The New Jersey Supreme Court has denied Beasley Allen’s appeal to let the firm back into the massive Johnson & Johnson talc litigation in state court, letting stand the firm’s novel ethics breach disqualification.

Mass tort plaintiffs’ firm Slater Slater Schulman LLP said a Delaware bankruptcy court lacks jurisdiction to adjudicate a feud with former clients seeking to terminate contingency fee arrangements stemming from the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor moves a bit slower and looks thinner than when she joined the Supreme Court 17 years ago, particularly out of the robes as she spoke before two packed law school audiences.

Lucas Peterson and Ryan Fitzpatrick joined Blank Rome as patent attorneys in the intellectual property and technology group, the firm announced Thursday. Peterson joined the Chicago office, while Fitzpatrick joined the Dallas office.

Phillip Aurentz joined Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder in its litigation and intellectual property & technology practices in Dallas, the firm announced Thursday.

Hicks Thomas LLP is disqualified from a 17-year-old case in Texas after failing to disclose that one of its legal assistants previously worked on the litigation for the opposing party, the state supreme court ruled Friday.

The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration renewed its nationwide heat protections enforcement program, showing the agency isn’t shifting away from its recent focus on keeping workers safe from heat-related illnesses.

Santa Claus impersonators are the latest beneficiary of Donald Trump’s new tax break for tips.

Mueller Water Products Inc. must face allegations that it failed to accommodate an employee’s anxiety and panic disorder and then retaliated against him for taking protected medical leave.

A Texas appellate court affirmed dismissal of disability discrimination claims by an assistant fire chief with PTSD against the City of Frisco, as his own physician hadn’t cleared him to work in any capacity, making his accommodation requests unreasonable. Kraemer v. City of Frisco, 2026 BL 125265, Tex. App., 12th Dist., 12-25-00273-CV, 4/8/26

President Donald Trump singled out Palantir Technologies Inc. for its “great war fighting capabilities and equipment” in a Truth Social Post on Friday.

Ocwen Financial Corp. and Wells Fargo Bank NA asked the Second Circuit to revise its decision reviving a lawsuit attempting to hold them liable under ERISA for alleged pension losses tied to mortgage-backed securities.

The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, holding that the taxpayer failed to show that IRS withheld any taxes ...

A group of small businesses and 24 mostly Democrat-led states urged US trade judges to toss out President Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs, arguing they were issued under a law that became outdated when the US ditched the gold standard decades ago.

Santa Claus impersonators are the latest beneficiary of Donald Trump’s new tax break for tips.

The IRS issued proposed regulations providing rules and definitions related to the 1 percent excise tax on certain remittance transfers beginning Jan. 1, 2026. The tax applies to remittances sent ...

Belgium’s Constitutional Court backed a tax rule preventing companies from using past losses to offset additional assessments that carry a punitive surcharge.

The IRS’s partnership with the private sector to help taxpayers file returns for free is seeing a 4% bump and is expected to surge in the tax season’s last weeks, the program’s leader said.

Two Democratic US Senators pressed the federal derivatives regulator to investigate suspicious oil futures trading in the lead up to President Donald Trump making two major announcements about military operations in Iran.

Securities issued to investors as part of a foreign banking regulator’s efforts to stabilize an at-risk lender could be exempt from US law under a proposal floated by SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, as the agency issued a specific carve-out for the Bank of England and its “bail-in” powers adopted after the 2008 financial crisis.

President Donald Trump’s goal of significantly boosting global sales of American AI chips risks being undermined by licensing bottlenecks, staffing attrition and a lack of policy direction at the federal agency that oversees exports of billions of dollars in sensitive US technology.

Blackstone Inc. is considering an initial public offering that could raise $2 billion for an acquisition company that will snap up data centers, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Dallas Mavericks have abandoned their most significant claim to be contested at trial next month in a fight with the Dallas Stars over their shared partnership in the American Airlines Center sports arena.

President Donald Trump singled out Palantir Technologies Inc. for its “great war fighting capabilities and equipment” in a Truth Social Post on Friday.