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.
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GOP Senators Float Repeal Of Calif. Vehicle Emissions Rules

By Linda Chiem

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.

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EasyJet Agrees To $7.7B Apollo Buyout, Castlelake Bows Out

By Al Barbarino

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.

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Mercedes Drivers Say Metallic Seat Logos Can Cause Burns

By Hailey Konnath

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.

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AVIATION

Sikorsky Accuses Tech Supplier Of Deception In $24.7M Job

By Brian Steele

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.

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Spirit Aero Fights Damages Ask In Boeing 737 Blowout Suit

By Rachel Riley

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.

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3 Firms Guide Reusable Spacecraft Maker's $380M SPAC Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

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.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Ga. Drops Uber Tax Appeal After State High Court Loss

By Maria Koklanaris

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.

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RAIL

Union Pacific Appeal Revives Environmental Insurance Claims

By Ben Adlin

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.

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MARITIME

Royal Caribbean Arbitration Bid Falls Flat, 11th Circ. Hears

By Corey Rothauser

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.

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INSURANCE

TitleMax Rebuffed In 4th Circ. Bid To Halt Pa. Usury Case

By Jon Hill

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. 

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PEOPLE

Akin Brings On 2 Mayer Brown Energy Attys In Chicago

By Tracey Read

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.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

FTC-Deere Deal Tells Cautionary Tale On Repair Access Limits

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.

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Series

Being A Sommelier Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

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.

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No Simpson Thacher Malpractice In PIPE Case, Jury Finds

By Madison Arnold

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.

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Dems Slam Skadden's 'Nothing To See Here' Trump Deal Reply

By Hailey Konnath

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."

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New ABA Chief Seeks To 'Streamline' Org., Defend Democracy

By Emily Sawicki

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.

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Richards Layton Under Fire Amid Bid To Avoid AI Sanctions

By Rose Krebs

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.

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Analysis

The Dramatic Moments Set To Shape Tom Goldstein's Appeal

By Jeff Overley and Jared Foretek

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.

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2nd Circ. Says Pillsbury Must Surrender $3.6M Retainer

By Jessica Corso

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.

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Ex-GC Hijacked Accounts And Posted Klan Imagery, Suit Says

By Ben Adlin

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.

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Ex-Girardi Atty Gets Probation For Keeping Silent On Theft

By Lauraann Wood

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.

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Wash. Justices Offer Bar Waiver After July Exam Tech Failure

By Rachel Riley

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.   

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Justices' FTC Ruling Weakens Qui Tam's Constitutional Base

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.

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AMG Cos.

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American Bar Association

Apollo Global Management LLC

Castlelake LP

Deere & Co.

Executive Health Resources Inc.

Google LLC

Hard Yaka Inc.

Intel Corp.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Mercedes-Benz USA LLC

Patriot National Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

The Boeing Co.

TitleMax

Uber Technologies Inc.

Union Pacific Corp.

Vimeo Inc.

Washington State Bar Association

Wayfair LLC

Yelp Inc.

YouTube Inc.

easyJet plc

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akin Gump

Anderson Kill

Ashurst Perkins

Burns Charest

Cairncross & Hempelmann

Clifford Chance

Conrad & Scherer

Cozen O'Connor

Crowell & Moring

Day Pitney

Eversheds Sutherland

Fox Rothschild

Freshfields

Girardi & Keese

Gordon Tilden

Greenberg Glusker

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

HSF Kramer

Hillis Clark

Hughes Hubbard

Jenner & Block

Kennedys Law LLP

Lipcon Margulies

Loeb & Loeb

Macfarlanes LLP

Mayer Brown

Milbank LLP

Morrison Cohen

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Pillsbury Winthrop

Richards Layton

Seila Law

Sheppard Mullin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps

Slaughter and May

Stearns Weaver

Stokes Lawrence

Susman Godfrey

Troutman

Watson Farley

Werksman Jackson

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wilson Elser

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Air Resources Board

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Trade Commission

Georgia Attorney General's Office

Georgia Court of Appeals

Georgia Department of Revenue

Georgia Supreme Court

National Transportation Safety Board

Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Justice

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court