Rising Star: Stokes Lawrence's Rachael Wallace

By Mike Curley

Rachael Wallace of Stokes Lawrence PS has spent her career navigating the tricky waters of maritime law, including winning a defense verdict for commercial fishery Fishermen's Finest and defeating a motion to dismiss for a plaintiff client in a missing-cargo suit, earning her a spot among the transportation law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.

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Roundup

Transportation Tracker: Boeing, CH Robinson Verdicts

By Linda Chiem

In our latest Law360 Transportation Tracker, an Illinois jury awarded $29 million to the family of a U.N. worker killed in the 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8, while freight broker C.H. Robinson was hit with a blockbuster $604 million verdict in Texas over a fatal 2021 trucking accident.

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Illinois-Led States Win TRO To Block DOT Bid For CDL Data

By Tom Lotshaw

A Virginia federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining a database containing information on 17 million commercial driver's license holders, ruling in favor of 21 states that allege it unlawfully demanded the records for immigration enforcement.

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Papa John's Wage Deal Is 'Collusive Fiction,' Judge Says

By MJ Koo

A North Carolina federal judge rejected a proposed $225,000 settlement that would resolve delivery drivers' wage claims against a Papa John's franchisee, finding the deal was a "collusive fiction" that benefited the company and class counsel rather than the drivers, who would likely receive no more than $35,000.

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Engine Concerns Spark NHTSA Probe Of 1M GM Vehicles

By Joyce Hanson

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has opened an investigation into nearly 1 million General Motors pickups and sport utility vehicles based on complaints about engine failure after a recall remedy had already been completed.

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US Postal Service Hit With $8.6M Crash Suit Verdict

By Jonathan Capriel

The government must pay nearly $8.6 million after a U.S. Postal Service driver blew through a rural Texas intersection — which was missing a stop sign — and crashed into a minivan, injuring three, a federal judge has ruled, pinning all the blame on the postal worker's "distracted or mindless driving."

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Union Pacific Loses Bid To Block BIPA Class Claims

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday certified a class of more than 22,000 truck drivers accusing Union Pacific of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law and denied the railroad's bid for summary judgment, finding that the finger scans in question fall in the purview of the statute and rejecting the railroad's federal preemption and government-contractor defenses.

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Argentina Says DC Circ. Misread Time Bar On $391M Award

By Caroline Simson

Argentina on Thursday urged the D.C. Circuit to rethink its decision rejecting a three-year statute of limitations in a dispute over the enforcement of a $391 million arbitral award, calling the ruling an "outlier" that conflicts with Second Circuit precedent.

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Brief

EU Closes Pratt & Whitney Probe After Contract Changes

By Matthew Perlman

European enforcers said on Friday they closed an antitrust investigation into Pratt & Whitney Canada after the manufacturer changed its contracts to remove terms that allegedly prevented spare part suppliers from accessing used aircraft engines.

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Brief

RTX Unit Beats Gender Hiring Bias Appeal In Connecticut

By Aaron Keller

RTX Corp.'s Pratt & Whitney aircraft unit prevailed a second time Friday against a female candidate's claim that she wasn't hired because of her gender, with a Connecticut appeals court affirming gender wasn't a motivating factor and that some of the woman's arguments rested on hearsay.

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Uber, DoorDash Lose Most Of NYC Tip Prompt Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A New York federal judge kept alive DoorDash and Uber's compelled-speech challenge to New York City laws requiring delivery platforms to display a tipping prompt at or before checkout that includes an option of at least 10%, but tossed their remaining five claims.

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Australian Enforcer Sues Subaru Over Right To Repair

By Nadia Dreid

Australia's competition enforcer is taking Subaru to court, accusing the Australian arm of the Japanese car manufacturer of breaking the country's antitrust laws by failing to offer all car mechanics the diagnostic capabilities that it gives Subaru-affiliated repair shops.

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Produce Co. Says Staffing Firm Owes Defense In Pot Test Suit

By Jonathan Capriel

Plant-based protein food producer Myrtle Greens says it shouldn't be on the hook in a hiring discrimination lawsuit filed by a man who was turned away from a delivery job due to a positive drug test, arguing that all hiring is done by a third-party contractor that allegedly agreed to indemnify the food-maker.

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DC Circ. Voids Block On OMB Funding Freeze

By Jared Foretek

The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a district judge's block on the Trump administration's pause on a wide array of federal grants, loans and financial assistance, ruling that the Office of Management and Budget's rescission of the memorandum rendered the lawsuit moot.

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Judge Lets Cruise Passenger Refile Legionnaires' Complaint

By David Minsky

A Florida federal judge on Friday dismissed a cruise passenger's lawsuit alleging he contracted Legionnaires' disease during a cruise, but allowed him to refile his complaint after finding that his amended suit was a "shotgun pleading" that failed to separate claims. 

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2nd Circ. Backs NY Water Permit For Pipeline Project

By Keith Goldberg

The Second Circuit on Friday upheld New York's issuance of a Clean Water Act permit for a controversial Williams Cos. pipeline upgrade, saying state environmental regulators justified their about-face from previous permit denials over pollution concerns.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen former Liberal Democrat MP Mark Oaten sue a fur auction house, private equity and pensions magnate Edmund Truell hit by a commercial fraud claim and Charles Russell Speechlys file a contract claim against two of its previous clients in the Middle East.

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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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Analysis

The Race Is On To Confirm Trump's Judges By Year-End

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election? 

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Trump Admin Moves Toward Nixing ABA's Accreditor Status

By Emma Cueto

The Department of Education has made a preliminary finding that the American Bar Association is not in compliance with the department's regulations and standards as an accreditor of law schools, a move that comes as the ABA seeks to modify or repeal standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion in an attempt to preserve its accreditor status.

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Law Schools Flooded With Applicants For 3rd Straight Year

By Tracey Read

This year's U.S. law school applicant pool is up nearly 8% over 2025, with significant growth in Asian and Black prospective attorneys, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.

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Divided 2nd Circ. Backs DQ Of Acting NDNY US Attorney

By Stewart Bishop

The Second Circuit on Friday upheld a lower court's decision that found the acting U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York, John Sarcone III, was unlawfully serving in his position when he obtained grand jury subpoenas of the New York attorney general's office.

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Fla. Attorney Fined, Referred To Bar For Unapologetic AI Use

By Madison Arnold

A Florida attorney is the latest to be sanctioned for his use of artificial intelligence, after a Florida state appeals court found Friday that his filings contained at least 46 hallucinations.

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Wiley Data Breach Class Action Dropped As 2 Sides Confer

By Emily Sawicki

A Florida resident pursuing negligence and unjust-enrichment claims against Wiley Rein LLP over a data breach voluntarily dismissed his proposed class action on Friday while leaving the door open to refile, one day after the firm told the D.C. federal court that the two sides were "conferring" on next steps.

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Gov't To Take 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty To High Court

By Madison Arnold

The U.S. government asked the Ninth Circuit to stay its ruling disqualifying Nevada's top prosecutor from assuming that role without Senate confirmation, saying it plans to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Trump Says Pardon Atty Ed Martin Leaving For Midterms

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. pardon attorney Ed Martin will be leaving the administration to work on the midterm elections, President Donald Trump announced on Friday.

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Judge's Job Bid Sinks Conn. Atty's Homicide Conviction

By Brian Steele

Former Cramer & Anderson LLP partner Robert L. Fisher Jr. is entitled to a new manslaughter trial because the presiding judge at his original trial "created an appearance of a lack of impartiality" when he did not disclose to the parties that he had applied for an oversight job with the state prosecutor's office, an appeals court ruled Friday.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Diminished Capacity, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A California federal judge told Meta that its in-house attorney was absolutely wrong about what constitutes attorney-client privilege and should take an ethics course. And a bipartisan group of 128 ex-judges have asked the Florida Bar to investigate Homeland Security's general counsel for his attacks on sitting judges. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Eversheds Sutherland, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and McDermott Will & Schulte lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after Maryland's tax court held that the state's first-in-the-nation digital advertising tax violates the federal Internet Tax Freedom Act.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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