A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday agreed to approve Spirit Airlines' package of wind-down motions after rising fuel costs and unsuccessful efforts to secure federal rescue financing forced it to walk away from restructuring plans.
A New York bankruptcy judge on Tuesday agreed to approve Spirit Airlines' package of wind-down motions after rising fuel costs and unsuccessful efforts to secure federal rescue financing forced it to walk away from restructuring plans.
Home Depot is running a covert surveillance system using automated license plate recognition technology and feeding that information to a database accessed by law enforcement, a proposed class action filed in California federal court has alleged.
A First Circuit panel on Tuesday told attorneys for both the government and a class of transgender and nonbinary people that because the class has asked to vacate a preliminary order blocking a Trump administration policy requiring that passports bear a person's sex assigned at birth, the court no longer has authority to issue an opinion.
The Third Circuit on Tuesday held that a pilot who sued Piedmont Airlines Inc. for allegedly discriminating against him by refusing him a $70,000 bonus because he was away on military duty must arbitrate his claims because it involves an interpretation of his union's collective bargaining agreement.
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Tuesday that Mexico has tentatively agreed to reconsider some of its restrictions on flights into Mexico City's Benito Juárez International Airport, signaling there's some headway being made in a dispute over alleged violations of a decade-old bilateral air transport agreement.
A Washington state appeals court on Tuesday upheld the vehicular homicide and assault conviction of a driver who suffered a seizure, finding a jury could reasonably find the driver culpable for ignoring pre-seizure symptoms prior to the crash.
A man sentenced to up to 39 years in prison after drunkenly killing two people and injuring two others while flying down a Pennsylvania highway at 115 miles per hour with his eyes off the road was correctly convicted by a jury of crimes requiring malice, Pennsylvania's highest court has affirmed.
Claims that General Motors knowingly installed defective brake vacuum pumps on three SUV models are unfounded, the automaker told a Michigan federal court Monday, saying that issues experienced by plaintiffs are nothing more than normal wear and tear on the braking system.
Freight rail couplers and associated parts imported from India and the Czech Republic are facing possible antidumping duties after the U.S. Department of Commerce preliminarily found Tuesday they are being sold at unfair prices.
A Washington freight carrier denied workers meal and rest breaks, failed to pay overtime and sick leave and required employees to sign unlawful noncompete agreements, a proposed class action filed in state court said.
A transportation company cannot pursue its claims that the IRS adopted a secret rule that targeted its stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, throwing out the company's suit.
An ocean carrier asked a Texas federal judge Tuesday to freeze Federal Maritime Commission cases against it and vacate a $45 million initial decision issued in one of them, arguing that the agency's in-house adjudication process is unconstitutional.
The Gateway Development Commission asked a New Jersey federal judge to toss a construction contractor's constitutional challenge to a project labor agreement that the commission used on a Hudson Tunnel Project initiative, saying the PLA requirement that the contractor is fighting doesn't violate the right to freedom of association.
A former McCarter & English LLP attorney suing the firm for discrimination against veterans is trying to fight off several motions to dismiss his New Jersey federal suit, arguing the firm is relying on a rehash of rejected arguments.
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday unveiled indictments outlining a massive insider trading scheme that allegedly netted tens of millions of dollars using nonpublic information about mergers and acquisitions worked on by some of the nation's biggest law firms.
McDermott Will & Schulte is downsizing its associate ranks less than a year after the firm was created via a combination of legacy firms McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel, the law firm confirmed Wednesday.
Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the U.S. Supreme Court often must issue "unpopular" opinions, as the high court faces widespread backlash over its recent ruling limiting the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in congressional redistricting.
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A Maine federal judge has sanctioned an attorney for submitting court filings with fake legal citations to oppose the dismissal of a forced labor trafficking suit against a school, after using an artificial intelligence platform.
Former Wisconsin state judge Hannah C. Dugan can't use a recent Fourth Circuit ruling to overturn her conviction for obstructing ICE officers, the federal government said Wednesday, calling that ruling "merely relevant" and not at all binding.
A North Carolina man who posted the home address of a U.S. Supreme Court justice online and suggested violence against members of the high court pled guilty Wednesday to a "doxxing" charge with the intent to "threaten, intimidate, or incite a crime of violence" against the justice.
A Washington, D.C., federal judge won't force the U.S. Department of Justice to register Hunter Biden as a foreign agent, dismissing a suit brought by a group founded by now-Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller because it can't establish it suffered an injury.
