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A Michigan federal jury has hit a seller of pre-owned industrial equipment with a $4.5 million verdict on claims its employee allowed a 4,000-pound load to fall on a truck driver despite knowing the employee was a "poorly trained" hi-lo forklift operator whom colleagues were afraid to work with.

The Colorado-based developer who launched the $154 million plan to turn the former Federal Reserve Building in Kansas City, Missouri, into an Embassy Suites hotel has sued the company planning the redevelopment and the investment entity that agreed to buy a majority stake in the project, claiming he is owed millions of dollars.

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP has rescinded job offers to three law students who hold leadership positions at organizations affiliated with Harvard University and Columbia University and who purportedly signed controversial statements blaming Israel for the Hamas terrorist group's Oct. 7 killings, according to an internal email obtained by Law360 Tuesday.

A California federal court sent into arbitration a parent's lawsuit accusing Tesla of illegally recording him and his son and sharing the footage without their knowledge, ruling that the father's signature on the order agreement means his underage child is also subject to the arbitration clause.

Honda ripped into a motion seeking roughly $5.6 million in attorney fees this week, telling a California federal court that car owners' $1.4 million jury verdict win in their class action was an "abject failure" and calling the multi-million dollar fee request a "textbook" example of overreach.

A medical cannabis entrepreneur has called a Colorado federal judge's sanctions order requiring him to sell off company shares to cover a $6 million debt owed to his ex-partner "blatantly illegal under federal law," arguing the district court lacks jurisdiction over his company because it's still a federally illegal business. 

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis celebrated federal health officials' recommendation that the Drug Enforcement Administration loosen marijuana restrictions and urged President Joe Biden to take specific actions to support state-run cannabis markets and promote polices that will support the existing state markets.

A faculty member at the Metropolitan State University of Denver and her union urged a Colorado court to block the institution from imposing penalties on her after she criticized her supervisor to his face, according to a lawsuit that likened the punishment to sending "a dissenter to a reeducation camp."

Two cannabis entrepreneurs won't get to extract more money from their former lawyer who was forced to give back his attorney fees after being accused of malpractice, a Washington state appeals court has ruled, saying "ample evidence" suggests their business was on the verge of collapse before their counsel dropped the ball.

Acella Pharmaceuticals can't escape a proposed class action over its recalled thyroid medication, a Georgia federal judge ruled, calling some of the company's assertions as to why the plaintiffs could never secure class certification "a bit disingenuous."