A California federal judge refused Tuesday to throw out a trio of Lyft passengers' proposed class action claiming the ride-hailing company's Priority Pickup option costs extra but often fails to pick up passengers faster, finding that the passengers had standing to bring their claims.
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Lyft Can't Ditch Riders' Suit Over 'Priority Pickup' Promise

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge refused Tuesday to throw out a trio of Lyft passengers' proposed class action claiming the ride-hailing company's Priority Pickup option costs extra but often fails to pick up passengers faster, finding that the passengers had standing to bring their claims.

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11th Circ. Affirms Ga. Concrete Bid-Rigging Conviction

By Matthew Perlman

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a manager's conviction for conspiring to rig bids and fix prices for tens of millions of dollars in ready-mix concrete contracts in Georgia, after finding enough evidence of his participation in the scheme.

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Calif. Fights Federal Moves To Nix Its Truck Emissions Regs

By Ganesh Setty

California's air pollution regulator has told a federal judge that Congress and the Trump administration violated separation of powers and federalism principles by passing unlawful resolutions blocking state emissions regulations for heavy-duty trucks, arguing the regulations should still take effect.

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Trump Rescinds 50-Year Off-Road Rules For Public Lands

By Crystal Owens

Environmental groups are decrying the Trump administration's decision to rescind orders that limited off-road vehicle use on national public lands, arguing the safeguards provided a common-sense framework for reducing conflicts among land users while protecting clean water, wildlife habitat and fragile landscapes.

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9th Circ. Won't Recharge Kids' Suit Over Trump's Energy EOs

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit panel refused Tuesday to revive a group of youths' legal challenge of President Donald Trump's executive orders spurring the use of fossil fuels to meet the country's energy needs, concluding the plaintiffs "can only speculate" that the orders will trigger agency decisions that ultimately intensify climate change.

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AVIATION

Boeing Says Wash. Law Bars Punitives In Door-Plug Suit

By Linda Chiem

The Boeing Co. has told a federal judge that Washington state law bars punitive damages in a lawsuit from a mother and her teenage son who were seated next to the door plug that blew off the 737 Max 9 jet midflight in January 2024.

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AUTOMOTIVE

GM Rear Windows Leak From Defect, Suit Alleges

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of California vehicle owners is suing General Motors LLC in federal court, alleging that several model year 2019 and 2020 vehicles have a defect in their rear windows that lets water leak into the cabin.

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10th Circ. Backs Toyota's Win In RAV4 Defect Suit

By Benjamin Morse

The Tenth Circuit affirmed Toyota Motor Corp.'s trial win in a Colorado product liability suit over a RAV4 crash that left a passenger with a severe brain injury, saying the passenger could not challenge the jury's verdict because he failed to make the required trial and posttrial motions.

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WARN Act Plaintiffs Vie For Control In First Brands Ch. 11

By Vince Sullivan

Attorneys representing two groups of employees terminated by bankrupt auto parts maker First Brands Group asked to be put in control of mass termination litigation against the company, each saying on Tuesday that they have the necessary experience to guide the cases toward class certification.

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4th Circ. Says Worker Can't Revive Wage Classes After Deal

By Benjamin Morse

The Fourth Circuit dismissed a former auto parts worker's appeal of an order decertifying wage and hour classes and a collective action, finding Tuesday he lost standing when he voluntarily settled his individual claims.

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EV Co. Hit With Investor Suit Over Sales And Deliveries

By Sydney Price

Electric vehicle maker Lucid Group Inc. was hit with a proposed investor class action alleging that the company made misleading statements about its production and sales before revealing an issue with a supplier was affecting vehicle deliveries, adding to the list of shareholder litigation it faces over production.

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INSURANCE

9th Circ. Revives Duty To Defend Claims In Wash. Crash Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday partially revived a Washington couple's claims accusing Integon Preferred Insurance Co. of flouting its duty to defend them from a lawsuit over a 2017 pedestrian collision, reversing a lower court's ruling that the policyholders failed to promptly notify the insurer of the suit.

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PEOPLE

Dentons Brings On K&L Gates Litigation Duo In Miami

By Madison Arnold

Dentons US LLP has expanded its commercial litigation capabilities in Miami with a duo from K&L Gates LLP.

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DLA Piper Brings On A&O Shearman M&A Partner In SF

By Bonnie Eslinger

DLA Piper has announced it is pushing forward with its "strategic expansion" in Northern California with the addition of "a market-leading dealmaker" from Allen Overy Shearman Sterling.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

FinCEN World Cup Warning Raises Trafficking Risks For Cos.

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's recent warning of human trafficking risks during the World Cup games signals heightened scrutiny ahead of the upcoming tournament, and suggests regulators increasingly expect businesses beyond financial institutions to maintain effective trafficking-risk controls, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

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2 'Rocket Dockets' And The Rules That Propel Them

The fastest civil trial courts in the country are currently in the Eastern District of Virginia and the Southern District of Florida, and their chief judges provide insights into the court rules that keep them ahead, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Dardarian Ho's Linda Dardarian

By Lynn LaRowe

Despite being on the other side of a disability rights case that will cost his municipality at least $150 million, Kevin McLaughlin, city attorney for Oakland, California, believes that if more lawyers were like Linda Dardarian, there would be far less lamenting about civility in the legal profession.

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Hueston Hennigan Follows Milbank's Lead In Associate Pay

By Tracey Read

The race to match Milbank LLP's attorney pay hikes is officially on, with trial firm Hueston Hennigan the latest to announce it will increase associate pay by $10,000 to $20,000 annually.

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Graham Pushes Federal Tort Path After DOJ Drops $1.8B Fund

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice seemed, at least briefly, to support a Republican senator's alternative solution to the "anti-weaponization" $1.8 billion fund that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday the department is abandoning.

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Crowell Unveils DC Office In Revamped Former Metro HQ

By Alison Knezevich

Crowell & Moring LLP has a new home in the nation's capital, with the firm announcing Wednesday it has moved its D.C. office to the redeveloped former Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority headquarters.

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BigLaw Insider Trading Defendants Have Big-Name Legal Help

By Chris Villani

An insider trading case involving nonpublic information prosecutors say was stolen from some of the largest law firms in the U.S. has ensnared more than two dozen defendants, many of whom have turned to lawyers with notable clients including Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein and Luigi Mangione.

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Rocade Capital Buys LFG To Create Combined $2B Lit Funder

By Ryan Boysen

Rocade Capital LLC has acquired fellow litigation funder Law Finance Group LLC, creating a combined platform that has deployed more than $2.3 billion and specializes in $10 to $50 million deals, including post-judgment financing, portfolio deals and lending to plaintiff's firms.

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DOJ Sets New Healthcare Fraud Convictions Record

By Phillip Bantz

The U.S. Department of Justice on Wednesday announced that its Health Care Fraud Unit secured six jury trial convictions across the country in less than three weeks, with the cases involving more than $1.1 billion in fraud losses.

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'Read The Cases': Conn. Judge Offers AI Advice To Attys

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut federal judge told a gathering of attorneys Tuesday that his law clerks are not allowed to use generative artificial intelligence for any purpose involving legal research, his interns are barred from using it at all, and lawyers must be careful when relying on the material that the tools produce.

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Court Reporter Shortage A 'Crisis', Calif. Supreme Court Told

By Bonnie Eslinger

Two legal nonprofits urged the California Supreme Court to issue an order entitling low-income civil litigants to electronic recording if a live court reporter is not available, saying at a hearing Wednesday that a court reporter shortage in the Golden State has created a "crisis."

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AB Volvo

American Airlines Group Inc.

Bank of America Corp.

Bay Area Legal Aid

Cementos Argos SA

Citigroup Inc.

Connecticut Bar Association

Conservation Law Foundation Inc.

Daimler AG

Daimler Truck Holding AG

Demandware Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Earthjustice

Elite

Equity Residential

Family Violence Appellate Project

Federation Internationale de Football Association

First Brands Group

GKN PLC

Hecate Energy LLC

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

Kaiser Permanente

Law Finance Group Management Co.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lyft Inc.

Mutual of Enumclaw Insurance Co.

NXP Semiconductors NV

Our Children's Trust

Qualtrics

Rocade LLC

Rockefeller Group International Inc.

SAP AG

STMicroelectronics NV

Salesforce.com Inc.

Service Employees International Union

Silver Lake

Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

State Street Corp.

Sybase, Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Wilderness Society

Therapeutics Inc.

Toyota Motor Corp.

University of Miami

University of Southern California

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

Wells Fargo & Co.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Aaron Katz Law

Aeton Law Partners

Agnifilo Intrater

Altshuler Berzon

Brownstone Appellate Law Firm

Butters Brazilian

Clifford Chance

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Dardarian Ho

Day Pitney

Dentons

Epstein Becker

Evans Fears

Fox & Robertson

Fox Rothschild

Gardner & Rosenberg

Gibson Dunn

Girardi & Keese

Goodwin Procter

Gray Cary

Harris Beach Murtha

Hawash Cicack

Hogan Lovells

Hueston Hennigan

Hunton Andrews

Illovsky Gates

Janove PLLC

K&L Gates

Latham & Watkins

Law Office of Robert L. Starr

Law Offices of Andre P. Gaston

Law Offices of Gilda A. Hernandez

Logan Vance

McCarter & English

McDermott Will & Schulte

McGarvey Law

McKool Smith

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Nicholas & Tomasevic

Niemeyer Grebel

Nixon Peabody

O'Melveny & Myers

Perkins Coie

Pollack Solomon

Pomerantz LLP

Raisner Roupinian

Ropes & Gray

Rouse & Copeland

Shipman & Goodwin

Sidley Austin

Silva Kettlewell

Skadden Arps

Stokes Lawrence

Stranch Jennings

Strauss Borrelli

Stritmatter Kessler

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

Werksman Jackson

White & Case

Williams Kastner

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

Wilson Sonsini

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Land Management

California Air Resources Board

California Department of Justice

California Supreme Court

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Internal Revenue Service

National Transportation Safety Board

Office of Foreign Assets Control

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Georgia

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

United States District Court for the District of Nevada

United States District Court for the District of Utah