Four Republican senators on Thursday proposed revoking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers granted to California for vehicle emissions regulations that have been in place for over a decade, following through on the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Golden State's authority to set stricter tailpipe emissions standards.
Four Republican senators on Thursday proposed revoking U.S. Environmental Protection Agency waivers granted to California for vehicle emissions regulations that have been in place for over a decade, following through on the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle the Golden State's authority to set stricter tailpipe emissions standards.
Apollo Global Management has agreed to acquire easyJet for approximately £5.7 billion ($7.7 billion), the companies said Thursday, ending a bidding contest with private equity firm Castlelake for the U.K. budget airline.
A pair of Mercedes drivers says the seats in some vehicles have raised metallic AMG logo badges that heat up in the sun and then burn unwitting drivers and passengers, sometimes leaving them with painful second-degree burns that visibly bear the logo, according to a proposed class action filed Wednesday.
Lockheed Martin unit Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. told a federal court that a subcontractor tricked the Connecticut company into believing it could complete a deal for two software and hardware components critical to a multibillion-dollar military helicopter program, defeating the claims in a suit alleging a $14 million underpayment.
Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems on Wednesday said punitive damages aren't available to a mother and son suing it in federal court over a midair door plug blowout on a 737 Max jet flying out of Oregon because they have not alleged any misconduct by the supplier in the state.
Orbital spacecraft maker Blackstar Orbital Technologies Corp. on Thursday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company Pono Capital Four Inc. in a deal that values it at $380 million and was built by three law firms.
Georgia's tax agency and Uber have settled their dispute over whether the ride-hailing company was required to collect and remit millions in sales taxes on behalf of drivers and customers who used its app before the Wayfair decision, the Georgia Court of Appeals said in an order Thursday.
A Washington appeals panel Thursday revived Union Pacific Railroad Co.'s insurance claims around environmental liability at four sites in Washington and Oregon, ruling that the locations fell outside the scope of the railroad's decades-old settlement agreements with U.S. Fire Insurance Co.
Passengers who claim a former Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. crew member secretly filmed them, including children, while they undressed urged the Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday to uphold a ruling that their case cannot be forced into arbitration.
The Fourth Circuit has cleared Pennsylvania's banking regulator to continue its pursuit of $52.7 million in penalties from TitleMax for alleged interest-rate violations, rejecting a bid by the title lender's South Carolina arm to block the out-of-state enforcement proceeding.
Two former Mayer Brown LLP energy and infrastructure attorneys have moved to Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP's fast-growing Chicago office, the firm announced Wednesday.
A recent proposed Federal Trade Commission antitrust settlement in Illinois federal court requires Deere & Co. to provide access to repair services previously available only to authorized dealers, and companies that limit access to aftermarket resources should ensure they can substantiate the reasoning behind any restrictions, say attorneys at Freshfields.
Being a sommelier has quietly shaped how I practice law by changing the way I think, communicate and connect with people, and offers a constant reminder that expertise is about making your knowledge useful and accessible to others, says Kara Du at Sheppard.
How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP escaped a malpractice lawsuit late Thursday over its representation of Patriot National Inc. in a private investment in public equity transaction in the years before the company's downfall.
Three Democratic lawmakers on Thursday criticized Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP's response to their request that the firm disclose details of its pro bono arrangement with the Trump administration, saying the firm's "three sentence letter essentially saying 'nothing to see here'" is "not going to cut it."
The American Bar Association's new president, Barbara J. Howard, will focus on twin goals of defending democracy against expected unprecedented attacks associated with this year's midterm elections, while also reorganizing the association to run more efficiently, as she kicks off her one-year term this month.
A firm has asked a Delaware vice chancellor to allow it to submit more "factual information" regarding what it says are inconsistencies in Richards Layton & Finger PA's attempt to avoid sanctions for submitting a filing with errors generated by artificial intelligence.
Prurient revelations, brash recriminations and purportedly glaring judicial errors in Tom Goldstein's criminal case have captivated the appellate bar for nearly 19 months, and many of those moments will be center stage in the star attorney's imminent appeal.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP was ordered on Thursday to hand over a $3.6 million retainer it was paid to defend a client against criminal and civil fraud charges, with the Second Circuit upholding a ruling that the funds were part of an asset freeze order issued in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission case.
A Washington state court granted a temporary restraining order Wednesday in a school fundraising company's lawsuit accusing its former general counsel of taking control of its social media accounts and allegedly replacing its LinkedIn photo with a manipulated image of its president in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
A former Girardi Keese attorney was sentenced to one day time-served and two years of probation Thursday for staying quiet and failing to report disgraced plaintiff's attorney Tom Girardi's theft of millions of settlement dollars owed to Lion Air Flight 620 plane crash victims.
The Washington State Supreme Court said Thursday it's offering to waive the bar exam requirement for first-time applicants who were unable to take the test last week due to an abrupt cancellation driven by technical issues at the Yakima Convention Center where it was scheduled to be administered.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Trump v. Slaughter, expanding presidential control over those exercising executive power, suggests that courts may be receptive to arguments challenging the constitutional foundations of the False Claims Act’s qui tam mechanism, says Daniel Passeser at Wiggin.
