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August 19, 2026
Cracker Barrel must face a proposed class action alleging that a surcharge on the health plans of workers who used tobacco violated federal benefits law, after a Tennessee federal judge on Wednesday found that an ex-worker sufficiently backed up allegations that a wellness program implementing the fee didn't meet all federal requirements.
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August 19, 2026
A public health nonprofit on Wednesday urged a D.C. federal court to order the federal government to withdraw dietary guidelines it issued earlier this year, arguing that reviewers who advised on the guidelines had significant conflicts of interest and were selected without public oversight.
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August 19, 2026
A dispute between Papa John's International and a franchisee it accused of breaking his franchise agreement must be paused until an arbitrator decides whether the claims belong in arbitration, a Kentucky federal judge has ruled, delivering a blow to the pizza company trying to keep its claims in court.
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August 19, 2026
Plastics maker Trinseo on Wednesday closed a trial in Texas bankruptcy court on its bid to trim about $2 billion in debt in Chapter 11, contesting an objecting creditor's claims that its prebankruptcy refinancings set it up for failure and defending a reorganization plan it said would save jobs and give new life to its business.
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August 19, 2026
Canada's antitrust enforcer said Wednesday it will seek to block Nortera Foods' planned acquisition of the Green Giant and Le Sieur brands in the country from B&G Foods over concerns that the deal could lead to higher prices.
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August 19, 2026
Chipotle Mexican Grill has permanently beaten an investor suit tied to social media-fueled complaints about its portion sizes, with a California federal judge finding that the suit failed to plausibly plead its securities fraud theories.
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August 19, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday upheld the delay of a U.S. Food and Drug Administration rule requiring the addition of graphic warning labels to cigarette packages, saying tobacco companies that challenged the rule showed the agency likely overstepped its narrow authority to adjust existing warnings by creating two new ones.
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August 19, 2026
A major U.S. distributor of horticultural and agricultural supplies, BFG Supply Co. LLC, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware, reporting between $100 million and $500 million in both assets and liabilities and seeking to sell all of its assets.
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August 18, 2026
Uber Eats will again fork out millions of dollars to settle allegations from Seattle officials that the food delivery giant failed to pay its couriers what they're owed under municipal app-based worker laws, the Seattle Office of Labor Standards announced Tuesday.
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August 18, 2026
A Washington federal judge Tuesday disposed of a U.S. Army nurse's lawsuit claiming supplement maker Thesis Nootropics sold products tainted with amphetamines, concluding that a key expert destroyed his credibility by submitting a report containing bot-generated false citations — much like errors for which the plaintiffs' counsel was recently sanctioned.
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August 18, 2026
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday told an administrative law judge that federal restrictions should be loosened on marijuana and that opponents of cannabis reform brought a meritless challenge to health regulators' assessment of the drug's medical use.
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August 18, 2026
The Illinois federal judge handling multidistrict litigation claiming Mead Johnson or Abbott Laboratories infant formula led to a severe gut illness in premature babies deemed it "disappointing" that testimony in an ongoing bellwether trial largely consists of video depositions, warning she won't conduct another unless most witnesses will take the stand in Chicago.
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August 17, 2026
Addressing harm caused by prescription opioid abuse in Washington would cost nearly $44.4 billion, an expert testified Monday during a bench trial in the state's case accusing Albertsons and its Safeway subsidiary of exacerbating Washington's overdose crisis by failing to curb the flow of controlled substances.
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August 17, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior has agreed to pay $20,000 to the steward of the "Peanuts" television and film music catalog to put to rest claims that the government used music from "A Charlie Brown Christmas" on its social media pages without permission, according to an announcement made Monday.
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August 17, 2026
Mead Johnson knew its infant formula posed an increased risk of a devastating gut disease to premature babies but "muddied the waters" instead of sounding a clear warning, leaving doctors without crucial information while caring for an infant who ultimately died from the illness, his mother's attorney told an Illinois federal jury Monday.
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August 17, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday threw out class certification of California and New York consumers accusing the company behind the Happy Egg brand of deceptively labeling egg cartons with promises that its hens are "pasture raised on over 8 acres."
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August 17, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday ruled the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had no duty to complete environmental reviews before it converted dozens of water service contracts for the Central Valley Project in California in a process intended to help fund storage improvements.
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August 17, 2026
A Virginia federal judge has refused to block a state law placing new potency caps on THC products, ruling that the hemp businesses opposing the law are unlikely to succeed with claims that the law constitutes an unconstitutional taking.
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August 17, 2026
A former warehouse worker from a staffing agency has sued Misfits Market and the agency in Maryland federal court, alleging the companies continued paying workers from the agency $15 per hour after Howard County raised its minimum wage to $16 last year, shortchanging at least 70 workers.
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August 17, 2026
A Kentucky federal court gave its final approval for a $5 million settlement in a case over Papa John's past use of "no-poach" provisions in its franchise agreements, sweeping aside previous concerns as well as objections raised by a handful of workers.
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August 17, 2026
Consumer packaged health foods company Simply Good Foods has been hit with a class action in New York federal court over its $280 million acquisition of a plant-based protein shake company, whose integration was an "abject failure," resulting in a $200 million impairment on the acquired company's assets and a stock price drop.
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August 17, 2026
Ice cream company Rebel Creamery has filed for Chapter 11 protection in Utah bankruptcy court with about $24 million in debt, one month after losing a trademark lawsuit brought by rival Van Leeuwen.
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August 14, 2026
Smithfield Foods challenged a Georgia magistrate judge's report recommending the meat processor face the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's suit claiming it fired a senior sales employee due to her age, arguing Thursday the report cannot try to dictate how the company should've saved costs amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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August 14, 2026
Hemp manufacturers and sellers have asked the Sixth Circuit to uphold a lower court's ruling that paused the enforcement of an Ohio law that reclassified their products as marijuana.
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August 14, 2026
Corteva has agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle the Arkansas attorney general's antitrust suit accusing the pesticide maker of using anticompetitive rebates that amount to exclusive agreements to suppress generics competition, according to a preliminary approval motion filed in federal court on Thursday.