Novo Nordisk must face part of a securities fraud lawsuit accusing the drugmaker of misleading investors about dosing and tolerability in a late-stage clinical trial for CagriSema, after a federal judge allowed a narrower set of shareholder claims to move forward.U.S. District Judge Robert Kirsch in New Jersey ruled Tuesday... Read More »
A sports memorabilia seller has filed a federal antitrust lawsuit accusing TikTok, Fanatics and NFL entities of combining their control over online marketplace access and licensed football products to restrict independent sellers and steer more business toward Fanatics.David Allan Skalsky and QCBRIPNSHIP LLC, which operated the memorabilia business Quad City... Read More »
Rivian is asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to order the federal government to refund tariffs the electric vehicle maker paid under President Donald Trump’s emergency trade program, months after the Supreme Court ruled that the law used to impose those duties did not give the president tariff authority.Rivian... Read More »
Two U.S. small businesses are challenging the Trump administration's latest tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, arguing that federal trade officials stretched a law designed to address unfair foreign trade practices beyond the authority Congress granted.Burlap & Barrel, a New York spice importer, and Collective Horology, a California watch... Read More »
A Boyle Heights resident has filed a proposed class action against Lineage Inc., Altus Power and other companies, alleging that smoke, ash and lingering odors from a June warehouse fire affected nearby residents, interfered with the use of their homes and forced him to spend money protecting himself from the... Read More »
A California appeals court has ruled that hostile social media posts, disclosures to relatives and other indirect communications can constitute domestic abuse even when the accused person does not contact a former partner directly.The Second District Court of Appeal reversed two competing domestic violence restraining-order rulings in a case involving... Read More »
California lawmakers are considering legislation that would allow people facing a forced marriage to seek domestic violence restraining orders against an intended spouse, relatives, and others involved in arranging or facilitating the marriage.Assembly Bill 2534 would expressly define forced marriage as abuse under California’s Domestic Violence Prevention Act. Courts could... Read More »
A group of seven New York City landlords has sued to block a rent freeze for nearly 1 million rent-stabilized apartments, arguing that the city’s Rent Guidelines Board failed to fulfill its legal duties independently and instead reached an outcome that Mayor Zohran Mamdani had promoted during his campaign.The case,... Read More »
Novo Nordisk has sued Eli Lilly over national advertising campaigns for the companies' competing weight loss and diabetes drugs, alleging that Lilly is misleading consumers by using older clinical trials to claim its treatments are more effective.The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, challenges advertisements comparing... Read More »
Zelle must face a New York lawsuit accusing its operator of allowing widespread fraud while promoting the payment service as safe and secure, after a Manhattan judge rejected the company's bid to dismiss the case.New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Early Warning Services, which operates Zelle, in August 2025... Read More »
California has enacted a new law that will limit the medical expenses some people can recover after accidents involving Uber, Lyft and other ride-hailing services.Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 623, known as the Fair Medical Billing and Rideshare Safety Act, on June 25. The law also imposes annual background-check... Read More »
A federal judge has refused to stop Meta Platforms from laying off 26 workers who claim the company used AI-assisted systems that unfairly penalized employees with disabilities or those who took protected leave.U.S. District Judge William Orrick denied the workers’ request for a temporary restraining order Friday in Oakland, California.... Read More »
Wisconsin election officials have referred two complaints involving Elon Musk’s $1 million payments to voters for possible criminal prosecution after finding probable cause to believe the offers violated the state’s election bribery law.The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted 5 to 1 to send the complaints to the Brown County district attorney’s... Read More »
A California couple has sued Bay Club after alleging that a worker at its El Segundo childcare center dropped their 23-month-old son, causing a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss, then gave the family a false account of what happened.Matthew and Elena Kittle filed the lawsuit July 2 in Los... Read More »
A federal judge ruled Monday that President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was filed for an improper purpose, finding that the president and the agencies he sued lacked the opposing interests required for a federal court case.U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams imposed nonmonetary sanctions, referred... Read More »
