DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid workers, paid some late and excluded certain trip and waiting time from minimum-pay calculations, with more than 200,000 workers set to receive payments, the city announced Tuesday.
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DoorDash To Pay $131.5M To Settle NYC Delivery Pay Probe

By Benjamin Morse

DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid workers, paid some late and excluded certain trip and waiting time from minimum-pay calculations, with more than 200,000 workers set to receive payments, the city announced Tuesday.

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Flyers Tell 9th Circ. Alaska-Hawaiian Merger Eroding Service

By Linda Chiem

Airline customers have told the Ninth Circuit that Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines eroded consumer choice on numerous routes, and that a district court improperly dismissed their antitrust lawsuit with premature and flawed findings that cannot be allowed to stand.

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Uber, Lyft Asked To Explain Duty To Drivers In Ohio Injury Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

Uber, Lyft and a man who blames them for his injuries when one of their drivers rear-ended him have been asked by an Ohio federal judge to explain whether the companies are the legal proximate cause of his injuries.

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Bad Recordkeeping Kills City's Railroad Indemnity Defense

By Jonathan Capriel

A Missouri city must cover financial damages Norfolk Southern suffered when it settled lawsuits stemming from a train crash that killed one city worker and injured another, a federal judge ruled, slamming the city's shoddy recordkeeping and the unreliable testimony of its official.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Law Firm Says Illinois Tollway Owes Limo-Crash Defense Fees

By Celeste Bott

The Illinois State Toll Highway Authority is being sued in Illinois state court by a Chicago law firm claiming the agency has failed to pay attorney fees for its defense in litigation over a catastrophic 2016 limousine crash.

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LOGISTICS

'Yikes' Email Sinks BIPA Coverage For Donut, Transport Cos.

By Lauraann Wood

An email stating "Yikes ... no" in response to outside counsel's inquiry regarding a commercial bakery's biometric data collection practices proves the business and a logistics company misrepresented material facts while seeking insurance that could have covered an underlying privacy dispute, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

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AVIATION

Flyer Says Justices Must Hear CrowdStrike Tech-Outage Suit

By Mike Curley

An airline passenger is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear his proposed class action against CrowdStrike Inc. over expenses and injuries resulting from a 2024 tech outage, saying the justices need to resolve a widening circuit split on the scope of the Airline Deregulation Act.

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United Can't Ground Christian Gate Agent's Vax Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

An Illinois federal judge refused to fully dismiss a religious bias suit from an ex-United Airlines employee who claimed she was unlawfully denied a COVID-19 vaccine mandate exemption and then fired, citing her argument that a short deadline for documenting her exemption bid was intended to thwart it.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Ford Seeks To Toss F-150 Oil Consumption Class Claims

By Melanie Dorsey

Ford Motor Co. has asked a Michigan federal judge to dismiss claims brought by seven Ford F-150 owners who allege the automaker concealed an oil consumption defect, arguing that the drivers have failed to plausibly allege Ford knew about the purported problem when they bought their trucks.

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SUPPLY CHAIN

EU, Philippines Reach Preliminary Free Trade Deal

By Jack McLoone

The European Union and the Philippines have reached a "substantial agreement" on a free trade deal that would mutually reduce or remove tariffs on 97% of trade between them, the bloc announced Tuesday.

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IP & TECHNOLOGY

USPTO Announces New AI Chief, Int'l Pilot, Outreach Office

By Theresa Schliep

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a new leader for artificial intelligence, is participating in a pilot program for a global intellectual property recordation system and is launching the latest outreach office. Here's what you need to know.

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Big Tech Backs Samsung At Fed. Circ. Over Patent Injunctions

By Dani Kass

Top technology companies and various industry groups have urged the Federal Circuit to deny Collision Communications an injunction after the patent owner's $445.5 million infringement verdict against Samsung, saying an injunction would undermine U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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INSURANCE

Ga. Justices Say UM Claims Can Settle Before Liability Claims

By Hope Patti

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday held that the state's intermediate appellate court wrongly found that a man injured in a car crash was required to exhaust the at-fault driver's liability coverage before settling a claim for uninsured motorist coverage with his own insurer.

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ENERGY

Oil Cos. Escape Mich. Climate Change Antitrust Suit

By Keith Goldberg

A federal judge on Tuesday nixed a lawsuit from Michigan accusing global oil and gas giants of conspiring for decades to delay the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy, ruling the allegations do not amount to valid antitrust claims.

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Feds' Latest Permit For Calif. Pipeline Challenged At 9th Circ.

By Rachel Riley

Environmental groups are urging the Ninth Circuit to review Trump administration's recent decision approving operations of two coastal California oil pipeline segments, including one that was shut down for years following a 2015 oil spill, saying on Tuesday that the new permit waives key safety requirements.

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PEOPLE

Sidley Lands Energy Pro In Miami From Squire Patton

By Madison Arnold

Sidley Austin LLP has expanded its energy, transportation and infrastructure capabilities and surpassed 70 lawyers and professionals in its Miami office with a new partner from Squire Patton Boggs LLP.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Seyfarth Says Data Breach Exposed Social Security Numbers

By Hailey Konnath

Seyfarth Shaw LLP has disclosed a recent data breach that exposed the names and Social Security numbers of at least 300 individuals, according to notices filed with the Texas and California attorneys general.

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Meta Flaunts 'Abuse' Of Atty-Client Privilege, Judge Told

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge ordered Meta on Tuesday to rereview privilege designations on 300 documents in social media addiction litigation, after plaintiffs' lawyers cited a "culture of privilege abuse" epitomized by Instagram swag hats embroidered with "a/c priv" — the shorthand used to log withheld documents.

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Mich. Fed. Judge On 1-Year Leave Over Drunken Driving Case

By Jack Karp

U.S. District Judge Thomas L. Ludington is taking a one-year paid leave of absence from the bench following his misdemeanor conviction for drunken driving, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan announced Tuesday.

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Womble Bond Can't Quit Dutch Client With TM Trial Looming

By Hayley Fowler

Womble Bond Dickinson can't withdraw from a trademark feud that's dragged on for more than five years between U.S. and Dutch software companies, a North Carolina federal judge ruled, saying the firm's exit at this late stage "would be completely disruptive."

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

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Acushnet Holdings Corp.

Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Amazon.com Inc.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Petroleum Institute Inc.

Auto-Owners Insurance Co.

BP PLC

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Cloudflare Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

CrowdStrike Holdings Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Discord Inc.

DoorDash Inc.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Ford Motor Co.

Garmin Ltd.

Google LLC

Hawaiian Holdings Inc.

Instagram Inc.

Kronos Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

Los Angeles Unified School District

Lyft Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Montana State University

National Retail Federation Inc.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Ohio State University

Plains All American Pipeline L.P.

Plains GP Holdings LP

Roblox Corp.

Roku Inc.

SAP AG

SAS Institute Inc.

Sable Offshore Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Shell PLC

Sierra Club

Snap Inc.

Southwest Airlines Co.

Tesla Inc.

The Software & Information Industry Association

TikTok Inc.

Twitter Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Airlines Holdings Inc.

Univ. of South Florida

Verizon Communications Inc.

Virgin America Inc.

Waymo LLC

X Corp.

YouTube Inc.

eBay Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alexander Dubose

Alioto Law Firm

Amundsen Davis

Ashurst Perkins

Barnow and Associates

Baron & Herskowitz

Blank Rome

Bondurant Mixson

Bronster Fujichaku

Caldwell Cassady

Charhon Callahan

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Cory Fein Law Firm

Covington & Burling

Cuneo Gilbert

Cunningham Vogel

DLA Piper

DiCello Levitt

Dickie McCamey

Dinsmore & Shohl

Dykema Gossett

Eckert Seamans

Ellis & Winters

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Gordon & Partners

Greenberg Traurig

Hausfeld LLP

Hueston Hennigan

Johnston Tomei

Kapke Willerth

Klein Thomas

Kramer LLP

Lewis Brisbois

Lieff Cabraser

Littler Mendelson

Marshall Brown LLP

Matthew G. Miller PC

McDermott Will & Schulte

Morrow Willnauer

Munger Tolles

O'Hagan Meyer

O'Melveny & Myers

Quinn Emanuel

Seyfarth Shaw

Sher Edling

Sidley Austin

Skadden Arps

Slappey & Sadd

Squire Patton

Starn O'Toole

Sullivan & Cromwell

Swift Currie

Taft Stettinius

Webb Daniel Friedlander

WilmerHale

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Cook County Circuit Court

European Commission

European Union

Federal Aviation Administration

Fish and Wildlife Service

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Supreme Court

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

Texas Attorney General's Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

World Intellectual Property Organization