Global M&A activity remained strong through the first nine months of 2026 despite a third-quarter slowdown, as strategic buyers and private equity firms continued to pursue deals in areas ranging from technology and defense to essential services. https://www.law360.com/articles/2531934

A federal appeals court declined to revive a former Rochester, Minn. fire department employee’s claims he was demoted and forced to retire because of his age.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard its first four cases of the new term this week, with most attention focused on a blockbuster hearing involving states' and cities' attempts to hold oil companies responsible for climate change.

A Bloomberg Law investigation found 40 federal civil rights lawsuits since 2017 claiming children and teenagers were strip searched at school without parents knowing – often for vape pens and minor offenses.

A panel of appeals judges grilled the Trump administration over whether the NEA is violating the law that established the agency with its implementation of an executive order barring federal funds from going to projects that “promote gender ideology.”

Federal bank examiners risk losing power under a US regulator's proposal to let lenders share nonpublic information created or obtained by the agency, critics say.

A yearlong probe reveals dozens of pregnant women in jails face horrific conditions with limited medical care. Many are ignored when seeking help, miscarrying or giving birth on floors or in toilets. Newborns face health issues; some don't survive.

Netlist Inc. announced a multi-million-dollar patent licensing agreement with Micron Technology Inc. that includes settling all pending litigation between them.

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A string of New York City tea shops hit back against their China-based parent company in a licensing dispute, alleging the latter doesn’t own US common law trademarks to “Molly Tea” and so can’t require them to stop using the name.

Decades-old partnerships between the EEOC and civil rights agencies in Democrat-run states and cities show signs of fraying after the Trump administration overhauled its approach to workplace antibias enforcement.

The Trump administration is offering children as young as 5 years old $3,000 to voluntarily leave the US, according to attorneys and advocacy organizations.

Gibson Dunn, Thompson Hine, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells and Skadden are among the nearly two dozen law firms that guided the biggest real estate mergers in the third quarter, including a $5.5 billion real estate investment trust acquisition.

President Donald Trump said he will make a decision on whether to go ahead with plans to livestream the execution of a former Army major who killed 13 people in 2009, amid bipartisan criticism of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s idea.