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July 31, 2026
A Florida appellate court on Friday upheld a $103 million award against Ford Motor Co. in a lawsuit alleging responsibility for a Mustang explosion that severely injured its driver, saying the automaker couldn't sufficiently explain why the case should not have gone to a jury.
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July 31, 2026
A legacy unit of defunct tire maker Uniroyal filed for Chapter 11 protection on Friday in New Jersey to address 35,000 asbestos injury claims and hand over administration of ongoing retiree benefit programs.
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July 31, 2026
An Eleventh Circuit panel has reinstated claims from fishermen against the Tennessee Valley Authority alleging the TVA negligently failed to mark or remove a duck blind they collided with in their boat, finding that the agency is not immune under its governing statute.
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July 31, 2026
A New York federal judge has thrown out a woman's suit claiming TRESemme shampoo caused her to suffer hair loss, saying evidence turned up in discovery shows she filed her claims nearly two years too late.
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July 31, 2026
The $5.5 billion global deal over talc ovarian cancer allows women to move past recent court setbacks requiring them to provide experts who can show a causal link between their disease and use of talc, and for defendant J&J to close a decade of litigation that included judicially criticized gambits to spin off liability through bankruptcy maneuvers.
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July 31, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court has advanced Johnson & Johnson's challenge to a $25 million talc trial judgment, denying a Massachusetts real estate developer's attempt to dismiss the appeal based on what he argued was a late-filed brief.
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July 31, 2026
A Canadian mining company is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived Washington tribes' natural resource damages claims for alleged pollution of the Columbia River, arguing the appellate court upended an environmental cleanup statute's tradeoff between broad liability and limited remedies.
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July 31, 2026
An ice cream sandwich maker has pulled a $4.5 million suit accusing its insurance broker of negligently failing to recommend and procure a policy that could have covered a recall of its popular Chipwich treats, Connecticut state court records show.
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July 31, 2026
A coalition of more than a dozen hemp beverage manufacturers is seeking to block enforcement of a new Ohio law that reclassified the products as "marijuana," at least the second federal lawsuit to challenge the new state policy.
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July 31, 2026
The maker of Just For Men hair color products said in a new federal complaint that its excess liability insurers improperly refused to cover personal injury lawsuit settlements connected to allegations that products from the popular line permanently discolored users' faces, after millions in the company's primary policies were exhausted.
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July 31, 2026
A Massachusetts Toyota dealership claims in a lawsuit filed in state court on Friday that it was forced to pay back more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims made under a program for vehicles with a paint defect, as a result of collusion between two employees and an auto body shop it had long worked with.
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July 31, 2026
As the second half of 2026 unfolds, New Jersey courts will grapple with disputes testing the limits of state authority and examining gun-industry accountability.
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July 31, 2026
A Washington federal judge has thrown out a suit by the Canadian CEO of a cannabis company and two of his employees alleging they were wrongly denied entry to the U.S. because they work in the industry, saying a Court of International Trade ruling allowed the company's merchandise to enter the country, but not its employees.
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July 30, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel reversed a $2.5 million judgment Thursday against Hologenix CEO Seth Casden by finding a district court erred in ruling the executive is not immune from a tortious interference claim while also reversing a Lanham Act disgorgement award totaling nearly $3 million.
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July 30, 2026
The Seventh Circuit upheld a decision holding that Enbridge Energy is trespassing on Wisconsin tribal lands, but vacated and remanded a $5.2 million restitution order and timeline for a portion of the Line 5 pipeline's removal, saying the company needs a "reasonable opportunity" to complete the proposed reroute.
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July 30, 2026
North Carolina state leaders and environmental organizations asked the federal government to walk back a proposed settlement with Chemours over so-called forever chemical pollution from three factories, saying the deal amounted to a slap on the wrist.
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July 30, 2026
Tech trade group NetChoice is urging a federal court to reject Minnesota's bid to keep alive its new law requiring social media companies to display mental health warning labels at the login page, arguing the statute forces these companies to become "mouthpieces" for the state, violating the First Amendment.
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July 30, 2026
A Silicon Valley tech guru and theorist testified on Thursday in Tennessee's trial against Meta that, for him, it took "less than 10 lines of code" to create a time delay that broke the grip of a hard-to-resist design feature he released to the world in 2006, infinite scroll.
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July 30, 2026
Albertsons and Safeway can't dodge 14 years' worth of claims in Washington state's lawsuit accusing the grocery stores' pharmacies of irresponsibly dispensing prescription opioids and fueling the state's overdose crisis, according to a Seattle judge's ruling Wednesday striking the companies' statute-of-limitations defense.
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July 30, 2026
The widow and mother of the pilot and his son killed in a plane crash that claimed the lives of NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and his family is suing Biffle's estate in North Carolina state court, saying Biffle knew the plane had control issues, failed to investigate and kept it from her husband.
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July 30, 2026
Iowa can start enforcing a state law that restricts the sale of some e-cigarettes, after the Eighth Circuit on Thursday determined that the policy was not preempted by federal tobacco law and overturned a lower court's ruling that blocked officials from implementing it.
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July 30, 2026
Resolution Copper Co. said it established a $54 million trust that will provide annual funding to 11 Indigenous nations that have cultural and ancestral ties to a sacred Arizona worship site that's facing destruction to make way for a multibillion-dollar mining operation.
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July 30, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday revived claims in multidistrict litigation alleging makers of oral decongestants misled consumers by labeling their products as "maximum strength," while finding the bulk of the remaining claims were preempted by federal regulation.
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July 30, 2026
Counsel for an Alabama man told a Massachusetts federal jury Thursday that Covidien LP failed to adequately warn doctors about the risks of complications from a hernia mesh implant, closing out the first bellwether trial among thousands of cases pending against the Medtronic unit.
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July 30, 2026
A California federal judge on Thursday declined to order a group of women suing xAI Corp. over Grok-generated deepfakes of them in sexual situations to reveal their identities and allowed them to proceed pseudonymously, finding their fears of threatened harm and retaliation from having to disclose their real names were reasonable.