Rider Blasts Uber Bid To Admit Atty Ads In NC Bellwether Trial

By Hayley Fowler

Uber should not be allowed to introduce evidence that a rider in North Carolina saw attorney advertisements before she sued the ride-hailing giant claiming she was sexually harassed by her driver, the passenger said, arguing it has "no relevance to any issue" in her upcoming trial.

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Albright Won't Toss BMW Suit Over German Patent Cases

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge said he wouldn't dismiss a suit brought by carmaker BMW AG that was intended to block two patent litigations from moving forward in German court, despite those cases having been withdrawn.

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Fed. Circ. Chief Feels 'Bright-Line Rule Coming' For IP Marking

By Dani Kass

As a Federal Circuit panel reprimanded embattled attorney William Ramey on Thursday for the "disrespect" shown in his failed 3D glasses patent litigation against Volkswagen, the Federal Circuit's chief judge suggested precedent may be needed to define the role of marking in admissionless settlements.

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Uber Fights Uphill To Ax FTC, States' Subscription Fight

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to keeping alive the Federal Trade Commission and states' claims that Uber dupes consumers into its paid subscription service, doubting that Uber's disclosures clearly communicate its subscription practices "as a matter of law," and saying certain state claims are "on very firm ground."

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Drivers Say GM, Bosch Can't Ditch Chevy Cruze Fraud Claims

By Linda Chiem

Drivers told a Michigan federal judge that General Motors and Bosch cannot dodge the remaining fraud claims in long-running litigation alleging the companies deceptively marketed Chevrolet Cruze vehicles as clean vehicles when they were actually outfitted with emissions-cheating software.

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McCarter & English, Port Authority Rip Atty's Veteran Bias Suit

By Jake Maher

McCarter & English LLP, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Port Authority chair Kevin O'Toole blasted a veteran discrimination suit from a former McCarter & English attorney as based on an unfounded conspiracy theory in motions to dismiss this week.

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Couple Sue American Airlines Over Arrest, Flight Ban

By Mike Curley

A couple are suing American Airlines Inc. in Texas federal court, alleging the airline wrongly called the police on them during a customer service dispute, then further retaliated by banning them from any future flights.

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Investor Says Chinese Firms Took $476M EV Venture Stake

By Jared Foretek

A British Virgin Islands company accused a Chinese state-owned enterprise of exploiting COVID-19 travel bans to seize its 11% stake in an electric vehicle manufacturer, wiping out the investor's equity without compensation and stealing proprietary technology.

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Stellantis Faces Investor Suit Over EV-Linked Biz Slump

By Sydney Price

Auto distributor Stellantis NV is facing a proposed shareholder class action alleging it concealed the €22.2 billion ($26 billion) financial burden of shifting focus away from battery-powered electric vehicles after experiencing weaker-than-expected demand.

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Judge Converts 4 First Brands Ch. 11 Cases To Ch. 7

By Emlyn Cameron

A Texas bankruptcy judge on Thursday gave the go-ahead for four of First Brands' co-debtors to shift from Chapter 11 cases to Chapter 7 cases and approved a related settlement between the auto parts maker and a creditor that had requested the change.

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IRS Urges Toss Of Revamped Stock Plan Rule Dispute

By Anna Scott Farrell

A Wisconsin federal court should toss a company's remounted suit claiming the Internal Revenue Service secretly passed a rule targeting its stock ownership plan, the government argued, saying the company still has not presented any evidence that the rule exists.

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Ex-Assurant Workers Look To Toss RICO, Trade Secrets Suit

By Kelcey Caulder

A group of former Assurant salesmen called the auto warranty underwriter's eighth attempt at bringing Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations and trade secrets claims a shotgun pleading, arguing in Georgia federal court that competition and criminal enterprise are not the same.

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9th Circ. Axes Kids' 'Sprawling And Speculative' Climate Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Thursday tossing youths' lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas "discount" program discriminates against children by favoring present-day consumption over future consumption, finding the kids' "sprawling and speculative causal theory" of alleged environmental harms aren't traceable to the government's policies.

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Brief

Canada Probe Of Keyera-Plains Deal Seeks Rival's Records

By Keith Goldberg

Canada's competition regulator said it has obtained a court order to get information from a rival of Keyera Corp. to aid its probe of the energy infrastructure giant's proposed $3.72 billion (around CA$5.16 billion) acquisition of Plains All American Pipeline LP's Canadian natural gas liquids business.

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'Made In America' Rules Raise Stakes For Gov't Contractors

The convergence of widely varying "buy American" requirements, increased enforcement efforts and continuing regulatory attempts to limit foreign sourcing suggests that government contractors should carefully review their supply chain and country-of-origin compliance to remain competitive, say attorneys at Arnold & Porter.

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Opinion

Time To Fix The Accountability Gap In Freight Logistics

In Montgomery v. Caribe Transport, the U.S. Supreme Court must resolve an urgent question: whether freight broker selection in trucking accidents is categorically protected — meaning unreasonable safety decisions are insulated from liability — or subject to accountability under traditional negligence principles, says Amanda Demanda at Amanda Demanda Injury Lawyers.

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Series

Alpine Skiing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Skiing has shaped habits I rely on daily as an attorney — focus, resilience and the ability to remain steady when circumstances shift rapidly — and influences the way I approach legal strategy, client counseling and teamwork, says Isaku Begert at Marshall Gerstein.

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DLA Piper Partner Rejects Pregnant Atty's Account Of Firing

By Pete Brush

The DLA Piper partner who fired a pregnant associate said she did so lawfully, telling a Manhattan federal jury her former employee was "in over her head" and disputing that the associate raised pregnancy bias concerns on a termination call.

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6th Circ. Won't Revisit EFAA Ruling Against Adams & Reese

By Patrick Hoff

The Sixth Circuit said it won't reconsider its ruling that a law barring mandatory arbitration of sexual harassment cases kept a former Adams & Reese LLP paralegal's sex harassment and disability bias suit in court, concluding that the firm's objections were already considered.

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

By Laura Stewart Liberty

The past week in London has seen the owner of an oil tanker stuck in the Strait of Hormuz sued by an energy company and an insurer, law firm Boodle Hatfield LLP and two Serle Court barristers sued by a group of Winston Churchill's great-grandchildren, and Welsh Water hit with a fresh class action over polluted rivers.

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Calif. Atty Avoids Sanctions For Filing Bogus Citations With AI

By Matt Perez

A California attorney has avoided sanctions over his use of artificial intelligence for a filing in a civil rights case, which resulted in false citations.

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Another Gov't Atty From Vt. Joins Stris & Maher's Team

By Jack Rodgers

A former civil chief of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont has joined Stris & Maher LLP's practice as a partner, the firm announced Friday.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Other states might follow the lead of California and break with President Donald Trump's policies in implementing guardrails for state agencies to contract with AI companies. And after three individual indictments last month for selling banned tech to China, Supermicro has hired Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to conduct an independent investigation, assigned its general counsel to lead an internal compliance review, and shaken up its compliance leadership.

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NJ Justices Won't Review Beasley Allen's DQ From Talc Cases

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to review a lower court's order booting the Beasley Allen Law Firm from multicounty litigation in the Garden State over Johnson & Johnson's talcum powder, according to an order made public Friday.

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Conn. Justices Block Agency's Bias Probe Into Atty Licensing

By Brian Steele

Because citizens blocked the legislature from reviewing court decisions when ratifying the state's 1818 constitution, a Connecticut human rights agency has no power to investigate alleged bias in attorney licensing decisions, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday in a unanimous opinion.

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Airline Worker Asks To Expand Sanctions Row In Bias Case

By Emily Brill

A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired after sending her union's president pictures of aborted fetuses is pushing for additional remedies in a sanctions dispute stemming from her long-running religious discrimination lawsuit against the airline, from which she received $800,000 after winning a jury trial in 2022.

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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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Trump Taps Personal Atty For 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Friday evening he's tapping Matthew Schwartz, his attorney in the New York hush money case, for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. 

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