A federal judge in Sherman, Texas, has barred an expert witness from testifying about economic damages in a consumer’s Fair Credit Reporting Act suit against Experian Information Solutions, finding the expert cannot offer opinions on the...
Garcia Delgado v. Experian Information Solutions, Inc.
Safeco Insurance must disclose reserve data in a bad faith suit, but its claims manuals are protected by a confidentiality order.
Hendricks et al v. Safeco Insurance Company of America
U.S. District Judge Lee H. Rosenthal granted summary judgment to two Harris County deputies in a civil rights lawsuit, ruling that body-worn camera footage showed the officers used only the force necessary to overcome the plaintiff’s...
Williams v. Harris County et al
A federal judge in Tampa denied Aerosonic LLC’s bid to add a new trade secret to its lawsuit against Joby Aviation, ruling the drone startup’s late discovery of a CT scan did not justify expanding its intellectual property claims six...
Aerosonic LLC v. Joby Aviation, Inc. et al
U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer scheduled oral argument for July 15 on pending summary judgment motions action against Coinbase Global Inc.
Underwood et al v. Coinbase Global, Inc.
The state’s highest court held that trial courts must interpret utility rate settlement agreements for ambiguity before deferring to agency discretion, remanding a dispute over $17 million in storm recovery costs.
Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that trial courts must interpret utility settlement agreements de novo to determine if they are ambiguous before deferring to a regulatory agency’s interpretation, reversing a lower court that had...
Connecticut Light & Power Co. v. Public Utilities Regulatory Authority
The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais has significantly raised the burden for plaintiffs challenging redistricting maps under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, requiring illustrative maps to meet not only...
Fighting back after the gutting of the Voting Rights Act
The Third Circuit held that surreptitiously recording a shopper’s complete credit card number constitutes a concrete injury analogous to intrusion upon seclusion, granting Article III standing. The court affirmed the dismissal of claims...
In re: BPS Direct LLC
A federal judge in Western New York ruled that a 2025 amendment to the New York Labor Law does not preempt the Fair Labor Standards Act’s liquidated damages provision, preserving the statutory penalty for home-care workers alleging wage...
Beh v. Community Care Companions Inc
X Corp.'s lawsuit accusing Media Matters of fabricating images to drive away advertisers has reached a discovery crossroads, with a federal judge rejecting boilerplate privilege objections while leaving a thorny question about the Stored...
X Corp. v Media Matters for America et al
The Supreme Court ruled that plaintiffs must prove intentional racial discrimination to establish liability under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, rejecting claims based solely on disparate impact.
The recent Voting Rights Act case
A Delaware federal judge dismissed a securities class action against industrial chemical maker Chemours, ruling that plaintiffs failed to plead material misrepresentations regarding the company's Free Cash Flow metrics.
Nguyen, et al. v. The Chemours Company, et al.
A worker fired after telling HR he reported witnessing a male colleague pursue a female coworker cannot be pushed into arbitration, the court ruled in a case of first impression under a 2022 federal law.
Cook v. Stanley G. Alexander, Inc.
Two competing lead-plaintiff groups resolved their dispute over a securities-fraud lawsuit against PomDoctor, Ltd. by agreeing to serve together.
Louie v. PomDoctor, Ltd. et al
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s grant of summary judgment in a dispute over a motor vehicle deficiency balance, holding that claims under the Uniform Commercial Code and state consumer finance law are not subject...
Mutual Security Credit Union v. Hardy
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment in favor of Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union, holding that the one-year statute of limitations for penal statutes does not apply to damages claims under Article 9...
Lumpkin v. Nutmeg State Financial Credit Union
The Connecticut Supreme Court reversed a trial court’s summary judgment ruling in Connex Credit Union v. Madgic, holding that the three-year statute of limitations for tort actions, rather than the one-year period for penal...
Connex Credit Union v. Madgic
A former personal assistant says her boss stranded her in Tanzania after she refused his sexual advances, then fired her when she came home.
Ochab v. Ray
A federal court in San Francisco granted Apple Inc leave to file an early summary judgment motion arguing Neonode Smartphone LLC’s patent is invalid for lack of written description.
Neonode Smartphone LLC v. Apple Inc
A New Jersey federal judge enforced a mandatory forum-selection clause in an independent contractor agreement, transferring a putative class action alleging wage-and-hour violations to Florida.
Alexander v. Quality Carriers, Inc. et al
A federal judge in Brooklyn largely refused to dismiss a putative class action by three film and television craftsmen who allege their union kept them out of full membership — and off pension benefits — for years after they had earned...
ALEXANDER WILSON, RONALD BISHOP, and GABLE SCHNEIDER, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF THEATRICAL STAGE EMPLOYEES LOCAL 52, Defendant.
A Delaware federal judge wiped out the last surviving claim of a reactive targeted advertising patent after finding it covered nothing more than the age-old practice of tailoring a pitch to a particular customer.
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC
The Second Circuit held that pre-death emotional distress from witnessing a spouse's death satisfies the severe distress element under New York law, reversing the district court's denial of default judgment on intentional infliction of...
In Re: Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001
The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that text messages and emails stored on the private cell phones and email accounts of individual members of a state wildlife commission do not qualify as public records subject to disclosure under the...
Kentucky Open Government Coalition, Inc. v. Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission
The District of New Jersey has issued a claim construction order in a private patent dispute between Seasonal Specialties, LLC and National Christmas Products, Inc., resolving nine disputed terms in U.S. Patent Nos. 9,554,437 and...
SEASONAL SPECIALTIES, LLC, Plaintiff, v. NATIONAL CHRISTMAS PRODUCTS, INC., Defendant.
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of New York conditionally certified an FLSA collective action brought by chimney technicians and helpers who say their employer paid flat weekly salaries while requiring them to work up...
LUIS ALBERTO OCAMPO and CARLOS JIMINEZ, on behalf of themselves, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly-situated, Plaintiffs, v. GUARANTEED HOME IMPROVEMENT LLC, and JUSTIN ROMANO, individually, and ABRAHAM FINKLER, individually, and RICARDO MARTINEZ, individually, Defendants.
A published Sixth Circuit ruling holds that an Oklahoma debt-collection law firm purposefully availed itself of Michigan by garnishing the wages of a Michigan employee, reversing a dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction.
Alexander Ross v. Robinson, Hoover & Fudge, PLLC
The Connecticut Supreme Court held that an employer's workers' compensation lien under General Statutes § 31-293 (a) extends to tort settlement proceeds attributable to a deceased worker's nonoccupational asbestos exposure, not just the...
Dodge v. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles
A federal judge in California denied Carl's Jr.'s motion for partial summary judgment, allowing a former crew member's claims of disability discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful termination to proceed to trial.
ADELAIDA MARTINEZ aka ADELA MARTINEZ, Plaintiff, v. CARL'S JR. RESTAURANTS LLC, A Delaware Limited Liability Company; CKE RESTAURANTS HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware Corporation; and DOES 1 to 25, inclusive Defendants.
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Franklin Resources' motion to dismiss breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims, allowing plaintiffs to proceed with allegations that the company loaded the Franklin Templeton...
EDMUND ANG, et al., Plaintiffs, v. FRANKLIN RESOURCES, INC., et al., Defendants.
The D.C. Circuit vacated preliminary injunctions that had blocked the Federal Bureau of Prisons from transferring eighteen transgender women plaintiffs to men’s facilities, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate a likelihood of...
Jane Doe v. Todd Blanche
A federal judge in Delaware granted Google summary judgment on patent-eligibility grounds, holding that the sole remaining claim in B.E. Technology's infringement suit is directed to an abstract idea and contains no inventive concept...
B.E. Technology, L.L.C. v. Google LLC