A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, found Monday an Uber driver committed battery against a passenger who accused him of grabbing her leg in 2019, and it awarded her $5,000 in damages, capping off a four-day bellwether trial against the ride-hailing giant.
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Jury Finds Uber Driver Committed Battery During NC Ride

By Hayley Fowler

A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, found Monday an Uber driver committed battery against a passenger who accused him of grabbing her leg in 2019, and it awarded her $5,000 in damages, capping off a four-day bellwether trial against the ride-hailing giant.

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Justices Skip Challenge To NC Surveyor License Law

By Matthew Santoni

The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it won't take up an appeal from a North Carolina drone operator who says his state's licensing and regulatory requirements for land surveyors restricted his First Amendment rights.

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Sinema's 'Lascivious' Texts Create NC Jurisdiction, Court Told

By Craig Clough

The former wife of a security guard, who is suing former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema, alleging she destroyed their marriage, told a North Carolina federal court Friday that Sinema's "lascivious" texts to her husband while he was in the state help establish the court's personal jurisdiction over the case.

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Insurer Intentionally Avoiding $200M Loan Claim, Court Told

By Hope Patti

A litigation funding firm has accused its insurer of wrongfully refusing to pay out its policy's guaranteed $200 million in coverage for an unpaid loan, saying the insurer buried it in duplicative and burdensome information requests to avoid paying a valid claim.

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Bank Of America Wage Deal Over Boot-Up Time Gets OK

By Benjamin Morse

Bank of America will pay approximately $21,500, including attorney fees and costs, to resolve a Fair Labor Standards Act lawsuit alleging employees were not paid for time spent booting up and shutting down their computers, after a North Carolina federal judge signed off on the settlement.

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Live Nation Wants Expert, Damages Cut After Antitrust Verdict

By Matthew Perlman

Live Nation is asking a New York federal court to strike the testimony of a key expert witness for the states and to wipe the damages awarded by the jury based on her work, in the antitrust case accusing the company of monopolizing the live entertainment industry.

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DEALS

4 Firms Guide $1.4B Honeywell, Brady Productivity Unit Deal

By Al Barbarino

Honeywell said Monday that it has agreed to sell its productivity solutions and services business to Brady Corp. as the company nears the completion of a multiyear portfolio transformation, with four law firms advising. 

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Paul Weiss, Jones Day Advise On QXO's $17B TopBuild Deal

By Al Barbarino

Building products distributor QXO Inc. has agreed to purchase Florida-based TopBuild Corp. for about $17 billion, with Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP advising QXO and Jones Day representing TopBuild.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Some Firms Break Lobbying Revenue Records Again

By Alison Knezevich

After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.

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Breyer Says 'Shadow Docket' Not A Top Court Power Grab

By Carolyn Muyskens

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court. 

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Sullivan & Cromwell Alerts SDNY To AI Errors In Ch. 15 Case

By Andrea Keckley

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Pillsbury Unlawfully Fired Pregnant Recruiter, Bias Suit Says

By Lauren Berg

The former Black female director for associate recruiting at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP says she was unlawfully fired just weeks after disclosing her high-risk pregnancy to her supervisor, according to her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tennessee federal court.

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WDTX Judge Albright Stepping Down At End Of Summer

By Dani Kass

U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.

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Ex-Wis. Judge Argues ICE Case Reversal Backs Her Acquittal

By Craig Clough

Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.

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Warsh Rejects Claim He'd Be Trump's 'Sock Puppet' At Fed

By Jon Hill

Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sought at his Tuesday confirmation hearing to rebut Democratic accusations that he would be a White House "sock puppet," distancing himself from President Donald Trump's calls for rate cuts and downplaying their significance.

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Copyright Head Touts 6,000 Registrations Of Human-AI Works

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Anapol Weiss

Baker McKenzie

Boies Schiller

Bracewell LLP

Brownstein Hyatt

Burns Day & Presnell

Chaffin Luhana LLP

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

Eversheds Sutherland

Fish & Richardson

Fitzgerald Hanna

Foley & Lardner

Gimbel Reilly

Girard Sharp

Gray Cary

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jones Day

Just Food Law PLLC

K&L Gates

Kirkland & Ellis

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Maynard Nexsen

McGuireWoods

Nelson Mullins

O'Melveny & Myers

Parker Poe

Paul Weiss

Peiffer Wolf

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Poyner Spruill

Simmons Hanly

Squire Patton

Strang Bradley

Sullivan & Cromwell

Van Camp Meacham

Williams Hart

Winston & Strawn

Womble Bond

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

BGR Government Affairs LLC

Ballard Partners Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc.

Brady Corp.

Cox Communications Inc.

Harvard University

Institute for Justice

Kodiak Building Partners

Live Nation Entertainment Inc.

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

TopBuild Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Uber Technologies Inc.

Warburg Pincus LLC

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office of the President

Federal Reserve System

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Labor Relations Board

North Carolina Department of Justice

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin