/connecticut?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Connecticut Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Fri, 11 Jul 2025 20:52:19 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363419?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363419 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into New York City's zombie building scene, a BigLaw specialist's view of Nashville's rise in property taxes, and the firms that guided the top hospitality deals in the first half of 2025. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 19:25:50 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363711?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363711 A Soros Fund Management LLC portfolio manager says a radio CEO cannot sue him in Connecticut because he's beyond the state's long-arm jurisdiction, seeking to shake the CEO's claim that he was boxed out of dividends and a potential job after allegedly helping the fund acquire broadcasting company Audacy Inc. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:25:38 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363256 The Second Circuit has upheld a New York public nuisance statute that opens up firearm manufacturers to civil lawsuits for acts of violence involving their guns. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 17:01:25 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363131?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363131 A federal judge has blocked the federal government from transferring 80 acres of land into trust for a Connecticut tribe, saying the state — by a narrow margin — established the factors necessary to warrant a temporary injunction to preserve the status quo. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 15:45:08 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363820 A Charter Communications Inc. shareholder has asked a Connecticut state court judge to block a July 31 vote on the Stamford-based company's proposed $37.9 billion acquisition of Cox Communications Inc., claiming the deal will enrich executives and their financial advisers but provide few benefits to shareholders. Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:10:53 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363801?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363801 A Connecticut federal judge on Friday set aside a default entry against a New Haven e-cigarette and cannabis accessories store accused of tarnishing Toys R Us trademarks, mooting a pending motion for judgment after the defendants retained counsel who appeared in the case. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:02:14 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362783?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362783 Two Chubb units told a Connecticut federal court that the city of New Britain must reimburse them for over $1.8 million in coverage payments for a water main break that they said caused severe flood damage, arguing local authorities took too long to step in. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:37:58 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363463?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363463 A Connecticut state jury on Wednesday slapped an anesthesiologist group and Middlesex Hospital with a $20 million verdict, finding that they negligently ignored multiple signs that a patient was bleeding during and after a routine abdominal surgery. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:13:48 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363382?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363382 A Connecticut bankruptcy judge on Thursday reopened recording artist 50 Cent's 2015 Chapter 11 case but allowed a New York jurist to first decide whether to dismiss a woman's $20 million injury case, setting up a potential showdown over whether a 2017 discharge order might upend the woman's February lawsuit. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:16:53 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363319?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363319 A Connecticut state court judge has sided with a married Bridgeport couple who sued another married couple over a now-completed home construction project that allegedly blocked the plaintiffs from accessing a local harbor. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 17:41:33 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363369?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363369 The Second Circuit refused to upend part of a lower court's ruling that former Morgan Stanley financial advisers' deferred compensation fell within the reach of federal benefits law, saying the financial firm couldn't clear the high bar necessary to undo the decision. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:33:14 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2363209?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2363209 The Connecticut Appellate Court will hear former Alex Jones attorney Norm Pattis' second appeal of his already-reduced, two-week suspension for allowing a former associate to send Sandy Hook medical records to other Jones attorneys who had not signed a confidentiality order. Thu, 10 Jul 2025 13:26:30 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2339955?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2339955 Playing violin in a string quartet reminds me that flexibility, ambition, strong listening skills, thoughtful leadership and intentional collaboration are all keys to a successful legal practice, says Julie Park at MoFo. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:26:16 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362753?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362753 The Second Circuit on Wednesday overturned the conspiracy conviction of a onetime Twitter influencer who worked to convince Democrats in November 2016 they could cast votes for president by text message, saying there was scant proof he coordinated with others. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:38:07 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362744?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362744 The Second Circuit upheld Wednesday a Canadian man's 10-year prison sentence and fraud convictions stemming from a decades-long $150 million direct mailing psychic scheme that defrauded elderly victims, ruling there was sufficient evidence he intended to harm his customers who received something different from what was advertised.  Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:19:28 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362870?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362870 The former president of the wine and spirits company that owns multibillion-dollar brand Josh Cellars has filed suit in New York state court, claiming the family-run enterprise has withheld millions in royalty payments that he was due after his employment contract expired, exposing "the dark underbelly of the adage that blood is thicker than water." Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:49:38 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362838?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362838 The original builder of a hotly litigated Hartford minor league baseball stadium has asked a Connecticut state court judge to force an engineering consultant's compliance with a confidential settlement agreement it has allegedly failed to sign despite sitting at the table with a number of other entities and lodging no objection to the terms. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:40:29 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362831?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362831 An Estée Lauder shareholder is calling for the full bench of the Second Circuit to rehear a case he argues created a "judicially sanctioned loophole" that allows corporate insiders to retain profits they made on short-swing profits. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:23:35 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362833?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362833 Harman International Industries Inc. has agreed to pay more than $1.4 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Department of the Treasury's trade sanctions enforcement arm that various compliance deficiencies at the audio electronics company contributed to Iran sanctions violations. Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:00:25 +0000 /connecticut/articles/2362729?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /connecticut/articles/2362729 State regulators lawfully rejected Eversource subsidiary Aquarion Water Co. of Connecticut's 2022 request to increase rates by $42 million to pay for plant additions, but they wrongly scuttled the utility's $1.5 million bid to recover conservation expenses, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Wednesday.