 million in debt after reaching a deal on a restructuring support agreement with lenders and equity holders.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't review an information technology company's bid for full forgiveness of a $7.2 million Paycheck Protection Program loan, letting stand the Third Circuit's decision that the Small Business Administration rightfully denied the request because the company's payments to independent contractors did not count as "payroll costs."
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected yet another challenge to the Federal Circuit's use of one-line orders to affirm Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions, a practice CAO Lighting Inc. argued violates the high court's Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo precedent.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday shot down a vehicle identification system patent owner's challenge to the Federal Circuit's reversal of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's decision allowing it to amend claims in two patents challenged by rideshare giant Lyft.
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May 15, 2026
The Federal Circuit's full lineup came together Friday to provide practitioners with insight about their experience sitting on other courts, in a conference where the chief judge dropped the court's first (and only) single.
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May 15, 2026
A stockholder has sued Edwards Lifesciences Corp.'s current and former leaders in Delaware Chancery Court, claiming they misled investors about growth prospects for the medical device company's key artificial heart valve business before a July 2024 disclosure wiped out more than $16.4 billion in shareholder value.
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May 15, 2026
A stockholder of the company behind premium metal credit cards has sued in Delaware Chancery Court claiming that a group of investor-directors turned the once-focused card manufacturer into a vehicle for extracting management fees and then tried to move the company to Nevada as litigation pressure mounted.
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May 15, 2026
Litigation funder Burford Capital is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Third Circuit decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds its bid to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation, arguing that the appeals court committed a "fundamental error."
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May 15, 2026
The Eighth Circuit's recent decision affirming the dismissal of a proposed class action claiming Wells Fargo misspent 401(k) forfeitures won't dissuade workers from filing similar suits, attorneys say, but those plan participants will likely include more details on how they were allegedly hurt.
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May 15, 2026
A Disney stockholder has sued current and former company executives in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of misleading investors by chasing unrealistic Disney+ subscriber targets through heavy content spending, international expansion and promotions that allegedly masked the streaming service's true financial condition.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has reversed earlier decisions granting five petitions for patent review, citing what he called the challengers' inconsistent positions in parallel proceedings and explaining that four petitions he denied in previous bulk orders were also rejected for the same reasons.
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May 14, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has de-instituted a Patent Trial and Appeal Board review after National Steel Car Ltd. disclaimed the only parts of its patent the board thought could be invalid, saying they should "be treated as though they never existed."
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May 14, 2026
A Delaware federal judge on Thursday found that GoDaddy had not willfully infringed two website patents held by Express Mobile Inc., thus sparing the company a verdict greater than the $170 million a jury found but still assessing prejudgment and postjudgment interest.