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July 07, 2026
The Fifth Circuit backed steakhouse chain Saltgrass Inc.'s quick win in a property contract dispute that involved the planned demolition of a former Joe's Crab Shack restaurant in Humble, Texas, ruling that the demolition contractually requires Saltgrass' permission.
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July 07, 2026
The Tenth Circuit revived voter intimidation claims against three Colorado election activists and a private group they formed to investigate alleged voter fraud after the 2020 election, holding that a lower court wrongly tossed the group from the case and too narrowly limited evidence about its canvassing campaign.
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July 06, 2026
Silicon Valley Bank's ex-head of corporate investments and capital markets testified in a deposition shown during a California federal bench trial Monday over the FDIC's claims the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, saying that he felt pressure from the bank's then-chief financial officer to add riskier, higher-yielding assets to the bank's securities portfolio.
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July 06, 2026
An annuity salesperson whose hostile work environment claim against Jackson National Life Insurance Co. was revived by the Tenth Circuit urged a Colorado federal judge Monday not to bar from trial a damages expert the company says the plaintiff denounced.
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July 06, 2026
A California federal court has denied Medtronic Inc.'s attempt to ditch a roughly $382 million trial loss in an antitrust case accusing the company of maintaining its monopoly over a surgical device through contracts that a jury found blocked competition.
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July 06, 2026
Elon Musk on Monday was denied a second shot at proving that he did not defraud Twitter Inc. shareholders when he cast doubt on an agreement to take the platform private for $44 billion, although the verdict against him was trimmed.
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July 06, 2026
Former Major League Baseball player Yasiel Puig filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy case in Florida with at least $1 million of debt several months after a California federal court jury found him guilty of lying to investigators about his participation in an illegal gambling operation.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.
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July 06, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court justices forged unusual alliances when they ruled a federal statute preempts claims Monsanto failed to warn consumers its Roundup weed killer may cause cancer. Oral arguments provided insights on the 7-2 outcome, highlighting issues the jurists were grappling with and showcasing rationales that found their way into the opinion.
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July 06, 2026
When one of the U.S. Supreme Court's most talkative members suddenly struggled to speak, the atmosphere at oral arguments grew increasingly anxious — until the justice deadpanned that it was an advocate's golden opportunity to avoid a grilling.
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July 06, 2026
Live Nation is backing its bid for judgment in its favor and a new trial after state enforcers won a jury verdict finding the company monopolized key parts of the live entertainment industry.
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July 06, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's criminal law rulings this term often sided with defendants, ruling in ways that defied simple conservative and liberal labels.
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July 06, 2026
A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.
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July 06, 2026
A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.
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July 06, 2026
The first half of 2026 brought long-awaited rulings providing clarity on the punitive damages pleading standard in Florida and the extent of a law allowing U.S. victims of Cuban property seizures to seek damages, as well as a high-profile guilty verdict in a rare foreign agent criminal trial. Here, Law360 looks at these and other notable developments from Florida so far this year.
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July 02, 2026
The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.
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July 02, 2026
This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.
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July 02, 2026
The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.
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July 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court delivered far-reaching rulings on civil rights issues this term, dealing a major blow to federal voting-rights protections while expanding gun rights, upholding restrictions on transgender athletes' participation in women's sports and preserving birthright citizenship.
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July 02, 2026
Nadine Menendez urged a New York federal judge Thursday to delay her prison surrender date four months to accommodate breast cancer-related surgeries, to which the judge ordered Menendez explain why her request came "90 minutes" before the Fourth of July long weekend and just days before her surrender date.
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July 02, 2026
Silicon Valley Bank's ex-CEO testified Thursday during a California federal bench trial over the FDIC's claims that the bank's brass mismanaged its assets, acknowledging during a tense examination that he received multimillion-dollar payouts and sold nearly $30 million in stock while regulators downgraded SVB's risk management rating ahead of its collapse.
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July 02, 2026
If a onetime McCarter & English LLP partner had raised a single red flag about a Long Island town's legally flimsy agreement to repay $20 million worth of a businessman's loans, the ill-fated deals never would have gone forward, a Connecticut court heard.
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July 02, 2026
Rival pharmaceutical companies that squared off at the U.S. Supreme Court over antibody patents have jointly asked the full Federal Circuit to review an unrelated panel decision reviving migraine drug antibody patents.
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July 02, 2026
Music labels, writers, photographers and copyright scholars are urging the Ninth Circuit to use the en banc rehearing in Kat Von D's Miles Davis tattoo fight to rework its substantial similarity test, though their amicus briefs are split over whether the court should discard the test entirely or refine it.
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July 02, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Thursday said a lower court needed to revisit a claim construction issue in an infringement case against Amazon over audio transcription patents, saying the question of whether the relevant claims were in the means-plus-function format needs a more thorough analysis.