Boeing, Supplier Get Punitive Damages Cut In Door Plug Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Washington federal judge ruled Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems do not have to face punitive damages claims from a mother and son who sued them over a midair door plug blowout on a flight departing from Oregon.

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Deal Staves Off Trial In Snapchat Speed Filter Suit

By David Aaro

Snapchat's parent company and a Georgia man who alleged the app's speed filter feature contributed to a 2015 car wreck that left him seriously injured have reached a settlement, according to a court filing that came two weeks before their legal battle was slated for trial.

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Detroit Lions Can't Sack 'Motor City Muscle' TM Claims

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan federal judge on Tuesday trimmed U.S. Events LLC's lawsuit against the Detroit Lions, but ruled that the team must face claims of trademark infringement and unfair competition over its use of the company's protected "Motor City Muscle" slogan to promote its jerseys.

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Calif. Man Sues Rivian Over Cannabis Test Firing, Wages

By Mike Curley

A Sacramento man is suing electric vehicle maker Rivian LLC in California state court, alleging he was wrongly fired after a cannabis test despite not being impaired or otherwise using cannabis at work, and that the company has not fully paid out his wages.

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Trucking Group Tells DC Circ. Fee System Doesn't Deliver

By Jared Foretek

A trucking trade group is challenging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's interstate motor carrier fees for 2027, claiming in a new D.C. Circuit petition that the agency never lawfully established the fee-setting system by regulation.

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Guo Trustee Says No Circuit Split Threatens $24M Yacht Win

By Aaron Keller

A Chapter 11 trustee urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to reject a bid by Chinese exile Miles Guo's daughter to undo rulings placing $24 million in yacht sale proceeds plus a $37 million escrow into the bankruptcy estate, disputing allegations that a circuit split warrants the justices' attention.

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Utah Defends Approval Process For Northern Corridor Hwy

By Gautama Mehta

A Utah county and a state agency said the law that designated a Mojave Desert national conservation area didn't prohibit a highway through it, as environmental groups alleged, but rather expressly called for a "transportation route" to be identified.

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X Says OpenAI Can't Nix IPhone Placement Antitrust Case

By Bryan Koenig

X Corp. and SpaceXAI urged a Texas federal judge Wednesday not to let OpenAI scrap their lawsuit targeting a deal integrating ChatGPT into Apple devices, arguing any attempts to paint the deal as nonexclusive or show it hasn't completely foreclosed the market are factual disputes left to the jury.

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Via, RideCo Settle Ride-Hailing IP Case After $4M Judgment

By Elliot Weld

Canadian ride-hailing software startup RideCo Inc. said Wednesday that it had reached a settlement with rival Via Transportation to close a patent infringement case after a jury issued a $1.4 million award to Via that was later boosted to $4 million.

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EPA Rollback Puts Power Plant GHG Rules In Flux

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's recent actions on power plant greenhouse gas emissions create immediate implications for power plant operators and long-term regulatory uncertainty, while raising questions about the relationship between federal and state approaches to climate-related litigation, say attorneys at Van Ness Feldman.

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The Law360 Pulse Leaderboard: A Look At The Top Firms

By Rachel Reimer

What makes a firm stand out in the ever-changing legal landscape? Here's a peek at the 2026 Law360 Pulse Leaderboard — the firms that can demonstrate excellence on measures of prestige and the reach and capability of their legal practice.

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Watchdog Can Pursue Jackson Walker Fees, Judge Says

By Clara Geoghegan

The U.S. Trustee's Office has standing to pursue millions of dollars in fees paid to Jackson Walker LLP in cases assigned to a judge who was in an undisclosed romantic relationship with one of the firm's ex-partners, a Texas bankruptcy court has concluded.

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6th Circ.'s Sutton Floats Class Action Limits At Judiciary Panel

By Jeff Overley

An influential federal judge is proposing new restrictions on class actions that aim to broadly block government policies, judiciary advisers heard at a Wednesday gathering, which also explored transparency ideas affecting legal finance and hard-to-access court records in the red-hot realm of immigration litigation.

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Ex-Employee Of Seyfarth Client Drops Suit Over Data Breach

By Craig Clough

A Texas woman who filed a proposed class action against Seyfarth Shaw LLP over a data hack voluntarily dropped the claims Tuesday without prejudice, according to a filing in Illinois federal court. 

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DOJ Moves To Remove Minn. Judges From Immigration Cases

By Britain Eakin

A top U.S. Department of Justice official has moved to disqualify two Minnesota federal judges from immigration cases, arguing that interviews they gave to The New York Times about the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts suggest they can't be impartial.

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FBI Says Fired Agents Acted in Politicized Manner

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Lawyers for the government argued in a Washington, D.C., federal court Wednesday that an unfair firing suit from two former FBI agents should be tossed because they worked in a politicized manner on the "Arctic Frost" investigation into President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

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Sen. Blackburn Clears Path For Trump's Tenn. Court Nominee

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., has returned her blue slip for a judicial nominee for the Eastern District of Tennessee after an apparent delay.

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​​​​​​​Mamdani Taps Top Judicial Adviser Amid New Ethics Reforms

By Andrea Keckley

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday that he has appointed a lawyer from the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice to lead his judicial advisory committee as the mayor's office unveils new reforms to the city's judicial selection process.

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McCarter Beats Estate's Bid To Start $9.75M Interest Clock

By Brian Steele

A Connecticut state court judge has blocked a mall developer's family from filing a formal offer to settle a malpractice suit against McCarter & English LLP for $9.75 million, standing by a November 2025 decision to pause the case while similar litigation proceeds to trial.

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