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July 21, 2026
A Delaware Chancery Court judge said Tuesday he is still weighing whether to temporarily block a former Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. executive from joining Fortrea Holdings Inc., signaling that the dispute turns on difficult questions about the scope of restrictive covenants while cautioning the parties not to assume how he will rule.
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July 21, 2026
The Federal Circuit's holding that a Pfizer unit's cancer treatment patents are invalid highlights the risk of including dosages in patents without sufficient proof that those dosages work, attorneys say.
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July 21, 2026
Forty-one Indigenous groups, nations and the American Gaming Association are backing Iowa regulators in a challenge to stop the state from taking enforcement action against Kalshi's sports-events contracts, arguing that the prediction market "masks its wagers as derivatives contracts governed by the Commodity Exchange Act and Commodity Futures Trading Commission."
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July 21, 2026
Massachusetts state officials Tuesday tossed out a legal objection to the integrity of signatures gathered in favor of putting a petition to repeal retail marijuana legalization on the ballot, effectively ensuring that the issue will appear before voters this fall.
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July 21, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a retroactive cap on work authorization for temporary protected status recipients and asylum-seekers that would have forced thousands of immigrant workers out of their jobs starting on Wednesday.
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July 20, 2026
Moderna has filed a countersuit in Delaware federal court against a BioNTech subsidiary's claims that Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine infringed several patents, saying the rival biotech company was trying to "take credit" for Moderna's own innovations in mRNA vaccines.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal judge ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to designate areas of the country as either meeting, or not, national regulations for soot and other particulate matter by February, handing a win to 10 states and nonprofit groups that sued the agency for failing to do so.
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July 20, 2026
A Florida-based businessman and his company have partially settled claims from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Massachusetts federal court accusing them of fraudulently raising over $20 million with misrepresentations that investors would be repaid with funds based on the output of crypto mining assets.
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July 20, 2026
A Massachusetts judge on Monday appeared unlikely to let Exxon Mobil revive equal protection claims in a public records lawsuit against state environmental regulators, saying counsel for the company was essentially asking him to second-guess a colleague who tossed the allegations in March.
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July 20, 2026
Massachusetts' intermediate-level appeals court Monday determined that a housing court was wrong to offset attorney fees awarded to a landlord against fees granted to the tenant on the other side of a housing dispute, finding the awards should be entered as separate judgments to preserve the lawyers' rights.
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July 20, 2026
Attorneys general in 20 states have raised alarms over the U.S. Department of Justice's "unprecedented effort" to halt a disciplinary case in D.C. against former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Clark, warning the Trump administration is trying to "upend a centuries-old system of attorney discipline" and put federal government lawyers beyond the reach of local disciplinary authorities.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal court issued a temporary restraining order on Monday, preventing Paramount Skydance from moving ahead with its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as state enforcers challenge the deal.
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July 17, 2026
Consumers accusing American Airlines and JetBlue of entering into a pact to allegedly increase fares and reduce flight choices have asked a New York federal judge to certify their narrowed class definition.
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July 17, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney reactions to the structural issues at the old Pfizer building in New York, a Big Law partner's view of manufactured housing in light of the new federal housing law, and new tactics in data center development as certain states clamp down.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge said Friday the Trump administration cannot rely on a shift in policy to retroactively change the terms of already awarded grants in order to justify canceling them.
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July 17, 2026
Massachusetts' highest court on Friday said a gun and drugs found in a car after police repeatedly searched and pressured the driver for the key must be thrown out as evidence in a case that one of the justices, in a concurrence, says highlights the value of police-worn body cameras.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge appeared open Friday to granting a group of states' bid for a temporary restraining order blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, saying it appears the tie-up's anticipated market share presumptively violates the Clayton Act under U.S. Supreme Court precedent.
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July 17, 2026
Nearly 20 states have told an Oregon federal judge they want in on a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's decision to block land-based wind projects in the U.S. from moving forward.
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July 17, 2026
A Massachusetts-based pharmaceutical company has agreed to pay $4.7 million to settle allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to physicians to induce them to buy a drug that treats eye inflammation, the U.S. Department of Justice said Friday.
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July 17, 2026
The American Academy of Pediatrics and other public health organizations on Friday defended before the First Circuit a Massachusetts judge's decision to block Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine policy committee appointments, countering claims that the judge overreached.
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July 17, 2026
As a lifelong "off and on" viewer of "Jeopardy!," regular trivia-goer and insatiable consumer of knowledge, Foley & Lardner LLP associate Lea James told Law360 she had the chance last month to live out a once-in-a-lifetime experience on the iconic game show.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general asked a New York federal judge Thursday for a peek into the negotiations behind the Justice Department's controversial midtrial settlement with Live Nation, voicing concerns the deal isn't in the public interest and saying they need details as they seek a breakup.
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July 17, 2026
The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.
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July 17, 2026
A fishing boat captain who appeared on the Massachusetts-based reality show "Wicked Tuna" is asking a court to block his parents from selling the boat he used on the show, saying they're trying to cut him out of his interest in that vessel, three others and a Key West, Florida, home they've already sold, according to a lawsuit filed in state court Thursday.
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July 17, 2026
Federal enforcers reached a number of merger settlements in the first half of 2026, while state attorneys general stepped up their independent enforcement efforts, taking on Nexstar's planned purchase of rival broadcaster Tegna and Paramount's deal for Warner Bros. Discovery.