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July 10, 2026
The Seventh Circuit placed limits on trademark plaintiffs in cases against foreign online sellers accused of counterfeiting, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued precedential decisions with fresh guidance on what marks can get on — or stay on — the federal trademark register. Here is Law360's list of the biggest trademark rulings so far this year.
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July 10, 2026
The University of Chicago Law School will prohibit the use of electronic devices such as laptops, tablets and phones in all first-year law school sections and courses as part of new policies dictating the use of artificial intelligence at the school.
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July 09, 2026
The Seventh Circuit on Thursday upheld an Illinois state law banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, reversing a lower court that deemed it unconstitutional and holding that restrictions on highly lethal, military-style weapons are "consistent with the principles that underpin our nation's tradition of firearm regulation."
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July 09, 2026
Clashes over the Trump administration's bid to void California's vehicle emissions standards, federal restrictions on commercial drivers' licenses for foreign truckers and Boeing 737 Max securities litigation involving class certification standards are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in the latter half of 2026.
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July 09, 2026
Chicago's U.S. attorney stood silent for nearly 30 minutes Thursday as an Illinois magistrate judge sternly criticized him for publicly discussing a gang-related kidnapping case before it was officially unsealed, though she stopped short of finding his conduct constituted a deliberate violation of court orders.
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July 09, 2026
The IRS asked the Seventh Circuit to reconsider its decision to remand a dispute over $300 million in Hyatt Hotels' loyalty rewards program fund to the U.S. Tax Court for it to determine whether the money can be excluded from taxable income under what's known as the claim of right doctrine.
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July 09, 2026
The full Seventh Circuit will hear Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's initial appeal of a lower court's injunction blocking his state court lawsuit targeting medical groups' policies on youth gender-affirming care, drawing a dissent Wednesday from four judges who say the unusual move bypasses standard appellate procedure.
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July 09, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's invalidation of a pair of cancer drug patents that a jury found AstraZeneca infringed, turning back a Pfizer unit's attempt to revive a $107.5 million verdict.
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July 09, 2026
A dozen states have objected to Freedom Forever's settlement with one of its key financing partners, telling a Delaware judge they were concerned about the deal's impacts on customer contracts with the bankrupt solar panel installer.
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July 09, 2026
A former Wisconsin state judge convicted of obstructing immigration authorities trying to arrest a defendant after he appeared in her courtroom lodged an appeal before the Seventh Circuit on Thursday, after avoiding a prison sentence but being fined $5,000.
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July 08, 2026
Baxter International permanently defeated a proposed class action claiming the relatively low returns of the medical products company's employee retirement plan were evidence of mismanagement, after an Illinois federal judge ruled Tuesday the allegations only show the stable value fund in the plan "may not have been best in class — nothing more."
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July 08, 2026
Navistar's economic damages expert testified in Michigan federal court Wednesday that it was a Warren truck buyer's bad business decisions that led to the company losing millions, not the late delivery of 1,100 tractor-trailer vehicles that Navistar was supposed to deliver in June 2022.
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July 08, 2026
Kraft, Kellogg, Nestle and General Mills want an Illinois federal judge to schedule a status conference "imminently" in their long-running antitrust suit to ask Cal-Maine Foods Inc. about a deal it recently reached with the government over claims it inflated the price of eggs and how it affects their $53 million jury verdict.
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July 08, 2026
An Illinois federal judge handling consolidated turkey price-fixing litigation has teed up two trials against Butterball and two other major producers as he works through a pile of summary judgment challenges from defendants looking to avoid jury trials.
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July 08, 2026
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Chicago has agreed that a group of anti-ICE protesters whose criminal case was dismissed when prosecutorial misconduct before the grand jury that indicted them came to light is entitled to recover attorney fees, but argued Tuesday that their bid to conduct discovery into any bad faith by the government amounted to a "fishing expedition."
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July 08, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and state enforcers reached a deal Wednesday to settle an antitrust case accusing John Deere of restricting equipment repairs, after the company agreed to give farmers and independent technicians the resources it provides to authorized dealers.
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July 08, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Wednesday signed off on bio-based chemical technology company Viridis Chemical LLC's Chapter 11 liquidation plan, more than a month after the debtor sold most of its assets.
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July 08, 2026
A coalition of 46 states announced Wednesday that Cash App parent company Block Inc. will pay $45 million in a multistate settlement to resolve claims it misled users on the safety of its payment app and failed to protect them from fraud.
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July 08, 2026
McDonald's has struck a deal with two workers to end their proposed class action claiming the fast food giant allowed sexual harassment to go unchecked in its restaurants, prompting an Illinois federal judge to formally shutter the case.
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July 07, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing health information technology services provider Veradigm LLC of illegally divulging patient portal visitors' protected health information to Google, finding that the plaintiffs had plausibly alleged that the company's conduct violated federal and state wiretap laws.
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July 07, 2026
Mead Johnson is set to go to trial this summer in the first case to make it to a jury in multidistrict litigation claiming baby formula caused a serious gut illness in premature infants, while the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago is facing a possible sanctions hearing over prosecutorial misconduct allegations in two Illinois cases on attorneys' radar for the rest of the year.
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July 07, 2026
A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia took the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development back to court on Tuesday over the Trump administration's renewed effort to restrict funding for programs that provide permanent housing and support services to homeless people.
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July 07, 2026
An Illinois federal judge gave her early approval Tuesday to more than $37 million in settlements two classes struck with a company defending against accusations that it participated in an illegal price-fixing scheme with other major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers.
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July 07, 2026
An internal leadership battle within a professional tennis player advocacy group escalated Monday, when the Professional Tennis Players Association claimed in Illinois federal court that its ex-general counsel staged a "coup" by recruiting a rogue executive committee to seize control of the organization and its antitrust suit against tennis's governing bodies.
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July 07, 2026
Federal border agents did not need a warrant or probable cause before manually searching a fraudster's cellphone for evidence upon his return flight to the United States, the Seventh Circuit said Monday, keeping the evidence a part of his case.