Connecticut

  • August 12, 2026

    Live Nation Settles Luke Bryan Fan's Concert Assault Suit

    A Connecticut concertgoer has dropped a federal lawsuit alleging Live Nation Worldwide Inc. was negligent for failing to stop a "prolonged" fight at a Luke Bryan concert that resulted in another fan assaulting the plaintiff and causing a traumatic brain injury.

  • August 12, 2026

    Ex-Raymond James Adviser Fined After Taking $947K In Gifts

    Connecticut's banking and securities regulator has fined a onetime Raymond James investment adviser agent for borrowing $140,000 from a brokerage client, accepting $947,000 in gifts from two clients and making an inaccurate statement on a form she filed in connection with her next job at Lincoln Investment, according to a consent order.

  • August 12, 2026

    Feds Granted More Time To Defend College Data Ask

    A Massachusetts federal judge granted the Trump administration an opportunity to explain its rationale for fast-tracking a demand for detailed admissions data from U.S. colleges and universities.

  • August 11, 2026

    Objectors Sink $148M Lincoln National Class Deal At 2nd Circ.

    A Connecticut federal judge should not have certified a policyholder class that secured a $147.5 million cost-of-insurance settlement with Lincoln National and a Cigna unit, the Second Circuit held on Tuesday, in a victory for objectors who are pursuing parallel cases in other states.

  • August 11, 2026

    Cumulus Can't Yet Enforce Tying Injunction Against Nielsen

    The Second Circuit may have upheld a preliminary injunction blocking Nielsen from making Cumulus Media buy its local offerings to gain access to its national radio ratings data, but a New York federal judge says that injunction can't be enforced until the circuit court decides whether it will rehear the case en banc.

  • August 11, 2026

    Kalshi Loss Dooms Coinbase's Bid To Block Conn. Enforcers

    A Connecticut federal judge has denied Coinbase's request to keep state gaming regulators from cracking down on its sports offerings, tying the decision to a nearly identical ruling he made against Kalshi earlier in the day.

  • August 11, 2026

    Viks Ask Conn. Justices To End Deutsche Bank's 2nd Lawsuit

    Alexander Vik and his daughter have asked the Connecticut Supreme Court to spare them from a revived Deutsche Bank AG lawsuit that claims they disrupted a Norwegian software company's share sale designed to partially satisfy a $243 million English court judgment, arguing a lower appeals court ruling was flawed.

  • August 11, 2026

    Class In Photo Hack Case Seeks $61M Deal With Conn. School

    A class of Connecticut students whose intimate photos were hacked by an information technology worker has offered to end a state court lawsuit against the prestigious Kent School for a $61.25 million payment.

  • August 11, 2026

    Blue States Say OCC Overstepped On Escrow Interest Rules

    An Oregon-led coalition of nearly a dozen states sued Tuesday to overturn the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency's recent rules that exempt national banks from state laws requiring the payment of interest on homeowners' escrow account funds.

  • August 10, 2026

    Drugmakers Lose 2nd Bid To Appeal Ex-Prosecutor DQ Rebuff

    A former Connecticut prosecutor and his current firm Lowey Dannenberg PC can keep representing insurers Humana Inc. and Molina Healthcare Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit against generic-drug makers, after the judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation rejected a second attempt to appeal her denial of disqualification.

  • August 10, 2026

    Conn. Town Wins Cop's Medical Marijuana, Discrimination Suit

    A Connecticut town has prevailed against a former police officer's discrimination claims tied to a training injury, comments by colleagues, a pension application and subsequent medical marijuana use, with a state judge issuing wins as a matter of law to the municipality and its officials on all four counts alleged.

  • August 10, 2026

    IBM Defeats Software Co. In Copyright Fight At 2nd Circ.

    A software company failed to persuade the Second Circuit to undo a federal judge's decision allowing IBM to dodge a copyright suit, with the appellate court on Monday agreeing the case was time-barred.

  • August 10, 2026

    Kalshi Loses Bid To Keep Conn. Betting Regulators At Bay

    A Connecticut federal judge denied Kalshi's bid to shield itself from the state's gaming regulators Monday, finding that the site's sports contracts likely flout state gambling laws.

  • August 10, 2026

    Conn. Justices Order New Murder Trial Over Cell Data Flub

    The Connecticut Supreme Court on Monday said a lower court was correct to vacate a felony murder conviction based on a defense lawyer's failure to question a police expert about an animation that purported to pinpoint a defendant's cellphone movements based on tower location data.

  • August 10, 2026

    Google Is 'Last Bastion' Of Reviewers' Free Speech, Court Told

    A Connecticut law firm's efforts to force Google to unmask users who left potentially defamatory online reviews pose a question of "constitutional magnitude," a Hartford state judge heard Monday as the company tried to move a pre-litigation discovery bid to the West Coast.

  • August 10, 2026

    Feds Target 3 More States Over Immigrant Tuition Benefits

    The Trump administration announced Monday that it has filed new lawsuits targeting states that it says unlawfully extend in-state tuition benefits to unauthorized immigrants while discriminating against U.S. citizens from other states, this time against New York, Connecticut and Vermont.

  • August 10, 2026

    Calif. AG Says Paramount Deal Challenge Is About Antitrust

    California Attorney General Rob Bonta pushed back Monday against Paramount Skydance Corp. CEO David Ellison's contention that a challenge of Paramount's Warner Bros. Discovery deal was politically motivated, saying the case is a "straight up antitrust enforcement case."

  • August 10, 2026

    Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

    The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving merger settlements, contract claims, controlling stockholders, music rights, prejudgment interest, absentee voting and stockholder standing.

  • August 07, 2026

    Mass. Judge Lets Early-Decision Antitrust Suit Proceed

    A Massachusetts federal judge refused Friday to let 32 elite universities duck a proposed class action alleging they used the early-decision admissions process as an anticompetitive scheme to raise tuition, even as she dismissed the consortium and the two college application providers that allegedly facilitated the scheme from the suit.

  • August 07, 2026

    Real Estate Recap: REITs Talk Casinos, Senior Housing

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including recent takeaways from real estate investment trusts in the gambling and senior housing sectors.

  • August 07, 2026

    Glenmark's $29.6M Generics Price-Fixing Deal Gets 1st OK

    A Connecticut federal court on Thursday gave a preliminary OK to a settlement between a coalition of 48 states and territories and drugmaker Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Ltd. that would pay out more than $29.6 million in restitution to eligible consumers and the coalition.

  • August 07, 2026

    Conn. $226K Atty Fund Seizure Holds Up At Appeals Court

    A Connecticut appeals court held Friday that an attorney who successfully challenged his 90-day suspension was not entitled to dismissal of a related order forfeiting the contents of his trust account, leaving the dispute ready for the Connecticut Supreme Court to weigh in again.

  • August 07, 2026

    Ghost Gun Supplier Dodges $7.7M Penalty In Conn. AG Battle

    The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act only applies to trade and commerce conducted in the state, and not to entities operating websites that are merely accessible in Connecticut, a state court judge has ruled in declining to impose a $7.7 million civil penalty against a Florida-based company that sells ghost gun parts online.

  • August 07, 2026

    18 State AGs Urge Feds To Block OppFi's BNC Bank Acquisition

    A coalition of 18 state attorneys general led by Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul urged federal regulators to block Opportunity Financial's proposed acquisition of BNC National Bank, saying the deal would allow the online lender to sidestep state interest rate limits and expand its high-cost lending nationwide.

  • August 07, 2026

    Cornell Can't Strike Jury Demand In Recordkeeping Fee Suit

    A New York federal judge denied Cornell University's request to strike a jury trial demand in a class action alleging that excessive recordkeeping fees dragged down workers' retirement plan savings, saying the class is entitled to a jury because the complaint sought both legal and equitable remedies.

Expert Analysis

  • AG Watch: Texas Junk Fee Deal Shows Enforcement Priorities

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    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's recent $9.5 million settlement with online travel agency website Booking Holdings for so-called junk fee practices follows a larger trend of state attorneys general who have taken similar action and demonstrates the significant penalties that can follow such allegations, say attorneys at Kelley Drye.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Integrating Practice Groups

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    Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig.

  • Opinion

    Supreme Court Term Limits Would Carry Hidden Risk

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    While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

  • Series

    Knitting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Stretching my skills as a knitter makes me a better antitrust attorney by challenging me to recalibrate after wrong turns, not rush outcomes, and trust that I can teach myself the skills to tackle new and difficult projects — even when I don’t have a pattern to work from, says Kara Kuritz at V&E.

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    The Biz Court Digest: Welcome To Miami

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    After nearly 20 years in operation, the Miami Complex Business Litigation Division is a pioneer upon which other jurisdictions in the state have been modeled, adopting many innovations to keep its cases running more efficiently and staffing experienced judges who are accustomed to hearing business disputes, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

  • Identifying And Resolving Conflicts Among Class Members

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    As the Fifth Circuit's recent decision in Nova Scotia Health Employees' Pension Plan v. McDermott International illustrates, intraclass conflicts can determine the fate of a class action — and such conflicts can be surprisingly difficult to identify, says Andrew Faisman, a clerk at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • Navigating The New Patchwork Of Foreign-Influence Laws

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    On top of existing federal regulations, an expanding wave of state legislation — placing new limits on foreign-funded political spending and new registration requirements for foreign agents — creates a confusing compliance backdrop for corporations that demands careful preplanning, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

  • AI Evidence Rule Tweaks Encourage Judicial Guardrails

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    Recent additions to a committee note on proposed Rule of Evidence 707 — governing evidence generated by artificial intelligence — seek to mitigate potential dangers that may arise once machine outputs are introduced at trial, encouraging judges to perform critical gatekeeping functions, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: Getting The Message Across

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    Communications and brand strategy during a law firm merger represent a crucial thread that runs through every stage of a combination and should include clear messaging, leverage modern marketing tools and embrace the chance to evolve, says Ashley Horne at Womble Bond.

  • Steps For Cos. To Comply With Colo. Deceptive Pricing Law

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    Colorado's newly passed law protecting against deceptive pricing practices will take effect on Jan. 1, broadening the consumer protection framework and standardizing total price disclosure requirements across a variety of industries, and there are several steps businesses can take to comply, say attorneys at Haynes Boone.

  • Opinion

    Horizontal Stare Decisis Should Not Be Casually Discarded

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    Eliminating the so-called law of the circuit doctrine — as recently proposed by a Fifth Circuit judge, echoing Justice Neil Gorsuch’s concurrence in Loper Bright — would undermine public confidence in the judiciary’s independence and create costly uncertainty for litigants, says Lawrence Bluestone at Genova Burns.

  • 10 Commandments For Agentic AI Tools In The Legal Industry

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    Though agentic artificial intelligence has demonstrated significant promise for optimizing legal work, it presents numerous risks, so specific ethical obligations should be built into the knowledge base of every agentic AI tool used in the legal industry, says Steven Cordero at Akerman LLP.

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    Preaching Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Becoming a Gospel preacher has enhanced my success as a trial lawyer by teaching me the importance of credibility, relatability, persuasiveness and thorough preparation for my congregants, the same skills needed with judges and juries in the courtroom, says Reginald Harris at Stinson.

  • Series

    Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

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    New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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    The Law Firm Merger Diaries: How To Build On Cultural Fit

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    Law firm mergers should start with people, then move to strategy: A two-level screening that puts finding a cultural fit at the pinnacle of the process can unearth shared values that are instrumental to deciding to move forward with a combination, says Matthew Madsen at Harrison.

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