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June 30, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission next month will consider revamping broadband "nutrition" labels of cable service performance crafted during the Biden administration to purportedly make them less confusing, according to a Tuesday blog post.
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June 30, 2026
California will expand its sales and use tax base to include prewritten software, make permanent its business tax credit limit and halve the $800 minimum tax for limited liability companies, under the last budget that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed as the state's chief executive.
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June 30, 2026
The Justice Department offered its formal defense of the controversial midtrial settlement that allowed Live Nation to keep its Ticketmaster subsidiary, telling a New York federal judge the deal frees up artists and venues much faster than any remedy state attorneys general could achieve through their jury win.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to review the constitutionality of laws banning the sale of firearms to people under 21, once again rejecting calls to consider a question that has sharply divided the lower courts.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sent back several cases over claims that Bayer unit Monsanto Co.'s Roundup weed killer causes cancer, after the court last week delivered its ruling that state-based claims about a failure to warn on the weedkiller's labeling are barred by federal law.
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June 30, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to take up Apple's challenge to a California federal court contempt order against it for violating a ban, won by Epic Games, on company policies that barred app developers from steering users to outside payment options.
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June 29, 2026
The Chinese manufacturer of Instant Pot can't escape claims that one of its pressure cookers malfunctioned and ejected scalding food on two people, a Washington state judge ruled, giving the plaintiffs a chance to show the company's relationship with Seattle-based online retailer Amazon is enough to establish jurisdiction.
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June 29, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Monday probed the line between two overlapping trades because a disputed noncompete contract doesn't define either one, hoping to understand a moving company's arguments that a woman it once allegedly described as a partner poached clients, employees and intellectual property before relaunching her own company.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to hear a trademark fight over PepsiCo's "Mtn Dew Rise Energy" drink gives the justices a chance to clarify when juries, rather than judges, should decide whether a mark is inherently strong — a narrow question that attorneys say could affect how often infringement cases survive summary judgment.
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June 29, 2026
Organic chia seeds Walmart sells through its private label are contaminated with "exceedingly high levels of mold and yeast," according to a lawsuit filed in Florida federal court, which claims the product is "in no way safe for human use" and "entirely worthless."
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June 29, 2026
Wayne-Sanderson urged a Maryland federal court to enforce nearly $70 million in settlements the poultry processor reached with workers and to block dozens of individuals who are suing or threatening to sue in Alabama state court alleging wage suppression.
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June 29, 2026
Now that the Federal Communications Commission has given some telecommunications trade groups permission to make changes to foreign-made routers that the agency has banned from being imported, those groups are asking the agency to let suppliers make the changes themselves.
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June 29, 2026
A nonpracticing entity from New Mexico has accused 7-Eleven Inc. and various other companies of infringing its communications patent in the Eastern District of Texas.
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June 29, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has preliminarily approved a $1.2 million settlement resolving class claims against Lake Consumer Products alleging it sold shampoo with known carcinogens and failed to disclose the cancer risks to consumers.
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June 29, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has greenlighted a $99,000 deal JCPenney reached with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to wrap up a suit claiming the department store chain fired a worker for taking time off for chemotherapy sessions, the agency announced Monday.
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June 29, 2026
A federal judge in Seattle consolidated a pair of proposed class actions brought by Amazon customers looking to recover millions of dollars in refunds for the now-invalidated International Emergency Economic Powers Act tariffs, as the two suits made essentially identical allegations.
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June 29, 2026
Rhode Island cannabis regulators are urging a federal judge to lift a preliminary injunction that halted social equity and adult-use cannabis licensure, saying recently enacted legislation removes the specific elements of the state's marijuana law that drew a constitutional challenge in the first place.
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June 29, 2026
A company that accused LVMH of infringing its nonfungible tokens display technology patents says Fish & Richardson PC should be blocked from representing the luxury goods giant because the firm met with the patent owner in the past.
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June 29, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving controlling stockholders, executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands and board governance, while the Delaware Supreme Court issued decisions in two corporate records cases previously decided in the Chancery.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition from Samsung SDI Co. seeking to overturn a Minnesota appeals court ruling finding it must face a suit over an exploding vape pen battery.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down four petitions over patent law Monday, meaning it won't review questions related to prosecution laches, jury verdicts, patent eligibility and marking.
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June 29, 2026
Several consumers saw their claims trimmed or were booted entirely from a proposed class action accusing Colgate-Palmolive Co. of allowing their toothpastes to become tainted with lead and mercury, with a Manhattan federal judge suggesting a third-party study and other testing that all buyers relied on proved very little.
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June 26, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's highly anticipated ruling in favor of Monsanto over its blockbuster pesticide Roundup established that a pesticide's labeling must meet federal standards, ensuring that businesses don't have to comply with a variety of potentially conflicting state laws.
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June 26, 2026
A cannabis dispensary is seeking an early win in its challenge to a New York state requirement compelling cannabis operators to sign labor peace agreements with unions to secure a license, telling a federal court Friday that the state's argument alleging the company has "unclean hands" is meritless.
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June 26, 2026
The federal judiciary announced Friday it will temporarily increase the fees for electronic access to court records to pay for a potential $800 million upgrade that will modernize and strengthen court records systems PACER and CM/ECF, an upgrade it previously said is needed to respond to escalating cyberattacks.