A Texas jury has awarded more than $1.6 billion in damages to family members of two workers who died after a fatal explosion threw them off a tank at a hazardous chemicals facility owned by Upton Assets LLC, which the jury unanimously found fully liable for the deaths.
A Texas jury has awarded more than $1.6 billion in damages to family members of two workers who died after a fatal explosion threw them off a tank at a hazardous chemicals facility owned by Upton Assets LLC, which the jury unanimously found fully liable for the deaths.
The parents of a teenager who died in a fiery Tesla vehicle crash have resolved their claims against the automaker shortly before a trial was to begin on Monday, according to an order issued in Florida state court.
A federal jury in Charlotte, North Carolina, found Monday an Uber driver committed battery against a passenger who accused him of grabbing her leg in 2019, and it awarded her $5,000 in damages, capping off a four-day bellwether trial against the ride-hailing giant.
A split Tenth Circuit panel on Monday refused to undo a Transportation and Security Administration determination that Frontier Airlines owes the agency nearly $5.4 million in unpaid security fees, agreeing with TSA that Frontier still owes fees on passengers who eventually canceled their flights.
State Automobile Mutual Insurance Co. has told a California federal judge that a jury must hear all its claims in a bellwether trial next month as it seeks to hold Hyundai Motor America liable for allegedly selling theft-prone vehicles that heightened the risk of insurance claims.
SpaceX and the California Coastal Commission have said they reached an agreement that would settle a lawsuit that accused board members of trying to stifle the company's effort to launch more rockets from a military base in Santa Barbara County.
Frontier Airlines has brought a lawsuit against American Airlines in Massachusetts federal court over a plane collision on the tarmac at Boston's Logan International Airport, alleging the incident caused more than half a million dollars of damage to a Frontier aircraft.
American Airlines asked a Texas federal judge to issue an order blocking the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from accessing its software in a discrimination suit, saying that the company has updated its software since the relevant time period.
Florida's Lemon Law does not require drivers to prove a specific number of repair attempts or days in the shop to seek a refund for an allegedly faulty vehicle, the Eleventh Circuit ruled in a published opinion, requiring recreational vehicle manufacturer Forest River Inc. to face a buyer's lawsuit.
Uber failed to provide drivers with a process for challenging deactivations under California's Proposition 22, which provided certain benefits for app-based drivers and exempted them from an independent contractor classification law, a ride-hailing driver advocacy group alleged Monday in state court.
The Federal Circuit on Monday granted BMW's motion to dismiss Onesta IP's appeal of an anti-suit injunction barring the company's lawsuit against BMW in Germany on U.S. patents, a ruling the automaker's counsel called "a complete and unambiguous victory."
A split D.C. Circuit panel ruled that a trucking company's West Virginia facility counted as a "mine" under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act because it's within a mile of a coal plant owned by one of the trucking company's clients and is used to support the client's operations.
Delivery drivers who say a freight company's deductions left them with no pay and sometimes owing money, asked an Illinois federal judge Monday to authorize notice to a nationwide collective of their right to join a federal wage suit.
California's various vehicle and truck emissions programs now move on different legal tracks, impose different obligations and create different business risks on different timelines — so companies that treat them as one package subject to a federal Clean Air Act waiver risk missing deadlines and mispricing contracts, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.
After raking in record-breaking federal lobbying revenue last year, several firms reported this week that they had their strongest quarter ever in the first three months of 2026, with practice leaders predicting another busy period ahead as midterms approach.
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said Tuesday that the rise of the so-called shadow docket is a consequence of the post-COVID era and not a bid to usurp influence by the high court.
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP told a New York bankruptcy judge Saturday that an emergency motion it filed in Prince Global Holdings Ltd.'s Chapter 15 case contained several inaccurate citations and other errors, including what the firm described as artificial intelligence "hallucinations."
The former Black female director for associate recruiting at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP says she was unlawfully fired just weeks after disclosing her high-risk pregnancy to her supervisor, according to her discrimination and retaliation lawsuit filed Tuesday in Tennessee federal court.
U.S. District Judge Alan Albright is resigning after nearly eight years presiding over cases in the Western District of Texas, Law360 confirmed Tuesday.
Former state Judge Hannah Dugan asked a Wisconsin federal judge Tuesday to reconsider an order not to overturn her felony obstruction conviction for directing a defendant in her courtroom away from immigration agents, arguing the Fourth Circuit recently reversed a decision the trial court repeatedly relied upon.
Federal Reserve chair nominee Kevin Warsh sought at his Tuesday confirmation hearing to rebut Democratic accusations that he would be a White House "sock puppet," distancing himself from President Donald Trump's calls for rate cuts and downplaying their significance.
The U.S. Copyright Office has issued more than 6,000 registrations for works that incorporate artificial intelligence-generated materials and follow the agency's guidance for combined human-made and AI-created works, U.S. Copyright Office leader Shira Perlmutter said Tuesday.
