Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.
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Transportation Regulation To Watch: Midyear Report 2026

By Linda Chiem

Revised vehicle fuel economy standards, negotiations on a new infrastructure and transportation funding package and the next iteration of a North American trade deal are some of the transportation industry's top regulatory developments to watch in the latter half of 2026.

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Spirit Lines Up $630M Ch. 11 Stalking Horse Bid For 27 Aircraft

By Clara Geoghegan

Defunct budget air carrier Spirit Airlines asked a New York bankruptcy judge to approve Chapter 11 auction procedures for 27 aircraft, with a $630 million stalking horse bid from a secured creditor setting the floor.

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Roundup

Product Liability Q2 Regulatory Roundup

By Emily Field

This spring and early summer saw the EPA setting its sights on "forever chemicals," approving some of them for use in pesticides and clawing back limits on their presence in drinking water. The former top FDA official is now out, and several nominees are waiting to fill gaps at the Consumer Product Safety Commission. 

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SUPREME COURT

Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

This U.S. Supreme Court term featured high-stakes oral arguments on issues including presidential power, immigration and voting regulations. Here's a look at the law firms that argued the most cases and how they fared.

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Analysis

The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

By Cara Bayles

The sharpest dissents this term often involved the president, and pitted conservative and liberal justices against each other on core constitutional issues and questions about the limits to executive power, with nearly a quarter of cases being decided squarely along ideological lines.

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Analysis

The Year Donald Trump Won Big At The High Court

By Katie Buehler

The Supreme Court's conservative supermajority and President Donald Trump largely aligned this year on issues of executive power, resulting in a series of decisions that significantly expanded presidential authority.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court's stark ideological divisions were on full display this term, particularly as it issued long-awaited rulings in the last few days of June. Here, Law360 dives into the numbers behind this court term.

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AVIATION

Travel App Hopper To Pay $35M To Settle FTC Fee Complaint

By Julie Manganis

Travel app Hopper will pay $35 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging it misled consumers into paying hidden fees and overstated the value of other offerings, according to a consent judgment filed in Massachusetts federal court.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Brief

Settlement Talks Stall In Wage Suit Against Auto Parts Maker

By MJ Koo

Wage and hour claims brought by workers who accused an auto parts manufacturer of requiring off-the-clock work are headed to trial after settlement talks broke down, a North Carolina federal court said.

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RAIL

BNSF, Barstow Sued Over Railway Project Near Mojave Desert

By Gina Kim

The Sierra Club and other environmental groups sued a California city and BNSF Railway Company in state court Wednesday challenging the approval of what's expected to be the country's biggest railyard and warehouse project that they allege could significantly pollute the area and destroy habitats for endangered wildlife species.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Choral Singing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Singing in the New York City Bar Chorus — a hobby partly inspired by the late U.S. District Judge Richard Owen, who infused my clerkship year with opera music — has improved my legal career by refining my abilities to listen, exude confidence and develop emotional intelligence, says Bonnie Baker at Friedman Kaplan.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Blank Rome Sued Over Breach Allegedly Affecting 57K People

By Steven Lerner

An attorney with Blank Rome LLP was tricked into uploading sensitive files to an external Google Drive account, allegedly exposing private information belonging to more than 57,000 individuals, according to a proposed class action accusing the law firm of inadequate cybersecurity safeguards and delayed breach notification.

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Richards Layton Faces Possible Sanctions Over AI Errors

By Rose Krebs

Richards Layton & Finger PA and one of its attorneys have been directed by the Delaware Court of Chancery to show why they should not be sanctioned for a brief submitted with "hallucinated legal propositions" generated by artificial intelligence and for not taking steps to remediate those errors.

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Partnership Docs Sealed In Clifford Chance Clawback Spat

By Ryan Boysen

A federal judge has sealed the partnership agreements that two ex-Clifford Chance LLP practice group heads who jumped to Sidley Austin LLP included in their lawsuit challenging a nearly $6 million clawback demand, after Clifford Chance claimed the tactics put it at a competitive disadvantage. 

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Murdaugh Fights Clerk's Bid To Ax Jury-Tampering Suit

By Emily Sawicki

A former court clerk found to have interfered in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial cannot escape civil claims over the tampering, the disgraced attorney told a South Carolina federal court, stating in an opposition that the clerk cannot argue her way out of the state Supreme Court's finding that she tampered with the jury.

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DOJ Looks To Block ABA's Trump Adviser Subpoenas

By Jack Karp

The American Bar Association cannot demand documents and deposition testimony from a Trump adviser in its lawsuit over the Trump administration's executive orders targeting law firms, since any communication between a presidential adviser and the chief executive is privileged, the government has told a New York federal court.

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Roc Nation Calls Out Alleged AI Citations In Fat Joe Case Brief

By Andrea Keckley

Roc Nation LLC has told a New York federal judge that plaintiff Terrance Dixon's opposition brief filed in a pending Rule 11 sanctions fight should be struck down in part because it includes what the company alleges are fabricated quotations attributed to real judicial decisions.

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Kasowitz Sued Over College Antisemitism Settlement Fees

By Adrian Cruz

A group of Columbia University students who reached a settlement with the school over alleged antisemitism on campus accused Kasowitz LLP of wrongfully taking over $6 million from the deal and engaging in "self-dealing and misappropriation."

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Split 5th Circ. Backs Bond Hearings For Immigrant Detainees

By Ganesh Setty

The Fifth Circuit has limited its recent decision permitting the federal government to subject unauthorized immigrants to mandatory detention without bond, finding such individuals are still entitled to an eventual bond hearing under their Fifth Amendment due process rights.

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GOP Bill Would Cement DOJ Fraud Division In Federal Law

By Courtney Bublé

A pair of House Republicans are looking to put a congressional stamp of approval on the new fraud division in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Judge Says No To Amicus On Attorney Privilege In FTC Case

By Nadia Dreid

A defense bar advocacy group will not get a chance to weigh in on the FTC's antitrust case against Amazon over allegations the e-commerce behemoth used attorney-client privilege to hide evidence from discovery after a Washington federal judge declined to hear from the group.

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Nadine Menendez's Attys Rebuked For Medical Disclosures

By Carla Baranauckas

A New York federal judge rebuked Nadine Menendez's attorneys on Monday for publicly filing a request to delay her surrender date that included "extensive intimate details" of her medical condition, calling the disclosure "astonishing" and ordering the parties to refile a redacted version by Wednesday.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week handled disputes involving arbitration, corporate control, advancement rights, freeze-out mergers and insolvent company wind-downs.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

American Immigration Council Inc.

BNSF Railway Co.

Barnard College

Bayer AG

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cisco Systems Inc.

ClearList LLC

Cox Communications Inc.

Earthjustice

Elite

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Federalist Society

GKN PLC

Google LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Liberty Media Corp.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Monsanto Co.

Natural Resources Defense Council

New York City Bar Association

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Pacific Legal Foundation

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

ROC Nation LLC

Rock Creek Advisors LLC

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

SAE International

Sierra Club

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Spirit Airlines Inc.

Tesla Inc.

Therapeutics Inc.

University of Virginia

Verizon Communications Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashurst Perkins

Blank Rome

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Chance

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

DLA Piper

Davis Polk

Debevoise & Plimpton

Duane Morris

Epstein Becker

Foley & Lardner

Friedman Kaplan

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Griffin Humphries

Hanson Bridgett

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Kasowitz LLP

Kelley Drye

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Morgan Lewis

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Redgrave LLP

Reed Smith

Richard A. Harpootlian PA

Richards Layton

Robbins LLP

Seila Law

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Strauss Borrelli

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

T. A. Blackburn Law PLLC

Tacopina Seigel

Torridon Law

Wilkinson Stekloff

Williams & Connolly

Willson Jones

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Air Resources Board

California Department of Motor Vehicles

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Election Commission

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Louisiana Legislature

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Texas

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

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

World Health Organization