A federal court in New York declined to dismiss a nonprofit executive’s municipal liability claim against New York City, former mayor Eric Adams and members of the NYPD alleging that police officials released details of her sexual assault and accused her of filing a false rape allegation against a Black man as retaliation against her. She worked as the executive director of a foundation for young and marginalized New Yorkers and advocates for them against violent policing tactics. It is not clear whether one or more officers spread rumors that she falsely accused the Black man of rape, but it does not count as an isolated incident because rumors continued to spread after she put a high-level officer on notice of the claims.

An appeals court in Texas upheld the murder conviction of a man who shot and killed a woman who was out on bond for her alleged involvement in the murder of the man’s cousin, her former boyfriend. The evidence sufficed for the jury to decide his self-defense claim was not credible and there was no valid grounds for the court to give a sudden-passion instruction to the jury.

A federal court in Pennsylvania granted final approval of two class action antitrust settlements totaling about $70 million, resolving claims that Glenmark Pharmaceuticals, Greenstone and Pfizer participated in a conspiracy to inflate generic drug prices.

A federal court in California dismissed two pump-and-dump investment scheme victims’ lawsuits against Meta, whose platforms Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp facilitated the Chinese penny-stock schemes. The claims are barred by the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, which deprives the court of jurisdiction over the claims.

The Washington Post won summary judgment from a Florida federal court on Trump Media’s defamation complaint over its article headlined “Trust linked to porn-friendly bank could gain a stake in Trump’s Truth Social.” The newspaper admits the article included false information — the claim that Trump Media Technology Group “paid a $240,000 referral fee in connection with an $8 million loan from an entity known as ES Family Trust” — and has since issued a correction, but there was no proof of malice in its actions.