A federal judge in the Eastern District of California granted a preliminary injunction halting Nexstar Media Group's acquisition of TEGNA Inc., finding that plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the deal violates Section 7 of th...
A federal judge in the Northern District of Ohio held that a man's death following a prone-restraint encounter with officers from two Ohio police departments gives rise to plausible Monell claims against both municipalities, even though the plaintiff identi...
A federal judge in Nashville allowed an Eighth Amendment deliberate-indifference claim to proceed against a CoreCivic physician who never sent a badly injured inmate for a hospital-directed eye clinic follow-up, while dismissing broader claims against the c...
A Central District of Illinois judge dismissed but allowed replead of constitutional claims against a county sheriff and a private jail healthcare contractor after a detainee died of cardiac arrest following two days of untreated opioid withdrawal.
A federal magistrate judge held that a jail physician's failure to train or supervise nurses who missed a fatal seizure emergency did not violate clearly established law, shielding him from a civil-rights lawsuit.
A federal judge in Connecticut issued a split summary judgment ruling in the massive generic-drug antitrust MDL, holding that Amneal Pharmaceuticals must face trial over an alleged Phenytoin price-fixing conspiracy while granting it summary judgment on the...
The federal multidistrict litigation panel has ordered the transfer of seven municipal and state water-contamination actions — including suits by the City of Fresno, four Alabama public water providers, and the State of Maine — into the AFFF products-liabil...
A federal judge held that 826 Colombian plaintiffs suing Chiquita Brands International over alleged support for paramilitary terrorists did not waive the forum-defendant rule and that the company failed to establish CAFA jurisdiction, ordering remand to New...
A New Jersey federal court has rejected Chiquita Brands International's bid to keep in federal court twelve state-law suits brought by 826 Colombian plaintiffs who allege the banana company funded, armed, and otherwise supported terrorist organizations — in...
The Eastern District of Michigan has denied a motion to sever claims in a multi-year, statewide class action involving defective General Motors valve-train systems, keeping the litigation involving Active Fuel Management and Dynamic Fuel Management engines...