2nd Circ. Rejects Reed Smith's Bid To Halt File Turnover

By Bonnie Eslinger

The Second Circuit denied Reed Smith LLP's emergency stay request to pause lower court decisions requiring it to turn over client files related to shipping company Eletson on Friday, saying in a succinct order the same day that the bid didn't meet requirements outlined by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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BNSF, Amtrak Defeat Lawsuit Over Train Track Crossing Death

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal judge sided with BNSF and Amtrak on Thursday in a wrongful death suit brought by the estate of a woman who was hit by a passenger train while leaving a Washington beach, finding she voluntarily took on risk when trying to cross the tracks.

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Jeep Drivers May Amend Suit Over Premature Corrosion

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge said Friday that a shift in focus in a proposed class action brought by Jeep drivers against FCA justified granting the drivers' request to amend their complaint a second time.

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Tesla Drivers Urge Full 9th Circ. To Save False Ad Class

By Linda Chiem

Drivers have asked the full Ninth Circuit to clarify the standard for certifying class actions accusing companies of deceptive advertising, saying they should be allowed to forge ahead with classwide claims alleging Tesla misled customers about the autonomous or self-driving capabilities of its vehicles.

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Law360 MVP Awards Go To Top Attorneys From 89 Firms

The lawyers chosen as Law360's 2026 MVPs stand out from their peers by notching significant achievements in high-stakes litigation, complex global matters and record-setting transactions.

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Atlanta Owes $300K For Airport Fall Injuries, Suit Says

By David Aaro

A man hurt in a fall at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport slapped the city and the Transportation Security Administration with a negligence lawsuit, arguing the wheeled sign he tripped over should have been immobilized.

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Racing Mogul's Estate Asks Tax Court To Ax $58M Tax Bill

By Kevin Pinner

An automobile racing mogul's estate asked the Tax Court to spike a $58.3 million estate tax deficiency, alleging that the IRS erred in revaluing its equity holdings.

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Tire-Makers Urge 6th Circ. Not To Revive Price-Fixing Suit

By Matthew Perlman

Tire manufacturers including Bridgestone, Goodyear and Michelin have told the Sixth Circuit that a lower court was right to toss a price-fixing case against them after finding the COVID-19 pandemic was the likely cause of price increases, not a conspiracy.

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ChargePoint To Fund $11M Investor Deal From Its Own Cash

By Craig Clough

ChargePoint Holdings Inc. investors inked an $11 million deal to end a proposed securities class action alleging the electric vehicle charging company improperly inflated its revenues, according to a motion filed Thursday asking a California federal judge to preliminarily approve the settlement.

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EU, Canada Seal Digital Trade Deal Amid Closer Partnership

By Dylan Moroses

EU and Canadian officials signed a document Friday concluding negotiations on a digital trade agreement between the two economies following a summit in Montreal where Canadian and European leaders shared new details about efforts to strengthen their economic and diplomatic ties.

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Navios Arbitration Stay Lifted After Peers Participated

By Caroline Simson

A New York appeals court overturned a temporary restraining order pausing arbitration in a shareholder dispute over an infrastructure and logistics company that focuses on one of South America's most important waterways, pointing Thursday to both parties' participation in the proceeding.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Kirkland, Gibson Dunn, Cravath

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation with Representation, Blackstone, Bank of America, Citi and Morgan Stanley announce a financing structure to buy Broadcom artificial intelligence chips and network components for Anthropic, EQT acquires Range Resources to create a powerhouse natural gas company, and DoorDash buys Instacart.

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9th Circ. Ruling Revives Meta DMV Data Suit, Drivers Say

By Jonathan Capriel

Two California drivers urged a San Francisco federal judge to revive their lawsuit accusing Meta of harvesting "vast quantities" of personal and confidential information from the state's Department of Motor Vehicles website, pointing to the Ninth Circuit's finding that unauthorized disclosure of even seemingly mundane information is a concrete injury.

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Chubb Says Barrier Rental Deal Doesn't Trigger Coverage

By Danielle Ferguson

A Chubb unit asked a Texas federal court to find that a highway safety product supplier is not owed coverage under Chubb's policy to a barricade control company for a personal injury suit from a driver, saying the companies' rental agreement does not expand coverage to the supplier.

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State Of Insurance: Q3 Notes From Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania courts issued several noteworthy insurance decisions last quarter, offering practical guidance for insurers evaluating public policy coverage disputes, drafting umbrella policy language and defending litigation involving claim file discoverability, says Todd Leon at Marshall Dennehey.

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How AI Could Help Judges Spot Their Own Biases

In close cases where there’s room for discretion, artificial intelligence could challenge judges’ implicit biases by running counterfactual tests at scale — but any judicial use of such tools would need guardrails, say Arnold Peter at Peter Law and Nancy Rapoport at University of Nevada.

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BigLaw Attys Step Up To Help Voters In Midterm Elections

By Jack Karp and Lynn LaRowe

Attorneys from several BigLaw firms are volunteering across the country to make sure voters don't run into problems casting their ballots or having those ballots counted in Tuesday's midterm elections.

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Brief

Winston Taylor, DLA Piper Match Milbank Pay Scale

By Tracey Read

Two more BigLaw firms have opted to match the new associate salary scale set by Milbank LLP in June.

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Analysis

Judiciary Stuck In AI Rulemaking Rut As Attys, Judges Protest

By Jeff Overley

Judiciary efforts to enact rules for the artificial intelligence age are mired in concerns about burdens on litigators, the tensions between burgeoning technology and snail-paced policymaking, and how to even define AI. And despite vivid examples of AI's risks, officials are inching toward mothballing the prominent project.

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Judge Orders Chicago US Atty To Testify In Misconduct Probe

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has ordered Chicago's top federal prosecutor and three assistant U.S. attorneys to testify under oath about potentially false statements made to her in a now-dismissed criminal conspiracy case against anti-ICE protesters, saying Monday that the government's shifting explanations about communications with DOJ leadership suggest prosecutors misled the court about outside involvement in the prosecution.

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NY State Bar Says Attys Can't Bill Time Saved By AI

By Andrea Keckley

The New York State Bar Association has told lawyers not to bill clients for the time they saved by using artificial intelligence, or for the time it took to learn a new AI tool.

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Interview

SEC's Top Cop On Building A 'Nimble' Enforcement Division

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has lost hundreds of enforcement employees and seen significant restructuring of its regional offices over the past two years, but the Division of Enforcement's director said that hasn't stopped him from building a "nimble" program that is focused on more than just the number of cases filed.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week allowed a stockholder claim over R1 RCM Inc.'s $8.9 billion buyout to proceed, while investors in Meta Platforms Inc. sued to block a stock restructuring they say would let CEO Mark Zuckerberg sell billions of dollars in shares without giving up control of the company.

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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission caused a pair of playground equipment makers to abandon their planned merger, Canadian enforcers upended a deal for the Green Giant brand in the country and state attorneys general reached settlements for several regional deals.

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