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March 13, 2026
An attorney who led an investment partnership whose principals were criminally prosecuted for fraud is not entitled to tax deductions for theft loss related to the fallout, the Sixth Circuit ruled, saying there was no evidence that the principals intentionally fleeced him.
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March 13, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday approved the sale of First Brands' small engine part group Walbro as the car parts giant continues stakeholder talks in hopes of charting a consensual course out of Chapter 11.
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March 13, 2026
Kroger pharmacy customers reached a $17 million settlement with the grocer resolving allegations that it inflated their copays for insured prescriptions, according to a motion for preliminary approval of the deal filed in Ohio federal court.
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March 13, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, uniform maker Cintas Corp. acquires workwear company UniFirst Corp., Controlled Thermal Resources Holdings Inc. plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company, and a Shell USA Inc. subsidiary sells Jiffy Lube International Inc. to Monomoy Capital Partners.
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March 12, 2026
Defendants urged a New Jersey state court to reject Holtec International's bid to lift a stay holding it back from pursuing fraud claims against its former general counsel and others for allegedly embezzling more than $700,000 from the company, arguing that keeping the suit on pause will serve judicial efficiency.
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March 12, 2026
Kalshi plans to ask the Sixth Circuit to overturn a lower court's refusal to grant it an injunction that would shield its sports betting contracts from scrutiny in Ohio.
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March 12, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on what such rules might look like while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.
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March 11, 2026
A California magistrate judge ordered Uber to produce numerous internal documents to the Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday in litigation accusing the ride-share giant of enrolling consumers into its paid subscription service without consent, after the FTC accused the company of stonewalling discovery and producing only 72 documents totaling 179 pages.
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March 11, 2026
Two consumers who filed a proposed class action over recalled Ride-On Tonka Dump Trucks have failed to state valid legal claims, said a motion filed Monday by Huffy Corp., which additionally argued that a 50-state class would be unmanageable.
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March 11, 2026
An Ohio hospital and its health benefit plan did not discriminate against patients with end-stage renal disease by eliminating in-network coverage for dialysis, a federal court ruled, finding that dialysis provider DaVita Inc. failed to show the plan intended to harm participants.
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March 11, 2026
A Colorado federal judge Tuesday dismissed two of the four counterclaims from a group of companies that alleged an outsourcing company providing call center services generated false service requests, leading to a termination of the master services agreement.
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March 11, 2026
A former security guard for a Tennessee hospital did not plausibly allege that lunch periods were compensable work time under federal wage law, the Sixth Circuit ruled, affirming the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming that automatic deductions for meal breaks cost him overtime pay.
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March 11, 2026
Uniform maker Cintas Corp., advised by Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, announced plans on Wednesday to acquire Paul Hastings LLP-led workwear company UniFirst Corp. in a cash and stock deal that boasts an enterprise value of roughly $5.5 billion, a move that comes just months after Cintas lobbed an unsolicited takeover offer at its competitor.
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March 10, 2026
The status of Live Nation Entertainment's antitrust trial and proposed settlement over federal and state government claims of anticompetitive conduct remained up in the air Tuesday amid pushback by several states, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case upbraided the parties for keeping him out of the loop about negotiations.
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March 10, 2026
Several intellectual property groups have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to use a case involving "skinny labels" on generic drugs to set clear guidelines on what constitutes induced patent infringement, saying the outcome has implications beyond pharmaceuticals.
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March 10, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has waved away an argument that a woman who was laid off by a Dow Chemical unit could still bring race and gender discrimination claims against the company because she didn't know what the release she signed in order to get her severance meant.
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March 10, 2026
An Ohio federal court tossed a Mexican national's habeas petition alleging due process violations over his immigration detention and an immigration court's bond denial, finding the Immigration and Nationality Act contains "sharp" jurisdictional limits.
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March 10, 2026
An Oregon federal judge has ruled in favor of a Liberty Mutual unit, finding that it owes no coverage to defendants in a suit over a fatal gas leak explosion because of the marijuana exclusion in the policy.
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March 09, 2026
An Ohio federal judge declined to block Kalshi's sports event contracts from state gambling regulators' scrutiny in a Monday order that found the wagers don't appear to be swaps under the exclusive jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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March 09, 2026
The Justice Department's midtrial settlement with Live Nation on Monday created an instant rift with more than two dozen state attorneys general who vowed to press forward instead of accepting a deal that requires online ticketing technology to be open-sourced and forces the company to divest control over at least 13 amphitheaters.
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March 09, 2026
A former Detroit teacher has failed to persuade the Sixth Circuit to reopen her claims that school administrators treated her differently because of her Jewish faith and punished her for posting about a student assault in a teachers' Facebook group.
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March 09, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has denied qualified immunity to an Ohio police officer accused of fatally shooting a man through a privacy fence as the man fired celebratory gunshots into the air on New Year's Day 2022, ruling the jury must decide whether the man posed an immediate threat.
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March 09, 2026
An Ohio federal magistrate has refused to certify a class of oil and gas royalty owners accusing Antero Resources Corp. of underpaying natural gas royalties, saying individual reviews of the lease agreements are clearly required.
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March 09, 2026
The National Labor Relations Board erred by using a ruling rather than the rulemaking process to change its policy on compelling employers to bargain, a split Sixth Circuit panel ruled, saying the board's landmark 2023 decision in Cemex was improperly decided.
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March 09, 2026
A bus attendant plausibly alleged that a school transportation company willfully violated federal wage law, an Ohio federal judge ruled, allowing her claims to reach back three years rather than two.