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June 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.
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June 23, 2026
A proposed class of consumers is urging a California federal court not to throw out their claims that Costco Wholesale Corp. falsely advertised its rotisserie chickens as having no preservatives, saying consumer expectation, not federal regulations, is what matters in the case.
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June 23, 2026
U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Tuesday announced it would bar shipments of any garments produced by a pair of Jordanian companies due to indications that they are being produced with forced labor.
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June 23, 2026
Two European Parliament committees signed off Tuesday on a reworked trade deal with Mexico that would remove nearly all tariffs on European agricultural goods imported into the country, setting up a full vote by Parliament.
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June 23, 2026
A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in a decision that may give the board's Republican majority a chance to rethink the agency's reworked bargaining order standard.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the Ninth Circuit was wrong to reinstate an Alien Tort Statute suit alleging that Cisco helped the Chinese government's allegedly unlawful crackdown on the Falun Gong religious movement, saying federal courts lack authority to create causes of action for alleged violations of international law.
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June 22, 2026
A California federal judge hit pause Monday on the Federal Trade Commission's price discrimination lawsuit against Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits LLC so the parties can hash out a tentative deal resolving the FTC's first, and now only, Robinson-Patman Act case in decades.
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June 22, 2026
A Home Depot employee called on a Seattle federal judge to certify a class of more than 21,000 current and former low-income workers whom the home improvement store chain allegedly barred from working additional jobs in violation of Washington state law.
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June 22, 2026
An Oregon marijuana and hemp wholesaler has dropped its lawsuit that sought to halt a state law prohibiting interstate sales of locally cultivated cannabis, pointing to the Ninth Circuit's decision regarding the dormant commerce clause in a similar case.
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June 22, 2026
Seventeen states and the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors sued Golden State recycling regulators in California federal court Monday seeking to block a new state law regulating plastic packaging, slamming the law as California's "blatant and unprecedented attempt to impose its own policy preferences on the entire nation."
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June 22, 2026
Splenda maker TC Heartland LLC and the scientist whom it accused of defamation were sent packing from North Carolina federal court Monday, after a judge found neither had offered evidence to overcome the other's First Amendment right to talk about scientific research.
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June 22, 2026
Consumers sought Monday to widen the campaign against alleged algorithmic price fixing, in a proposed class action accusing Marathon, 7-Eleven, BP, Albertsons and other fuel retailers of handing over confidential data and pricing decisions to Kalibrate in violation of California state antitrust law.
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June 22, 2026
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, a leading cannabis consumer advocate, has asked the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to reconsider its move freezing out all pro-reform voices from upcoming hearings on a proposal to reschedule marijuana.
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June 22, 2026
Arizona-based coffee chain Black Rock Coffee, its executives and initial public offering underwriters were hit with a proposed shareholder class action alleging they failed to disclose ahead of the offering that the company's rapid expansion was negatively impacting sales at existing stores.
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June 22, 2026
Flushable-wipes company Dude Wipes LLC is facing a proposed class action in California federal court that alleges it promotes products as being plant-based and hypoallergenic, even though they contain synthetic ingredients, fragrances and known contact allergens.
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June 22, 2026
Hundreds of PC gamers have called on a Washington federal judge to extinguish Valve's lawsuit seeking to bar them from arbitrating antitrust claims, saying the judge has already rejected the video game developer's central argument that arbitrations cannot proceed under the updated user agreement for its Steam digital storefront.
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June 22, 2026
A federal jury will decide whether a Chubb unit was wrong to refuse to pay $10 million as part of a wrongful death settlement following a fatal crash involving a Lowe's employee after a North Carolina judge Monday found there are disputed issues of material fact in the case.
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June 22, 2026
State enforcers have urged a New York federal court to reject Live Nation's bid to upend a jury verdict finding the company monopolized key parts of the live entertainment industry, telling the court the jury carefully considered ample evidence and should not be second-guessed.
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June 22, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.
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June 22, 2026
Glove maker Pocketec Inc. has sued former business partners alleging they conspired to misappropriate intellectual property and used it to sell golf gloves under the same or very similar marks.
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June 22, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has thrown out a real estate developer's suit against the city of Pontiac, Michigan, and its clerk alleging they violated constitutional rights by delaying approvals of a proposed cannabis operation until it was no longer viable, saying the delays were an instance of discretionary actions in bureaucracy, not constitutional violations.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Georgia refrigerants company's petition to review a 2020 environmental law and subsequent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon consumption by 2036, rejecting a chance to either modify or replace the "intelligible principle" test in nondelegation cases.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Federal Circuit ruling that allowed a company affiliated with LeBron James to cancel a Maryland youth nonprofit's "I Am More Than An Athlete" trademark registration based on common law rights acquired during the dispute.
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June 18, 2026
Intellectual property litigation has become more spread out among patents, trademarks and copyrights over the years, as artificial intelligence and e-commerce systems have been drivers of legal matters, according to a new report.
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June 18, 2026
A German nonprofit research organization tried Wednesday to persuade a North Carolina federal court not to hand Lenovo and its subsidiary Motorola a pretrial win, arguing that the organization's asserted patents for wireless audio communications are inventive and offer specific technical solutions.