Justices Clear Path For Exxon Damages Claim In Cuba Case

By Caroline Simson

The U.S. Supreme Court found Tuesday that a federal law allowing U.S. victims of property seizures by the Cuban government to seek damages automatically abrogates the sovereign immunity of state-owned entities targeted in such cases, clearing a path for Exxon Mobil Corp.'s bid for some $1 billion in damages.

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Hedge Fund To Pay Avis $650M In Short-Swing Profit Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

Pentwater Capital Management has agreed to pay Avis Budget $650 million to resolve allegations that the Naples, Florida-based hedge fund violated the Securities Exchange Act's short-swing profits rule by quickly loading up on shares and cash swaps and then dumping shares at the height of a short squeeze.

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11th Circ. Mulls DOT Order Scrapping Delta, Aeromexico JV

By Linda Chiem

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday questioned whether the U.S. Department of Transportation sufficiently analyzed the competitive effects of Delta Air Lines' joint venture with Aeromexico — or considered alternative conditions — before ordering the airlines to dismantle their nearly decade-long partnership.

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9th Circ. Allows Airport Cleaning Co. To Arbitrate Wage Claims

By Lauren Berg

A company that offers janitorial services to airports can compel arbitration in a former employee's wage and hour proposed class action, the Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, reversing a California district court's determination that the arbitration agreement was unconscionable.

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Flight Sim Training Co.'s Ch. 11 Liquidation Plan Approved

By Vince Sullivan

Pilot training company Avenger Flight Group LLC received approval Tuesday from a Delaware bankruptcy judge for its Chapter 11 liquidation plan to create a trust to provide recoveries to unsecured creditors.

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Hertz Investor Class Certified After $10M EV Demand Suit Deal

By Elaine Briseño

A Florida federal judge certified a class of Hertz investors following a $10 million deal to resolve claims that the rental company overstated consumer demand for its electric vehicles and later tried to offload the cars amid a $200 million earnings hit.

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PTAB Rebuffs Tesla's Bid To Invalidate Network Patent Claims

By Theresa Schliep

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Monday declined to invalidate claims in an Intellectual Ventures II LLC patent covering wireless network technology challenged by Tesla, finding that Tesla's obviousness arguments did not pass muster.

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Truist Division Sued Over Citizenship-Based Loan Denial

By Sydney Price

A recipient of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals hit Truist Financial Corp. division Sheffield Financial and an Oklahoma motorcycle dealership with a proposed class action alleging he was wrongfully denied credit based on his immigration status despite having an above-average credit score.

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Pension Fund Trustees Partially Settle $1.8M Transit Co. Suit

By Benjamin Morse

Trustees of a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund have reached a partial settlement in a lawsuit over a more than $1.8 million reallocation liability assessment against a defunct transit company, asking a New York federal court to pause claims against the settling defendants while they secure financing and make payment.

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NJ Transit Says Electronics Co. Must Cover Patent Suit Defense

By George Woolston

New Jersey Transit alleged in federal court that a railway electronics company must fund the transit agency's  defense against patent infringement claims in an underlying suit, claiming that the company provided the infringing systems and that its agreement with the company requires it to cover the defense.

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Navistar, Truck Buyers Face Off In Trial Over Delayed Order

By Susan Smiley

Tuesday's opening statements in a trial over two companies' claims that truck manufacturer Navistar's delay of a bulk order cost them millions saw each side's counsel give a Michigan federal jury a meticulous description of the delivery contract in question — and their vastly different interpretations of it.

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NLRB Judge Hits Amazon With Bargaining Order At SF Facility

By Braden Campbell

A National Labor Relations Board judge ordered Amazon to bargain with the Teamsters at a San Francisco delivery center in a decision that may give the board's Republican majority a chance to rethink the agency's reworked bargaining order standard.

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Venezuela Found Liable For $148M In Botched Charter Deal

By Caroline Simson

Venezuela has been hit with a lawsuit in Washington, D.C., federal court by shipowners that won some $148 million in arbitral awards after the country refused to return oil tankers that had been chartered by a subsidiary of the state-owned PDVSA.

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Loctite-Maker Seeks Exit From $50M Titan Sub Implosion Suit

By Ben Adlin

Henkel Corp. urged a Washington state judge to excuse the chemical company from a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit over the 2023 implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible, arguing its Loctite adhesive played no role in alleged design and manufacturing flaws that caused the sub's catastrophic failure.

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Pittsburgh, Engineers Reach Deal Over 2022 Bridge Collapse

By Matthew Santoni

Drivers and passengers injured in the 2022 collapse of the Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh have reached a settlement with the city and the engineering firms who were allegedly responsible for inspecting the bridge, and the suits were officially dismissed on Tuesday, according to court documents.

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Seyfarth Adds Labor Pro In Dallas From Pilots Union

By Madison Arnold

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has bolstered its labor and employment capabilities with a new partner in its Dallas office who served as labor relations counsel for the Air Line Pilots Association.

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Texas Rule Change Could Speed Trucking Case Dismissals

The Texas Supreme Court's recent comprehensive amendments to Rule 166a, governing summary judgment procedure and standards in Texas state courts, will fundamentally reshape dispositive motion practice, permitting defendants in trucking cases to weaponize the rule against unwitting plaintiffs, and requiring more aggressive early discovery efforts, say attorneys at Hamilton Wingo.

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Drawing A Line Between Settlement Pressure And Extortion

U.S. v. Luo, pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, may force courts to address anew when settlement negotiations become criminal extortion, particularly in the age of easily fabricated digital evidence, says attorney Denis Kiely.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Lawyers are generally happy being lawyers, but nonequity partners and associates told Law360 Pulse that several aspects of their job leave them feeling dissatisfied. Explore our analysis of these and other findings in the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction survey.

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Axinn Giving $25K Bonuses As Glenn Agre Matches Milbank

By Tracey Read

Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes LLP will match the Milbank LLP base pay scale for associates, while Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider LLP — which was already paying above-market salaries — will hand out special summer bonuses of up to $25,000, the boutiques told Law360 Pulse Tuesday.

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LA Superior Court Gains Prominence With 'Nuclear' Verdicts

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

Los Angeles County Superior Court was among the country's top sites for awarding big civil damages in recent years, according to a Lex Machina report.

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NC Becomes First State To Ban Outside Funding Of Civil Suits

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina has become the first state in the country to ban outside investors from funding civil litigation, after Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed into law a bill that outlaws third parties from footing the bill for civil suits in exchange for a cut of the payout at the finish line.

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Calif. Judge Restores Immigration Courthouse Arrest Limits

By Hailey Konnath

A California federal judge Tuesday vacated the Trump administration's policies on civil arrests at immigration courthouses, restoring limits on those arrests and finding that the government didn't adequately explain its policy shift.

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NY Rule Rewrite Drops 30-Day Pause For Atty Soliciting

By Emily Sawicki

New York's Appellate Division has adopted new rules of professional conduct on attorney advertising and solicitation, deleting a ban on soliciting clients less than 30 days after an incident.

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Judicial Noms Still Say Biden Won In 2020 — Technically

By Courtney Bublé

A group of judicial nominees, who earlier this month were the first of the Trump administration's nominees to say President Joe Biden won the 2020 election, reiterated in follow-up statements that Biden won the election "as a matter of law" — doubling down on what critics say is an equivocation on the election's outcome.

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Judge Who Denied Goldstein Retrial Says It Wasn't Close Case

By Rachel Rippetoe

A Maryland federal judge has elaborated on her decision to deny SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein's bid for an acquittal or new trial, saying that the evidence presented at trial either supersedes or invalidates his claims of issues with jury instructions and insufficient or excluded evidence.

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Texas Judge Tosses Buzbee Firm's Jay-Z Conspiracy Suits

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas state court has handed a win to Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Mississippi law firm, which sought dismissal of claims that they conspired with Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter to retaliate against Houston personal injury firm The Buzbee Law Firm and two of its former clients.

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Ex-AT&T Counsel Charged Over Disclosing Privileged Info

By Sue Reisinger

A former in-house attorney for AT&T, accused of leaking privileged information to opposing counsel while seeking a share of financial gains from a lawsuit filed 18 years ago against the company, has been charged with violating attorney professional conduct rules.

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Judge Allows Brazil To Join Trump Suit Against Justice

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal judge on Tuesday allowed Brazil to intervene in a suit by President Donald Trump's media company and online video-sharing platform Rumble Inc. against a Brazilian Supreme Federal Court justice's gag orders but deferred ruling on Brazil's motion to dismiss the suit.

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