Boeing's 737 Max Deceit Cost Airline Over $150M, Jury Told

By Rachel Riley

Counsel for LOT Polish Airlines kicked off trial in a fraud suit against Boeing on Monday, telling a Seattle federal jury that the aerospace giant caused more than $150 million in losses after 737 Max jets the airline leased became "giant paperweights" amid a global grounding tied to two catastrophic crashes.

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5th Circ. Wary To Flip IP Suit's 'Case-Terminating Sanctions'

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel seemed skeptical of a bid to undo "case-terminating sanctions" that a lower court leveled against a servicing company accused of stealing Philips North America LLC's trade secrets, saying Monday that the company admitted to deleting some files to cover its tracks.

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NJ Justices Back Coverage Exclusion Reservation Of Rights

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Monday said an insurer doesn't waive its right to rely on a policy exclusion after initially defending a claim, backing Berkley Insurance Co. in a coverage dispute stemming from self-dealing suits against a pharmaceutical company and its chairman.

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Ex-US Rep. Faces $1.4M Sanction In Venezuela Contract Fight

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Congressman David Rivera, who was found guilty this month of failing to register as a foreign agent, is now facing a nearly $1.4 million sanction in New York, where the U.S. affiliate of Venezuela's state-owned oil company sued his consulting firm over a $50 million agreement that fell apart.

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ChatGPT Suit Points To Ups And Downs Of Pro Se AI Use

By Cara Bayles

A recent lawsuit against OpenAI highlights many of the hopes and anxieties about pro se litigants using generative artificial intelligence to churn out legal arguments. The technology raises concerns about confidentiality, hallucinations and ethical issues, but some access-to-justice advocates worry the lawsuit may hinder technology that might democratize legal services.

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Colo. Trial Firm Seeks Fees Ruling In Case Against Injury Firm

By Rachel Konieczny

A trial law firm asked a Colorado state court to determine whether a personal injury firm the trial firm contracted with is entitled to fees after the defendant terminated the firms' of-counsel agreement and did so, the trial firm alleged, without good faith.

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Brewery Says Eviction Bid Chases Profit From FIFA World Cup

By José Luis Martínez

A Houston brewery asked a Texas state court on Monday to block its landlord from evicting it ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, alleging the landlord manufactured lease defaults to retake the property and profit from its location near Houston's planned tournament fan zone.

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Volvo Says Recalls For Faulty Backup Camera Moot Suit

By Gina Kim

Volvo has urged a New York federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action alleging it sold cars with defective rear cameras that don't operate properly when in reverse, arguing the claims aren't ripe since the plaintiff didn't say he took advantage of remedies offered through the automaker's nationwide voluntary recalls.

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Bain Unit Accuses Sellers Of Making Secret Deals In TM Suit

By Hayley Fowler

A Bain Capital subsidiary that manufactures hand and power tools has accused its distributors of making backdoor deals with unauthorized resellers to peddle trademarked products on online marketplaces such as Amazon without approval.

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Packaging Co. Wins 2nd Block On Rival's Insulated Container

By Hayley Fowler

A cold storage packaging company has won a second injunction barring a rival manufacturer from selling an insulated shipping container that allegedly infringes its patents, according to a North Carolina federal judge's order.

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Brief

Fed. Circ. Won't Rehear NASA Contractor Patent Fight

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Circuit declined to reconsider its ruling siding with a district court's decision to grant summary judgment to a NASA contractor over claims the contractor infringed a rotary wing vehicle patent owned by two California brothers.

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Pharma CEO's Role In Ex-Exec's Contract Permits Deposition

By Abigail Harrison

North Carolina's business court has refused to shield the CEO of biopharmaceutical firm United Therapeutics Corp. from being deposed in a trade secrets lawsuit against a former executive and his new employer, finding it reasonable to believe she was an "ultimate decision-maker."

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Wash. Says Novartis Isn't Harmed By 340B Drug Pricing Law

By Nadia Dreid

Washington is objecting to Novartis' attempt to block a state law that expands the discounts the drugmaker must provide under the federal 340B Drug Pricing Program, telling a federal court that worry about losing money doesn't constitute irreparable harm.

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Fla. Panel Denies Arbitration In Nursing Home Death Suit

By David Minsky

A Florida state appellate court denied an arbitration bid in a wrongful death suit brought by the son of an elderly man who died in a nursing home, ruling Monday that the patient lacked the mental capacity to sign an agreement upon being admitted to the facility. 

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled a varied mix of settlement approvals, political office disputes, transaction fights, emergency injunction bids and questions over how far the court can go to preserve records for litigation outside Delaware.

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Binance Takes Investor Suit Arbitration Bid To 11th Circ.

By Sydney Price

Binance and former CEO Changpeng Zhao are asking the Eleventh Circuit to review a Florida federal judge's decision denying their bid to compel arbitration of a proposed class action alleging that the crypto trading platform knowingly violated U.S. regulatory requirements.

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NC Tech Co. Says Supplier Botched Raytheon Battery Deal

By Elaine Briseño

A manufacturer hired by defense contractor Raytheon to develop 270-volt battery packs for powering a weapon on the military's Apache helicopters has accused a business partner of repeatedly failing to meet various delivery deadlines for parts needed to produce the units.

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Cannabis Co. Can't Block Discovery Despite Dismissed Claim

By Jonathan Capriel

A California state court denied a cannabis dispensary operator's request to block discovery, ruling that an investor who allegedly loaned it $1.2 million can continue seeking evidence even though his breach of contract claim had been dismissed.

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Heppner Ruling Left AI Privilege Risk For Lawyers Unresolved

While a New York federal judge’s recent ruling in U.S. v. Heppner resolved a privilege question surrounding client-side artificial intelligence use, it did not address how to mitigate the risks that can arise when confidential information enters the operative context of an AI system used by an attorney, says Jianfei Chen at Quarles & Brady​​​​​​​.

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How They Won It

Attys For Tufts Profs Didn't Blink In A Tenure Standoff

By Julie Manganis

When Jennifer Henricks and Kevin Peters first learned what was happening to tenured professors at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston a few years ago, they knew that what was at stake involved more than just a dispute over the terms of a contract.

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Palestinian Ex-Associate Slaps DLA Piper With Bias Claim

By Lynn LaRowe

DLA Piper has been hit with a federal civil rights lawsuit in Illinois from a former summer associate alleging discrimination, a hostile work environment and retaliation based on her identity as a Palestinian, Gazan, Arab and Muslim woman.

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Fired Immigration Judge Says Trump Can't Skirt Bias Laws

By Grace Elletson

A former immigration judge urged a D.C. federal court not to throw out her bias suit challenging her firing, arguing the U.S. Department of Justice was pushing the "breathtaking proposition" that the president was empowered to commit unlawful discrimination.

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Law Student Can't Get School To Nix Kirk Comment Discipline

By Mike Curley

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday said the court cannot force Texas Tech University's leaders to rescind a reprimand against a law student who allegedly celebrated following the death of Charlie Kirk, as the university has sovereign immunity.

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Michigan Dems Noncommittal On Trump's Judicial Pick

By Courtney Bublé

Michigan's two Democratic senators played it coy on Tuesday when asked if they would support the district court nominee for their state that the president announced the night before.

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PayPal Settles Gov't DEI Probe With Small Biz Program

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that it has reached a settlement with PayPal Inc. to end an investigation into what the department said was a discriminatory investment program for Black- and minority-owned businesses.

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