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New Jersey Is Overhauling Newborn Drug Testing. The Reform Hinges on a Fact About the Tests Themselves.
A poppy-seed bagel can trigger a positive. New Jersey is rewriting the rules that let one such result open a child-abuse investigation.
UChicago Law's AI Plan Banned Laptops. That's the Least Interesting Part.
Read the actual strategy and it's not anti-AI, it's a deliberate bet about what makes a lawyer valuable in an AI world.
A Waymo Called the Cops on Its Own Passengers. The Real Story Isn't the Teenagers.
The car didn't hand over footage after the fact. It decided, in the moment, to intervene, and that's the part worth watching.
Homeowners Are Suing First American Over Its Property Database. The Legal Theory Could Reshape the Whole Industry.
The class action's real argument: a commercial sales funnel is legally different from just republishing public records.
Nespresso Must Face a Race-Bias Suit From a Worker It Reportedly Used as the Face of Its Diversity Program
A federal judge just ruled most of her claims can proceed, past the point where the company could make the case disappear on the pleadings alone.
She Clocked Out, Left the Store, Jaywalked, and Got Hit by a Car. Pennsylvania Says Workers' Comp Still Covers It.
A court awarded her comp anyway, on two rulings that sound backwards until you understand how the law actually works.
A Jury Hit WakeMed With $18.2M for a Birth Injury. Here's the Medicine and the Law Behind That Number.
The number looks arbitrary until you understand the injury it describes, and why a verdict this size is rare in North Carolina.
A Mother Beat UnitedHealth Over Her Son's Mental Health Care. The $630K Isn't the Point.
A Utah judge ordered UnitedHealth to pay $630,000 for denying a teen's mental health treatment. The payout is trivial. The decade-long pattern isn't.
Massachusetts Employment Law in Late 2026: The Noncompete Case Every Employer Should Be Watching
A class action against Boston Beer could decide whether the token payments behind many noncompetes are worth anything at all.
First Brands Wants to Cut Retiree Benefits. The Real Story Is Which Retirees Have a Safety Net and Which Don't.
First Brands' pensions were rescued by a federal backstop. Its retiree health and life insurance have no such guarantee, and that gap is the real story.
Intel and Google Are Asking the Supreme Court to Rein In the Patent Office. Here's Why It Matters.
A tribunal Congress built to kill bad patents is turning challengers away at one official's discretion, using rules never put to public comment.