Pa. Firm Can't Toss Uber's RICO Claims Over Insurer Payouts

By Linda Chiem

A Pennsylvania federal judge allowed Uber to pursue Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act claims alleging a Philadelphia personal injury firm schemed with healthcare providers to fabricate medical records and inflate accident claims involving Uber and FedEx drivers, saying Uber doesn't lose standing just because its insurer paid its legal fees in underlying litigation.

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High Court Will Not Hear Fiat Chrysler Defect Row

By Emily Field

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to weigh whether an arbitrator or a court should decide the proper venue for a dispute involving a nonsignatory to an arbitration agreement in an appeal brought by Fiat Chrysler in a proposed class action over allegedly defective Jeep and Dodge headrests.

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2nd Circ. Seems Doubtful Of RTX Corp. Investors' Appeal

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Second Circuit panel Tuesday seemed leery of RTX Corp. investors' bid to revive allegations that the aerospace manufacturer violated securities laws by concealing an aircraft engine defect, with several judges pointing out how the complaint seemed to lack allegations that executives knew different disclosures were necessary.

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High Court Won't Hear Ex-United Worker's Suit Against IAM

By Spencer Brewer

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to revive a lawsuit brought by a former United Airlines customer service agent seeking to bring claims against her union for failing to take her wrongful discharge claim against the company to arbitration.

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Spirit Execs Seek To End Investor Suit Over 2nd Bankruptcy

By Emily Lever

Two former Spirit Airlines executives have urged a Florida federal judge to permanently dismiss a proposed class action accusing them of misleading stockholders about the struggling airline's finances before it launched its second bankruptcy in August 2025, arguing the shareholders have rehashed the allegations of an earlier, now-dismissed complaint.

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UAW's Fain Wins Reelection, Unofficial Results Show

By Braden Campbell

Shawn Fain appears to have won another term as president of the United Auto Workers and his allies won every executive board seat they sought, according to unofficial results the UAW reported Tuesday following a testy officer election.

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Rivian Failed To Pay Workers For Required Training, Suit Says

By Ben Adlin

A former Rivian LLC service technician brought a proposed class action against the automaker in Washington state court, claiming the company pressured workers to forgo their legally protected meal and rest periods, and failed to pay them for mandatory training sessions completed at home and off the clock.

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Driven Brands Says Investors' Fraud Suit Is Hindsight-Based

By Sydney Price

Auto services holding company Driven Brands and its executives have asked a North Carolina federal court to dismiss a proposed class action from shareholders accusing the company of misleading the public about its internal controls over financial reporting, arguing certain financial results were not known to be inaccurate when they were initially reported.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw stockholders challenge Nvidia Corp.'s roughly $20 billion deal with artificial intelligence chipmaker Groq Inc., Hertz Global Holdings Inc.'s electric vehicle strategy and more than $1.5 billion in Humana Inc. stock buybacks.

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Qualcomm Secures $2 In License Breach, Interference Trial

By Dani Kass

Arm Holdings should pay Qualcomm $2 for breaching a licensing agreement and interfering in Qualcomm's economic relationship with Meta, a Delaware federal jury found Tuesday.

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Norfolk Southern Wants Out Of East Palestine Derailment Suit

By Mike Curley

Norfolk Southern Corp. is asking an Ohio federal judge to throw out the East Palestine City School District Board of Education's latest complaint over the 2023 train derailment, saying the claims that the derailment cost the board tax money cannot stand up to court standards.

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Google, UPS Shares Users' Browsing History, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

Google and the United Parcel Service falsely promise that only tracking numbers would be sent to the mail carrier, two consumers have alleged in a proposed class action filed in California federal court, saying that a click of a tracking button instead sends their personal data to undisclosed third parties.

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NLRB Says Amazon's Union Vote Challenges Fall Short

By Braden Campbell

The National Labor Relations Board has urged the Fifth Circuit to reject Amazon's challenge to an order to negotiate with workers at a Staten Island, New York, warehouse, arguing its appeal of a union's 2022 election win misstates the board's analysis and distorts the evidence.

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Financialright Seeks To Revive Burford Arbitration Fight

By Corey Rothauser

German entity Financialright Claims GmbH has urged a Delaware federal judge to reopen its lawsuit against a Burford Capital affiliate over an allegedly fraudulent arbitration agreement, arguing that an arbitral tribunal has now determined that the court has the authority to decide the dispute.

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CEO Says Ex-NJ AG Not Immune In Failed RICO Case Suit

By George Woolston

The CEO of an affordable housing developer indicted in a now-dismissed racketeering case against South Jersey power broker George Norcross has pushed back against former New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin's bid to toss the executive's malicious prosecution suit, asserting the prosecutors are not entitled to immunity protections.

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Chicagoans Sue Over Delivery Robots' Biometric Scans

By Celeste Bott

Two California-based robot delivery companies have been hit with biometric privacy suits in Illinois state court alleging that the robots they deploy in Chicago unlawfully scan identifying information from people in their range and stream that data in real time to human operators, using it to train both their own and third parties' artificial intelligence models.

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Standing Rock Tribe Seeks To Halt DAPL Over Spill Risks

By Crystal Owens

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is again asking a D.C. district court to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline, arguing that a decision to approve a new 25-year easement for the channel has a flow rate of nearly double the capacity in which it was originally authorized.

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Data Sale In Spirit Bankruptcy Raises Novel Privacy Risks

Spirit Airlines' planned sale of deidentified business data to Google for artificial intelligence training exposes gaps in the Bankruptcy Code's privacy guardrails, particularly for employee information, say attorneys at Patterson Belknap.

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Nelson Mullins Sued In SC Over October Data Breach

By Jake Maher

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has been hit with a proposed class action in South Carolina federal court over a data breach that took place in early October.

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Justices Won't Eye 'Weaponized' Sanctions Of Election Attys

By Jeff Overley

Despite outrage among Ninth Circuit conservatives, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to scrutinize six-figure sanctions of lawyers who challenged Arizona election protocols, leaving intact discipline designed to "send a message."

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Reddit Fights Proskauer's 'Hot Potato' AI Client Bid In IP Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

Reddit Inc. has urged a New York federal judge to block its former law firm Proskauer Rose from defending Perplexity AI in Reddit's suit over alleged data scraping used to train artificial intelligence models, arguing the firm can't represent Perplexity after dropping Reddit as a client like ‌a "hot potato."

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DOJ Cites Privacy Concerns In Rejecting NM Epstein Files Bid

By Courtney Bublé

The U.S. Department of Justice has rebuffed the state of New Mexico's request for the unredacted Jeffrey Epstein files for its investigation into possible crimes at Epstein's Zorro Ranch, saying it would hinder law enforcement operations.

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Case Dropped Against Judge Accused Of Endorsing Violence

By Madison Arnold

Ethics charges against a Florida state court judge in Jacksonville alleging he made comments appearing to endorse violence, convey bias and demean individuals during several proceedings last year have been dropped.

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What The Justices Won't Hear: A Roundup Of Cert Denials

By Taylor Bowie

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to grant a writ of certiorari to another batch of applications Tuesday, including cases involving six-figure sanctions, wine shipment laws and overtime claims. 

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