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June 16, 2026
New Jersey officials are declaring war on "junk fees" in the state with tighter regulation and enforcement, the latest state-level move to step up consumer protection efforts amid the Trump administration's pullback at agencies like the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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June 16, 2026
The steward of the "Peanuts" television and film music catalog announced Tuesday it will donate the proceeds of a licensing agreement with CBS after Stephen Colbert's band "illegally" played the "Linus and Lucy" tune as a gag in the final broadcast of "The Late Show."
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June 16, 2026
Canned fruits and vegetables giant Del Monte Foods Inc. stands to make a "windfall" through refunds of President Donald Trump's now-invalidated global tariff regime, according to a proposed class action filed in New York federal court seeking refunds for customers.
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June 16, 2026
Yum Brands said Tuesday it has agreed to sell Pizza Hut in two transactions valued at about $2.7 billion in total, with private equity firm LongRange Capital acquiring the business outside mainland China and Yum China Holdings buying the China operations.
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June 16, 2026
The former president of a company connected to the Josh Cellars wine brand says his attorney's messages to his wife are privileged because she participated in the communications as his "agent," a characterization the company appeared poised to dispute as the parties approach a $4 million trademark royalties trial.
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June 16, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday rejected Bacardi's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's renewal of a Cuban company's expired trademark registration for Havana Club rum, finding a retroactive approval to pay the registration fee to be valid.
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June 16, 2026
European Union lawmakers voted Tuesday to approve legislation implementing the bloc's safeguard-bolstered trade deal with the U.S. founded on a series of tariff cuts, moving one step closer to implementation that is expected before the end of the month.
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June 16, 2026
The operator of a group of upscale restaurants, including Abe & Louie's in Boston, violated a federal law by leaving 10 digits of customer credit card numbers visible on receipts, a proposed class action filed in Massachusetts state court alleges.
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June 15, 2026
A kratom drink maker is asking the Tenth Circuit to block Utah's law reining in psychoactive products derived from kratom leaf, arguing that the statute's ban on mixing kratom with any "nonkratom substance" is preempted by federal law.
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June 15, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Monday vacated an order certifying a class of Anheuser-Busch employees in a lawsuit alleging the brewing giant failed to pay the workers for pre- and post-shift work, finding that the class is currently too broad to justify certification.
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June 15, 2026
A Kentucky tobacco farm must attend a U.S. Department of Labor hearing in September on whether it violated farmworker visa regulations, a federal judge ruled, tossing the farm's request for an injunction blocking the hearing.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. parent company for Dannon yogurt hit rival Chobani with a false advertising and unfair competition lawsuit in New York federal court Monday, claiming Chobani is violating U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations to make it seem like its yogurt has more grams of protein per serving.
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June 15, 2026
A former Detroit Club contractor told a federal jury Monday that the club's owner repeatedly made racist comments about job candidates, employees and potential customers, including calling one spa manager candidate "too Black" and referring to two Black hostesses with a racial slur involving the N-word.
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June 15, 2026
Haitian meatpacking workers who say they were lured to Colorado with false promises and subjected to race-based discrimination can proceed with their proposed class action, a federal judge recommended Friday, also denying a bid to strike class allegations.
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June 15, 2026
An Illinois appellate panel has thrown out a $60 million jury verdict awarded to a mother claiming Mead Johnson's infant formula caused her premature baby to develop a fatal gut disease, saying the trial court erred in finding the company owed a duty to warn the mother and not just the infant's doctors, and allowing prejudicial evidence about Mead Johnson's profits.
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June 15, 2026
Retailers Home Depot and Macy's, and restaurant chains Flower Child and Shake Shack were among several large companies sued in Texas federal court over accusations that they infringed a set of patents covering card-reading electronics components.
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June 15, 2026
An Ohio federal judge on Monday ordered a temporary pause on a new state law that reclassified hemp products as marijuana after finding that the hemp interests challenging the policy were likely to succeed on their claim the law was unconstitutional.
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June 15, 2026
Canadian wine company Andrew Peller Ltd. on Monday announced plans to go private after being acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. in a deal built by three law firms and boasts an enterprise value of CA$579 million ($414.9 million).
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June 15, 2026
Corteva Inc. has asked a North Carolina federal court to deny the Federal Trade Commission's request to set a trial date in its case against it and Syngenta Corp. or hold its decision until after ruling on its request for summary judgment.
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June 15, 2026
A former pizza chain worker accused her employer of requiring hourly employees to keep working after clocking out, denying them meal and rest breaks and failing to pay overtime wages, according to a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles state court.
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June 15, 2026
A company that manages the Medium Rare restaurant chain has sued one of its own co-managers in the Delaware Chancery Court, accusing him of secretly diverting vendor rebate payments to himself, misrepresenting the company's ownership structure and steering purchasing decisions to enrich himself at the business's expense.
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June 15, 2026
Anheuser-Busch violated federal labor law by trying to make a fired worker arbitrate his race bias claim in conflict with his collective bargaining agreement, the National Labor Relations Board said in a reversal following an Eleventh Circuit remand.
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June 15, 2026
A district court judge has awarded Indigenous corporations $1.8 million in attorney fees in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, saying Alaska waited too long to argue a sovereign immunity defense in the case that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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June 12, 2026
Amid warnings of a chilling effect on plaintiffs counsel, a Ninth Circuit panel Friday scrutinized six-figure sanctions against attorneys whose false advertising suit targeting Walmart Inc. collapsed because of crucial fine print in an avocado oil receipt.
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June 12, 2026
An Oklahoma district judge said Oklahoma officials must face challenges that look to block the state's wildlife conservation director from requiring tribal citizens to obtain state-issued fishing and hunting licenses for use on reservation lands, saying the Indigenous nations presented "colorable claims" on their treaty rights and inherent authority.