/trials?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Trials Copyright 2025 ��ݮ��Ƶ. en-US Tue, 19 Aug 2025 23:38:06 +0000 /trials/articles/2378835?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378835 An expert witness turned the tables on the attorney questioning her Tuesday during a former public housing authority coordinator's hostile work environment and retaliation trial in North Carolina after defense counsel questioned how she could accurately opine on the authority's operations without having seen key documents, saying it wasn't because she didn't ask for them. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 22:11:59 +0000 /trials/articles/2378266?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378266 Google made billions of dollars collecting data from the cellphones of tens of millions of Americans despite their opting out of tracking, a lawyer for consumers in a class action told a California federal jury Tuesday, while Google countered that the data collected after the privacy setting was activated isn't tied to users' identity. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:21:28 +0000 /trials/articles/2378341?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378341 A co-founder of a laboratory accused of submitting $40 million in unnecessary COVID-19 and genetic testing claims to healthcare benefit programs was sentenced to three years in prison Tuesday, after a Florida federal judge credited him for the extensive cooperation he provided the government before and during a trial against his co-defendants. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:28:02 +0000 /trials/articles/2378193?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378193 Healthcare software company the TriZetto Group has requested nearly $18 million in attorney fees in a decadelong trade secrets legal battle with Syntel Inc., saying its rival's "unreasonable" litigation conduct merits the award. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 18:19:39 +0000 /trials/articles/2378634?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378634 The Fourth Circuit has ordered a lower court to conclusively determine whether a Maryland woman's rights were violated after prosecutors retried her for murder using information they gathered from her successful ineffective assistance of counsel motion during the first trial. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:39:58 +0000 /trials/articles/2378633?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378633 A man sentenced to 60 years in prison after kidnapping and sexually assaulting another man can be resentenced due to recent precedent concerning persistent offenders, but can't suppress evidence gained after police saw his cellphone passcode and used it to read his texts, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Tuesday. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:20:33 +0000 /trials/articles/2378444?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378444 Samsung Electronics asked a Texas federal judge to reject a bid from Maxell Ltd. to boost a $112 million patent infringement jury verdict, saying Maxell had not shown the infringement of its personal electronics patents was willful or that Samsung's behavior had been egregious enough to warrant an enhancement. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 16:35:23 +0000 /trials/articles/2377674?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2377674 The recent Southern District of New York decision in ChemImage v. Johnson & Johnson makes joint steering committees a valuable tool in strategic relationships, as provisions for such committees can now be wielded to demand attention to core issues, say Lisa Bernstein at the University of Chicago Law School, and Reginald Goeke and Brad Peterson at Mayer Brown. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:52:01 +0000 /trials/articles/2378557?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378557 Suits challenging President Donald Trump's imposition of emergency tariffs belong in the U.S. Court of International Trade and a D.C. federal judge improperly considered a case lodged by Illinois-based toy makers in his court, the government told the D.C. Circuit. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:28:51 +0000 /trials/articles/2376921?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2376921 The Second Circuit’s recent U.S. v. Bardakova decision adopted a new approach for determining whether a defendant who commits a crime in the U.S., and then leaves and remains abroad, intends to avoid prosecution — making it more difficult to argue against the fugitive disentitlement doctrine in most cases, say attorneys at MoloLamken. Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:38:42 +0000 /trials/articles/2376960?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2376960 After a semester using generative artificial intelligence tools with students in an entrepreneurship law clinic, we came away with numerous observations about the opportunities and challenges such tools present to new transactional lawyers, say professors at Cornell Law School. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:44:48 +0000 /trials/articles/2378291?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378291 Former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has immunity from a suit by a former New York City Council member claiming wrongful prosecution, a federal judge has ruled. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:17:18 +0000 /trials/articles/2378300?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378300 Monsanto has come to tentative settlement terms to end claims from roughly 200 people who say they developed various health problems from chemical contamination at a Washington state school site, parent company Bayer AG said Monday. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:02:02 +0000 /trials/articles/2377460?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2377460 A Michigan state court judge has granted a preliminary injunction allowing an Eastern Michigan University offensive lineman to remain on the football team while he challenges a five-year eligibility cap for college athletes, saying the player has shown a likelihood of success at trial on his claims. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:23:09 +0000 /trials/articles/2378083?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378083 Boehringer Ingelheim ignored years of mounting concerns that the active ingredient in its over-the-counter drug Zantac degraded into a highly toxic compound, and it simply changed the color of its tablets to shield their problems, a colorectal cancer patient told an Illinois state jury Monday. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:46:08 +0000 /trials/articles/2378242?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378242 Rex Heuermann, accused in a series of Gilgo Beach killings, is urging a New York state court not to allow the admission of DNA evidence in his murder trial, arguing that the "paradigm shifting methodology" employed to link him with hair found on victims is too untested to pass rigorous court admissibility standards for the first time. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:26:00 +0000 /trials/articles/2378305?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2378305 A split Pennsylvania appeals panel on Monday upheld a $7.3 million jury verdict in a suit accusing a construction company of negligently causing a subcontract worker to get hit by a SEPTA train while working, saying the company can't be considered the man's employer for purposes of workers compensation immunity. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:08:50 +0000 /trials/articles/2377936?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2377936 U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is making EcoFactor Inc. wait for Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings to finish before scheduling a highly anticipated retrial, ordered by the full Federal Circuit, on how much Google should pay for infringing its thermostat patent. Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:50:02 +0000 /trials/articles/2377910?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2377910 A Florida federal judge sentenced a Miami rapper to more than three years in prison after a jury convicted him of fraud-related charges in connection with a scheme to defraud luxury merchandise vendors of more than $1 million.  Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:07:38 +0000 /trials/articles/2376902?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /trials/articles/2376902 In the neo-Western black comedy “Eddington” released last month, social media is a character unto itself, highlighting how the boundaries between digital and real-world conduct can become blurred, thereby posing evidentiary challenges in criminal prosecutions, says Veronica Finkelstein at Wilmington University School of Law.