A new filing in View full case on Docket Alarm puts a familiar but often decisive appellate issue front and center: whether the appeal should be dismissed before merits briefing proceeds. On June 10, 2026, appellee The Legal Aid Society filed Motion No. 14 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, seeking dismissal of the appeal in docket 26-1232.

Although the docket entry itself is concise, motions to dismiss at the appellate level typically target threshold defects that can end a case without reaching the substantive issues.

The Supreme Court in early June handed the Federal Communications Commission an important administrative-law win, rejecting a challenge by ATT and Verizon to the agency’s process for imposing telecom fines. The ruling preserves a key piece of the FCC’s enforcement toolkit and, just as notably, suggests the Court is not prepared to automatically extend its recent hostility toward some forms of agency adjudication into every regulatory setting.

The dispute centered on whether the FCC’s in-house enforcement mechanism for monetary penalties runs afoul of constitutional limits that have drawn increasing scrutiny in recent years.

The Justice Department cleared Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. on June 12, 2026, finding the transaction was unlikely to substantially lessen competition in traditional television markets. But the federal green light may be only the beginning. California, New York, and other states are reportedly preparing their own challenge, creating the prospect of a high-stakes showdown over how aggressively state enforcers can police deals the federal government declines to stop.

That split is what makes this story especially significant.

A sweeping federal insider-trading prosecution in Boston took a significant step forward on June 1, when 15 defendants pleaded not guilty in a case prosecutors say spanned roughly a decade and touched nearly 30 merger transactions. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston has charged 30 people overall, alleging that lawyers and financial professionals improperly shared confidential deal information that was then used to trade ahead of market-moving announcements.

The case stands out both for its scale and for the professional roles allegedly involved.

Another PTAB proceeding has been filed against ResMed, with IPR2026-00341 entering the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on June 12, 2026. The petition places one of ResMed’s patents under inter partes review, opening a new front in what could become an important dispute for companies operating in the sleep-disorder and respiratory-device space.

At this stage, the publicly available docket identifies the proceeding by the title Resmed Corp., but practitioners will want to monitor the case record closely as the petition, mandatory notices, and related filings further clarify the specific patent claims at issue, the identity of all real parties in interest, and any parallel district court or ITC litigation that may shape the Board’s discretionary-review analysis.

As with any newly filed IPR, the key issues will center on which patent is being challenged, which claims are targeted, and what prior-art grounds are asserted. Typically, petitioners rely on anticipation and obviousness grounds under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 and 103, supported by combinations of patents, printed publications, and expert declarations.

As of June 13, 2026, the legal headlines most likely to affect practice are clustering around a familiar mix: consequential court rulings, aggressive federal enforcement, and legal-system changes with downstream effects for companies and their counsel. For litigators, in-house teams, and compliance officers, the significance is less about any single headline than about what these developments signal collectively about risk, forum strategy, and enforcement priorities.

At the top of the list are recent federal court rulings that may reshape how major disputes are pleaded, defended, and appealed.

A new inter partes review proceeding at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board could draw close attention from patent owners, challengers, and counsel following the medical technology sector. In IPR2026-00341, filed June 12, 2026, the petition is styled Resmed Corp., signaling that ResMed is involved in a fresh PTAB dispute over the validity of an issued patent.

At this early stage, the public docket identifies the proceeding but may not yet fully reflect all underlying petition details, including the specific patent number, all real parties in interest, and the complete list of asserted prior-art grounds.

The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division has required Taiheiyo Cement Corporation and CalPortland Company to divest assets as a condition of moving forward with their acquisition of ready-mix concrete assets from Vulcan Materials Company. Although the matter did not produce a court opinion, it is a notable enforcement action in a sector that sits at the center of public infrastructure, commercial development, and residential construction.

The government’s intervention underscores a familiar antitrust concern: consolidation in highly local markets for essential building materials.

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A Ukrainian national’s guilty plea in connection with the Conti ransomware operation marks another notable step in the Justice Department’s long-running effort to pursue transnational cybercrime actors through traditional criminal statutes. According to federal prosecutors, the defendant admitted participating in a wire fraud conspiracy tied to the Conti group, one of the most disruptive ransomware organizations to target businesses and institutions worldwide.

The plea is legally significant because it reinforces the government’s willingness to use conspiracy and fraud theories to reach conduct that often spans multiple jurisdictions, anonymous infrastructure, and decentralized criminal networks.

The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an important enforcement win to the Securities and Exchange Commission by preserving the agency’s ability to seek disgorgement in civil cases, including in the matter involving defendant Sripetch. For securities litigators and regulated businesses, the ruling is a reminder that even as the Court has shown increasing skepticism toward parts of the administrative state, it is not categorically stripping agencies of meaningful remedial tools.

Disgorgement has long been one of the SEC’s most potent remedies.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday delivered a significant administrative-law win to the Federal Communications Commission, ruling 8-1 that the agency may continue using its longstanding internal enforcement process to pursue monetary penalties against regulated companies. The decision rejects a constitutional challenge brought by wireless carriers including Verizon and ATT in a case arising from FCC investigations into whether carriers failed to adequately protect customers’ location information.

At issue was the FCC’s two-step penalty framework.

The Third Circuit’s June 4, 2026 opinion in No. 26-1772 is now available, but practitioners should note an immediate limitation: the publicly provided case details here identify the court, docket number, filing date, and a link to the opinion, but do not include the opinion text itself. That means any substantive assessment of the panel’s holdings, doctrinal reasoning, or precedential effect depends on reviewing the slip opinion directly.

Even so, this filing is worth flagging for lawyers who track Third Circuit developments.

The Federal Trade Commission has given final approval to its order against Illuminate Education, closing an administrative enforcement action that centered on allegations the ed-tech company failed to adequately safeguard highly sensitive student information. According to the FTC, those security failures contributed to a breach affecting 10.1 million students — a scale that makes this one of the most significant recent privacy matters involving school-related data.

The agency’s action, announced here, is notable not just because of the number of affected individuals, but because it underscores the FTC’s continued willingness to treat data-security lapses as consumer-protection violations in sectors handling especially sensitive populations.

A federal judge in Manhattan has sentenced former Taliban commander Haji Najibullah to 42 years in prison, marking one of the most notable terrorism sentencings of the week and reinforcing the Justice Department’s long-running commitment to pursuing legacy wartime prosecutions years after the underlying conduct.

The sentence, imposed June 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, followed Najibullah’s conviction for hostage-taking and providing material support for terrorism resulting in death.