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July 21, 2026
A 6-year-old girl who was allowed to ride in a go-kart at an Urban Air entertainment center in Florida would not have died in a crash had staff followed age and height restrictions and other safety protocols, according to a suit filed in state court.
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July 21, 2026
A New York federal judge refused to remove a "side-switching" arbitrator from a dispute over coverage for millions of dollars' worth of asbestos bodily injury claims, ruling that Truck Insurance Exchange's lawsuit is barred under a "hold harmless" pact it inked with the counterparty, a group of foreign reinsurers.
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July 21, 2026
A former track laborer claims Norfolk Southern caused his lung cancer after exposing him to carcinogenic chemicals, including benzene, for decades, according to a Pennsylvania state court lawsuit that could be "the first in a wave" filed by former railroad workers, plaintiffs' counsel said.
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July 21, 2026
A Michigan state appeals court revived a suit brought by medical providers seeking to recover no-fault benefits for treatments they provided to a woman injured in a crash, saying a trial judge failed to consider lesser sanctions for a discovery violation before barring key witnesses and effectively ending the case.
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July 21, 2026
The mother of one of Elon Musk's children has asked a Texas federal court to toss a suit brought by Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, that alleges breach of contract, telling the court that xAI's actions constituted "a race to the courthouse dressed up as a lawsuit."
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July 21, 2026
A former Girardi Keese attorney who helped disgraced plaintiff's attorney Tom Girardi steal millions of settlement dollars from plane crash clients should serve three months in prison to account for the seriousness of his conduct, federal prosecutors in Chicago say.
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July 21, 2026
The operators of the ship that slammed into Baltimore's Key Bridge in 2024 blasted economic damages claims from the city and county of Baltimore, as well as private claimants, telling a federal judge that none had a proprietary interest in the bridge because it was owned by the state.
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July 21, 2026
Brian Watson, CEO of Northstar Commercial Partners, is a limited-purpose public figure as to an alleged statement calling him "a criminal," but not as to a separate allegation that he had "relations" with prostitutes, a Colorado federal magistrate judge ruled.
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July 21, 2026
A warehouse worker whose leg was crushed between a forklift and a metal desk at a Meijer Inc. distribution center can proceed with his negligence suit after a Michigan appellate panel ruled a jury must decide whether faulty brakes, inadequate maintenance or his own actions caused the accident.
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July 21, 2026
An ex-legal staffer for World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. has agreed to arbitration to resolve allegations of sexual abuse and trafficking against WWE and its founder Vince McMahon, and will soon drop her suit filed in federal court 2.5 years ago.
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July 21, 2026
A Saul Ewing LLP attorney should be disqualified from leading a whistleblower suit over a nurse's alleged diversion of prescription narcotics, as the former Heritage Valley Health System in western Pennsylvania said he was previously a member of its board of directors.
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July 21, 2026
Pennsylvania's laws against human trafficking don't translate into a "public policy" that justifies insurers denying coverage to a Philadelphia hotel accused of turning a blind eye to trafficking, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
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July 21, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday appeared doubtful that Uber and FedEx engaged in anticompetitive conduct when they accused Philadelphia injury firm Simon & Simon of a medical records falsification scheme meant to boost injury claims, pointing out during a hearing that the companies and the firm operated different types of businesses.
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July 21, 2026
The Fourth Circuit has certified a question to the South Carolina Supreme Court in a suit alleging the defective design of a propane heater led to the death of a man using it, asking the justices to determine if adequate labeling precludes a defect claim under state law.
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July 20, 2026
Albertsons pharmacies in Washington state received considerably more opioid medications from distributors between 2009 and 2015 than the company reported dispensing — a sign of potential diversion, according to an expert witness who testified Monday at a bench trial in Washington's lawsuit accusing the chain of exacerbating the state's opioid crisis.
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July 20, 2026
A New Jersey man who suffered a "catastrophic" spinal cord injury after a tree fell on his car while driving cannot pursue damages against Jersey Central Power & Light Co., a state appeals court ruled Monday, saying utilities have no duty to cut vegetation to keep passing motorists safe.
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July 20, 2026
A split Sixth Circuit panel has dismissed a woman's civil rights lawsuit alleging a Nashville police officer illegally arrested her and lied that she led him on a car chase with her son in the car, finding she waited too long to sue even though prosecutors withheld dispatch recordings that supported her story for years.
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July 20, 2026
Ahead of a third bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over alleged sexual assaults by Uber drivers, the company has asked a Texas federal judge to toss a bid for punitive damages, saying state law doesn't allow punitive damages for third-party criminal conduct.
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July 20, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Monday reversed class certification granted in an investor lawsuit against Boeing over the company's alleged concealment of safety issues with its 737 Max fleet, finding that neither the plaintiffs nor the lower court met the standards for certification set in a 2013 Supreme Court ruling.
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July 20, 2026
BNSF Railway Co. asked a Texas federal court on Friday to dismiss a suit brought by the family of a man who died when a train derailed, saying the parties had reached a settlement, and to appoint the man's family as personal representatives of the estate.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied Meta Platforms Inc.'s bid to exclude testimony from a damages expert offered by a coalition of 29 states from an upcoming trial in a suit alleging Facebook and Instagram are intentionally addictive.
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July 20, 2026
The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Monday that an industrial equipment supplier did not have a duty to provide safety training to civilian workers who were killed or injured by an explosion in a paint-mixing facility at an army depot.
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July 20, 2026
University of Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel will leave at the end of the year, following a Jenner & Block-led investigation's findings that the school poorly handled an inappropriate relationship involving its fired football coach.
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July 20, 2026
A Florida-based attorney and accountant has accused DeWitt LLP of retaliating against him after he declined to merge his estate practice with the firm by representing a woman he sued for defamation in a separate case after he had shared confidential information with DeWitt.
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July 17, 2026
The full Third Circuit on Friday held that New Jersey's decades-long ban on semi-automatic firearms and high-capacity magazines is unconstitutional, though some judges said the way the weapons are now being used as well as recent technological advances couldn't have been foreseen by the Constitution's framers.