Archer Aviation has told a federal court that rival electric air-taxi company Joby Aviation cannot ditch counterclaims alleging Joby concealed its China-based sourcing and misclassified imports to evade tariffs, while Joby accuses Archer of riding its coattails and trying to reframe the narrative around its own shady dealings.
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Archer, Joby Spar Over Claims In Battle To Gain Air Taxi Edge

By Linda Chiem

Archer Aviation has told a federal court that rival electric air-taxi company Joby Aviation cannot ditch counterclaims alleging Joby concealed its China-based sourcing and misclassified imports to evade tariffs, while Joby accuses Archer of riding its coattails and trying to reframe the narrative around its own shady dealings.

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DOT Releases $4.7B To Aid Upgrades At Penn, Union Stations

By Nate Beck

The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday it will invest $4.7 billion into rail improvement projects in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, including rehabilitations for New York's Penn Station and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.

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Insurer Says Firm Owes $2.2M For Botched Representation

By Hope Patti

A Wisconsin-based insurer has sued the law firm it hired to defend an auto policyholder in a crash suit, telling a California federal court that the firm's inadequate representation has cost it more than $2.2 million.

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Scooter Rental Company Can't Escape SEC Fraud Suit

By Sydney Price

A Florida federal judge denied scooter rental company Go X's bid to dismiss a suit brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleging it misled hundreds of investors to raise $4 million, finding the agency has adequately alleged the company's investment program offered scooters as unregistered securities.

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AVIATION

Ukraine Co. Brings $5M Drone Award To NY For Enforcement

By Joyce Hanson

A Ukrainian company has urged a New York federal court to enforce an approximately $5 million arbitral award it won against a U.S.-based safety supply company for partly reneging on an $84.5 million contract to provide shipments of drones.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Ex-Tesla Worker Tells 9th Circ. That Arbitration Was Flawed

By Vin Gurrieri

A Black former Tesla employee told a Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday that the company's win in arbitration over his race discrimination claims shouldn't stand because the process was administered improperly, while the electric vehicle company countered that the arbitrator was well within her authority.

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Drivers Drop Stellantis Door Panel Defect Suit

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge has dismissed a putative class action accusing Stellantis of selling certain Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300 vehicles with interior door panels prone to warping, after the car company and its customers stipulated to end the case following earlier rulings that had narrowed the claims to a single cause of action. 

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USTR Says Mexican Auto, Steel Tariffs Will Remain, Per Report

By Jack McLoone

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told Mexican business leaders that tariffs on the automotive and steel sectors will not be eliminated as part of renegotiations of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade deal, according to a news report Tuesday.

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RAIL

Chicago Transit Authority Seeks To Block Refreeze Of $3B

By Celeste Bott

Chicago's transit agency has asked a federal judge to convert his recent temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction that would block the Trump administration from refreezing $3 billion in funding for city train line upgrades while its lawsuit plays out, saying while work on the projects has been allowed to continue with the TRO, "that peace is fragile."

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LOGISTICS

Pan Am Games Bus Contractor Says Arbitration Is Unfair

By Caroline Simson

A Peruvian consortium that provided ground transportation services for the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru, has filed an emergency petition asking a New York federal court to halt its $17 million arbitration with a United Nations entity, saying the tribunal is actively preventing the consortium from presenting its case.

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MARITIME

DC Circ. Won't Ax US Bid To Seize Iranian Oil From 2 Tankers

By Madeline Lyskawa

The D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the U.S. can proceed with seizing more than 700,000 barrels of crude oil from two tankers linked to Iran's state oil company, rejecting a Turkish company's attempt to assert ownership over the oil. 

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INFRASTRUCTURE

NJ Panel Rejects Arbitration In Wrongful Death Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

A staffing company and New Jersey's public transportation provider must face in court claims they negligently caused a vehicle crash that killed a woman, a state appeals court ruled, saying there isn't proper evidence to support the claim the woman signed an arbitration clause.

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11th Circ. Mulls Septic Permit Ban In Fla. Manatee Dispute

By Kelcey Caulder

The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday considered vacating an injunction requiring Florida environmental regulators to temporarily stop issuing new septic tank permits over concerns for the well-being of manatees, with one judge appearing concerned that the ban didn't do enough to address pollution.

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INSURANCE

Chevron's $52M Iran Oil Loss Not Covered, Insurers Say

By Hope Patti

Primary insurers for Chevron urged a California federal court to find that they owe no coverage for nearly $52 million worth of crude oil that was taken by the Iranian government in March 2024, saying their combined marine cargo and war risks policy does not cover losses caused by confiscation.

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ENERGY

Plug Power Gets Some Claims Snipped From Investor Suit

By Katryna Perera

A Delaware federal judge has trimmed a shareholder suit against hydrogen fuel cell company Plug Power Inc., finding that statements about the company's revenue projections and one of its production facilities are inactionable.

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SUPPLY CHAIN

Latham, Loeb Guide AI Battery Co.'s $250M SPAC Merger

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Electra Vehicles Inc., a provider of artificial intelligence-driven battery technology that is represented by Latham & Watkins LLP, outlined Tuesday its plans to go public by merging with a special purpose acquisition company advised by Loeb & Loeb LLP, in a deal valued at more than $250 million.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On ESI Control

Several recent federal court decisions have perpetuated a split over what constitutes “control” of electronically stored information — with judges divided on whether the standard should turn on a party's legal right or practical ability to obtain the information, say attorneys at Sidley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Norton Rose Faces $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright was sued in Illinois state court Tuesday by an advertising tech company claiming that the law firm mishandled a patent application and caused it to be deemed withdrawn, but kept the company in the dark about the loss of its valuable patent rights for over a year.

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Lockheed Birth Defect Trial Judge 'Disappointed' By Attys

By Cara Salvatore

A Florida federal judge said Tuesday he's "puzzled and disappointed" in counsel who appear "unprepared" on the eve of trial in a suit by children who blame their birth defects on Lockheed Martin's chemical handling practices at an Orlando defense system manufacturing and research facility.

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Hunter Biden Blasts Winston & Strawn Tactics In Fee Row

By Emily Sawicki

As a discovery dispute between Hunter Biden and Winston & Strawn LLP drags on amid a suit over allegedly unpaid legal bills, the former president's son accused the BigLaw firm, which once represented him in a Delaware criminal case and other matters, of resorting to "what is uncomfortably close to an ad hominem attack" against him.

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Analysis

Bondi's Proposed Rule Change May Shield Her In Ethics Case

By Phillip Bantz

A federal rule change that Pam Bondi proposed before she was fired as U.S. attorney general could stymie an ethics complaint against her in Florida, which is expected to be refiled after the state bar declined to take up the case during her tenure, experts say.

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330+ Groups Urge DOJ To Restore Immigration Aid Staff

By Courtney Bublé

More than 300 legal services providers, faith-based institutions and community groups are calling on the U.S. Department of Justice to fully restore a program that allows nonlawyers to assist low-income and indigent persons in immigration proceedings.

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Acting DOJ Inspector General Tapped For Permanent Post

By Jack Karp

President Donald Trump has nominated the U.S. Department of Justice's acting inspector general, who investigated the FBI's probe into Trump's links with Russia, to remain in that role on a permanent basis, according to a White House announcement.

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Paint Co. Says Injury Firm Used Stolen Data To Solicit Clients

By Abigail Harrison

A paint company has asked a North Carolina federal court to boot the opposing counsel in a putative data breach class action, accusing them of finding stolen data on the dark web and using it to solicit potential plaintiffs before victims were even notified of the breach.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abiomed Inc.

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Postal Workers Union

Archer Aviation Inc.

Bauer Inc.

BlackBerry Ltd.

CBS Interactive Inc.

Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc.

Chevron Corp.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Duke University

FCA US LLC

Ferrari SpA

Great American Insurance Co.

Immigrant Legal Resource Center

Joby Aero Inc

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Maquet GmbH

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

NVIDIA Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

New Jersey Transit Corp.

North Carolina State Bar

Philo Inc.

Plug Power, Inc.

Rural Mutual Insurance Co.

Stellantis NV

Tesla Inc.

The Catholic University of America

The Florida Bar

YouTube Inc.

Zurich Insurance Group AG

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bohm Wildish

Bracewell LLP

Clyde & Co

Cole Scott & Kissane

Consovoy McCarthy

Constangy Brooks

DLA Piper

Dentons

Eversheds Sutherland

Fink Bressack

Freeman Mathis

Friedlander & Gorris

Gibson Dunn

Golomb Legal

Grasso Moeller

Greenberg Traurig

Greenfire Law

Gupta Wessler

Jenner & Block

Karpf Karpf

Kessler Topaz

Klein Thomas

Latham & Watkins

Loeb & Loeb

Maginnis Howard

McGuireWoods

Miller & Chevalier

Morgan & Morgan PA

Mound Cotton

Nelson Mullins

Norton Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Seiden Law Group PC

Sidley Austin

Straus Meyers

Taylor Anderson LLP

Thrift McLemore

Torridon Law

Venable LLP

Wagstaff & Cartmell

Webb Klase

Willkie Farr

Winston & Strawn

Young Berman

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation

California Supreme Court

Chicago Transit Authority

City and County of San Francisco, California

Cook County Circuit Court

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Federal Transit Administration

Florida Department of Environmental Protection

Florida Supreme Court

Government of Mexico

NAFTA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Railroad Passenger Corp.

New Jersey Court

Permanent Court of Arbitration

Texas Judicial Branch

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Customs and Border Protection

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

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

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

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 Southern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

United Nations