A Maryland federal judge has slashed claims from Baltimore, businesses and dockworkers seeking to recover millions in economic losses from the owner and operator of the container ship that slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, saying the nearly century-old Robins Dry Dock rule bars many of their claims.
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Md. Judge Trims Baltimore Bridge Wreck Damages Claims

By Linda Chiem

A Maryland federal judge has slashed claims from Baltimore, businesses and dockworkers seeking to recover millions in economic losses from the owner and operator of the container ship that slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, saying the nearly century-old Robins Dry Dock rule bars many of their claims.

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Tesla Can't Avoid Revival Of Home Fire Suit, Calif. Panel Says

By Y. Peter Kang

A California appeals panel has ruled that a Los Angeles judge properly revived a suit accusing a Tesla employee of causing a house fire during an equipment installation, saying plaintiff's counsel's trial tardiness was caused by "excusable neglect."

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Canada To Hit US With Retaliatory Tariffs, 'Dollar For Dollar'

By Jack McLoone

The Canadian government struck back on Tuesday at the latest round of U.S. tariffs, announcing tariffs of its own of up to 50% on more than 800 categories of products worth CA$27.6 billion ($20 billion) that will come into force on Sept. 8.

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Canadian Insurer Escapes Subpoena In NJ Malpractice Row

By Carla Baranauckas

A New Jersey state judge nixed a subpoena served on a Canadian insurer, ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction to compel a foreign nonparty to produce documents or testimony in Canada in a legal malpractice suit stemming from an $18 million judgment against a trucking company.

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AVIATION

Calif. Tribe Says County Tanked $12M Airport Land Deal

By Crystal Owens

The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians is accusing Riverside County and its officials of fraudulently inducing it into a $12 million land investment, telling a California district court that the municipality pulled a bait-and-switch when it then banned access to the airport-adjacent property.

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Air Ambulance Co. Settles Suit Over 401(k) Fund Selection

By Grace Elletson

An air ambulance company told a Colorado federal court Tuesday that it has settled a worker's proposed class action that claimed the business failed to cut pricey share classes from its $633 million retirement plan and harmed workers' savings.

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Airport Terminals Co. Wants DC Circ. To Revive Contracts Suit

By Isaac Monterose

A California-based company that builds and operates private luxury airport terminals is appealing the dismissal of its suit in a District of Columbia federal court against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which was accused of deliberately trying to avoid awarding the company airport terminal construction contracts.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Albright Cements Lyft's $1M Trial Loss Over Ride-Hailing IP

By Dani Kass

A Texas federal jury rightly found that Lyft Inc. infringed Quartz Auto Technologies LLC's ride-hailing patent and should pay $1 million for doing so, U.S. District Judge Alan Albright has ruled.

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TRUCKING

Autonomous Freight Biz Raises $200M In Series D Round

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Autonomous trucking company Gatik on Tuesday revealed it had closed its latest funding round after securing $200 million in investor commitments, a move that comes as demand for driverless commercial freight increases.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

2 Firms Guide Windjammer's $350M Smart Parking Co. Sale

By Isaac Monterose

Private equity investor Windjammer Capital will sell its smart parking infrastructure company IPS Group Inc. to online commerce platform Nayax Ltd. in a $350 million all-cash, no-debt sale guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Reed Smith LLP, Windjammer and Nayax announced Tuesday.

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9th Circ. Panel Largely Upholds Block On Feds' Grant Terms

By Rachel Riley

A divided Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday mostly upheld an injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing new grant restrictions on transportation and housing funding for dozens of local governments, concluding federal agencies likely overstepped their authority by barring the money from being used to promote "gender ideology" or "illegal immigration."

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Del. Justices Say SPAC Proxy Claims Came Too Late

By Katryna Perera

The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed the dismissal of a special purpose acquisition company suit seeking damages tied to a $1.4 billion deal with an autonomous vehicle software provider, finding the plaintiff waited too long to sue.

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ENERGY

FERC Beats Environmental Challenge To La. LNG Terminal

By Elaine Briseño

The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday upheld the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's approval of a liquefied natural gas export terminal in Louisiana, saying environmental groups challenging the decision failed to show the project was not in the public's best interest.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What To Know As Legal Duty To Consider AI Takes Shape

While the U.K. Jurisdiction Taskforce’s recent statement on liability for artificial intelligence harms is nonbinding for both U.K. and U.S. lawyers, it highlights the importance of being able to distinguish between the availability of a tool and a professional obligation to use it, say Jonny Frank and Michael Costa at StoneTurn.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Calif. Bill Curbing PE Role In Litigation Heads To Newsom

By Lauren Berg

A California bill to ban corporate investors from influencing litigation strategy is heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after passing with bipartisan support from the state Legislature.

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Pillsbury Settles Ex-Recruiting Director's Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has settled a Black former director's suit claiming the law firm fired her weeks after she shared that she was pregnant and would need accommodations, according to a Tennessee federal court filing.

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DOJ Flags Breach Of Internal Policies In Apple Suit

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice told a New Jersey federal judge Tuesday that its staffers breached internal policies when they shared personally identifiable information with an outside discovery vendor that was hired not by the department, but instead by the DOJ's state attorneys general partners, in the monopolization case against Apple.

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Prosecutors Say Goldstein Must Stay Behind Bars

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors told the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday to keep convicted Supreme Court attorney Thomas Goldstein behind bars while he appeals his conviction, arguing that he remains a serious flight risk with wealthy overseas connections and "an ongoing danger" whose tax crimes continued "even after conviction."

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Arizona Atty Reprimanded For Series Of AI Errors

By Matt Perez

An Arizona federal judge has formally reprimanded a lawyer who admitted to filing four briefs that contained errors including false quotes and a faulty case summary generated with artificial intelligence amid an employment discrimination suit, noting the lawyer previously faced sanctions on two separate occasions for violating court rules.

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House Committee Wants DOL IG To Widen Info-Sharing Probe

By Benjamin Morse

Top House Education and Workforce Committee Republicans urged the U.S. Department of Labor's watchdog Wednesday to expand its review of information-sharing arrangements with outside groups, asking whether three additional agencies improperly disclosed confidential investigative material during the Biden administration.

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