Feds Get Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze During Appeal

By Carla Baranauckas

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday froze her Friday order requiring the U.S. Department of Transportation to resume paying for the $16 billion Gateway Tunnel, as the agency seeks emergency relief from the Second Circuit.

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US Backs Bid To Halt Line 5 Shutdown On Wis. Tribal Lands

By Crystal Owens

The government is backing a bid by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay an order requiring the partial removal of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands, saying that while it has an interest in protecting federal trust lands, the case implicates significant interests in foreign affairs.

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Michael Bay Says GM Stole His Cadillac Super Bowl Ad Ideas

By Bonnie Eslinger

Hollywood blockbuster director Michael Bay has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against General Motors and others in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming the auto giant ripped off his ideas for its Cadillac Formula 1 Super Bowl commercial.

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10th Circ. Ends Civil Rights Suit, Sanctions Atty For AI Errors

By Emily Sawicki

A self-represented Maryland attorney could not revive her $15 million racial discrimination suit against Denver-based Frontier Airlines after a Tenth Circuit panel found the district court had not erred in its dismissal, in a ruling that also sanctioned the lawyer for misusing generative artificial intelligence.

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Feds, MTA Spar Over Due Process In Congestion Pricing Fight

By Linda Chiem

New York agencies have told a Manhattan federal judge that the U.S. Department of Transportation violated their due process rights when it purportedly terminated a federal agreement that gave congestion pricing the green light, while the federal government maintained that the district court lacks jurisdiction over this dispute.

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Frontier Airlines To Face Racial Bias Suit On 9th Circ. Remand

By Rae Ann Varona

The Ninth Circuit on Monday largely revived a racial bias lawsuit against Frontier Airlines, saying in an unpublished opinion that a jury could possibly find for the father-and-son passengers based on the case's facts.

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9th Circ. Judge Casts Doubt On Feds' Grant Condition Stance

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit judge expressed skepticism Monday as the Trump administration argued it could legally impose new rules barring federal grant recipients from using the money for diversity programming, suggesting that the government had misread Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2026 editorial advisory boards.

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Luxury Terminal Developer Protests Dulles Contract Decisions

By Tom Lotshaw

A California company aiming to develop a private luxury terminal for Washington Dulles International Airport asked a D.C. federal judge to block the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority from moving ahead with a "thinly veiled" attempt to steer the deal to another company.

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Boeing Can't Escape Bias Suit Over $12K Bonus

By Emily Brill

Boeing must face a proposed class action accusing it of excluding workers on long-term disability leave from a $12,000 bonus, as a Washington federal judge denied the company's dismissal motion and remanded the suit to state court, where it was originally filed.

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Afni Faces Class Action Over Alleged Misleading Claim Letters

By Rachel Riley

Debt collector Afni Inc. has been accused of trying to dupe people into paying "unadjudicated" damage demands by sending auto crash claim letters disguised as collection notices, according to a proposed class action that the Illinois-based company removed to Seattle federal court on Friday.

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Insurer Says No Coverage For $10M Truck Crash Dispute

By Hope Patti

An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify a transportation company or one of its truck drivers against another worker's $10 million suit stemming from a crash, telling a Texas federal court that the policy excludes coverage for bodily injury to employees and fellow employees.

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EEOC, Trucking Co. Resolve Hearing Bias Suit For $50K

By Abigail Harrison

A trucking company has agreed to pay a former applicant $50,000 as part of a consent decree to end a lawsuit in North Carolina federal court from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that the company turned the job seeker away because he is deaf.

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Royal Caribbean Sued Over Surf Simulator Injuries

By Carolina Bolado

A Pennsylvania man who broke his neck while surfing on a cruise ship FlowRider wave simulation attraction sued Royal Caribbean on Monday, claiming the cruise line was negligent and has failed to address problems with the attraction despite a number of injuries.

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As Federal Enviro Justice Policy Goes Dormant, All Is Not Lost

Environmental justice is enduring a federal dormancy brought on by executive branch reversals and agency directives over the past year that have swept long-standing federal frameworks from the formal policy ledger, but the legal underpinnings of EJ have not vanished and remain important, say attorneys at King & Spalding.

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EEOC, Law Students End Legal Battle Over Firm DEI Letters

By Lynn LaRowe

A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing compliance "was not mandatory, and that most law firms did not provide any of the requested information."

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Ill. Legislation Targets Outside Investments In Legal Sector

By Emma Cueto

Two bills introduced in the Illinois state Legislature seek to place restrictions on the use of private equity-backed managed service organizations in the legal industry and on any fee-sharing between Illinois lawyers and firms owned by nonlawyers in states like Arizona.

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Goldstein's Defense Questions Missing Tax Emails

By Jared Foretek

Document retention at the outside accounting firm for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm took center stage at the U.S. Supreme Court lawyers' tax fraud trial Monday, as the defense claimed that the accountants' internal emails about Goldstein's tax returns were never produced despite being sought in subpoenas.

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Conn. Atty Sanctioned For Another Case Of AI Misuse

By Emily Sawicki

A Connecticut labor litigator's vow to permanently cease using generative artificial intelligence tools in his practice after he allowed AI-generated errors to appear in separate but similar June filings has weighed in his favor as a Bridgeport federal judge ordered sanctions against the attorney.

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High Court Asked To Take Up Malpractice Case Against Akin

By Adam Lidgett

A former Cornell University graduate student wants the U.S. Supreme Court to review the dismissal of his suit accusing Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys of manipulating patent litigation to steal his DNA sequencing intellectual property.

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Sentencing Commission's Reform Ideas May Cut Prison Time

By Stewart Bishop

Proposed new amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines could lead to shorter prison terms for many offenders, including by revising loss calculations for financial crimes and providing a first-of-its-kind path to reward defendants for post-offense, pre-sentence rehabilitative efforts.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jeff Montgomery

Delaware's chancellor has rejected a bid for dismissal of a derivative suit accusing Coinbase Global Inc. insiders of massively unloading shares ahead of a steep stock drop, stressing a special litigation committee's failure to meet independence standards.

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