Boeing, Ex-CEO Escape Fund's 737 Max Fraud Suit

By Linda Chiem

An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday tossed a securities fraud suit accusing Boeing of misrepresenting the safety of its 737 Max 8 jets after two deadly crashes overseas, saying a Massachusetts-based investment fund cannot pursue claims purportedly assigned to it by a defunct assignor.

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Aviation, Wireless Biz Work On 'Consensus' For C-Band

By Christopher Cole

Federal aviation experts are working closely with the wireless industry to develop a "consensus framework" for next-generation aircraft safety gear to avoid congestion of 5G and flight signals in the C-band, a carriers' group says.

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11th Circ. Urged To Affirm No Tax Refund For Fund Exec's Jet

By Anna Scott Farrell

A Florida federal court correctly denied a $1.9 million tax refund to a hedge fund manager who claimed a business deduction for wear and tear on his jet, the U.S. told the Eleventh Circuit, saying he made his argument for the tax break too late.

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Atty Can't Both Lead And Rep Class In Lawsuit, NJ Court Says

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney can't be both the lead plaintiff and class counsel in a class action, a New Jersey appeals court ruled Tuesday, leaning on a more than 40-year-old state supreme court decision in denying class certification in a lawsuit accusing an electric bike maker of selling defective products.

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Trade Secrets Expert Defends Patent Review In $1M Tech Row

By José Luis Martínez

Counsel for an audio-video network transmission company on Tuesday pressed an aerospace manufacturer's trade secrets expert on why he reviewed only select portions of a disputed AVoIP patent, setting up the first of a three-day bench trial over a soured $1 million technology deal.

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Honeywell Settles $1.2M Suit Filed By Union Pension Fund

By Emily Brill

A Washington federal court closed an Employee Retirement Income Security Act case that pit Honeywell International Inc. against a union pension fund Tuesday, shortly after the conglomerate and fund told the court that they've settled the $1.2 million lawsuit for an undisclosed amount.

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DC Judge Won't Halt Bidding Process For New Dulles Terminal

By Grace Dixon

A D.C. federal judge refused to stop the bidding process for a private luxury terminal at Washington Dulles International Airport, finding that a company in the running can't show that it was injured if the contract hasn't been awarded yet, undercutting its injunction request.

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Brief

Cargo Airline To Pay Pilots $425K In Training Repay Dispute

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Texas regional cargo airline operator will pay $425,000 to pilots who claimed they would have to pay thousands of dollars if they left the company before a certain amount of time, after a federal judge preliminarily approved the deal.

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Volvo Faces Class Suit Claiming Unpaid Call Center Work

By Katherine Smith

Volvo violated federal and state law by forcing customer service representatives to perform unpaid overtime work in order to be "phone ready" the moment their shifts began, a former employee said in a proposed class action filed in North Carolina federal court.

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4th Circ. Won't Revive Advance Auto Parts Fraud Suit

By Sydney Price

The Fourth Circuit on Tuesday declined to revive a suit by investors claiming Advance Auto Parts and its top brass misled them about the failure of a new pricing strategy and about accounting errors, ruling they failed to allege the auto parts retailer had wrongful intent.

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Ga. Justices Order Do-Over In Challenge To Auto Dealer Regs

By Chart Riggall

The Georgia Supreme Court ordered a trial court Tuesday to redo its analysis of an electric carmaker's challenge to the state's prohibition on direct-to-consumer auto sales, ruling that the court failed to consider whether the ban comported with the state Legislature's constitutional prerogatives.

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Brief

Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review Car Seat Patent Case

By Elliot Weld

The full Federal Circuit has declined to hear arguments from Wonderland Switzerland AG that it should undo a panel's reversal of part of a ruling that Evenflo Co. infringed a patent covering car seats.

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Uber Wins 'Partial' Atty Fees Reimbursement In Assault MDL

By Rae Ann Varona

Uber can get $30,000 from an opposing attorney as "partial reimbursement" for the ride-hailing company's attorney fees in multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday, ordering the payment as a sanction against the attorney for disclosing confidential Uber information in other lawsuits.

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Pa. Quarry Can't Shut Down Norfolk Southern's Sinkhole Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A Pennsylvania federal judge has allowed the bulk of Norfolk Southern's lawsuit against a Philadelphia-area quarry to proceed, finding the rail carrier plausibly alleged that negligence on the quarry's part led to sinkholes that derailed a trail and cost more than $2.1 million to repair.

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AG Ends Pursuit Of RICO Case Against NJ Power Broker

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Attorney General's Office said Tuesday that it will not take its criminal racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George E. Norcross III to the state high court, effectively ending its prosecution of him and his associates.

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Freight Co. Can't Notch $3.9M Judgment Against Texas Firm

By Emily Sawicki

A Texas federal judge on Tuesday pressed pause on a $3.9 million default judgment against a Texas lawyer accused of botching a Minnesota freight broker's personal injury defense, after finding the logistics company had not stated that the lawyer was served with the default motion.

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Wisconsin Tribe Fights Enbridge's Line 5 Shutdown Delay

By Crystal Owens

A Wisconsin tribe is fighting a request by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay a June 16 deadline to shut down a portion of its Line 5 pipeline on reservation lands pending a Seventh Circuit decision, telling a federal district court that the Canadian company's motion is "jurisdictionally infirm."

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Ex-McCarter & English Atty Adds Port Authority To Bias Case

By Jake Maher

A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing the firm for alleged anti-veteran discrimination added the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the agency's head to the litigation this week, claiming they retaliated against him by canceling a charity event he runs.

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Analysis

Will Jurors Penalize AI? Study Examines Trade Secrets Impact

By Ivan Moreno

A forthcoming academic study suggests juries may treat AI-enabled actions more harshly than human conduct in trade secrets disputes, resulting in what the authors call an “AI penalty.” Attorneys say reality is more complicated.

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Jury To Get Goldstein Case After Clashing Closing Statements

By Jared Foretek

The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial will finally begin to deliberate on a 16-count verdict form, after federal prosecutors on Wednesday recounted lies they said he admitted to, and the defense slammed what it described as a shoddy investigation into the charges.

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DOJ Acknowledges Violations Of Court Orders For Immigrants

By Rae Ann Varona

A senior U.S. Department of Justice official acknowledged that the government has violated dozens of court orders involving immigrants since early last December, according to a New Jersey federal judge's order directing government officials to detail how the Trump administration will ensure compliance with orders in the judicial district.

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Trump Taps Atty In Carroll Case For 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced Wednesday he's nominating for the Eighth Circuit a co-owner of James Otis Law Group, where the attorney has been part of the legal team representing Trump in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against the president.

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This Firm Nabbed The Top Spot In Patent Activity Rankings

By Theresa Schliep

The law firm that secured the most utility patents in 2025, with 5,242 patents, retained the lead from 2024, although it experienced a slight dip in activity, according to a new report from Harrity Patent Analytics.

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5th Circ. Sanctions Atty Over AI-Generated Errors In Brief

By Lauren Berg

The Fifth Circuit on Wednesday sanctioned a Texas attorney for using generative artificial intelligence to draft a brief that was "riddled with fabricated quotations and assertions," while rebuking the attorney for not being more forthcoming about her use of the technology and her failure to check its accuracy.

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Indiana Firm Sues Quintairos Prieto Over 'Mass Exodus'

By Adrian Cruz

Indiana-based Kopka Pinkus Dolin PC has alleged a former employee helped conspire with her new employer Quintairos Prieto Wood & Boyer PA and two former shareholders to cause a "mass exodus" of attorneys that led to the eventual shutdown of one of the insurance firm's offices.

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Senators Push For Transparency In Litigation Funding

By Courtney Bublé

Lawmakers are trying again to rein in third-party litigation financing, a multibillion-dollar industry that critics argue allows foreign entities to assert control of the U.S. legal system.

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Amazon Says Atty Accused Of TM Scheme Used AI Citations

By Ben Adlin

Amazon has told a Seattle federal judge that California attorney Kathy Q. Hao relied on artificial intelligence-hallucinated case law in her effort to escape its lawsuit accusing her of participating in a fraudulent trademark scheme, urging the court to weigh sanctions against the lawyer over what the e-commerce and technology giant called "fabricated citations."

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Judges' Neutrality Must Extend Beyond Courtroom, ABA Says

By Emily Sawicki

The American Bar Association's ethics committee is guiding judges to maintain the same level of neutrality and impartiality in working with court staff that they exercise when presiding in the courtroom, according to its latest formal opinion on Wednesday.

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State High Court Chiefs To Review Law School Accreditation

By Ryan Boysen

State supreme court leaders said Wednesday they will conduct a thorough review of law school accreditation practices this year, a move that comes after state justices in Texas and Florida recently ended the American Bar Association's longstanding accreditation monopoly in those states.

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