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March 03, 2026
Litchfield Cavo LLP announced that a 10-person team based in Cleveland has joined the insurance defense firm, marking its first office in Ohio and the 25th location in its portfolio.
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March 03, 2026
Live Nation does not illegally pressure concert venues or artists to use Ticketmaster and its other services, its counsel told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday, calling the entertainment giant a "fierce, lawful, legitimate" competitor as a closely watched antitrust trial opened.
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March 02, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a push Monday to reconsider objections to a $600 million class settlement between Norfolk Southern Corp. and residents affected by the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment after the deal was upheld by the Sixth Circuit late last year.
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March 02, 2026
Current and former brass of personal care retailer Bath & Body Works face a shareholder derivative suit alleging they downplayed certain growth strategy flops, hurting the company and investors when disclosures of those fumbles caused share prices to slide.
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March 02, 2026
Investors suing Norfolk Southern and its top brass have asked a Georgia federal judge for class certification in a case alleging the railroad company made false claims about its safety culture and practices and deceived investors up until the fiery crash of one of the company's trains along the Ohio-Pennsylvania border in 2023.
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March 02, 2026
The Sixth Circuit affirmed the convictions and 12-year prison sentence of a Michigan doctor accused of operating a cash-only "pill mill" that wrote thousands of opioid prescriptions, holding that the trial judge properly handled the jury instructions and key evidentiary rulings.
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March 02, 2026
Hello Farms Licensing MI LLC is urging a Sixth Circuit panel not to undo its nearly $32 million win in a contract suit against units of cannabis giant Curaleaf, saying the fact that cannabis is federally illegal doesn't render the contract void.
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March 02, 2026
An Ohio magistrate judge who was fired after sharing campaign mailers attacking a fellow judge's work ethic may not pursue a freedom-of-speech suit against her supervisor and the court, a Sixth Circuit panel determined, finding that the election advertisements publicly undermined the court's policy decisions.
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February 27, 2026
Kroger and Albertsons must pay legal fees to the state attorneys general who challenged the grocery chains' now-scrapped $24.6 billion merger, an Oregon federal judge ruled Friday, denying the companies' argument that the court's temporary injunction in the case wasn't sufficient for the states to win back costs.
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February 27, 2026
A Missouri federal judge dismissed a coalition of Republican-led states' lawsuit challenging a Biden-era student debt relief plan, saying Friday he can't end the plan like the Trump administration wanted given the "apparent lack of adversity" in the suit between the states and the administration.
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February 27, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including real estate attorney reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court striking down certain tariffs, the EB-5 scene as deadlines loom and one BigLaw leader's insights into the potential overhaul of a key regulatory definition under the Clean Air Act.
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February 27, 2026
An Ohio appeals court declined Thursday to send a former Marshall Dennehey PC attorney's sexual harassment suit to arbitration, ruling that mocking comments he faced from a senior lawyer triggered the protection of a law that shields sex misconduct disputes from being kicked out of court.
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February 27, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday declined to revive a suit by investors claiming railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp. botched disclosures about how an efficiency plan might cause derailments, validating a lower court's interpretation that the statements about safety were inactionable puffery.
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February 27, 2026
An Ohio woman sued Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in federal court Friday, alleging that the insurer wrongly denied her life insurance claim because her late husband used kratom, even though kratom is not a controlled substance or otherwise contraband.
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February 27, 2026
The Sixth Circuit declined to reinstate a Black human resources manager's suit claiming the University of Toledo fired him out of race bias and then got him arrested, ruling the university justified its actions based on his performance issues and his refusal to return his work laptop.
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February 27, 2026
An Ohio federal court sanctioned a life insurer for failing to comply with orders dating to 2003 that required the carrier to transfer control of a dead policyholder's account to the court-appointed receiver for a viatical funding company.
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February 26, 2026
Fifth Third Bank has sued a San Antonio real estate developer in Texas federal court for more than $80 million, seeking to invoke guaranties on two troubled construction loans after the borrowing entities defaulted and filed for bankruptcy.
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February 26, 2026
The U.S. government, one named sponsor of the Hatch-Waxman Act, a generic-drug industry group and more have warned the U.S. Supreme Court that a decision that allowed a patent case involving a so-called skinny label to proceed threatens the availability of low-cost generic drugs.
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February 26, 2026
The Sixth Circuit appeared unlikely Thursday to revive a construction company's challenge to a National Labor Relations Board decision tossing a petition to oust a union representing workers at the company, with judges skeptical they had jurisdiction to consider the dispute under federal labor law's limitations on representation case appeals.
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February 26, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a Detroit man whose drug conviction was vacated cannot move forward with his civil rights lawsuit against a narcotics officer, finding he failed to show the officer falsified a search warrant affidavit or failed to turn over evidence favorable to the defense.
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February 26, 2026
Football star Brendan Sorsby violated his name, image and likeness agreement with the University of Cincinnati when he transferred to another program and owes the school at least $1 million, the university claims in a lawsuit in Ohio federal court.
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February 26, 2026
Police are increasingly using drones as first responders to 911 calls, a practice they say helps them respond to crises much faster with far fewer officers, but that privacy advocates warn could lead to mass, warrantless surveillance.
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February 26, 2026
An Ohio federal judge sanctioned two attorneys Monday for repeatedly submitting false and inaccurate citations generated using artificial intelligence, calling the conduct the most egregious violation of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11 he'd seen in his 46 years on the federal bench.
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February 26, 2026
A Louisiana federal court should not dismiss a suit by a Progressive unit asserting it has no duty to defend or indemnify a nail salon for claims stemming from a fatal shooting, a magistrate judge recommended, pointing to an assault and battery policy exclusion.
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February 25, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Wednesday advanced a $17.9 million generic drug price-fixing settlement between 48 states and territories and pharmaceutical companies Bausch Health US LLC, Bausch Health Americas Inc. and Lannett Co. Inc., sidelining objections by consumers suing separately in a Pennsylvania multidistrict litigation case.