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J&J Talc Evidence Gets Review by Ex-Judge at Drugmaker Law Firm
Aug 8 2025 // A retired federal judge will help decide the fate of thousands of Johnson & Johnson baby powder cancer lawsuits even though her law firm represents the drugmaker in other matters. Freda Wolfson was appointed earlier...
Federal Judge Upholds Rhode Island’s Gun Permit System for Open Carry
Aug 7 2025 // A federal judge says Rhode Island’s gun permit system, which requires residents to show “a need” to openly carry a firearm throughout the state, does not violate the Second Amendment. In a ruling handed...
Residents Discover WV Lawmakers Eliminated Local Authority Over Data Centers
Aug 6 2025 // In late March, Pamela Moe was at her dining room table, skimming the local paper when something caught her eye. A legal notice, by a company she had never heard of, for a facility near the city of Thomas. Curious, Moe...
Federal Judge Stops FEMA From Diverting Infrastructure, Disaster Mitigation Grants
Aug 6 2025 // A federal judge has granted the request of 20 states to block the Trump administration’s attempt to terminate a multibillion-dollar grant program meant for states’ infrastructure upgrades and disaster...
Flood Relief, THC Regulation in Limbo After House Democrats Leave Texas
Aug 5 2025 // After dozens of Democratic Texas House members fled the state on Sunday to deny Republicans the quorum they need to pass new congressional maps aimed at securing more GOP seats, many other bills are now at risk of...
Florida Judge Blocks State Agency for Citizens Claims Disputes, But Insurer Appeals
Aug 5 2025 // A Florida judge temporarily halted Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance Corp. from sending claims disputes to a state arbitration agency, but a notice of appeal by Citizens automatically suspended the judge’s...
EU Court Rules Against Environmentalists Trying to Block Spanish Wind Farms
Aug 4 2025 // The European Court of Justice on Friday dealt a blow to environmental groups trying to stop wind farms from being built in Spain’s northwestern Galicia region, in a ruling affecting billions of euros of...
Texas Judge Rules BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard Must Face Antitrust Suit
Aug 4 2025 // A federal judge in Texas largely denied a request by the world’s largest asset managers to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Republican state attorneys general claiming they colluded to reduce coal output, in a case that...
New Law Orders Louisiana Insurers to Show Prior Policy Premiums
Aug 4 2025 // Under a new state law, Louisiana insurers will be required to give mandatory disclosure of prior policy premium when issuing a renewal policy to a policyholder. Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple sent an advisory...
Industry Trades Throw Support Behind Bill to Affirm State Regulation of Insurance
Jul 29 2025 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) is supporting a bill first introduced more than 18 months ago to limit the authority of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and protect state regulation...
Musk’s Geopolitical Influence Raises Concerns Among Regulators and Lawmakers
Jul 29 2025 // During a pivotal push by Ukraine to retake territory from Russia in late September 2022, Elon Musk gave an order that disrupted the counteroffensive and dented Kyiv’s trust in Starlink, the satellite internet service...
Judge Sanctions Lawyers Defending Alabama’s Prisons For Citing Fake Cases From AI
Jul 28 2025 // A federal judge reprimanded lawyers with a high-priced firm defending Alabama’s prison system for using ChatGPT to write court filings with “completely made up” case citations. U.S. District Judge Anna...
Meta Clashes With Apple, Google Over Child Age Check Legislation
Jul 25 2025 // The biggest tech companies are warring over who’s responsible for children’s safety online, with billions of dollars in fines on the line as states rapidly pass conflicting laws requiring companies to verify...
AXA Wins $908 Million UK Court Ruling Against Santander Over Protection Insurance
Jul 25 2025 // French insurer AXA won a London court ruling on Friday worth nearly 675 million pounds ($908 million) against Santander over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance more than two decades ago. The dispute between...
Kazakh Black Sea Oil Exports Halted by New Russian Regulations, Sources Say
Jul 25 2025 // Foreign oil tankers are being temporarily barred from loading at Russia’s main Black Sea ports following new regulations, two industry sources said on Wednesday [July 23], effectively blocking exports from Kazakhstan...
Long-Standing Problems Led Up to Deadly Texas Floods, Lawmakers Told
Jul 24 2025 // No minimum qualifications for local emergency management coordinators. No easy way to know if local officials are getting weather warnings. Difficulty getting all first responders on the same radio communication...
Judge Approves $318M From Sale of Lindberg’s Software Firms to Repay Victims
Jul 24 2025 // After two years of litigation, maneuvering and negotiating, insurance companies once owned by convicted North Carolina businessmen Greg Lindberg may soon see some recovery of the millions in assets that Lindberg allegedly...
HP Lost £730 Million After Buying Mike Lynch’s Autonomy, Judge Says
Jul 22 2025 // Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. lost around £730 million ($985 million) after it bought Mike Lynch’s firm Autonomy Corp., a London judge ruled less than a year after the British tech tycoon drowned when his yacht...
Authors Suing Anthropic Can Band Together in Copyright Suit, Judge Rules
Jul 21 2025 // A California federal judge ruled on Thursday that three authors suing artificial intelligence startup Anthropic for copyright infringement can represent writers nationwide whose books Anthropic allegedly pirated to train...
Deadly Massachusetts Fire Highlights Assisted Living Regulation, Staffing
Jul 17 2025 // The Massachusetts assisted-living facility where a fatal fire killed nine people was caring for dozens of aging residents reliant on wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, but it lacked the safety measures and most of the staffing...
