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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down Black Georgia voters' invitation to review the dismissal of their suit claiming that elections for the state's public utilities board are racially gerrymandered, declining Monday to consider their argument that the Eleventh Circuit misapplied high court precedent.
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May 29, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including insights into the tireless lives of data center attorneys, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's proposal to ease capital formation in public markets, and the two-year low in U.S. law firm leasing.
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May 29, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit said Friday it would not grant Citadel Securities' request to block a new options exchange from going live, ruling the IEX exchange does not unfairly discriminate against high-frequency traders that profit off lags in the marketplace.
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May 29, 2026
A trial court rightly awarded $1.9 million in liquidated damages to the Atlanta-based company used by IHG Hotels & Resorts to franchise its Holiday Inn Express brand, the Georgia Court of Appeals said Friday, affirming the lower court's ruling in a licensing dispute over a would-be franchise location.
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May 29, 2026
Federal lawsuits that target dozens or even hundreds of online sellers at once kept climbing in 2025 and spread beyond their Chicago stronghold, even as new data shows more friction for brand owners' mass anti-counterfeiting strategy.
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May 29, 2026
A Georgia attorney has launched at least the second attempt to disqualify a federal judge from presiding over a case he is handling because the judge previously referred him to the state bar, alleging ethics violations.
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May 29, 2026
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP has brought on the general counsel of commercial real estate firm Hatteras Sky in its Atlanta office, strengthening its real estate practice with an attorney who has in-house experience focused mostly on deals involving hospitality and multifamily development.
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May 29, 2026
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has expanded its product liability team in Atlanta with the addition of two attorneys, one from Greenberg Traurig LLP and the other from Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP.
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May 29, 2026
CNN America and a former worker who claimed she was unlawfully denied a proper place to pump breast milk on the job told a D.C. federal court they had agreed on the broad strokes of a deal to resolve her suit.
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May 28, 2026
Legal advocates said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling unleashed a wave of forum-shopping by plaintiffs lawyers using states' business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and that the justices should take up the case again to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.
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May 28, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit ruled on Thursday that a discrimination verdict against a Miami car dealership was slashed too far when a judge chose between federal and state damages caps, saying the caps should be added together.
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May 28, 2026
A proposed class action accusing Delta Air Lines Inc. of shorting married pensioners on retirement benefits by miscalculating lump-sum payouts will move forward after the airline and former workers failed to settle during mediation earlier this month.
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May 28, 2026
A federal judge in Atlanta sentenced a man who defrauded would-be investors and college football fans out of more than $940,000 to four years in prison on Thursday, saying he "took advantage of God and Georgia football" to carry out the schemes.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said the Eleventh Circuit should reinstate a jury win for a female former host of a Georgia restaurant who claimed that managers failed to stop male coworkers' lewd behavior toward her, faulting the trial court for minimizing the men's conduct.
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May 28, 2026
Paul Hastings LLP has brought on a King & Spalding LLP partner in its Atlanta office, strengthening its global energy and infrastructure practice with an attorney who has experience guiding clients in commercial and regulatory matters in the energy industry.
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May 28, 2026
Federal rail regulators paused their review of Union Pacific's proposed $85 billion purchase of Norfolk Southern, concluding Thursday that the railways need to further supplement their merger notification after going back to the drawing board earlier this year.
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May 27, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to a $17.9 million generic drug price-fixing settlement between pharmaceutical companies Bausch Health US LLC, Bausch Health Americas Inc., and Lannett Co. Inc. and 48 states, territories, and governments, finding the terms reasonable despite an objection.
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May 27, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit Wednesday granted the U.S. Department of Labor permission to argue as amicus in support of a seafood company in a worker-side appeal seeking to revive allegations of mismanagement of an employee stock ownership plan, which the full appellate court has agreed to consider in September.
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May 27, 2026
A Georgia appeals panel has ordered a new trial for a woman who was injured when her stopped vehicle was struck by a speeding Ford F-150 truck on a Georgia highway, finding that the jury was improperly instructed on the "sudden emergency" doctrine.
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May 27, 2026
A Spanish film production company has urged the Eleventh Circuit to uphold a Florida federal judge's refusal to award YouTube attorney fees after the video platform prevailed in a dispute over pirated movies, arguing that the unsuccessful copyright claims raised a novel legal issue and were brought in good faith.
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May 27, 2026
A Georgia attorney urged a federal judge to keep her proposed class action alive, arguing that the State Bar of Georgia can't claim immunity from her suit because it has allegedly demonstrated a pattern of racial discrimination against her and others in attorney discipline cases.
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May 27, 2026
Toyota has settled a lawsuit over the fatal carbon monoxide poisoning of a man who accidentally left his 2017 Tacoma running in his attached garage, just before trial was set to start on his wife's claims that buyers weren't warned about risks associated with the truck's keyless ignition system.
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May 26, 2026
A company and its insurer have accused China Construction Bank Corp. of issuing fraudulent letters of credit valued at nearly $10 million, claiming in Illinois federal court that the country's largest bank has refused to honor reinsurance agreements the parties signed.
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May 26, 2026
A group of 44 attorneys general for states including California, New York, New Jersey and Michigan have created a coalition opposing the House version of the Kids Internet and Digital Safety Act, H.R. 7757, and signed a letter to congressional leaders pointing out the shortcomings of the bill.
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May 26, 2026
A Georgia appeals court revived a medical malpractice suit accusing a chiropractor of causing an infection to spread by treating a patient based on an X-ray in which her spine was partially hidden, finding that an expert affidavit she filed should have kept the case in court.