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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court clarified the pleading standard for induced infringement of skinny labels, and the Federal Circuit opened the door to increased damages for patent owners. Here's what you need to know about these patent cases and other major decisions from the beginning of 2026.
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July 07, 2026
Webuild has pressed the Third Circuit to delay sending a case over a $140 million arbitral award against the Italian construction giant back to lower court as it seeks U.S. Supreme Court review of a circuit decision reviving a Chilean company's bid to enforce the award.
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July 07, 2026
The former CEO of a special purpose acquisition company that helped take Truth Social public urged a Florida judge Tuesday to allow President Donald Trump's deposition, arguing it's necessary to defend against a claim that he was targeted in a conspiracy to sign a merger agreement without his knowledge.
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July 07, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court dismissed a lawsuit by World Energy LLC seeking to force Air Products and Chemicals Inc. to resume work on a stalled $2 billion sustainable aviation fuel project, ruling that World Energy repeatedly failed to meet its own payment obligations and therefore could not compel Air Products to continue performing under the parties' agreements.
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July 07, 2026
A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia took the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development back to court on Tuesday over the Trump administration's renewed effort to restrict funding for programs that provide permanent housing and support services to homeless people.
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July 07, 2026
Lawyers for Global Market Foods LLC urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to block the former owner of a food distribution business from competing after selling the company for $58 million, while the sellers argued the buyer is improperly trying to rewrite the parties' contracts and expand negotiated noncompete restrictions.
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July 07, 2026
Attorneys representing investors in a derivative litigation over a sexual misconduct scandal involving former top real estate brokers at luxury residential firm Douglas Elliman were awarded $1.87 million in the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday for fees and expenses, about half their original request.
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July 07, 2026
Cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken has asked the Delaware Chancery Court to enforce a $22 million arbitration award it won against Mazars US LLP after the auditor suddenly quit the 2022 audit it was conducting for Kraken as the digital assets company came under a federal regulatory investigation.
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July 07, 2026
Lawyers for the Trump administration and a Catholic religious order Tuesday asked the Third Circuit to restore broad exemptions to the Affordable Care Act's birth control coverage mandate, arguing federal agencies had discretion to pass rules that effectively enabled employers to "opt in" to the mandate rather than opt out.
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July 07, 2026
A Delaware bankruptcy judge Tuesday approved the wind-down plan of a Nevada solar plant operator after hearing creditors dropped their request to appoint a trustee to investigate the company's management.
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July 06, 2026
Deloitte agreed to voluntarily dismiss its suit accusing competitor Sagitec of stealing Deloitte's copyrighted computer program for unemployment insurance claims, according to a notice filed in Delaware federal court Monday though a related criminal case against a pair of former Deloitte employees is still slated for a January trial.
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July 06, 2026
A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.
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July 06, 2026
HF Foods Group Inc. has sued its former chief executive officer and co-founder in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing them of secretly assembling a controlling stockholder group holding 57% of the company's shares and attempting to seize control of the food distributor without required disclosures or a fair process.
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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 06, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday upheld Bank of New York Mellon's win in a Black former portfolio manager's race bias and retaliation suit, finding he failed to show his firing was racially motivated or that a reorganization masked retaliation for his complaints.
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July 06, 2026
Recently, the Third Circuit ruled that a police officer sharing a photo of a man who leaped to his death, while "deplorable," did not violate the family's constitutional right to privacy — a ruling that some experts say was an exercise in hair-splitting and a missed opportunity to clarify an important area of law.
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July 06, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.
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July 06, 2026
Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.
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July 06, 2026
Pacifica Hospital of the Valley, a 231-bed Los Angeles hospital, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with more than $100 million in liabilities.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
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July 02, 2026
Rival pharmaceutical companies that squared off at the U.S. Supreme Court over antibody patents have jointly asked the full Federal Circuit to review an unrelated panel decision reviving migraine drug antibody patents.