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August 31, 2026
Ohio federal judges on Monday tossed more than a half dozen lawsuits business owners filed against Norfolk Southern Corp. over the East Palestine train derailment and chemical spill in the state after the plaintiffs and the railroad moved to have them dismissed.
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August 31, 2026
Seven dispatchers at the Metropolitan Transit Authority for Erie, Pennsylvania, are not "supervisors" exempt from membership in the authority's labor union, since their roles in scheduling overtime or reporting rule infractions were constrained by their contract and only occasionally crossed the line into supervision, the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court ruled Monday.
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August 31, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court upheld the denial of a widow's claim for workers' compensation after her husband had a cardiac event she said was caused by work stress at General Dynamics, ruling an administrative law judge was fair to attribute his death to his pre-existing heart disease.
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August 31, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday sided with Ford Motor Co. in a suit by a Virgin Islands woman who alleges that she was injured when her airbag spontaneously went off, causing her to crash, finding that she can't rely on the accident as her sole evidence of a defect.
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August 31, 2026
A former Michigan International Speedway guard asked a federal court to dismiss her sexual harassment suit against her former supervisor, NASCAR and the racetrack, a request that follows docket entries indicating the remaining claims and counterclaims were successfully mediated.
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August 31, 2026
The Trump administration said Monday it is immediately shutting down 110 commercial driver's license schools for certifying truck drivers who can't read or speak English, and pledged to aggressively prosecute accused "fraudsters" who knowingly put untrained or unskilled truck drivers on American roads.
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August 31, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over a $200 million federal grant, a $1.7 billion software take-private deal, the ouster of Better.com founder Vishal Garg and a proposed $4 million settlement stemming from an electric vehicle company's SPAC merger.
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August 31, 2026
A Michigan federal court has granted final approval of a nearly $3.8 million settlement resolving overtime claims brought by current and former hourly production employees at Fiat Chrysler's U.S. facilities, with $1.26 million of that amount going to attorney fees.
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August 28, 2026
A Federal Circuit ruling that patent owners must ensure that all licensees mark their products with patent information in order to recover presuit damages will complicate licensing talks and give defendants a route to limit or escape damages in some cases, attorneys say.
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August 28, 2026
Uber cannot force into arbitration a passenger who sued over a crash in which he was severely injured when the ride was requested by his wife since he never created an account or agreed to the ride-hailing company's terms of service, the D.C. Circuit said in a published opinion Friday.
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August 28, 2026
A Texas federal judge declined Friday to toss a patent infringement suit against American Airlines over in-flight Wi-Fi, finding the patent licensing company Intellectual Ventures has made enough of a case for the suit to proceed.
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August 28, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday denied a bid to summarily affirm an order denying Royal Caribbean's motion to arbitration claims by passengers suing the cruise line over numerous incidents of voyeurism involving a former employee.
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August 28, 2026
A lot can happen in the world of mergers and acquisitions and equity fundraising over the course of a couple of weeks, and it's difficult to keep up with all the deals.
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August 28, 2026
A Texas federal judge has refused to grant a Canadian fuel system company a new trial in its patent infringement case against engineering firm Robert Bosch, saying the company had not met the high standard to overturn a jury verdict.
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August 28, 2026
Two Native American tribes urged a Washington state judge Friday to preserve their climate change tort claims against ConocoPhillips, contending there's a "clear connection" between the oil company's Washington ties, its alleged actions downplaying the dangers of burning fossil fuels and the tribes' purported injuries.
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August 28, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has handed asset manager Meteora Capital Partners LP a summary judgment win in its contract fight with auto insurance technology company Roadzen Inc., finding Roadzen breached a 2023 stock subscription agreement by failing to register shares and later failing to remove restrictions that kept Meteora from reselling them.
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August 28, 2026
A federal judge's endorsement earlier this month of the Trump administration's restart of a pipeline over California's objections will likely embolden the federal government to override state opposition to energy project development, but the ruling won't be the last word on the legality of such moves.
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August 28, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge on Friday dismissed class claims accusing Geico of underpaying the actual cash value of totaled vehicles, finding that a previous Third Circuit ruling made such disputes unsuitable for class treatment based on the need for individualized evidence.
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August 28, 2026
Two men have been sentenced to prison over an insurance fraud conspiracy in which they staged car crashes on local highways — including one captured in a video that went viral on social media — New York City and state officials announced.
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August 28, 2026
A Texas federal magistrate judge has recommended tossing patent infringement claims against Uber Technologies Inc., saying ride-hailing drivers' homes and cars being based in the district was not enough to establish jurisdiction over the company.
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August 28, 2026
The former owners of a General Motors LLC dealership are suing GM in Arizona federal court for $20 million, alleging that the automaker tricked them into buying a doomed location by saying they could later relocate, only to renege and place other restrictions that made it impossible to meet its quotas.
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August 28, 2026
United Parcel Service Inc. required employees to go through security screenings before work, wouldn't let them clock in until afterward and forced them through another unpaid check before they could leave, two Connecticut warehouse workers claimed in a proposed class action that accuses the courier of withholding earned wages.
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August 28, 2026
After years of allowing the state-sanctioned medical marijuana industry to operate without interference, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is stepping in to regulate a drug it once treated exclusively as contraband, but attorneys and regulators say the cannabis industry's interactions with the agency are off to a rocky start.
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August 28, 2026
The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate.
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August 28, 2026
Van-type trailers and their subassemblies imported from China into the U.S. are facing major antidumping and countervailing duties after the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized its findings Friday that they are being sold at unfair prices.