Delta, Japan Airlines Sued Over Runway Jet Collision

By Jonathan Capriel

A passenger who claims he was injured when a Japan Airlines flight wing clipped his Delta Air Lines Inc. flight during a ground collision at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is suing the two companies in Washington federal court, where his wife, daughter, and granddaughters are already pursuing claims.

Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Wheelchair Isn't A 'Vehicle' For DUI Test Consent In PA

By Parker Quinlan

A Pennsylvania appeals court on Wednesday rolled out its finding that a man's wheelchair does not constitute a vehicle and that his use of the device to leave the scene of a car crash did not imply consent for a blood test as part of a DUI investigation.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Suit Over Alleged Work Trip Sex Assault Revived

By Jonathan Capriel

An Indiana appeals court has revived a workplace rape lawsuit against delivery contractor Catucky Derby Inc., ruling a trial court was wrong to dismiss the employee's claims that the company fostered a drinking culture that led to the owner's brother assaulting a coworker.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Norwegian Air Affiliates Seek Boeing Exec Depo In 737 Case

By Rachel Riley

Norwegian Air subsidiaries that claim Boeing duped them into a 737 Max deal by overstating the jets' safety urged a Washington federal judge Tuesday to order the deposition of a former Boeing executive, contending he has unique insight into information shared with top corporate leaders during the aircraft's development.

Motion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Q&A

She Has A Point: Shutts & Bowen's Jodi-Ann Tillman

By Dani Kass

Jodi-Ann Tillman of Shutts & Bowen LLP was brought into patent infringement litigation over drum technology just months before trial, and her performance earned high praise from opposing counsel, Foley & Lardner LLP partner Laura Ganoza.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Panel OKs Bowling Alley's Win In Alcohol Overserving Case

By Y. Peter Kang

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday cleared a bowling alley of liability in a suit accusing it of overserving alcohol to a customer who later caused a fatal crash while driving drunk, saying an amended complaint alleging new facts was filed too late.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Tekion Can't Update CDK Dealer Software Monopoly Claims

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court refused a request from auto dealership software provider Tekion Corp. to amend its antitrust case accusing CDK Global LLC of monopolization, finding Tekion already had access to the information it wants to add.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Auto Supplier Fired Worker Over FMLA Leave, Suit Says

By Benjamin Morse

An international automotive supplier fired a lab technician for taking leave to care for her mother and shorted hourly workers for off-the-clock work, according to a proposed collective action filed in Michigan federal court.

Complaint attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Subaru Says Drivers Undercut Own Brake Defect Claims

By Carla Baranauckas

Subaru urged a New Jersey federal judge to dismiss a proposed nationwide class action over alleged precollision braking system defects in several models, arguing that the complaint identifies no actual malfunction and that the named plaintiffs are still using the vehicles despite saying their systems are defective.

Motion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

No Sanctions For Amazon In Suit Over Fatal Truck Crash

By Mike Curley

A Texas magistrate judge on Wednesday denied a bid to sanction Amazon for allegedly failing to comply with discovery orders in a suit over a fatal truck crash, saying the plaintiffs failed to show that Amazon was withholding any responsive documents.

Order attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Guo Daughter Asks Justices To Hear $60M Yacht, Escrow Row

By Aaron Keller

Exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo's daughter has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review decisions transferring a yacht that sold for $23 million plus a $37 million escrow fund to her father's Connecticut Chapter 11 estate, saying a Second Circuit ruling conflicts with decisions in several other circuits.

Petition attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

11th Circ. Backs EPA, Fertilizer Co. In 'Radioactive' Road Case

By Ganesh Setty

The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday rejected an environmental group's challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision allowing the construction of a private road with a radioactive byproduct from fertilizer production, finding EPA regulations don't categorically bar such use.

Opinion attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Army Corps OKs Enbridge Tunnel Amid Line 5 Permit Fight

By Crystal Owens

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit Wednesday allowing Enbridge Energy LP to tunnel beneath four miles of the Straits of Mackinac for its Line 5 oil pipeline, and environmental and tribal groups fighting the project say a recent Michigan Supreme Court decision bars the construction.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

1st Circ. Urged Not To Revive Puerto Rico Climate RICO Suit

By Keith Goldberg

Fossil fuel companies have urged the First Circuit to uphold the dismissal of a racketeering and antitrust lawsuit from several Puerto Rico municipalities claiming the companies misrepresented the climate dangers of fossil fuel products in causing a pair of hurricanes.

3 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

How New Counter-Drone Rule Will Reshape Event Security

A new interim final rule on counter-unmanned aircraft systems creates one of the most structured regulatory frameworks yet adopted for mitigating unauthorized drone activity, with implications for law enforcement, airport and stadium operators, drone companies, and public event organizers, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

What 'Good Faith' Means In Calif.'s 1st Climate Reporting Year

Initial submissions to California's corporate greenhouse gas emissions reporting program are due this month — and for regulated businesses, the first-year issue is not whether CARB has answered every implementation question, but how a company can make its good faith compliance efforts provable later, says Thierry Montoya at FBT Gibbons.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Trump Picks Ex-Arkansas SG, Walmart Lawyer For 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has announced that he's looking to elevate Judge Lee Rudofsky of the Eastern District of Arkansas to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NYC Bar Committee Calls For Nationwide AI Rules Framework

By Andrea Keckley

A New York City Bar Association committee concluded in a policy paper published Wednesday that artificial intelligence tools "may assist legal work but cannot substitute for professional legal judgment," calling for a national framework to be built into the Model Rules of Professional Conduct governing its use.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

NC Biz Court Bulletin: Judges Retire, HCA Suit Heads To Trial

By Hayley Fowler

The North Carolina Business Court dropped a host of heavy-hitting opinions in July ahead of two judicial retirements and a new chief judge rising in the ranks.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »

JP Ward Attorney Exodus Delays Pa. Labor Trafficking Suit

By Matthew Santoni

A "staffing disruption" at the Pittsburgh law firm J.P. Ward & Associates led the firm to request a stay of a labor-trafficking case against hotels in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, after the firm was reduced to one attorney and two staff members, according to court filings.

3 documents attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Brief

DOJ Fraud Division To Reach 500 Staffers This Month

By Courtney Bublé

By the end of the month, there will be about 500 attorneys and staff in the U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division, with more to come as time goes on.

Memorandum attached | Read full article » | Save to favorites »

Latham Leads List Of Client Service 'All-Stars,' Report Says

By Ryan Boysen

Latham & Watkins LLP, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP all delivered exceptional client service in a fast-changing, high-pressure era where "the business decision is also the legal decision," a new report by BTI Consulting Group says.

Read full article » | Save to favorites »