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October 30, 2025
In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights notable developments in California's anti-SLAPP law following a major Ninth Circuit opinion, as well as a decision — and appeal — in Drake's fight with his record label over Kendrick Lamar's diss track.
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October 29, 2025
A North Dakota state judge Wednesday reduced a jury's $666 million damages award against Greenpeace to $345 million in litigation claiming the group falsely disparaged the Dakota Access Pipeline project during environmental protests, finding that some of the damages awarded by the jury weren't backed by evidence.
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October 29, 2025
The NBA's Dallas Mavericks launched a suit in the Texas Business Court aimed at wresting control of the American Airlines Center away from the NHL's Dallas Stars, saying the Stars forfeited their right to co-lease the stadium when they moved their headquarters.
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October 29, 2025
The Republican majority of North Carolina's highest court on Wednesday issued a stay pausing the state's suit against E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Co., The Chemours Co. and others over alleged forever chemical contamination the day before the Business Court was set to hold a hearing on summary judgment in the case.
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October 28, 2025
Without reversal of a trial court's class certification order, a lawsuit seeking refunds for fees levied to hook up to Raleigh's water and sewer system will result in duplicative "windfall" payments and spinoff litigation, the North Carolina Supreme Court was told Tuesday.
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October 28, 2025
The Trump administration has told a federal judge that California is not entitled to billions in continued funding for its beleaguered high-speed rail project, firing back at what it describes as the Golden State's attempt to hoard grant funds that could be allocated to other projects.
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October 27, 2025
A subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company is urging a New York federal judge to pause her ruling enforcing nearly $3 billion in defaulted bonds during an appeal, saying enforcement could permanently alter its business by taking away its "sole meaningful asset": the oil giant Citgo.
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October 27, 2025
A Michigan federal jury on Monday awarded about $6.8 million to information technology support company LinTech Global Inc. after finding that its former employee and her competing company interfered with a contract to do system work for the Federal Aviation Administration while she was still working for LinTech.
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October 27, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright has extended an emergency order keeping an oil-fired power plant in Maryland running through year's end, citing reliability concerns raised by regional grid operator PJM Interconnection LLC.
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October 27, 2025
The estate of a former business associate of solar company owners caught in a $50 million tax fraud agreed to settle with a receiver appointed to collect company assets, according to a Utah federal court order, bringing the yearslong collection effort spanning dozens of settlements closer to an end.
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October 27, 2025
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP has grown its banking and credit practice in New York with the addition of a Kirkland & Ellis LLP partner, the firm said Monday.
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October 27, 2025
A broadband service provider has informed the Federal Communications Commission that it has the green light from Mississippi officials to take over another company's federal funding for network deployment in the Magnolia State.
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October 24, 2025
A Manhattan federal judge said Friday it's time for prosecutors to either make a deal with four men whose 2018 bid-rigging convictions from an upstate New York development initiative were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, or schedule a 2026 retrial.
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October 23, 2025
A Republican U.S. senator said Thursday she's concerned that rural areas will not receive enough funding for fiber-optic connectivity in the latest round of the government's multibillion-dollar effort to build out broadband to underserved areas.
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October 23, 2025
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a suit by two Colorado tribes that alleged the state is overreaching by trying to regulate off-reservation online sports betting in violation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and tribal gaming compacts.
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October 23, 2025
The Singaporean owner and manager of the container ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge and triggered its collapse maintained that South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd. should be held accountable in Pennsylvania federal court for designing and building a "fatally flawed" ship.
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October 22, 2025
Singapore-based shipbuilding and engineering company Seatrium said Wednesday it has been hit with an arbitration claim by an affiliate of Maersk Offshore Wind in connection with a terminated $475 million deal to provide a wind turbine installation vessel for an ongoing wind farm project off the coast of New York.
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October 22, 2025
A Texas appellate court wiped away a $64 million award to the subsidiary of a Dallas investment company following alleged fraud by Credit Suisse surrounding lending for a luxury Nevada community, saying the lower court improperly found that the subsidiary could collect damages above zero dollars.
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October 22, 2025
The federal government says it has provided every available dollar to the Northern Cheyenne Tribe for criminal investigations and telecommunications services, arguing that a decision to only partially fund the tribe's contract proposal is consistent with the spirit and letter of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.
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October 22, 2025
The North Carolina Business Court has rounded the corner into fall with insurance disputes over COVID-19 coverage at a chain of outlet malls and the theft of over $900,000 in legal THC reportedly stolen from a warehouse in the Southwest.
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October 21, 2025
The Portuguese founder of Aenergy SA is seeking up to $171 million in damages after Angola allegedly seized four turbines associated with $1.1 billion in power plant contracts, an ill-fated deal that led to a fraud conviction in New York and jail time for a former GE Power executive.
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October 21, 2025
A Senate committee advanced legislation Tuesday that would mandate aircraft-tracking technology in all aircraft, alongside fresh audits of Federal Aviation Administration and military procedures, a response to January's deadly midair collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet near Washington, D.C.
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October 21, 2025
An Illinois state judge has refused to dismiss a private equity firm's malpractice suit accusing Baker McKenzie of botching a client's bid to reacquire a Russian coal mine, saying the plaintiffs have sufficiently pled claims sustainable under both Illinois and Russian law at this stage of the case.
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October 21, 2025
Internet service providers are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to investing in infrastructure, according to an industry lobbying group, which recently released a report finding that ISPs poured nearly $90 billion into broadband infrastructure last year.
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October 20, 2025
A pair of renewable energy investors whose €128 million ($149 million) award against Spain was annulled more than five years ago due to arbitrator Stanimir A. Alexandrov's undisclosed relationship with an expert have now won more than twice that amount in a new award.