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August 05, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has adopted a hybrid method for calculating prejudgment interest in the long-running merger dispute between Shareholder Representative Services LLC and Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc., rejecting both sides' competing approaches.
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August 05, 2026
Brazil-based meat giant JBS SA agreed to pay $31 million to shareholders of its subsidiary Pilgrim's Pride Corp. to settle a suit accusing JBS, its affiliates and its Pilgrim's board appointees of unfairly increasing JBS' clout and access to dividends and tax benefits at the expense of minority shareholders of Pilgrim's.
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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
Three investment funds affiliated with Black Diamond Capital Management have sued HGIM Corp. in Delaware's Court of Chancery, accusing the marine transportation company of stonewalling their request to inspect corporate records tied to CEO Shane J. Guidry's push for majority control of the company.
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August 04, 2026
More patent suits were filed in 2025 than in any year in the past decade, according to a new report, an increase attorneys said is likely tied to new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies that have made it harder to challenge patents.
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August 04, 2026
Rabicoff Law and Ramey LLP have maintained their roles as top patent suit filers, while Fish & Richardson PC and Gillam & Smith LP have remained leaders on defense teams, according to Lex Machina's annual patent litigation report.
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August 04, 2026
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general are warning the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its plan to discard a corporate climate disclosure regulation is "unlawful," adding their voices to a chorus of state and local pension funds urging the agency to abandon the planned regulatory withdrawal.
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August 04, 2026
The Third Circuit has declined to revive a whistleblower suit by Olympus Corp.'s former employee who claimed he was fired after reporting FDA regulatory violations, ruling Tuesday that he failed to state a retaliation claim under the False Claims Act since he didn't link his concerns to a reasonable belief that Olympus defrauded the government.
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August 04, 2026
World Wrestling Entertainment expects to contribute $105 million toward a proposed settlement of Delaware shareholder litigation challenging its 2023 merger with UFC parent Endeavor, with most of that amount covered by insurance, according to a quarterly filing by parent company TKO Group Holdings Inc. filed Monday.
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August 04, 2026
A construction company's insurers cannot recoup $50 million they paid to resolve a lawsuit from New York University over project damage, the Delaware Superior Court has ruled, finding New York law would not allow insurers to recover payments made under a reservation of rights when the policy didn't expressly allow it.
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August 04, 2026
New York, Illinois and 20 other states sued the Trump administration Monday to block a new policy that would authorize the disclosure of sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers and immigration status, of their residents receiving temporary financial assistance.
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August 04, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge rejected a motion to dismiss the Chapter 11 case of an affiliate of dolphin park owner Leisure Investments, finding that the former CEO was wrong to argue that a Mexican court had restored his authority.
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August 04, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general is urging Congress not to approve language in a pending continuing resolution that would delay the implementation of a ban on virtually all intoxicating hemp products for one month.
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August 04, 2026
The U.S. Senate passed the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act of 2026 by unanimous consent, taking steps to make permanent the higher debt limits that apply to small business and consumer debtors first implemented during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 04, 2026
Over the course of its two-day annual meeting, the American Bar Association's policymaking body, the House of Delegates, approved measures to urge further bar exam oversight and backed measures to support law schools at accredited historically Black colleges and universities.
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August 04, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday let HKA Global LLC revive parts of its suit against three former partners and Accuracy US LLC, allowing several new claims while refusing to reinstate contract theories the court had already rejected after voiding key restrictive covenants.
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August 04, 2026
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
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August 03, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has refused to toss two new claims from companies suing AT&T over rural Oklahoma cellular partnerships, saying the telecom titan "appears to have drafted an ambiguous contract and must now live with the results."
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August 03, 2026
A coalition of 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in California federal court Friday, challenging an Affordable Care Act rule that shifts costs onto enrollees while reimposing certain provisions that a Maryland federal court vacated for being unlawful and arbitrary.
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August 03, 2026
California, Arizona and 23 other states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday claiming the president is trying for a third time to impose illegal tariffs against nearly all the country's trading partners, this time under the cover of federal law meant to combat forced labor.
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August 03, 2026
A group of state enforcers challenged Paramount's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, as a separate group of states and DirecTV accused Nexstar of violating an order preventing it from integrating with Tegna and the Federal Trade Commission faced a bench trial seeking to block a constructive adhesive deal.
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August 03, 2026
Sandoz reached a settlement with a coalition of state enforcers on Monday, agreeing to pay $450 million to end claims against it in several cases targeting alleged price-fixing in the generic-drug industry.
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August 03, 2026
A former employee of high-end North Carolina furniture company Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams has told a federal judge she was ending her lawsuit alleging the employer failed to give adequate notice of layoffs to hundreds of workers.
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August 03, 2026
The rapid growth of Missouri's solicitor general's office illustrates the import of top state appellate roles, which offer young lawyers a chance to gain courtroom experience they might never acquire in BigLaw. The gig is also, for young conservatives especially, one of the fastest paths to the federal bench.
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August 03, 2026
The American Bar Association's policymaking body on Monday approved a resolution sponsored by law students seeking reprieve from increasingly early BigLaw recruitment drives and clarified rules regarding client confidentiality and prosecutorial responsibility, some of the first votes taken on day one of its annual meeting.