CH Robinson CLO Talks Montgomery, Dallas Verdict Impacts

By Linda Chiem

Nearly five months after the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its pivotal ruling reshaping freight brokers' liability exposure, C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc. said lingering uncertainty over protracted litigation and volatile verdicts will upend the U.S. supply chain without some intervention by regulators or Congress.

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Uber Settles Bellwether In Sex Assault MDL Before Trial

By Rae Ann Varona

Uber Technologies Inc. settled with a Texas woman just ahead of opening statements in the third scheduled bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over alleged sexual assaults by the ride-hailing company's drivers, her attorneys announced Friday.

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AGs, Enviros Sue Over Rollback Of Biden-Era Fuel Standards

By Dorothy Atkins

The Trump administration was hit with multiple suits by a coalition of 27 attorneys general and environmental groups Friday challenging the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's recent decision to roll back Biden-era fuel economy standards for passenger cars and light trucks.

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PACCAR Can't Nix Drivers' Faulty Diesel Engine Warranty Suit

By Gina Kim

A Washington federal judge ordered PACCAR Inc. to face a proposed class action alleging it sold faulty diesel engines, rejecting its Clean Air Act preemption defense and ruling that the suit plausibly pleads claims that the alleged defects breached the engine warranty. 

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5 Supreme Court Cases To Watch This Fall

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Monday to begin its 2026 October term, which includes several cases that could determine the future of climate change tort litigation, expand religious freedoms and parental rights, and grant states authority to require proof of citizenship when individuals register for presidential elections using state forms. 

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Roberts Wants Less Talk. Supreme Court Attorneys Disagree.

By Katie Buehler

Near the end of last term, Chief Justice John Roberts voiced his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court's lengthening oral argument sessions and suggested the justices might tweak their format over the summer. But as the new term begins Monday, the court has yet to announce any changes, and advocates see little need for improvement.

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Texas Justices Agree To Hear BNSF, Zurich Asbestos Suit

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court Friday agreed to take up Zurich American Insurance Co.'s challenge to a finding that it must continue to pay for the defense of BNSF Railway against hundreds of asbestos exposure suits.

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Mercedes-Benz Beats Class Cert. Bid In Piston Defect Suit

By Rae Ann Varona

A California federal judge denied class certification to Mercedes-Benz customers who allege the automaker failed to disclose a major piston defect in certain vehicles, saying issues common to the proposed class as a whole don't predominate over issues that affect only individual members.

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EDTX Judge Suggests Toyota Should Win Axle Patent Case

By Ryan Davis

Ahead of a trial scheduled for November, an Eastern District of Texas magistrate judge has recommended granting Toyota's motion for summary judgment that its vehicle transaxles do not infringe an individual inventor's patent on vehicle power generation technology.

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Rivian Accused Of Denying Wash. Workers Breaks, OT Pay

By Ben Adlin

Electric vehicle maker Rivian broke multiple employment laws in Washington state and Seattle by failing to provide mandated meal and rest breaks, shorting workers on pay and failing to reimburse business expenses, according to a former employee's proposed class action filed Tuesday.

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Contractor Says VA Changed Billing Method Mid-Contract

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs contractor is seeking more than $2.4 million in damages after the agency allegedly changed the billing methodology for transportation services mid-contract and accused the company of trying to defraud the government.

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Judge Faults Lima's Delay In $196M Arbitration Challenge

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge appeared unmoved by Lima, Peru's claims that its former Foley & Hoag representation had an undisclosed conflict of interest that justified the reversal of two arbitral awards totaling $196 million, suggesting that the city sue the law firm rather than try to unwind the judgments.

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Full Fed. Circ. Won't Review NPE Marking, Ramey Sanctions

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit on Friday said it won't rethink its ruling that patent owners must ensure that all licensees mark their products with patent information in order to recover presuit damages, nor its denial of patent attorney William Ramey's appeal of sanctions against him at a lower court.

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AI Co. Reaches Deal To End Copyright Case Against Microsoft

By Adam Lidgett

Artificial intelligence company Cerence Inc. has agreed to a deal to end its copyright lawsuit in Delaware federal court against Microsoft Corp. over text-to-speech technology.

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Brief

Bell Sports, AIG Unit Settle Helmet Defect Coverage Dispute

By Alex Lawson

A motorcycle helmet company and an AIG-affiliated insurance company have resolved a lawsuit filed in California federal court over coverage stemming from claims of defects that allegedly caused a helmet to fly off a rider's head during a collision, according to court documents.

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Meet The Attys Arguing Colo. Climate Tort At The High Court

By Keith Goldberg

U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments over the future of climate change torts against energy companies on Monday will feature a trio of attorneys who have spent plenty of time at the high court's lectern. Here's who will be arguing for or against letting the city and county of Boulder, Colorado's climate lawsuit against ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy proceed in state court.

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Judge Clevenger Retires After 36 Years On Fed. Circ.

By Dani Kass

U.S. Circuit Judge Raymond C. Clevenger III has retired from the Federal Circuit, 20 years after taking senior status, the court said Friday.

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Religious Accommodation Lessons From Recent EEOC Focus

With several recent U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission enforcement actions focusing on religious accommodations, employers should identify the actual burden an accommodation imposes, distinguish operational hardship from co-workers' objections, and pay attention to how the accommodation is implemented, says Crystal Banse at Spencer West.

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FTC Proposal Puts Personalized Pricing On Notice

The Federal Trade Commission’s recent proposed policy statement on undisclosed personalized pricing signals the potential for harm when business practices diverge from consumer expectations, indicating a need to disclose not only data usage, but also how it influences the prices consumers see, says Linda Goldstein at CM Law.

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Justice Alito Says He's Weighing The Best Time To Retire

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has confirmed that he considered retiring at the end of the high court's latest term, and that he will continue to weigh that decision "every term." 

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Munger Tolles Announces Clerkship Bonus Increases

By Matt Perez

Munger Tolles & Olson LLP announced Thursday that it is increasing its clerkship bonuses to $180,000 for one qualifying clerkship and $200,000 for two or more qualifying clerkships.

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Analysis

DOJ Envisions 'Full-Fledged Law Firm' To Combat Gov't Fraud

By Phillip Bantz

The National Fraud Enforcement Division was created less than six months ago, but it is rapidly reshaping the U.S. Department of Justice and spurring an uptick in internal corporate investigations, white collar experts say.

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Legal Sector Adds 2K Jobs, For 6th Straight Month Of Growth

By Tracey Read

While the overall U.S. economy's unemployment rate ticked up to 4.2% last month, the legal industry was in the midst of a six-month hot streak.

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Jackson Walker May Face New Sanctions Over Old Romance

By Rick Archer

A Texas bankruptcy judge Friday threatened Jackson Walker LLP with sanctions over yet another bankruptcy case where the firm's retention was approved by a judge in a relationship with a former attorney at the firm.

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Keesal Young Owes Duty To Safeguard 316K People's Data

By Matt Perez

A California federal judge has kept negligence and consumer privacy claims intact against law firm Keesal Young & Logan over a 2024 data breach that exposed the personal information of more than 316,000 people, finding the plaintiffs have standing because their data apparently landed on the dark web.

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Trump Asks 9th Circ. To Pause Seattle US Atty Reinstatement

By Rachel Riley

The Trump administration called on the Ninth Circuit Friday to suspend a federal judge's Thursday order reinstating Roger Rogoff as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Washington, seeking to keep Charles Neil Floyd as acting head of the Seattle office pending the government's appeal.

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Thomson Reuters Hit With Antitrust Case Over 'Killer' AI Deal

By Matthew Perlman

A California law firm has accused Thomson Reuters of violating antitrust law when it purchased artificial intelligence research tool Casetext for $650 million and then shuttered the platform to extinguish a rising competitor to its Westlaw service.

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Amazon Seeks Records Around Lawyer's USPTO Suspension

By Ben Adlin

An attorney Amazon has accused of furthering a scheme to fraudulently register thousands of trademarks and use them to report infringement by rival Amazon merchants must hand over documents related to her discipline in California and Washington, the retail giant argued in a Washington federal court filing Thursday.

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Tenn. High Court Keeps ABA As Law School Accreditor

By Emma Cueto

The Tennessee Supreme Court on Friday declined to follow other conservative states in dropping the American Bar Association as the state's law school accreditor, though it indicated it is open to approving other accreditors in addition to or instead of the ABA in the future.

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Analysis

3rd Circ. AI Ruling May Reach Beyond Westlaw Content Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Third Circuit went out of its way to say its ruling against a defunct legal research startup was not a generative artificial intelligence case, but copyright lawyers expect the reach of its reasoning to be tested almost immediately in pending AI litigation.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The Department of Justice has unveiled new corporate fraud enforcement priorities, and a report found that more than four out of five legal departments have adopted artificial intelligence. These are among 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 leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions after a California federal jury said Apple owes $5.7 billion to headphone-maker Taction for infringing two vibration technology patents, issuing the largest patent verdict in U.S. history.

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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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