Norfolk Southern Asks High Court To Revisit Mallory Case

By Linda Chiem

Norfolk Southern said Tuesday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling invited plaintiffs lawyers to wield state business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and the dispute urgently needs to be revisited to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.

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Pa. Law Firm Defends 'Sham' Counterclaims In Uber RICO Suit

By James Boyle

Philadelphia-based personal injury firm Simon & Simon PC is defending its counterclaims against Uber and FedEx, arguing in Pennsylvania federal court that the rideshare and delivery companies contradicted their arguments regarding the validity of sham litigation claims in non-antitrust cases.

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Jaguar Will Cover Diesel Filter Repairs To Resolve Defect Suit

By George Woolston

Jaguar Land Rover North America LLC agreed to provide reimbursement for up to $3,500 for any past repairs made to resolve claims that it sold vehicles with a defective diesel filter, according to a motion that included a $1.4 million cut for attorney fees.

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Mercedes Beats Suit Over Shattered Sunroofs

By Gina Kim

Mercedes-Benz permanently beat a proposed class action alleging it sold vehicles with defective panoramic sunroofs that spontaneously shatter, with a Georgia federal judge saying Tuesday the plaintiffs bring no evidence that the automotive giant caused the purported manufacturing defect. 

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Ga. Judge Trims Suit Over Alleged Porsche EV Defect

By Kelcey Caulder

A Georgia federal judge on Tuesday trimmed two claims brought by a proposed class against Porsche Cars NA Inc. over its alleged failure to disclose or adequately repair a defect in its Taycan electric vehicles, but refused to dismiss or send the case to arbitration.

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Texas 3% Corporate Law Unfit For Federal Courts, 5th Circ. Told

By Spencer Brewer

A Southwest Airlines Co. shareholder told the Fifth Circuit that Texas' new corporate reform law cannot bar federal lawsuits just because a shareholder owns less than a certain amount of stock, saying the appellate court should revive his lawsuit.

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Migrants Say Anonymity Still Needed In Vineyard Flight Suit

By Chris Villani

Three Venezuelan asylum-seekers who say they were lured by Florida officials onto a plane bound for Martha's Vineyard as a publicity stunt in 2022 argued that they should be allowed to sue in Massachusetts federal court anonymously because they are likely to face harassment if their names are exposed.

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EV Maker, CEO Settle SEC Action Over Debt Offering Claims

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a $709,000 settlement with an Ohio-based electric- and gas-powered vehicle manufacturer and its CEO to resolve claims that they made misleading statements portraying the company as being more successful than it actually was in connection with a $112 million convertible debt offering.

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Auto Parts Co., Workers Seek Wins In Shaved-Time Suits

By Benjamin Morse

An auto parts maker and factory workers filed competing bids for early wins in parallel federal wage suits, with the workers alleging willful pay-shaving practices and the manufacturer arguing that the disputed minutes were too trivial to compensate, according to filings in North Carolina federal court.

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Mercedes-Benz Denies New Dad's Wrongful Firing Claims

By Kelcey Caulder

Mercedes-Benz told a Georgia federal court that it did not fire a Vietnamese American employee for taking parental leave and complaining about what the employee alleged was a manager's racial bias, saying the company decided to terminate the worker for performance issues before he applied for time off.

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Broadcasters, Fire Chiefs Press For AM Radio In Cars

By Christopher Cole

Dozens of broadcasters and emergency responders converged Tuesday on Capitol Hill to push for passage of a bill requiring automakers to continue manufacturing vehicles with AM radio capability.

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Google Is Wrong, 'Settled Expectations' Is Legal, Justices Told

By Adam Lidgett

Software company VirtaMove has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Google's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason to not review them, saying Google's fight is based on a false foundation.

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1st Circ. Backs CDC Ban On Importing Dogs Under 6 Months

By Carolyn Muyskens

The First Circuit has upheld a rule requiring all dogs imported into the U.S. to be at least six months of age, saying the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had shown it was a reasonable measure to fight rabies.

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Claims In Challenge To Coast Guard Vessel Routes Tossed

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal judge said environmental groups have prematurely challenged a U.S. Coast Guard vessel route study they said fails to protect species from shipping traffic along the Pacific Coast, noting the Coast Guard hasn't adopted its recommendations.

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Md. Terminal Sues Bruks Over Failed Bulk Handling System

By Jared Foretek

A Baltimore-area marine terminal sued its bulk material handling system provider Monday in Maryland federal court, claiming that the system failed after processing less than 26,000 tons — a fraction of the 5-million-ton capacity Bruks claimed the system could handle — and seeking more than $2 million in damages.

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Pittsburgh Says Fire Truck Tie-Ups Drove Up Prices

By Matthew Santoni

The city of Pittsburgh has filed antitrust claims against multiple fire equipment companies, alleging municipalities are paying more as a result of mergers and acquisitions that have concentrated most of the market under just two corporate umbrellas.

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Analysis

Top Enviro Policy Developments From The First Half Of 2026

By Gautama Mehta

The first half of 2026 saw the repeal of a key rule underlying federal climate regulation, the rollback of pollution limits on industrial chemicals like ethylene oxide, and a blanket exemption from species protections for Gulf oil drillers. Here, Law360 takes a look at the top five developments in environmental policy and regulation so far this year.

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Mich. Says DOJ Is Mischaracterizing Climate Antitrust Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked a federal judge for permission to respond to the U.S. Department of Justice's statement of interest supporting dismissal of key portions of the state's antitrust lawsuit against some of the world's largest oil companies, arguing the federal government's filing mischaracterizes the case and conflicts with its own public statements on antitrust enforcement. 

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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