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June 01, 2026
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced Monday that his office is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, saying ChatGPT is spurring young people to commit crimes and acts of violence.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it won't hear a challenge by asbestos claimants to the "Texas two-step" bankruptcy of Georgia-Pacific spinoff Bestwall.
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June 01, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a challenge to a Third Circuit decision that wiped out a nearly $45 million false advertising award against Natera Inc., preserving a ruling that said proof of actual consumer deception is required to support damages.
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May 29, 2026
A Texas man who escaped the May 28 natural gas explosion at a Dallas apartment complex sued Atmos Energy Corp. on Friday, claiming the company failed to properly monitor conditions in his complex despite knowing the risks, calling it a pattern of "gross negligence" that contributed to the deadly blast.
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May 29, 2026
A woman who was allegedly punched in the face by an attorney should not have been held in criminal contempt for giving too much hearsay testimony, North Carolina prosecutors told a state appeals court.
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May 29, 2026
A Florida federal jury returned a defense verdict in favor of Lockheed Martin Corp. after finding the company's chemical handling practices at an Orlando weapons manufacturing facility did not cause birth defects.
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May 29, 2026
Uber Technologies Inc. accused a bellwether plaintiff of numerous discovery violations Friday in multidistrict litigation over alleged passenger sexual assaults, urging a California federal judge to issue sanctions for "pervasive bad faith" that has "plagued the discovery process."
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May 29, 2026
A Washington federal court has declined to toss a proposed class action alleging Sig Sauer's P320 pistol is prone to accidental discharges, rejecting the gunmaker's arguments that the presence of a trigger guard means the gun is not defective.
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May 29, 2026
The families of the six construction workers who died in Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have reached confidential settlements with the owner and manager of the cargo carrier that slammed into the bridge and triggered its collapse, according to court filings Friday.
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May 29, 2026
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday conditionally sent the case that resulted in a yet-to-be-finalized $7.25 billion settlement with Monsanto over claims that its weedkiller Roundup causes cancer to multidistrict litigation in California federal court, despite protests from the proposed class.
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May 29, 2026
A New Mexico judge carved up a challenge to the U.S. Forest Service over the destruction of nearly 43,000 acres of national forest land, saying the agency didn't follow its own monitoring obligations that don't allow for discretion until an emergent risk is brought to its attention.
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May 29, 2026
Federal lawsuits that target dozens or even hundreds of online sellers at once kept climbing in 2025 and spread beyond their Chicago stronghold, even as new data shows more friction for brand owners' mass anti-counterfeiting strategy.
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May 29, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has thrown out a mechanic's claims against AGCO Corp. alleging that he was exposed to asbestos from AGCO's products, which gave him mesothelioma, but allowed his similar claims against Briggs & Stratton to go forward.
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May 29, 2026
A Hawaii federal judge has given final approval to a $100 million deal to settle a shareholder derivative suit alleging the directors and executives of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. failed to prepare for the deadly 2023 Maui wildfire.
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May 29, 2026
The operator of a metal recycling scrapyard in the city of Camden, New Jersey, was hit with a proposed class action in Garden State federal court alleging that its operation of the facility has resulted in numerous fires and explosions that release harmful emissions.
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May 29, 2026
A Florida state appellate court revived a law firm's complaint alleging tortious interference against a widow over a contingency fee agreement involving tobacco injury case referrals, finding that the lower court wrongly tossed the lawsuit based on extraneous information even though there was sufficient evidence to support a claim.
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May 29, 2026
Walmart Inc. and six baby food makers face a new Connecticut federal lawsuit claiming products contaminated with "dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals" caused a child's brain injuries, autism and related health issues, allegations similar to those lodged by others in California multidistrict litigation proceedings.
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May 29, 2026
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has expanded its product liability team in Atlanta with the addition of two attorneys, one from Greenberg Traurig LLP and the other from Parker Hudson Rainer & Dobbs LLP.
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May 29, 2026
Samsung Electronics can't escape a Nationwide unit's suit seeking to recoup the more than $653,000 it said it paid after its policyholders' home was damaged in a fire caused by a defective electric range, a North Carolina federal court ruled.
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May 28, 2026
A Montana federal judge Thursday declined to sanction Connecticut municipalities for moving firefighter turnout gear PFAS claims to his jurisdiction after roughly two years of litigation on the East Coast, ruling that consolidation of the claims "regardless of district" is "beneficial to all parties."
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May 28, 2026
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is set to sign into law a landmark bill requiring artificial intelligence developers to undergo annual third-party audits and provide transparency reports, the governor announced on social media Wednesday, the same day the bill received a unanimous vote in the Illinois House of Representatives.
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May 28, 2026
Legal advocates said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling unleashed a wave of forum-shopping by plaintiffs lawyers using states' business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and that the justices should take up the case again to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.
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May 28, 2026
Fiat Chrysler will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision refusing to send a class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests to arbitration, saying the justices must resolve whether a court or an arbitrator determines if a nonsignatory can enforce an arbitration clause.
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May 28, 2026
A Johns Hopkins epidemiologist told a California jury Thursday considering bellwether claims that Johnson & Johnson's talc products caused deadly ovarian cancer in three women that a World Health Organization agency's recent reclassification of talc as being probably carcinogenic only came about because it "changed the rule" over what evidence it considered.
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May 28, 2026
The North Carolina Supreme Court should step in to prevent Attorney General Jeff Jackson from enacting his own policy vision — and subordinating agency regulation — through his ill-conceived environmental lawsuit, according to an amicus brief.