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May 05, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday refused to reduce the sentences of two men who lied to manufacturers about selling medical equipment to American troops in Afghanistan to obtain the goods at discounted prices and resell them within the United States.
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May 05, 2026
Print-on-demand retailer Vintage Brand urged a Georgia federal judge to deny a host of universities an early win in their trademark infringement suit against the company over its sports merchandise, arguing that their motion rests on the disputed premise that their imagery is covered by the Lanham Act.
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May 05, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals considered whether a new trial is warranted in a couple's case alleging that a doctor's negligence led to the death of their infant son nine days after birth, questioning attorneys Tuesday on the appropriate standard for what is known as "habit" testimony.
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May 05, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit refused to reopen a teacher's lawsuit claiming a Georgia school district fired her rather than let her work remotely during the pandemic because of a previous cancer diagnosis, ruling she waited too long to lodge a presuit charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
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May 04, 2026
OkCaller.com is asking the Eleventh Circuit to revive its lawsuit accusing Google of monopolizing the market for search engine services, arguing that the lower court was wrong to adopt Google's "straw man" and treat the reverse phone number lookup website's argument as "incoherent."
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May 04, 2026
Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice urged a Georgia federal jury Monday to reject the race bias allegations of a former longtime FBI agent, telling it that in the coming days, it would never see "any smoking gun or direct evidence" that he was fired because he is Black.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Tax Court slashed two partnerships' charitable tax deductions worth a combined $30 million for a pair of conservation easement donations, ruling Monday that the easements' outsize valuation was an attempt to make "too many fast nickels."
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May 04, 2026
Investment fund managers behind a conservation easement donation whose charitable tax deduction was embroiled in litigation asked a Georgia federal court to toss a racketeering suit against them by a pair of investors, arguing the fraud claims do not match the allegations.
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May 04, 2026
The Kroger Co. told a Georgia federal court Monday that it has settled a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission suit claiming the grocery chain ignored an employee's requests to sit on a chair at work to accommodate nerve damage caused by cancer treatments.
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May 04, 2026
A Georgia attorney on Monday asked a federal judge to allow discovery related to her bid to have Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC disqualified from defending ADT LLC against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit.
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May 04, 2026
The owners and managers of a Georgia apartment complex have agreed to a $750,000 deal that federal prosecutors say is the second-largest settlement the U.S. Department of Justice has ever scored in an individual housing discrimination case.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a pro se lawsuit brought by a man incarcerated in Florida against a nurse he accused of denying him medical care, leaving intact lower court rulings that dismissed his action as "malicious" and were later affirmed on separate grounds.
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May 04, 2026
An aviation staffing company paid its avionics technicians the same hourly rate for all hours worked, including overtime, and disguised the scheme using fake per diem payments, a proposed collective and class action filed in Georgia federal court alleges.
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May 01, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a breakdown of federal and state efforts to expand affordable housing and how real estate attorneys are responding.
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May 01, 2026
A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.
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May 01, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday said a trial court should have ruled that arbitration was the right venue for a case over millions in allegedly unpaid bills for construction work a subcontractor performed on a Georgia electric vehicle battery facility.
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May 01, 2026
A federal judge in Boston heard elite universities argue Friday that the "early decision" admissions process is not a scheme to raise tuition but an option for students who want a better shot at admission to their first-choice school.
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May 01, 2026
A former Netflix engineer should have to arbitrate her lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking medical leave to address her mental health conditions, the streaming giant told a Georgia federal court, arguing her claims fall squarely in the purview of an arbitration agreement she signed.
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May 01, 2026
A Georgia-based medical technology firm that was hit with a $58 million verdict last month over claims that it conspired to have a former consultant arrested has asked a Fulton County judge for a new trial, arguing the court allowed a jury charge that was "erroneous, irrelevant, [and] not tailored to the evidence."
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May 01, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that lieutenants who oversee guards at a Florida power plant are not union-ineligible supervisors, backing the board's finding that they don't use judgment when writing up lower-level workers.
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May 01, 2026
For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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May 01, 2026
Rapper 50 Cent has been hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court by a former executive at his companies, claiming that he threatened and harassed her after she refused to file a police report accusing a bodyguard of theft.
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May 01, 2026
Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.
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May 01, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose more details about the timeline leading up to its January raid seizing ballots from Fulton County as he continues to weigh whether to force the government to return the hundreds of boxes of election materials.
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April 30, 2026
A Florida federal judge Wednesday denied the Federal Trade Commission's request for sanctions against two siblings accused of destroying evidence in a lawsuit claiming they sold $91 million of fake Affordable Care Act plans, saying it's "too much of a leap" to find they violated a temporary restraining order.