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Cox Communications Inc. is liable for contributing to copyright infringement against Sony Music Entertainment and others, but a Virginia federal court went too far by applying vicarious liability as well and needs to redo its $1 billion damages determination, the Fourth Circuit ruled Tuesday.

Montgomery County, Ohio, unlawfully denies water and sewage service to new property owners if the previous owner had an outstanding debt for those services, forcing them to pay off another party's debt through "extortion" and "coercion," according to a new proposed class action filed in federal court.

Engine manufacturer Cummins Inc. will pay $1.675 billion to the federal government and the state of California to resolve claims it violated emission limits by installing undisclosed devices on almost a million Dodge Rams, in a deal U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland called the largest Clean Air Act settlement ever.

Buckeye State courts delivered major developments spanning multiple practice areas in 2023, including a 20-year prison sentence for former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder for bribery and a decision holding that the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark take on agency deference doesn't hold weight in Ohio.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended a criminal defense attorney for one year, with six months stayed, over the attorney filling a Pringles can with his own feces and throwing it in the parking lot of a victim advocacy center just before meeting with the center's staff in court about a murder case.

The Ohio Supreme Court on Thursday directed a group of women's health care providers and multiple Buckeye State officials to file briefs on how Ohioans' decision to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution affects Attorney General Dave Yost's appeal of a decision freezing a highly restrictive abortion law.

Employment and personal injury law firm Schmidt Kirifides and Rassias PC has to cover the cost of cannabidiol oil used to treat one of its attorneys' back pain from a work injury because, even if federally illegal, the substance is a "medical supply," a split Pennsylvania state appeals court ruled.

Monsanto called for erasing a $175 million verdict against it following a Pennsylvania state court trial over the Bayer AG subsidiary's purported failure to warn the public about carcinogens in its weed killer product Roundup, arguing in part that the court improperly "coerced" the jury to break a deadlock.

The Third Circuit said in a precedential ruling Thursday that Wawa Inc. and class counsel for the customers who received a $12 million data breach settlement from the company might have entered into "side agreements" that compromised the reasonableness of the $3.2 million fee portion of the deal.

The full Sixth Circuit will not be reviewing its split panel decision that news coverage of a viral video showing teen Nicholas Sandmann smiling at a Native American activist while wearing a Make America Great Again hat during a confrontation at a Washington, D.C., protest was not defamatory, according to a new order.