What's In The House Surface Transportation Funding Bill?

By Linda Chiem

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced a $580 billion five-year surface transportation reauthorization bill on Friday to fund roads, bridges, transit and rail improvement projects, and highway and motor carrier safety programs, and establish the first-ever federal regulatory framework for autonomous commercial vehicles.

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Jury Clears Boeing In LOT Polish Airlines' 737 Fraud Suit

By Rachel Riley

A Seattle federal jury on Friday cleared Boeing of fraud allegations in LOT Polish Airlines' $153 million lawsuit claiming the aerospace giant misrepresented the safety of the 737 Max in order to sell leases on the jets, which were later grounded globally after two deadly crashes.

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Lyft Wants Sanctions For Expert Failures In Ax Murder Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

Lyft Inc. has asked a Connecticut federal judge to impose sanctions and block testimony from plaintiffs' expert in a wrongful death case stemming from a 2022 murder by a passenger, arguing the expert was not disclosed by the deadline and his proposed testimony is unfairly vague.

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Rivian Investors Get Final OK For $250M IPO Settlement

By Emilie Ruscoe

Electric-vehicle maker Rivian Automotive Inc. and its investors have gotten the final green light for their $250 million deal to end claims the company hurt shareholders by underpricing its vehicles and misrepresenting its profitability ahead of its 2021 initial public offering.

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Fed. Circ. Restores $82M Award Against Ford In IP Fight

By Ivan Moreno

The Federal Circuit on Friday reinstated a jury's $82.3 million contract award to Versata Software Inc. against Ford Motor Co. and ordered a new trial on trade secret damages, finding in a precedential decision that the lower court improperly limited available damages theories.

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Mich. Panel Upholds $20M Verdict Despite Improper Closing

By Melanie Dorsey

The Michigan Court of Appeals affirmed a $20.6 million verdict for a man who was severely injured when a van struck him while he was snow-blowing his driveway, ruling that the defense could not challenge plaintiff counsel's inflammatory closing arguments because it failed to object at trial.

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EV Charging Biz Investors' Suit Found In Shape To Proceed

By Emilie Ruscoe

Investors in ChargePoint Holdings Inc. have fixed the pleading issues in their suit against the electric-vehicle charging company, a California judge has ruled, letting the claims go forward and tossing the company's bid to dismiss the matter.

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Law360 Reveals Titans Of The Plaintiffs Bar

By Rachel Rippetoe

This past year, 10 lawyers across the country at plaintiffs' firms big and small helped secure millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for their clients, going up against powerful defendants like Google, Monsanto and the Trump administration, earning the attorneys recognition as Law360's Titans of the Plaintiffs Bar for 2026.

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Analysis

World Cup Trafficking Raises Alarm For More Than Just Banks

By Chris Villani

An unusual Trump administration notice exhorting financial institutions to be on guard for human trafficking activity during the 2026 FIFA World Cup could create compliance challenges not just for banks but an array of other industries, experts told Law360.

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Analysis

Seven County's Legacy Still Unwritten A Year Later

By Keith Goldberg

The U.S. Supreme Court's curtailment of federal environmental reviews in Seven County Infrastructure Coalition et al. v. Eagle County was seen as a game changer for project development, but one year later, cautious business sentiment has left its legacy untested.

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Boeing Says Board Didn't Neglect Safety Before Door Blowout

By Jarek Rutz

Counsel for The Boeing Co. urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Friday to dismiss a stockholder derivative suit accusing its leadership of ignoring years of safety and manufacturing red flags, arguing the company's board had overhauled its oversight systems after the fatal 737 Max crashes and monitored risks leading up to an Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout.

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Menzies Says $35M NYC Property Is Fair Game For $7.6M Award

By Isaac Monterose

A U.K. aviation services company's subsidiary that's seeking compensation for the more than $7.6 million arbitral award that it won by default against the Republic of Niger told a New York federal court that the African country's $35 million New York City property isn't exempt from being used to satisfy the award.

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NC Accuses Electric-Car Maker Of Deserting Plan For EV Plant

By Hayley Fowler

North Carolina is suing an electric car company that accepted public grant money to build a manufacturing plant in the state after it allegedly bailed on the deal, saying the company hasn't even started construction despite initially promising to have the facility running this year.

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Fla. Panel Says Past Payment Cut $200K Police Damages Cap

By David Minsky

A Florida state appeals court Friday reversed a judgment against a sheriff found negligent for injuries in a motor vehicle collision, ruling that a prior indemnity for property loss should have reduced the $200,000 statutory cap on damages for individuals injured by local government entities.

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Texas Justices Side With AG In Austin Rail Appeal Row

By Spencer Brewer

The Texas Supreme Court chastised a lower court for proceeding to the merits instead of settling a jurisdictional question in litigation relating to the $10 billion price tag for Austin's planned light rail system and related bonds, saying Friday that "nothing about this scenario is as it should be."

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EDTX Jury Awards $3.3M In Battery Components Patent Trial

By Adam Lidgett

A jury in the Eastern District of Texas found Friday that South Korean company Solus Advanced Materials Co. Ltd. owes almost $3.3 million for infringing a rival's patents tied to copper foils used for batteries.

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Latest HVAC Suit Says Price Hikes Were Coordinated

By Susan Smiley

Seven HVAC companies, including Rheem, Trane, Carrier and Lennox, engaged in price-fixing and inventory manipulation using the COVID-19 pandemic as a cover, Arkansas-based HVAC contractor Reliance Heating and Cooling alleged in a civil antitrust suit filed in Michigan federal court Friday.

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Port Authority's Immunity Bid Fails In Pier Project Row Appeal

By Brian Steele

The Connecticut Port Authority cannot assert sovereign immunity to dodge a subcontractor's lawsuit over unpaid work on a pier project because it is not an "arm of the state," an appellate panel found Friday.

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Alaskan Tribes Renew Ambler Road Fight Over Trump Order

By Crystal Owens

Alaskan tribal councils have resumed a challenge to a multimillion-dollar project that will construct a 211-mile mining access road through a portion of the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Reserve, arguing its construction will adversely affect "the heart of a rural area" and its wild abundance.

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Insurer Says It Need Not Defend Auto Dealers In Ill. BIPA Suit

By Gianna Ferrarin

A group of Illinois car dealerships are not eligible for insurance coverage in connection with a proposed class action alleging their use of an employee fingerprint scanner violated state privacy law, according to an insurer's complaint in Illinois federal court.

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States Tell Justices Colo. Climate Suit Threatens Sovereignty

By Elaine Briseño

Florida, Texas, Pennsylvania and 23 other states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that allowed local communities to pursue climate change damages under state law, arguing it jeopardizes states' constitutional right to govern themselves.

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Looking Beyond Calif. Climate Laws As NY Bills Advance

California's climate disclosure legislation has made emissions and risk reporting a practical reality — and now that New York is working on its own climate disclosure bills, companies must confront a future in which compliance systems will need to be ready for multiple states' reporting regimes, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

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Fox Rothschild Attys Shot Outside NC Courthouse After Hearing

By Hayley Fowler

Two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys were shot Friday outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, according to police reports and a firm spokesperson.

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Survey Finds Legal Malpractice Claim Frequency Grew In 2025

By Andrea Keckley

Insurers reported an increase in the frequency of legal malpractice claims for the first time in several years amid concerns over issues like the uncontrolled use of artificial intelligence, according to this year's legal professional liability insurance survey by EPIC Law Firm Group.

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Prosecutors Seek $1.98M Forfeiture In Goldstein Case

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors are seeking a nearly $2 million forfeiture judgment against convicted SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein and asking a Maryland federal judge to turn the Supreme Court lawyer's Northwest D.C. home over to the government to pay it.

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Discipline Upheld For Fed. Judge Who Had Sex In Chambers

By Madison Arnold

The federal judiciary signed off Friday on a private reprimand for a district judge within the Eleventh Circuit for misconduct that included having an extramarital affair with a law enforcement officer and sexual intercourse in their chambers within earshot of the judge's staff.

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Nelson Mullins Faces $2B Suits Over Alleged Conflicts

By Carolina Bolado

The former wives of two insurance mogul brothers have sued Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP for $2 billion, claiming a partner there set up the couples' estates while quietly conspiring with the brothers to shield marital assets from the wives in the event of divorce.

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Ala. Atty Suspended Over 'Atrocious' Bid To Cover Up AI Use

By Rae Ann Varona

A federal judge has suspended an attorney from practicing in the Northern District of Alabama after the attorney deleted his ChatGPT account in a bid to cover up his use of the chatbot to write an erroneous brief, saying the court never imagined having to deal with such "atrocious conduct."

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DOJ Hid Grand Jury Misconduct In ICE Case, Ill. Judge Says

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge said Thursday her trust in U.S. Department of Justice attorneys had been "broken" after reviewing unredacted grand jury transcripts in a criminal case against anti-ICE protesters that revealed prosecutorial misconduct, shortly after which Chicago's top federal prosecutor moved to dismiss the charges.

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'Can't Just Make Up Names And Sue,' 7th Circ. Judge Says

By Anne Cullen

A Seventh Circuit judge rebuked a lawyer Friday for naming a "made up" entity, rather than the correct institution, in a workplace sexual harassment lawsuit against the Wisconsin Court System and a former judge, demanding the error be corrected immediately.

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UC Berkeley Law Adopts Sweeping Restrictions On AI Use

By Lynn LaRowe

The University of California, Berkeley School of Law has adopted a sweeping new policy that restricts the use of artificial intelligence by students, saying the measure aims to ensure "our courses focus on requisite cognitive skills by default."

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Attys Hijacked 1,000 Storm Cases In 'Shakedown,' Suit Says

By Emily Sawicki

Two Louisiana law firms and a group of politically connected attorneys engaged in a "shakedown" to steal about 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, alleged a RICO suit filed Thursday in Houston federal court.

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Analysis

Why Big Tech Gets Advisory Juries In 'Socially Explosive' Suits

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge's recent use of advisory juries for high-profile tech disputes — including Elon Musk's OpenAI for-profit conversion challenge and states' social-media addiction fight with Meta — is an uncommon practice that's intended as a "reality check" for judges deciding "socially explosive" disputes, according to legal experts.

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Exclusive

Fed. Judiciary Urged To Drop Unified Atty Admission Effort

By Jack Karp

The federal judiciary should scrap any proposal to do away with state bar admission requirements for U.S. district courts and create a national district court bar, according to a recent report finding it would undercut those courts' control over bar membership and that it lacks the necessary support.

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Analysis

Some Attys Say Remote Hearing Expansion Comes At A Cost

By Julie Manganis

A push in Massachusetts to expand the number of proceedings held via videoconference is raising concerns among some attorneys, who question if the time savings of remote hearings is outweighed by the hidden costs of lawyers and judges staring into a screen.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Morrison Foerster LLP, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz and Dechert LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after a California federal jury cleared OpenAI and executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman of allegations that they breached the nonprofit's charitable trust by converting to a for-profit.

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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 Napster sued by a music royalties company, White & Case LLP and Laytons LLP targeted in a claim by a property developer, a short-term lender pursue legal action against law firm Rainer Hughes and its former founding partner following his strike-off for money laundering offenses, and the administrators of London Bridging sue the founder of collapsed Market Financial Solutions. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The role of artificial intelligence in law weaves in and out of this week's stories, with the most recent compelling action coming from California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who issued an executive order to mobilize state agencies as AI layoffs begin to hit thousands of workers in his state.

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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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