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Two of the biggest product liability fights in American courts right now involve everyday household products: Johnson & Johnson's talcum-based baby powder, alleged to cause ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, and Bayer's Roundup weedkiller, alleged to cause non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Together they represent tens of thousands of individual claims and some of the largest jury verdicts in mass tort history. Johnson & Johnson Talcum Powder Litigation J&J has spent years attempting to resolve...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed suit against five of the world's largest television manufacturers — Sony, Samsung, LG, Hisense, and TCL — alleging their smart TVs covertly track what Texans watch, down to the second, without adequate disclosure or consent. The suit calls out Hisense and TCL by name for their ties to the Chinese Communist Party, framing the case as both a consumer-privacy matter and a...

The European Union's AI Act reached another major enforcement milestone this month: as of August 2, 2026, its transparency obligations are now legally in force, and the European Commission has confirmed it has begun actively enforcing them. For any company building or deploying AI tools — including plenty of US-based ones — this is the point where "we'll deal with the AI Act eventually" stops being a viable compliance...

The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted one of two lower-court injunctions blocking a Trump administration executive order that restricts mail-in ballot procedures ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The move is a preliminary, procedural win for the administration — not a final ruling on the merits — but it clears the way for parts of the order to take effect while the underlying legal fight continues. What the Order Actually...