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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.