Boeing, DOJ Say No Need For Full 5th Circ. Review Of NPA

By Linda Chiem

Boeing and the federal government have said the full Fifth Circuit doesn't need to revisit a panel's decision declining to upend the U.S. Department of Justice's nonprosecution agreement with Boeing closing out allegations the American aerospace giant conspired to defraud safety regulators about its 737 Max jets.

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Spirit Airlines Shuts Down After Rescue Funding Fails

By John Blakeley

Spirit Airlines said Saturday that it is shutting down and will immediately start to liquidate its business after failing to secure the funding it needed to continue operating while under bankruptcy protection.

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Trump Threatens To Increase Tariff On European Cars, Trucks

By Dylan Moroses

President Donald Trump threatened to increase tariffs on imported cars and trucks from European countries on Friday, claiming that the European Union is not honoring the terms of a framework trade agreement reached last year.

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Q&A

How Paul Clement Does It All

By Katie Buehler

For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers. 

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Boeing 737 Max Judge Delays Ruling On Punitive Damages

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge overseeing Boeing 737 Max passengers' consolidated lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door panel agreed Friday to delay ruling on the company's motion to preclude punitive damages, allowing the plaintiffs an opportunity to conduct further discovery into management's alleged role in the incident.

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9th Circ. Backs Tesla In Challenge To Race Bias Arbitration

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit rejected an appeal by a Black former Tesla employee who challenged the company's arbitration win over his claims of racial discrimination, agreeing with a California federal judge Friday that the plaintiff failed to meet the "high bar" to overturn the award.

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1st Circ. Lets NH Emissions Program End During Appeal

By Ganesh Setty

The First Circuit allowed New Hampshire to continue the repeal of its motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program after a federal district judge preliminarily blocked the state from doing so, finding the state will likely prevail on appeal.

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Judge Hits Brakes On Privacy Suit Over Unpaid Parking Bill

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Florida federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing a parking company of illegally accessing driving records when charging delinquent drivers, saying the plaintiff suffered no injury.

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Carvana Fired Manager For Reporting Safety Risks, Suit Says

By Rachel Konieczny

Car dealer company Carvana fired a manager after he repeatedly reported violations of motor vehicle safety regulations and raised safety concerns internally and to a regulatory agency, the former employee alleged in Colorado federal court.

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Insurer Sanctioned For 'Willful' Discovery Defiance

By Hope Patti

A Washington federal court on Friday said it would hold an auto insurer liable for bad faith, negligent claim handling, and violations of the state's Consumer Protection Act and Insurance Fair Conduct Act after the carrier willfully violated prior production orders in a dispute over underinsured motorist benefits.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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Don't 'Throw' Young Attys Under Bus, Judge Warns Musk Atty

By Dorothy Atkins

The California federal judge presiding over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion criticized Musk's attorney Marc Toberoff on Friday for eliciting "waste of time" trial testimony into Musk's $97.4 billion acquisition bid, warning Toberoff he "shouldn't throw young lawyers under the bus" by not quickly acknowledging his role.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared Armistice Capital and two of its executives of class action claims that it pumped and dumped $250 million in Vaxart stock during the COVID-19 pandemic and violated federal securities law with insider trading.

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Whistleblower Says DOJ Rushed SPLC Indictment

By Courtney Bublé

A whistleblower has come forward to say a top U.S. Department of Justice official ordered prosecutors in Alabama to "rush" the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center despite concerns about the viability of the case, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

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California High Court Rejects Dunn's Bid To Nix Suspension

By Adrian Cruz

The California Supreme Court has declined to review a California State Bar decision to impose a one-year stayed suspension on former State Bar executive Joseph Dunn.

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FTC, DOJ Say ABA Reliance Limits Law School Competition

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division told the Tennessee Supreme Court the American Bar Association's monopoly over law school accreditations is driving up the cost of legal education.

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Analysis

SEC's Corp. Governance Shift Puts Onus On States, Cos.

By Sarah Jarvis

Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.

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Ex-Bondi Adviser Tapped As Fraud Task Force's Chief Lawyer

By Phillip Bantz

Ousted U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi's former adviser is taking on a new role as general counsel for the White House's fraud task force.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

A pair of proxy advisory firms have sued two state attorneys general over laws they say impose burdensome requirements for issuing recommendations that go against corporate managers' wishes. Meanwhile, KPMG reports that legal is evolving into a key driver of business performance, and AI is a core component of the department. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Roundup

The Top In-House Hires Of April

By Michele Gorman

Legal department hires during the past month included high-profile appointments at Intel, Colgate and Tripadvisor. Here, Law360 Pulse looks at some of the top in-house announcements from April.

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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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