6 Key Rulings From Outgoing Del. Justice Karen L. Valihura

By Jeff Montgomery

Soon-to-be-retiring Delaware Supreme Court Justice Karen L. Valihura carved her name deeply into First State corporate law jurisprudence over her dozen years on the bench, at a time of surging caseloads and intensifying political scrutiny of the business court where many of the country's largest corporate battles are waged.

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Practus Faces DQ Bid In Lacrosse Glove Patent Fight

By Rose Krebs

Sporting goods company STX LLC has asked a Delaware federal court to disqualify Practus LLP and one of its attorneys from representing competitor StringKing Inc. in a patent infringement case related to lacrosse gloves, arguing that the firm has a conflict of interest.

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Envestnet Trade Secrets Suit Cleared For Trial

By Jarek Rutz

A Delaware federal judge has cleared the way for a long-running fintech trade secrets case to proceed toward trial, overruling defense objections to spoliation findings and holding that a jury may infer that destroyed electronic evidence would have been unfavorable to Envestnet Inc. and its former subsidiary Yodlee Inc.

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1st Circ. Questions Feds' Mootness Claim In NIH Grant Suits

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit appeared to push back Tuesday on assertions by the government that new guidance for terminating medical research grants over supposed links to issues like DEI, gender identity and vaccines — along with a partial settlement last week — moot a pair of lawsuits challenging the directives.

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Chancery Asked To Block Parallel Earnout Suit With Tech Cos.

By Jarek Rutz

Audatex North America LLC and its parent company Solera Holdings LLC have requested that the Delaware Chancery Court block former RedCap Technologies LLC owners from reviving a stayed Superior Court lawsuit, arguing that the sellers expressly agreed to halt all court activity while their earnout dispute is arbitrated.

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Boscov's Tenant Sues Over Del. Mall Tax Reimbursements

By Isaac Monterose

A company that runs a Boscov's department store in a Newark, Delaware, shopping center has claimed in Delaware state court that the property's landlord forced the company to overpay tax reimbursements.

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3rd Circ. Backs DOL In Home Healthcare Wage Case

By Matthew Santoni

The Third Circuit upheld a $1 million judgment against home health company WiCare Home Care Agency LLC Tuesday, finding it was within the secretary of labor's power to write regulations keeping "third-party employers" subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act and not exempt under a provision for "companionship services."

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Top Personal Injury, Medical Malpractice Cases Of 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

A headline-grabbing $329 million wrongful death verdict against Tesla and a landmark $2.5 billion deal between DuPont and New Jersey over PFAS "forever chemicals" are among Law360's top personal injury and medical malpractice cases from 2025.

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Reviewing 2025's Artificial Intelligence Disputes Over IP

2025 brought the first major fair use rulings involving generative artificial intelligence, and in 2026 courts will weigh in on more discovery disputes, renewed motions to dismiss, class certification challenges and fair use defenses that could shape the course of future AI litigation, say attorneys at Debevoise.

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'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

By Lauren Berg

U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

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Trump Announces First Judicial Picks Of 2026

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday evening his first judicial nominees of 2026, a slate of four district court picks for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.

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Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

By Hailey Konnath

A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

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Judgeship Nomination Not Renewed Amid Fla. Charity Probe

By Courtney Bublé

The nomination of John Guard, senior counselor to the attorney general of Florida, for a Middle District of Florida federal judgeship, has not been renewed for the new session of Congress after he came under scrutiny in a criminal probe regarding a charity connected to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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Atty Apologizes For ChatGPT-Hallucinated Citations In Briefs

By Elliot Weld

A patent attorney has apologized to a Kansas federal judge for submitting a court filing with case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT, calling the experience "shameful and embarrassing" and saying he was in a poor mental state at the time due to his mother and aunt being hospitalized and dying shortly after.

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Texas Justices Erase ABA Approval In Bar Admissions

By Lynn LaRowe

The Texas Supreme Court on Tuesday issued an order ending a longstanding rule requiring graduation from a law school approved by the American Bar Association for admittance to the state bar, with the court giving itself the authority for accreditation.

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WH Says Judge Can't Pursue Immigration Contempt Probe

By Jared Foretek

The Trump administration has once again told the D.C. Circuit that U.S. District Judge James Boasberg lacks the constitutional authority to open a contempt probe into the government's removal of hundreds of Venezuelan migrants against his emergency order in March, calling the investigation an "unprecedented criminal fact-finding inquisition."

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Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

By Jeff Overley

The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

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Girardi Keese CFO Must Use His Own Atty For Chicago Appeal

By Lauraann Wood

Girardi Keese's former financial chief cannot have counsel appointed to help him challenge the Illinois sentence he is serving alongside his 10-year California sentence for helping Tom Girardi steal millions from clients because he isn't pursuing the appeal in good faith, an Illinois federal judge has ruled.

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National Judicial College Names Idaho Law Dean As President

By Jake Maher

The National Judicial College has named a new president and chief executive officer, selecting the dean of the University of Idaho College of Law to become the first woman to hold the position.

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