Boeing Can't Preclude Punitive Damages In Door Plug Suit

By Ben Adlin

A Washington judge Friday rejected The Boeing Co.'s effort to shut down passengers' bid for punitive damages in a lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door plug, allowing the plaintiffs time to conduct more discovery around whether Illinois law applies.

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DOJ Seeks To Pause Order Blocking Demand For Driver Data

By Jared Foretek

The Justice Department is asking a Virginia federal judge to pause his injunction barring the Trump administration from obtaining millions of commercial driver's license records from a nationwide database while it appeals the ruling, claiming that the district court likely lacked jurisdiction to hear the lawsuit in the first place.

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Va.'s Arlington County Seeks To Halt Trump's 'Triumphal Arch'

By Ganesh Setty

Arlington County, Virginia, has filed a lawsuit seeking to block the development of President Donald Trump's 250-foot "triumphal arch" between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, telling a Virginia federal court that his administration undertook a "cursory and conclusory" environmental assessment.

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11th Circ. Tosses Crash Award Over Doctor Testimony

By David Aaro

The Eleventh Circuit on Friday threw out a roughly $400,000 damages award a trucking company was ordered to pay to a victim of a crash with one of its drivers, saying the lower court didn't issue a clear enough ruling on the testimony from her physician.

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Hertz Settles Investors' Derivative Suit Over EV Fleet Losses

By Elaine Briseño

The investor plaintiffs seeking damages on behalf of Hertz Global have settled with the company, its former CEO and other executives who they accused of breaching their fiduciary duties by releasing misleading statements about the demand for electric vehicles.

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Pa. Justices Won't Extend Deadline For 'Skill Games' Removal

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has denied a request from three state lawmakers and a group of "skill games" operators to extend the deadline for businesses to remove devices that the high court recently deemed illegal slot machines.

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GM Trucks Have Engine Oil Defect, Drivers Say

By Susan Smiley

Engine oil coolers in certain models of General Motors trucks can cause radiator contamination and potential catastrophic engine failure, drivers claimed in a proposed class action filed in Michigan federal court Friday.

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Feds Say Calif. 'Clean Trucks' Pact Usurps Emissions Rules

By Linda Chiem

The Trump administration said Friday that California cannot usurp exclusive federal authority to set uniform motor vehicle emissions standards, urging a federal judge to strike down the Golden State's efforts to still enforce stricter emissions mandates on heavy-duty truck manufacturers in defiance of federal law.

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Logistics Cos. Can't Pause Tobacco Fee Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Connecticut federal judge on Friday shut down two logistics companies' bid to stay discovery in a case claiming they didn't properly reimburse employees who paid a health plan fee for tobacco use, ruling a pause wasn't warranted given the suit's history.

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EU, China Make Trade Pledges On Hybrid Vehicles, Minerals

By Dylan Moroses

The European Union and China said Friday that they reached mutual understanding on several key trade matters following a bilateral meeting, including the facilitation of Chinese minerals to EU companies and limiting China's exports of hybrid vehicles to the bloc.

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Analysis

Species Protections May Differ By State Under Senate Bill

By Gautama Mehta

A new U.S. Senate bill proposing to change federal agencies' consultation process for energy and infrastructure projects could lead to inconsistent wildlife protections in different states and includes some provisions that may ultimately be counterproductive to speeding up development.

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Roundup

ERISA Recap: 6 Notable Decisions From September

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Tenth and Seventh circuits issued published opinions in two union retirement disputes, while the Sixth Circuit found that the Commonwealth of Kentucky's lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers does not belong in state court, citing colorable federal preemption arguments. Here's more on those decisions and three other notable rulings involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that came down in September.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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