Colgate-Palmolive Company is facing a class action lawsuit in California that accuses the company of misleading consumers by marketing its “hello kids” toothpaste line as safe and natural, while allegedly containing unsafe levels of lead. The case was filed on October 22 by California residents Nathan Barton and Cynthia Fahrnkopf... Read More »
A group of authors has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple Inc., accusing the company of using their copyrighted books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system, Apple Intelligence. The case, filed on October 22 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims that Apple’s... Read More »
A Washington, D.C. resident has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his constitutional rights were violated after he was detained for peacefully protesting the National Guard’s deployment in the city. The complaint, filed on October 23 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was brought by Sam O’Hara... Read More »
Lizzo is once again facing a legal challenge over her music, this time, for a track that hasn’t even been released. A Georgia-based entity known as the GRC Trust has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the singer, claiming that a snippet of her unreleased song “I’m Goin’ in Till... Read More »
The State of Arizona and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva have sued the U.S. House of Representatives and Speaker Mike Johnson, claiming that the Speaker has no constitutional authority to delay swearing in a duly elected member whose qualifications are not in question. The lawsuit, filed on October 21 in the U.S.... Read More »
A federal judge in California has ordered TikTok to turn over a limited set of internal records connected to a content creator on its platform. The order is part of the Social Media Adolescent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Liability multidistrict litigation, which combines hundreds of lawsuits against some of the largest... Read More »
A federal jury in Illinois has ordered Campbell Soup Company to pay $17 million to the inventor of patented gravity-fed display racks used to hold and dispense canned soup in grocery stores. The verdict, reached on October 17 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, found... Read More »
The J.M. Smucker Company has filed a federal lawsuit against Trader Joe’s, accusing the grocery chain of copying its popular Uncrustables sandwiches and infringing on long-held trademarks. The complaint, filed October 13 in the Northern District of Ohio, claims Trader Joe’s new crustless peanut butter and strawberry jam sandwiches imitate... Read More »
Live Nation is pushing back against the Federal Trade Commission’s accusation that it profited from ticket scalping, while simultaneously pledging new reforms aimed at tightening oversight of Ticketmaster’s resale operations. In a letter sent Oct. 17 to Senators Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.) and Ben Ray Luján (D–N.M.), Live Nation Executive Vice... Read More »
A Los Angeles judge has shut down influencer Sabrina Peterson’s latest attempt to bring back her defamation lawsuit against T.I. and Tiny Harris, marking another setback in a long and messy legal fight that began four years ago. Judge Michael Shultz ruled Friday that Peterson’s motion to reinstate her 2021... Read More »
Slipknot is taking their digital identity back: the Grammy-winning metal band has filed a federal lawsuit against the anonymous owner of the domain Slipknot.com, accusing the operator of cybersquatting and profiting from counterfeit merchandise sold under the band’s name. The case, filed this week in a Virginia federal court, marks... Read More »
A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from carrying out mass layoffs of federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown, in what is the first judicial order to restrain the White House’s effort to downsize the federal workforce during a funding lapse. U.S. District Judge Susan... Read More »
Former National Security Adviser John R. Bolton has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland on charges accusing him of unlawfully sharing and storing classified national defense information. The indictment claims Bolton used personal email accounts to send top secret material to family members and kept sensitive government... Read More »
President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of former Representative George Santos, releasing the New York Republican three months after he began serving time for federal fraud and identity theft convictions. The announcement, made on Friday on Trump’s Truth Social account, brought an abrupt end to Santos’s seven-year term... Read More »
A federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas has ruled that Samsung Electronics must pay $445.5 million in damages to Collision Communications, Inc. after finding that the company infringed a series of patents related to wireless communication technology. The verdict was delivered on October 10, 2025, in Marshall, Texas,... Read More »
