Hyundai, Kia Ink $9M Deal With AGs Over Theft-Prone Cars

By Hailey Konnath

Hyundai and Kia have agreed to shell out $9 million and add anti-theft devices to millions of vehicles at no cost to owners as part of a settlement with 36 state attorneys general who accused the carmakers of selling vehicles lacking industry-standard anti-theft technology, according to announcements made Tuesday.

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'Choking Challenge' Suit Against YouTube, TikTok Is Tossed

By Mike Curley

A California federal judge has dismissed without leave to amend a suit by parents and an advocacy group alleging YouTube and TikTok's reporting and moderating tools are defective and fail to take down dangerous videos, saying the complaint suffers from the same deficiencies that got a previous version dismissed.

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Hinge, Tinder Sued Over Matching Women With Serial Rapist

By Mike Curley

A group of six women sued Hinge, Tinder and their parent company in Colorado state court Tuesday, saying they matched them with a serial rapist despite claiming to have banned him from their apps.

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Hagens Berman Sanctioned For Bot Errors In OnlyFans Case

By Emily Sawicki

A California federal judge sanctioned Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP for submitting four briefs that contained errors blamed on ChatGPT while representing OnlyFans users pursuing proposed class fraud claims against the online platform, tossing the suit but allowing the users a chance to refile.

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Brief

Trump Executive Order Calls Fentanyl A 'WMD'

By Jonathan Capriel

President Donald Trump has declared fentanyl a "weapon of mass destruction," according to an executive order that explicitly calls on the military to respond to "chemical incidents in the homeland."

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Gunmaker Fights To Exclude Other Accidents In Defect Trial

By Jonathan Capriel

A jury should not be allowed to see videos purporting to show instances where the Sig Sauer P320 pistol fired without the trigger intentionally being pulled, the gun manufacturer argued, telling a Kentucky federal court that these discharges are not substantially similar to the current case heading to trial.

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Judge Blocks T-Mobile From Using Tool To Scrape AT&T Data

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge blocked T-Mobile from using a price tool to scrape data from AT&T's website, saying that without a temporary restraining order T-Mobile would likely continue to enter into AT&T's password-protected software without permission.

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Enviro Org.: 'Radioactive Road' Completion Doesn't Moot Suit

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The Mosaic Co.'s completion of a road that contains radioactive phosphogypsum doesn't mean a legal challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval is moot, the Center for Biological Diversity told the Eleventh Circuit on Monday.

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US, Red States Ask Court To Void Vt. Climate Superfund Law

By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

The U.S. government and a group of red states on Tuesday asked a federal court to void Vermont's climate Superfund law, saying the statute exceeds the state's powers over air pollution.

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New Rule Shows NRC Willing To Move Fast To Reform Regs

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s decision to forgo public comment and immediately rescind certain rules governing adjudicatory procedures, federal tort claims and disclosure of licensee information signals the agency's intent to accelerate the regulatory streamlining efforts ordered by the president this spring, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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Opinion

A Uniform Federal Rule Would Curb Gen AI Missteps In Court

To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy.

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Bonus Spotlight

Susman Godfrey Bests Market With Bonuses Of Up To $280K

By Andrea Keckley

Susman Godfrey LLP announced on Tuesday that it is topping New York's bonus scale with payouts that range from a median of $120,000 for first-year associates to a median of $280,000 for the most senior associates.

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Kasowitz Hid Plummeting Profits From Ex-Partner, Suit Says

By Andrea Keckley

A former Kasowitz LLP partner has accused the firm and its founder, renowned litigator Marc Kasowitz, of misrepresenting its finances and failing to pay him the millions he is owed in a lawsuit in New York state court, alleging the firm's profits have plummeted due to poor management.

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DOJ Says NY Court Can't Handle Maurene Comey Firing Suit

By Adrian Cruz

The U.S. Department of Justice has said former prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit challenging the circumstances of her firing should be dismissed, arguing that it is an attempt to sidestep the Civil Service Reform Act.

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Fired Top Antitrust Official Warns Of 'Politicization'

By Courtney Bublé

The former No. 2 at the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division until he was terminated this year testified Tuesday about the "politicization" of antitrust enforcement.

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Levona Says New Docs Show Reed Smith Lied In $102M Feud

By Emily Sawicki

Levona Holdings Ltd. is pressing a Manhattan federal court to vacate what it calls a fraudulent $102 million arbitral award issued to international shipping company Eletson, arguing that new documents released under the crime-fraud exception show that the company and its prior attorneys at Reed Smith LLP lied during the arbitration.

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Ex-State High Court Chiefs Start Group To Defend Rule Of Law

By Jake Maher

A group of over 40 former chief judges of state supreme courts across the country this week launched a new project to speak out against attacks on the judiciary's independence and educate about the rule of law. 

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Quinn Emanuel Fee Fight Bound For Texas Or Mass. Court

By Carolyn Muyskens

A Massachusetts federal judge is weighing whether to kick Quinn Emanuel's bid for $30 million in legal fees from a former client's parent company, Nano Dimension Ltd., to state court or to the Texas bankruptcy court where the client is undergoing Chapter 11 proceedings.

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Bullivant Houser Files For Ch. 11 After November Closure

By Rose Krebs

The now-shuttered Bullivant Houser Bailey PC has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California, with its chief dissolution officer saying the bankruptcy was filed so the firm can liquidate its assets as it continues "an orderly wind-down" of its operations.

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Corporate Transparency Act Is Constitutional, 11th Circ. Says

By Kevin Pinner

The Corporate Transparency Act is constitutional because it regulates economic activities with a substantial impact on interstate commerce and doesn't violate protections against unreasonable searches, the Eleventh Circuit said Tuesday, reversing a lower court's decision.

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