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June 11, 2026
A Houston law firm on Thursday told a Texas state court that an erstwhile legal assistant stole heaps of attorney-client communications that she subsequently misused, including by relaying sensitive emails to a lawyer representing the wife of a firm attorney in the middle of a divorce.
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June 11, 2026
A user authentication patent owner that sued Bank of America for infringement lost its challenge to how a Texas federal court interpreted a key patent term, after the Federal Circuit on Thursday backed the lower court's claim construction.
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June 11, 2026
Seyfarth Shaw LLP has bolstered its real estate department with a Houston-based partner who most recently served as firmwide chair of the real estate and construction practice at Baker Botts LLP, where she had worked for three decades.
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June 11, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday vacated and remanded a Fifth Circuit ruling that let judicial estoppel bar a Chapter 13 debtor from pursuing tort litigation after he failed to disclose the claim to a bankruptcy court, deciding that the circuit court did not consider the totality of the facts and circumstances of the case.
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June 10, 2026
Camp Mystic and parents of a girl killed in flooding there last summer faced off Wednesday over whether the camp should be sanctioned because its attorney said a plaintiff's lawyer would "burn in hell" and for other alleged misconduct in litigation over flooding deaths at the Texas camp.
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June 10, 2026
QVC Group and its creditors on Wednesday traded shots with preferred shareholders before a Texas bankruptcy judge in closing arguments on confirmation of the shopping channel's Chapter 11 plan, sparring over whether a deal on intercompany claims was reached fairly.
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June 10, 2026
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas on Wednesday to do what they can to shield the state's ratepayers from the costs of data center expansion projects.
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June 10, 2026
Environmental advocacy organizations told a D.C. federal district court Wednesday that Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s use of formerly protected land near the Texas coast would endanger vulnerable wildlife, saying SpaceX's occasional rocket explosions spew debris directly into protected habitat.
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June 10, 2026
U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York on Wednesday threw out an investor suit accusing JPMorgan, Barclays and Fifth Third of facilitating a sprawling alleged fraud by Tricolor Holdings, the bankrupt subprime auto lender.
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June 10, 2026
A Texas federal judge has suggested that Austin-based CrowdStrike Inc. shouldn't be allowed to escape a suit accusing it of infringing a computer system monitoring patent, saying the allegations are sufficient at this point to avoid dismissal.
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June 10, 2026
Three district court nominees on Wednesday said President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, a departure from other judicial nominees in the second Trump administration, but court watchers on the left took issue with how they couched those statements.
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June 10, 2026
This round of Law360's review of emerging copyright and trademark issues looks at the ripple effects from the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on secondary copyright liability and highlights looming high court bids over "Top Gun" and Roberto Clemente's likeness on commemorative license plates.
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June 10, 2026
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has invalidated certain claims in a 3D printing patent owned by U.S.-Israeli company Stratasys, but agreed to keep the claims in another patent alive in challenges launched by a Chinese company accused of infringement.
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June 10, 2026
An electric cooperative told a federal court that Texas is the wrong place for an infrastructure company to pursue claims that it backed out of a contract after the infrastructure company had already racked up $120 million in costs, saying the work took place in North Dakota.
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June 10, 2026
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.
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June 10, 2026
Houston, Texas-based ERock, which supplies natural gas power systems to data centers, began trading Wednesday after raising $600 million at the midpoint of its range with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP advising.
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June 10, 2026
The Fifth Circuit denied the U.S. government's request for the full court to review a three-judge panel's April opinion finding the tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at home unconstitutional after another appeals court's opposite conclusion affirmed the ban.
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June 10, 2026
A Texas hospital system agreed to settle a proposed class action from ex-workers alleging the healthcare nonprofit failed to curb excessive recordkeeping fees and remove underperforming funds from its $2.8 billion employee retirement plan, after a magistrate judge recommended denying its motion to dismiss an amended complaint in May.
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June 09, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has waived multiple environmental laws as it builds border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park, saying it must quickly deter illegal crossings in areas of high illegal entry on the Texas-Mexico border.
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June 09, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi Inc. announced on Tuesday that it will start requiring users to verify their employer before they can trade on certain markets, and will further implement features allowing users to directly report suspicious trading activity.
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June 09, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel pressed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to explain how an apparently uniform denial of flavored e-cigarettes would not fall under federal rulemaking, saying Tuesday that the agency's decision-making seemingly "squawks like a rule."
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June 09, 2026
A U.S. Government Accountability report released Tuesday revealed that hasty planning led to $19 million in waste tied to fluctuating occupancy and safety issues at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's largest detention center in El Paso, Texas.
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June 09, 2026
Natural gas mineral and royalty interests company WhiteHawk Income Corp. began trading publicly Tuesday after raising $200 million in its upsized initial public offering.
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June 09, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $37.5 million patent infringement verdict against two companies selling TP-Link wireless network devices that were sued by patent licensing company Atlas Global Technologies LLC.
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June 09, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Tuesday reversed a lower court's decision dismissing a lawsuit against the head of an industrial cleaning services company over allegations that his business routinely steals employees from competitors, finding there was a plausible claim against him personally.