Corporate Governance Investigation A Delaware court found it reasonably conceivable that Whole Earth Brands’ board acted with gross negligence after a conflicted executive leaked confidential information, refused a confidentiality undertaking, and was later given access to sensitive merger materials involving…
Securities Litigation · Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Case No. 25-3765 · U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Decided August 21, 2026 · Originally filed January 18, 2008 Freddie Mac Securities Fraud Litigation Subprime Mortgages Sixth Circuit…
TL;DR On August 26, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed approval of a class-action settlement involving allegations that Google continued storing users’ location information after they had disabled the “Location History” setting. The settlement class…
Federal Enforcement / CERCLA A Justice Department lawsuit filed in California doesn’t accuse anyone of fraud or a cover-up. It asks a simpler, older question: when a gold mine that opened in the 1890s leaves behind arsenic-laced tailings, who pays…
Environmental Enforcement / Superfund CERCLA D.N.J. Case No. 2:26-cv-11675 Filed September 10, 2026 TL;DR The DOJ, acting for the EPA, sued Environmental Resource Holdings, LLC (“ERH”) on September 10, 2026, under Section 106 of CERCLA. The suit seeks to compel…
Pipeline Safety / Environmental Enforcement A 2016 rupture in North Dakota’s Little Missouri National Grassland released approximately 14,400 barrels of crude oil. The federal government and North Dakota alleged that known geological risks, a mis-calibrated flow meter, and failures in…
Investigation · Corporate Accountability · Iowa TL;DR Global Fiberglass Solutions (GFS) contracted with General Electric and MidAmerican Energy in November 2017 to recycle roughly 1,300 decommissioned wind turbine blades in Iowa. Instead, the blades sat stockpiled at three sites for…
TL;DR A drug-impaired driver hit the Woodruff family’s Nissan Juke head-on in Knoxville on August 23, 2013, killing father Benjamin Woodruff and severely injuring six-year-old Ethan, who was strapped into a booster seat paired with a Ford-made seatbelt extender. The…
TL;DR Registered nurse Brenda Brenyah sued Corpus Christi Medical Center (CCMC) in 2021, alleging racial and national-origin harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and disability discrimination. On June 23, 2026, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed summary judgment for CCMC on every…
TL;DR IFP Securities, a Tampa-based broker-dealer with 290 registered representatives and 140 branch offices, operated with a completely broken surveillance system from November 2022 through November 2025. After changing surveillance vendors in November 2022, the firm’s automated alert system failed…