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October 22, 2026
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. has offered new details on the involvement of the White House and senior Justice Department officials in its controversial midtrial settlement Democrats have cast as corrupt, confirming that Associate Attorney General Stanley E. Woodward Jr.'s office was also involved.
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October 22, 2026
Officials in Cook County, Illinois, and Connecticut are urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold laws banning semiautomatic AR-15-style rifles, arguing that their laws are consistent with historical analogs restricting "unusually dangerous" weapons.
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October 22, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge pressed the Trump administration Thursday on its argument that Congress intentionally left it with the task of defining who is considered too medically frail to comply with Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in January.
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October 22, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday said it won't send back to Virginia federal court a trio of suits accusing fleet vehicle telematics company Xirgo Technologies of infringing more than a dozen patents, keeping the cases in Illinois federal court.
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October 21, 2026
Amazon has told a Chicago federal judge that it found Chinese-language videos and social media posts in which a China-based operator describes using federal lawsuits to release money from frozen seller accounts, offering a possible explanation for court-ordered transfers the e-commerce giant has challenged in more than a dozen trademark cases.
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October 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge seemed hesitant Wednesday to halt a state law barring drugmakers from trying to impose restrictions on pharmacies under contract with a federal drug pricing discount program, saying the state seems to be maximizing public health in an area the statute doesn't address.
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October 21, 2026
Renewable energy backers asked an Oregon federal judge to enforce an injunction that blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from suspending reviews of proposed wind energy projects, arguing it has continued to miss deadlines and maintain an unlawful freeze on project reviews.
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October 21, 2026
Playground equipment makers PlayPower and BCI Burke have agreed to hold off on consummating their merger pending a Federal Trade Commission antitrust trial in California federal court eyed for "no later than March 15, 2027."
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October 21, 2026
Target is accused of "healthwashing" its Up & Up brand electrolyte drink powder supplement mix by labeling it as though it's sugar-free, despite the presence of allulose, an ingredient the Seventh Circuit recently confirmed is a sugar, according to a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Illinois federal court.
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October 21, 2026
Financial services firm Marex Capital Markets and two of its executives have sued a British software developer in Illinois federal court, alleging the developer sabotaged a potential investment by CME Group's venture capital arm in Marex's options-trading platform by secretly accusing them of stealing trade secrets, committing fraud and violating exchange rules.
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October 21, 2026
The mayor of Chicago released a $17.6 billion budget plan Wednesday that includes the return of a tax on corporations for every employee at large firms, as well as increasing tax rates on sports betting and leased property.
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October 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge dismissed a skin care corporate group's $8.3 million tax refund suit, finding she lacked jurisdiction to review its amended returns claiming business deductions because those filings did not use the company's new name after a 2018 merger.
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October 21, 2026
World Wrestling Entertainment was sued in Illinois state court by a Cook County sheriff's officer who says he was subjected to an unwanted sexualized lap dance by wrestling star Kenneth Crawford during the broadcast of Monday Night Raw, despite never agreeing to be made a participant in the show.
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October 21, 2026
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz guided healthcare company Abbott in a plan to spin off its nutrition business into an independent, publicly traded company anchored by brands such as adult supplement Ensure and infant formula Similac.
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October 20, 2026
A Washington federal judge considering the Trump administration's bid to dismiss a multistate challenge to an executive order declaring a national energy emergency said Tuesday that the case highlights a broader dilemma: how courts should handle litigation based on "a single executive directive that sets in motion hundreds of agency decisions."
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October 20, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Tuesday joined a host of other appellate courts in determining healthcare providers were not "acting under" the federal government when they created patient web portals, finding actions alleging hospitals improperly shared patient information belonged in state court.
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October 20, 2026
An Illinois laboratory executive has been charged with orchestrating a $66 million COVID-19 testing fraud scheme, allegedly fabricating negative results and billing a federal program for approximately 380,000 tests that were never performed.
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October 20, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has denied class certification in a lawsuit accusing the Vrdolyak Law Group of secretly recording employees' and clients' phone calls, finding that inadmissible hearsay and limited recordings couldn't establish a firmwide practice, leaving the plaintiffs to prove individually whether their conversations were recorded.
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October 20, 2026
Albertsons Cos. Inc.'s general counsel testified Tuesday that The Kroger Co. passed on proposed store divestitures that could have helped save their $24.6 billion merger, while Kroger's lawyers pointed to information shared with Albertsons and challenged its complaints about the process.
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October 19, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Monday issued a sweeping summary judgment order in antitrust litigation over price-fixing allegations against turkey producers and a data collection company, ruling that direct-action plaintiffs can take some claims against Tyson and another company to trial while granting summary judgment to other defendants.
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October 19, 2026
A trading firm is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to finally resolve whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement, as it fights a Seventh Circuit opinion keeping a putative securities class action in court.
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October 19, 2026
An Illinois federal judge handling a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's border patrol deployment during "Operation Midway Blitz" said Monday she won't let the state pursue records the government produced in California arrest-tactic litigation until she issues her impending dismissal ruling.
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October 19, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday dismissed a proposed class action against BDO USA alleging the accounting and tax advisory firm's $1.3 billion deal to create an employee stock ownership plan violated federal benefits law, holding the worker who sued couldn't show that the transaction injured him.
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October 19, 2026
Mylan can use deposition testimony from one current and one former executive in next year's price-fixing trial, a Connecticut federal judge ruled Friday, but state attorneys general can bring up the company "pulling the strings" in the witnesses' decision to testify after originally invoking the Fifth Amendment.
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October 19, 2026
Abbott Laboratories has convinced a Michigan federal judge that a former employee's sex discrimination and retaliation lawsuit belongs in Illinois.