Rising Star: Akin's Joshua La Vigne

By Linda Chiem

Joshua La Vigne of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP negotiated Cando Rail & Terminals' pivotal acquisition of Savage Enterprises' rail assets, earning him a spot among the transportation attorneys under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Southwest's Religious Bias Memo To End Contempt Flap

By Vin Gurrieri

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday ordered Southwest Airlines to send flight attendants a statement saying the company isn't allowed to discriminate based on religion, in order to dissolve a contempt finding in a case from a flight attendant who successfully claimed her views on abortion got her fired.

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Quill & Arrow Says Ford Can't Rehash Lemon Law Fee Fights

By Linda Chiem

Quill & Arrow LLP has asked a California federal judge to dump a "retaliatory" lawsuit alleging the personal injury firm saddled Ford Motor Co. with high-priced legal bills for work purportedly handled by virtual assistants overseas or nonlawyers, saying the automaker is trying to chill product liability litigation.

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Alaska Airlines Gets Initial OK For $500K Military Leave Deal

By Benjamin Morse

Alaska Airlines Inc. has agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a class action accusing it of denying vacation accrual to pilots during qualifying military leaves, according to a Washington federal judge's preliminary approval order.

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Prudential Beats Accidental Death Benefits Exception Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Prudential Insurance and an aviation company defeated a lawsuit alleging they unlawfully denied death benefits to the wives of two pilots who died in a 2024 plane crash, with a federal judge rejecting the widows' argument that the insurance policy's aviation exception was unenforceable.

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Uber Eats To Pay $4.4M To End Seattle Wage Theft Claims

By Ben Adlin

Uber Eats will again fork out millions of dollars to settle allegations from Seattle officials that the food delivery giant failed to pay its couriers what they're owed under municipal app-based worker laws, the Seattle Office of Labor Standards announced Tuesday.

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Fed. Circ. Won't Revive PTAB Challenge Of Westport Patents

By Theresa Schliep

The Federal Circuit on Tuesday said the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was right when it declined to eliminate claims in a pair of fuel injection patents owned by Westport Fuel Systems Canada Inc., saying that Mercedes-Benz and an engineering and technology company didn't prove the invention's obviousness.

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Belle Tire Wins Arbitration Of Technician's Overtime Claims

By Melanie Dorsey

A former Belle Tire alignment technician must individually arbitrate claims that the automotive service company failed to pay overtime and improperly reduced workers' pay rates, a Michigan federal judge ruled, finding the employee agreed to arbitration through onboarding paperwork in 2023. 

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Ga. Justices Won't Revisit MARTA Rider's Injury Case

By Kelcey Caulder

Georgia's justices said they will not take up the case of a woman who alleged she was injured when a Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority bus driver started driving while she was still paying her fare, allowing a summary judgment ruling in favor of MARTA and the driver to stand.

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Tricolor Execs Accused Of Securities Fraud By SEC

By Ben Zigterman

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday sued the founder of bankrupt subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings and two of its executives, accusing them of double pledging collateral and misrepresenting the debt pools they were offering to lenders.

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Charlotte Transit Lost Millions To Fare Evasion, Auditor Says

By Hayley Fowler

The public transit system in Charlotte, North Carolina, lost millions of dollars on riders who don't pay for tickets and left $1.7 million in unspent safety dollars on the table, according to a state watchdog report penned in response to the fatal stabbing of a 23-year-old Ukrainian woman on the city's light rail system last year.

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​​​​​​​Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving multibillion-dollar mergers, corporate oversight, founder control, SPAC litigation, commercial contracts and attorney fees.

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Barge Owner's Insurance Agent Sued Over Crash Coverage

By Hope Patti

The insurance agency that procured coverage for a barge operator whose vessel crashed into a youth sailing camp boat, killing three girls and injuring three more, failed to obtain sufficient insurance coverage for the vessel, parents of two of the injured children told a Florida state court.

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CEO Says Ex-NJ AG Not Entitled To Immunity From Claims

By George Woolston

A CEO of a development company said his lawsuit over a dismissed criminal racketeering case against him and New Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III should survive former state Attorney General Matt Platkin's dismissal bid, arguing that Platkin, once the state's chief prosecutor, is not entitled to any immunity.

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Alaska Judge Voids 500-Acre Land Swap For Refuge Road

By Crystal Owens

A district court judge vacated an Interior Department decision to exchange 500 acres to allow road construction on Izembek National Wildlife Refuge lands for failing to comply with the provision of a federal Alaskan land law, saying in a Tuesday order that the transaction has no "force or effect."

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Mich. Panel Revives $900K Hyperbaric Chamber Coverage Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan appellate court panel on Monday revived Corewell Health's suit seeking recovery of nearly $900,000 from State Farm Insurance for hyperbaric oxygen therapy that was provided to a child who suffered a traumatic brain injury after he was struck by a vehicle while riding his bike.

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Ambulance Co. Says Insurers Failed To Settle Crash Claims

By Danielle Ferguson

A Pennsylvania ambulance service alleged in state court that its insurers refused to consider a settlement offer within its policy limits to resolve claims stemming from a fatal crash, exposing the company to a higher judgment after the crash victim's estate added punitive damages to the underlying case.

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Big Tech, PTAB Attys Urge Justices To Fix USPTO Power Grab

By Dani Kass

The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak havoc" without accountability, top tech companies have warned the U.S. Supreme Court.

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DLA Piper Taps Weil Partner As New York PE Co-Lead

By Andrea Keckley

DLA Piper has announced it hired a Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP partner to co-lead its private equity practice in New York.

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A Deepening Patent-Trademark Divide Over Irreparable Harm

Recent Federal Circuit decisions, along with legislation being considered in Congress, may exacerbate the differences that patent owners and trademark owners face when seeking to stop infringement before irreparable harm is caused, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.

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How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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White House Aims To Shield Advisers Behind Law Firm EOs

By Emily Sawicki

The Trump administration and Justice Department "strongly object" to an Aug. 3 discovery order requiring them to name individuals involved in drafting and approving executive orders targeting law firms, amid their repeated refusal to hand over certain communications in a suit brought by the American Bar Association.

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Ex-DOJ Atty Says Trump's University Probes Were Political

By Hailey Konnath

Trump administration officials forged ahead with investigations into Harvard, Columbia and other universities despite its own lawyers raising legal concerns and, in some cases, finding "little to no factual predicate justifying opening them," according to a whistleblower disclosure from a former U.S. Department of Justice lawyer made public Tuesday.

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Troutman Sidelined Associate After Heart Attack, Suit Says

By Patrick Hoff

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP derailed an associate's career because he took medical leave to recover from a heart attack and spoke up about senior attorneys' fraudulent billing practices, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday in New Jersey federal court.

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Trump Names 9 Judicial Picks Across 6 States

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced nine nominees Tuesday for judicial spots in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Alaska. 

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Bot Errors Doom Expert's Credibility In Tainted-Supplement Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge Tuesday disposed of a U.S. Army nurse's lawsuit claiming supplement maker Thesis Nootropics sold products tainted with amphetamines, concluding that a key expert destroyed his credibility by submitting a report containing bot-generated false citations — much like errors for which the plaintiffs' counsel was recently sanctioned.

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