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  • June 08, 2026

    VW Settles Suit Over 2nd-Degree Burns From Seat Heater

    Volkswagen AG has settled a suit from a paraplegic woman who alleged that the seat heaters in one of VW's vehicles were too hot to be safe and left her with second-degree burns, ending the case on the eve of trial.

  • June 08, 2026

    American Airlines Escapes Flight Attendants' OT Suit

    Federal law preempts a proposed class action over American Airlines flight attendants' allegedly unpaid overtime before and after flights, since the time flight attendants are paid for is governed by their collective bargaining agreements, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Monday.

  • June 08, 2026

    Seattle Fights Uber, Instacart Bid To Undo 9th Circ. Gig Ruling

    The city of Seattle urged the Ninth Circuit not to revisit a panel decision backing its app-based worker deactivation ordinance against a First Amendment challenge from Uber and Instacart, arguing the companies are trying to turn an ordinary worker protection law into a speech case.

  • June 08, 2026

    High Court Won't Hear Ex-GM Worker's Disability Bias Suit

    The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up a former General Motors employee's suit alleging the company wouldn't move her to a different position after an on-the-job injury, leaving in place a Fifth Circuit ruling that found she hadn't shown she could perform an open role.

  • June 05, 2026

    Rail Co. Loses DC Circ. Appeal Challenging State Forest Law

    The D.C. Circuit rejected Grafton & Upton Railroad Co.'s effort to preempt a Massachusetts town's claim over forest land the railroad wants to use for a new transloading facility, finding Friday that the federal Interstate Commerce Commission Termination Act doesn't preempt a state right-of-first-refusal law.

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