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September 02, 2026
Vertiv Holdings Co. said Wednesday that it has agreed to acquire UtilityInnovation Group, a provider of microgrid controls and behind-the-meter power systems for data centers, for about $1.45 billion in cash at closing plus up to $1.15 billion in additional consideration tied to earnings targets.
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September 01, 2026
Housing loan servicer Selene Finance LP says a North Carolina federal court should end a proposed class action alleging the company sent false and deceptive notices about defaults, arguing the suit fails to describe any remediable harm.
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September 01, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has been asked to rule that the geofence warrant at the heart of a major U.S. Supreme Court decision clarifying standards for location-data searches did in fact authorize an unconstitutional search in light of the high court's ruling.
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September 01, 2026
Honeywell Aerospace Inc. will pay $2 million to settle a False Claims Act suit alleging it failed to provide basic cybersecurity protections for government data under defense contracts it won for quantum-computing services, the U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday.
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September 01, 2026
Members of an owners association for a North Carolina resort community claim the complex's owner has diverted at least $25,000 from the governing body in a scheme that inflated budgets for landscaping and trash pickup to hide the self-dealing.
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September 01, 2026
The North Carolina State Bar's decision to punish a former judge for actions he took while on the bench is not an attack on judicial independence, the bar argued in urging the state's top court not to take up an appeal challenging an order of discipline against him.
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September 01, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has joined a call for the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Fourth Circuit order blocking it from extending discounted television and radio advertising rates to committees that buy spots in coordination with political candidates, urging the justices to maintain the "status quo," despite allegedly inconsistent characterizations of the norm.
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September 01, 2026
A North Carolina federal court gave an initial green light Tuesday to a $1.6 million class and collective action settlement resolving overtime claims brought by hourly workers against a vehicle modification company, conditionally certifying a nationwide collective and a Virginia state class for settlement purposes.
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August 31, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi said Monday that it permanently banned George Santos from the platform and imposed a $71,000 penalty against the convicted former U.S. representative for allegedly manipulating a prediction market on whether he would attend the 2026 State of the Union address.
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August 31, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and a bipartisan coalition of 22 states sued Amazon Monday, alleging it secretly overcharged advertising customers more than $20 billion by manipulating how it set prices for ads on its e-commerce website.
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August 31, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission made no mistake when it greenlit a project to improve the East Tennessee Natural Gas pipeline and to allow the energy company to push the cost of those improvements along to customers, the D.C. Circuit has ruled.
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August 31, 2026
Two dozen states pushed the Federal Circuit on Monday to revive their specific claims against now-expired temporary tariffs while simultaneously pushing the panel to otherwise back the U.S. Court of International Trade's ruling that the tariffs were illegal.
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August 31, 2026
A North Carolina federal court refused to disqualify the special master in charge of unraveling the assets of convicted insurance mogul Greg Lindberg or set aside a proposed $1.6 billion restitution order in his sweeping fraud case, finding that the special master's appointment was not unconstitutional.
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August 31, 2026
A sublicensing agreement between R.J. Reynolds Vapor Co. and Juul Labs Inc. relieves Reynolds of its obligation to pay ongoing royalties to Philip Morris parent company Altria Client Services LLC after a federal jury found that Reynolds infringed Altria's vape pen design, a North Carolina federal judge has ruled.
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August 31, 2026
Republican fundraising committees have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to lift a Fourth Circuit order blocking the Federal Communications Commission from extending discounted television and radio advertising rates to committees that buy spots in coordination with political candidates, arguing the lower court prematurely jumped into the review process.
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August 28, 2026
Walmart has agreed to pay $50 million to settle the U.S. Department of Justice's nearly 6-year-old lawsuit in Delaware federal court alleging the big-box retailer helped spur the nationwide opioid crisis by unlawfully dispensing controlled drugs from its pharmacies, the department announced Friday.
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August 28, 2026
The NCAA struck back at a football player's bid to play for North Carolina State University this year while he challenges the organization's eligibility rules, arguing that he was denied a waiver because his academic standing is under his control and thus can't be the basis for extending his eligibility.
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August 28, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Friday reversed a $42 million jury verdict finding CACI conspired to torture Iraq War detainees, ruling on rehearing the detainees' claims must be dismissed following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision that courts can't create a private right of action under the Alien Tort Statute.
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August 28, 2026
For the first time in five years, the Federal Communications Commission has greenlit the creation of a new "innovation zone," which will give a university an experimental spectrum license that allows it to conduct wireless research, this time at Iowa State University.
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August 28, 2026
A New York federal judge gave the final OK Friday to a settlement in which Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to as many as 75 women to settle claims that it facilitated what the court called Jeffrey Epstein's "monstrous" sex trafficking and abuse, and approved an attorney fee award worth 30% of the settlement fund.
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August 28, 2026
After years of allowing the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry to operate without interference, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is stepping in to regulate a drug it once treated exclusively as contraband, but attorneys and regulators say the cannabis industry's interactions with the agency are off to a rocky start.
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August 28, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest higher-education projects driving legal work, as well as an interview with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's new real estate practice group leader.
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August 28, 2026
The Fifth Circuit will weigh Louisiana's bid to block telehealth access to the abortion drug mifepristone, while the Fourth Circuit will hear Lockheed Martin's challenge to a trial court decision that kept a pension de-risking suit alive. Here's a look at these and other argument sessions that should be on benefits attorneys' radar next month.
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August 28, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has refused to sanction a Mazda driver and his attorneys for their attempt to revive a proposed class action over an alleged oil‑burning defect, finding the effort unlikely to succeed but not improper.
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August 27, 2026
The former head of artificial intelligence at U.S. Bank should be allowed to proceed with his discrimination claim against the bank, a North Carolina magistrate judge recommended Thursday, adding that two other claims should be dismissed as not timely or not sufficiently pled.