A Northern District of California court held that Babylist's sign-up page gave consumers legally sufficient notice of its arbitration clause, sending privacy claims to JAMS and out of federal court.
A federal judge awarded Moonbug Entertainment $279,962.75 in post-judgment collection fees against BabyBus, while denying all appellate fees, after finding that BabyBus engaged in extraordinary evasion to avoid paying a $25.6 million copyright judgment.
A federal magistrate judge denied the government's eve-of-trial motion to depose Agri Stats about settlements it reached in three related private antitrust MDLs, ruling the request was both untimely and procedurally defective.
A federal court in San Diego held that a Pennsylvania pharmaceutical company's knowing employment of a California-based remote worker subjected it to specific personal jurisdiction there for employment discrimination and wrongful-termination claims, while...
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.
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania allowed most of a policyholder family's expanded claims against Pacific Life Insurance Company to proceed, ruling that fraud, fraudulent inducement, fraudulent misrepresentation, negligent...
A federal judge in Jacksonville kept a Lanham Act suit against Google in the Middle District of Florida, rejecting the company's bid to move the case to its home turf in the Northern District of California.
A federal magistrate judge in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania partially blocked plaintiff's engineering expert in a wrongful-death suit over a Bobst die-cutting machine that crushed a worker to death, ruling the expert's malfunction theory too...
The Ohio First District Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s judgments against Dr. Abubakar Atiq Durrani and Center for Advanced Spine Technologies, Inc., after a consolidated jury trial found the defendants liable to four plaintiffs who alleged...
A Quebec hospital network that paid $5.25 million upfront for pandemic masks it never received wins partial summary judgment on contract, conversion, and theft claims after the seller spent the deposit on personal expenses and unrelated business deals.
The Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Robinson Helicopter Company, holding that the General Aviation Revitalization Act of 1994 does not require replacement parts to be "substantively altered" from the original design to restart the statute of...
The D.C. Circuit affirmed the civil forfeiture of over 700,000 barrels of crude oil seized from two tankers in the Mediterranean Sea, holding that the United States adequately pleaded its claim against a Turkish commodities trading company.
A published ruling resolves a novel question of New Jersey law, holding that snow tubers are "skiers" under the Ski Act and that a resort operator cannot be sued under common law for a tubing injury when the plaintiff cannot show the operator had notice of...
In a question of first impression for Illinois appellate courts, the Third District holds that some pre-event safety failures fall outside the Tort Immunity Act's supervision shield.
The justices debated whether a federal district court can review a state-court consent order while that order remains under appeal in the state appellate system.
A Northern District of Illinois judge denied Nourish, Inc.'s motion to dismiss a putative class action alleging the company surreptitiously tracked users' sensitive health information and transmitted it to Google.
A Northern District of California magistrate judge has scheduled a hearing for April 20, 2026, to address key legal questions regarding subpoenas issued to Reddit, Inc. and Discord, Inc. in a dispute involving Ted Entertainment, Inc.
The First Circuit reversed the dismissal of claims against Debra Monday, finding the district court wrongly dismissed her on personal jurisdiction grounds, while affirming the dismissal of claims against New York-based defendants H.U.R.B. Landscaping and...
A federal judge in Oklahoma threw out a building owner's elevator-maintenance lawsuit with prejudice after finding the plaintiff intentionally altered a 55-page inspection report to hide that it was authored by a direct competitor of the defendant.
Plaintiff Malcolm Phinney’s lawsuit against Greenwood Motor Lines Inc. survives only on a narrow claim that the carrier failed to implement adequate policies to prevent distracted driving, as the Eastern District of Arkansas granted partial summary judgment...