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July 17, 2026
Omaha, Nebraska-based agricultural company Scoular has agreed to fork over $10 million to resolve a federal investigation into allegations it had customs brokers bribe Mexican border officials into accepting shipments into Mexico that had tested for impurities, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday.
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July 17, 2026
New York federal prosecutors have announced charges against two Chinese nationals who are alleged to be top members of a sophisticated money laundering network in New York and China that used numerous shell companies and bank accounts to conceal at least $43 million in illicit proceeds from "pig-butchering" scams.
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July 17, 2026
A New York federal judge has ruled that Deutsche Bank must face a proposed class action accusing it of conspiring with other big banks to fix U.K. government bond prices, finding that newly alleged trader chats provide "smoking gun" evidence allowing the case to proceed.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge has certified a class of Extreme Networks investors who say they were misled about its financial prospects during the COVID-19 pandemic, finding their out-of-pocket damages are measurable on a classwide basis and that they don't have to prove their case via common evidence.
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July 17, 2026
The state of New Mexico told a federal judge that a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit over prediction market regulation shouldn't stand, since the agency can't show how it's been harmed by the state's attempts to enforce its gaming laws against Kalshi.
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July 17, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court on Friday revived a Deutsche Bank lawsuit against billionaire Alexander Vik, concluding that the bank's prior litigation loss did not bar a second lawsuit accusing Vik and his daughter of disrupting a Norwegian software company's share sale designed to partially satisfy a $243 million English court judgment.
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July 17, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has recommended denying a cryptocurrency holding company's bid to throw out a former executive's breach of contract claim, concluding that Delaware's procedural rules permit so-called "counter-counterclaims" and rejecting arguments that the claim was barred by res judicata or was untimely under the doctrine of laches.
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July 17, 2026
U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff has entered an opinion explaining why he tossed an investor suit last month accusing JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third of facilitating a fraudulent scheme by bankrupt subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings, saying the suit does not establish the banks' motivations.
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July 17, 2026
The Delaware Supreme Court has declined to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's Jarkesy holding to a state securities fraud suit arising from an administrative enforcement action brought by the state's Investor Protection Unit, finding there are no similar common-law cases requiring the right to a jury trial.
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July 17, 2026
Plaintiff-side litigation veteran Jerry Schlichter, founding and co-managing partner of Schlichter Bogard LLP, told Law360 that highlights among the firm's recent legal victories include a reported settlement to end 401(k) investment litigation against ADP, as well as a $150 million settlement in a toxic lead emissions case.
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July 17, 2026
A Sixth Circuit panel has declined to grant a full rehearing of a constitutional challenge of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority's in-house disciplinary proceedings brought by the owner of a financial consulting company that had support from billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban.
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July 17, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Office of Inspector General said Friday that prosecutors declined to prosecute a now-retired SEC employee for purportedly sharing information about an active enforcement investigation with her son, who then posted information about the matter on social media.
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July 17, 2026
A Rivian Automotive Inc. stockholder has filed a derivative lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court accusing the electric-vehicle maker's current and former directors and officers of misleading investors about customer demand, production growth and the company's path to profitability, allegedly exposing Rivian to significant legal costs and potential liability.
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July 17, 2026
A bipartisan Senate bill would make it easier for small, rural communications providers to prepare reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission when obligated to submit paperwork for certain financial events.
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July 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Snapchat and Dolby press on with a fresh infringement claim in their ongoing patent battle, The Telegraph face an intellectual property claim by a photo archive, a group of international human rights barristers and chambers sued, and oil business Equinor embroiled in a contract dispute with BP after recently acquiring full ownership in their offshore project. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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July 16, 2026
Kalshi said Thursday that it's working with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to address suspicious trades on the president's speeches that appear to have netted a federally employed teleprompter operator approximately $90,000.
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July 16, 2026
Federal regulators said Thursday that they are stepping up their protocols for handling bank data and documents during supervisory examinations, outlining a new policy that will allow banks to designate certain "highly sensitive" information for stricter access control measures.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Senate has passed a resolution condemning Sam Bankman-Fried's bid for a presidential pardon, making clear that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle oppose clemency for the imprisoned FTX founder.
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July 16, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge ruled Wednesday that investors of prostate cancer treatment developer Essa Pharma Inc. have not shown they were misled by the company on the efficacy of its lead drug candidate, which was not as effective as an existing treatment for certain cancer patients in a terminated clinical trial.
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July 16, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Thursday revived whistleblower claims accusing Bank of America, Wells Fargo and other financial giants of fraud in the setting of interest rates on certain municipal bonds, saying that a lower court improperly blocked the attorney general from exercising authority in the litigation.
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July 16, 2026
A California federal judge has dismissed former and current Fat Brands executives from a proposed class action accusing them and the restaurant group of falsely claiming to be cooperating with the government's investigations into allegations that its CEO orchestrated a $47 million loan scheme, causing stock prices to plunge when criminal charges were announced.
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July 16, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday proposed a new rule that would allow electronic delivery to be the default method for sending investors disclosures, shareholder reports, proxy statements and other information, replacing a standard by which many documents are delivered in paper format unless the recipient chooses otherwise.
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July 16, 2026
Wells Fargo and Ocwen asked a New York federal judge for a pretrial win in a suit from union pension fund trustees accusing the companies of mishandling home loans tied to employee pension fund investments, after the Second Circuit partially knocked out the companies' earlier win in March.
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July 16, 2026
Distressed debt investor Lynn Tilton's Patriarch Partners must pay roughly $2.4 million to the litigation trust for a trio of collateralized loan funds she founded in the 2000s, a New York federal judge has ruled, finding that Tilton's private equity firm breached a credit contract.
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July 16, 2026
A New York federal judge ordered a promoter of digital asset BitConnect to pay more than $1 million to end the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's claims that he earned hundreds of thousands of dollars by recruiting investors into an unregistered cryptocurrency lending program, rejecting his arguments that the payment should be reduced.