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August 31, 2026
Tesla urged the Ninth Circuit on Monday to decertify classes of Tesla buyers who accuse the company of making false and deceptive promises about the capabilities of their "self-driving" electric vehicles, arguing that there's no proof showing all class members viewed the alleged misstatement at issue on Tesla's webpage.
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August 31, 2026
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright oversaw more than 50 patent trials between his 2018 arrival on the bench and planned Monday departure, and in a surprise for many attorneys, there was a near-even split between victories for patent owners and accused infringers.
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August 31, 2026
Ford Motor Co. and a custom Bronco builder are trying to pare down their trademark fight in dueling summary judgment bids, with Ford targeting defenses to its claims over Bronco-inspired SUVs and the defendants accusing the automaker of improperly renewing its Bronco registration while the model was out of production.
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August 31, 2026
A Florida magistrate judge said Monday bondholder plaintiffs have standing to pursue racketeering claims in a suit accusing Citigroup of running a massive cash advance fraud scheme, finding that although the "operative locus" of the fraud was in Mexico, a large part of Citigroup's alleged conduct occurred in the United States.
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August 31, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel on Monday expressed skepticism that environmental groups had standing to challenge Louisiana's approval of a preconstruction permit for a major liquefied natural gas export terminal in Cameron Parish.
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August 31, 2026
Tesla has agreed to settle a suit alleging the automaker's autopilot technology and marketing of its self-driving capabilities contributed to a fatal 2023 crash that killed a driver and seriously injured his passenger, according to documents filed in California federal court.
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August 31, 2026
William Ramey of Ramey LLP has urged the full Federal Circuit to review his liability for more than $207,000 in sanctions in a client's patent infringement suit against Volkswagen, arguing that his notices of appeal were faulty but still adequately identified him as a party.
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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.