Year: 2026

The following article appeared on August 26, 2026 on Bloomberg Law On July 27, Johnson & Johnson agreed to a proposed $5.5 billion resolution of about 76,000 ovarian cancer talc claims across the federal multidistrict litigation and related state cases, conditioned on 95% claimant acceptance. J&J didn’t lose a trial to get there. It won an evidentiary […]

Last week, as the United Nations marked World Environment Day in Baku, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rescission of the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding took effect. Published as 91 Fed. Reg. 7686 on February 18 and operative since April 20, the rescission did more than dismantle federal climate regulation. It removed the factual foundation […]

Last summer, a video editor named Artem Kaptur had a job, a phone and what he believed was a clean trade. He worked for a YouTube channel. He knew what videos were coming before anyone else did. Release dates and content, the kind of advance knowledge that moves a prediction market contract before the public […]

The following article appeared on February 18, 2026 on National Law Review (NLR) The Pleading Shift: Plaintiffs are successfully circumventing Section 230 immunity by alleging “negligent design” of platform architecture rather than failure to monitor third-party content. The Precedent- The Arbitration Pressure Point: Recent state enforcement actions and related civil litigation are testing whether minors […]