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July 29, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claimed two real estate investment trust executives raised $152 million in a fraudulent securities offering and misrepresented the company's bleak outlook in an extensive marketing campaign in Florida federal court Wednesday.
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July 29, 2026
A legal ethics expert told a Florida jury Wednesday that he believes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's actions when representing Patriot National Inc. constitute legal malpractice leading up to the insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.
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July 29, 2026
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 14 states led by Iowa, and legal interest groups are urging the Ninth Circuit to throw out class certification in antitrust litigation against Altria and Juul, joining the companies in arguing that the trial court misapplied California law to apply to other states.
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July 29, 2026
YSA Investments 1, a private lender and asset management company, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Delaware bankruptcy court with more than $500 million in debt.
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July 29, 2026
New Jersey-based optometry practice Campus Eye Management on Wednesday became the first healthcare company to secure a declination of criminal charges under the U.S. Department of Justice's new corporate enforcement policy.
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July 28, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday refused to disturb a Florida federal court's decision excluding testimony from plaintiffs' experts in a pair of suits claiming Lockheed Martin allowed toxic waste to leach into the area surrounding its Orlando facility, ruling that both experts' testimony fell short of evidentiary requirements.
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July 28, 2026
A Florida judge ruled on Tuesday that a Tesla engineer must disclose all publicly reported incidents in an internal database, affirming a special magistrate's order in a lawsuit accusing the carmaker of negligence stemming from a crash that killed the driver and his 19-year-old passenger.
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July 28, 2026
A Miami longshoreman can proceed with part of his lawsuit alleging that his union retaliated against him after he repeatedly reported a co-worker for insubordination, a Florida federal judge has ruled, finding that there is enough evidence in the record to allow certain claims to survive.
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July 28, 2026
Former AT&T in-house counsel and whistleblower Theodore Marcus has been asked to delete part of his response to professional misconduct charges pending against him in Washington, D.C., because the filing allegedly contains privileged information.
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July 28, 2026
The chief financial officer for an insurance company told a Florida jury Tuesday that a stock drop for Patriot National Inc. — which is suing Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP for malpractice for allegedly putting together a shoddy securities offering — dramatically affected his own business as well.
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July 28, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has taken Teva to task for trying to avoid being held to its admissions of price-fixing in a $225 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ruling that Humana can use those admissions in one of the first bellwether trials in sprawling multidistrict litigation.
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July 28, 2026
A Florida federal judge granted President Donald Trump permission to amend his lawsuit against the New York Times and its reporters, allowing him to explain in detail why statements in a book and articles published shortly before the 2024 election are false and were meant to derail his campaign.
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July 28, 2026
A watchdog organization asked a D.C. federal court to order the government to disclose communications relating to the settlement between President Donald Trump and the Internal Revenue Service over leaks of his tax information.
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July 28, 2026
A Florida resident is set to plead guilty to his alleged role in a sweeping scheme to trade on insider information about impending acquisitions that was stolen from major law firms, according to a court filing Tuesday.
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July 27, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit declined to revive a former detention deputy's sexual harassment and malicious prosecution lawsuit against two officers with the Seminole County Sheriff's Office, affirming a Florida district court's decision to free the sheriff and a sergeant from the suit.
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July 27, 2026
Railroads have told the Eleventh Circuit that the Federal Railroad Administration failed to properly justify its 2024 two-person train crew rule, saying the agency flip-flopped from its previous determination that such a rule was unnecessary.
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July 27, 2026
A linguist claimed in a Florida federal court that the owner of a job consulting business breached their collaboration agreement and stole a training model she developed, alleging she wasn't given equity in the company as promised and that her copyrighted intellectual property was published in a book without her authorization.
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July 27, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit refused Monday to reopen a now-deceased Georgia county employee's lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking precautions to protect herself during the COVID-19 pandemic due to her health problems, concluding she was let go for spraying co-workers with disinfectant rather than her disabilities.
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July 27, 2026
A Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP partner wrapped up her testimony Monday in a Florida state malpractice trial brought by the founder of Patriot National Inc., telling the jury that the founder was willing to forgo establishing a floor on the value of so-called Series B warrants, which he says contributed to the company's demise.
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July 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has joined with Live Nation to resist a discovery request by a bipartisan group of state attorneys general seeking more information about a settlement the federal government reached with the company in the middle of an antitrust trial.
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July 27, 2026
A Michigan federal judge ruled Friday that Nationwide Insurance may proceed with its declaratory judgment lawsuit against the Oxford Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Center and the parents of a 5-year-old boy killed at the facility, noting that the insurance coverage dispute addresses issues separate from pending state civil and criminal cases involving the center.
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July 27, 2026
A Florida federal magistrate judge has recommended that a defamation claim against a Baker Botts LLP patent attorney be tossed, saying an inventor hasn't shown that the lawyer's comments to a reporter at issue in the case were defamatory.
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July 24, 2026
A federal judge Friday permanently barred Illinois from providing benefits such as in-state tuition and education scholarships to unauthorized immigrants, agreeing with the Trump administration's argument that the offerings run afoul of federal law by discriminating against U.S. citizens.
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July 24, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into forbearance negotiations, the latest real estate investment craze, and the ongoing challenges for Wall Street landlords in the Sun Belt.
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July 24, 2026
A Florida appeals court has concluded that while a man's sexual battery conviction should remain in place, the state's highest court should determine whether the Florida Constitution allows attorney-client conversations during a recess when barred by a trial judge.