Norfolk Southern Asks High Court To Revisit Mallory Case

By Linda Chiem

Norfolk Southern said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling invited plaintiffs lawyers to wield state business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and the dispute urgently needs to be revisited to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.

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Pa. Law Firm Defends 'Sham' Counterclaims In Uber RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC is defending its counterclaims against Uber and FedEx, arguing in Pennsylvania federal court that the rideshare and delivery companies contradicted their arguments regarding the validity of sham litigation claims in non-antitrust cases.

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Jaguar Will Cover Diesel Filter Repairs To Resolve Defect Suit

By George Woolston

Jaguar Land Rover North America LLC agreed to provide reimbursement for up to $3,500 for any past repairs made to resolve claims that it sold vehicles with a defective diesel filter, according to a motion that included a $1.4 million cut for attorney fees.

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Mercedes Beats Suit Over Shattered Sunroofs

By Gina Kim

Mercedes-Benz permanently beat a proposed class action alleging it sold vehicles with defective panoramic sunroofs that spontaneously shatter, with a Georgia federal judge saying Tuesday the plaintiffs bring no evidence that the automotive giant caused the purported manufacturing defect. 

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Ga. Judge Trims Suit Over Alleged Porsche EV Defect

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday trimmed two claims brought by a proposed class against Porsche Cars NA Inc. over its alleged failure to disclose or adequately repair a defect in its Taycan electric vehicles, but refused to dismiss or send the case to arbitration.

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Texas 3% Corporate Law Unfit For Federal Courts, 5th Circ. Told

By Spencer Brewer

A Southwest Airlines Co. shareholder told the Fifth Circuit that Texas' new corporate reform law cannot bar federal lawsuits just because a shareholder owns less than a certain amount of stock, saying the appellate court should revive his lawsuit.

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Migrants Say Anonymity Still Needed In Vineyard Flight Suit

By Chris Villani

Three Venezuelan asylum-seekers who say they were lured by Florida officials onto a plane bound for Martha's Vineyard as a publicity stunt in 2022 argued that they should be allowed to sue in Massachusetts federal court anonymously because they are likely to face harassment if their names are exposed.

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EV Maker, CEO Settle SEC Action Over Debt Offering Claims

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $709,000 settlement with an Ohio-based electric- and gas-powered vehicle manufacturer and its CEO to resolve claims that they made misleading statements portraying the company as being more successful than it actually was in connection with a $112 million convertible debt offering.

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Auto Parts Co., Workers Seek Wins In Shaved-Time Suits

By Benjamin Morse

An auto parts maker and factory workers filed competing bids for early wins in parallel federal wage suits, with the workers alleging willful pay-shaving practices and the manufacturer arguing that the disputed minutes were too trivial to compensate, according to filings in North Carolina federal court.

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Mercedes-Benz Denies New Dad's Wrongful Firing Claims

By Kelcey Caulder

Mercedes-Benz told a Georgia federal court that it did not fire a Vietnamese American employee for taking parental leave and complaining about what the employee alleged was a manager's racial bias, saying the company decided to terminate the worker for performance issues before he applied for time off.

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Broadcasters, Fire Chiefs Press For AM Radio In Cars

By Christopher Cole

Dozens of broadcasters and emergency responders converged Tuesday on Capitol Hill to push for passage of a bill requiring automakers to continue manufacturing vehicles with AM radio capability.

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Google Is Wrong, 'Settled Expectations' Is Legal, Justices Told

By Adam Lidgett

Software company VirtaMove has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Google's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason to not review them, saying Google's fight is based on a false foundation.

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1st Circ. Backs CDC Ban On Importing Dogs Under 6 Months

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measure to fight rabies.

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Claims In Challenge To Coast Guard Vessel Routes Tossed

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal judge said environmental groups have prematurely challenged a U.S. Coast Guard vessel route study they said fails to protect species from shipping traffic along the Pacific Coast, noting the Coast Guard hasn't adopted its recommendations.

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Md. Terminal Sues Bruks Over Failed Bulk Handling System

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore-area marine terminal sued its bulk material handling system provider Monday in Maryland federal court, claiming that the system failed after processing less than 26,000 tons — a fraction of the 5-million-ton capacity Bruks claimed the system could handle — and seeking more than $2 million in damages.

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Pittsburgh Says Fire Truck Tie-Ups Drove Up Prices

By Matthew Santoni

The city of Pittsburgh has filed antitrust claims against multiple fire equipment companies, alleging municipalities are paying more as a result of mergers and acquisitions that have concentrated most of the market under just two corporate umbrellas.

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Analysis

Top Enviro Policy Developments From The First Half Of 2026

By Gautama Mehta

The first half of 2026 saw the repeal of a key rule underlying federal climate regulation, the rollback of pollution limits on industrial chemicals like ethylene oxide, and a blanket exemption from species protections for Gulf oil drillers. Here, Law360 takes a look at the top five developments in environmental policy and regulation so far this year.

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Mich. Says DOJ Is Mischaracterizing Climate Antitrust Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal judge for permission to respond to the U.S. Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting dismissal of key portions of the state's antitrust lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil companies, arguing the federal government's filing mischaracterizes the case and conflicts with its own public statements on antitrust enforcement. 

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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Take The 2026 Law Firm Compensation Survey

Is your compensation keeping pace with the rate of inflation? Do you know what your colleagues made last year? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's Law Firm Compensation Survey.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Guide To The US Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.

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Simpson Thacher Put Co. Out Of Business, Fla. Jury Told

By Cara Salvatore

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP put an insurance services company out of business with a poorly constructed private securities offering, the company's founder told a Florida state jury Wednesday in opening arguments for trial in his suit alleging the law firm owes him more than $100 million.

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New Conn. High Court Rules Put Filers On Hook For AI Errors

By Aaron Keller

The Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts have published new generative artificial intelligence rules which took immediate effect this week, outlining additional paths for sanctions as the justices weigh the fate of a landlord's attorney who admitted his filings contained ChatGPT-induced errors.

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Cornyn, Tillis Still Waver On Blanche AG Bid After Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Todd Blanche had his nomination hearing to be attorney general on Wednesday and two key Republican senators still have yet to say if they will support him.

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Senate Confirms Fla. Judge Pick Tied To Trump Pulitzer Case

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 51-46, along party lines, Wednesday to confirm state Chief Judge Jeffrey T. Kuntz for the Southern District of Florida.

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Apple Allowed To Question Withdrawing Hagens ICloud Client

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal judge has allowed Apple to impose conditions on the withdrawal of a Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP client as a named plaintiff from an iCloud antitrust case, concluding that the consumer's information could be "relevant to spoliation sanctions" or Hagens Berman's adequacy as class counsel.

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Polsinelli, Doctor Seek Toss Of 'Bad Faith' Patent Claims

By Elliot Weld

Polsinelli PC and a doctor who has been a client of the law firm have asked Mississippi and Tennessee federal courts to throw out Zavation Medical Products LLC and Choice Spine LLC's allegations that the firm and its client violated respective state laws by bringing "bad faith" patent infringement claims, saying the statutes the medical device makers rely on can't be brought by distributors or manufacturers.

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Trump Swiftly Fires Court-Appointed Seattle US Atty

By Lauren Berg

Almost immediately after being sworn in as Seattle's new U.S. attorney Wednesday morning, former King County Superior Court judge and federal prosecutor Roger Rogoff was fired by President Donald Trump.

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Dems Probe Clayton's Independence, 2020 Election Views

By Tom Lotshaw

During a Wednesday confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump's pick for national intelligence director, Democratic lawmakers pressed Jay Clayton to explain whether predecessor Tulsi Gabbard should have traveled to Georgia to oversee a search warrant executed at a Fulton County election facility, which she testified the president asked for.

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