Amazon Sued By Injured Survivor Of Fatal Miami Plane Crash

By David Minsky

An airline contractor on Friday sued Amazon and several others in Florida state court, alleging negligence for serious injuries he suffered in a fatal crash earlier this month in which a cargo plane skidded off the runway at Miami International Airport and hit his work van. 

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Volvo Averts EV Defect Suit Over Kansas Buyers' NJ Claims

By Emily Field

A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday dismissed a proposed class action brought by a Kansas married couple alleging that the rear auto brake and dashboard drive display features in certain Volvo electric vehicles are defective, finding there's no connection to the Garden State aside from the automaker's corporate headquarters.

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Lemonade Gets Final OK For $10.5M Data Breach Settlement

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge has granted final approval to a $10.5 million settlement to end consolidated claims that Lemonade Inc. negligently exposed 190,000 people's driver's license numbers to cybercriminals.

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DC Circ. Probes DOT Authority To Withhold Calif. Funds

By Jared Foretek

A panel of D.C. Circuit judges grilled a Trump administration attorney Friday over the U.S. Department of Transportation's move to slash California's federal highway funding because of the state's commercial driver's licensing rules for nondomiciled drivers, wondering whether the agency had any authority to take the drastic measure.

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Lockheed Guard Sues Over Firing In Gun Handling Dispute

By Brian Steele

A former Sikorsky Aircraft security officer wants a Connecticut federal judge to order the helicopter maker and its parent company Lockheed Martin Corp. to rehire him and pay damages, claiming he was fired for mishandling his gun even though "surveillance footage clearly showed plaintiff using appropriate trigger finger discipline."

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Tesla Investors Press Del. High Court To Keep Cases In State

By Jessica Corso

Tesla Inc. investors have asked the Delaware Supreme Court to keep in the state a trio of lawsuits accusing the carmaker and its CEO, Elon Musk, of breaching their fiduciary duty, after a Chancery Court judge ruled earlier this year that the cases belong in Texas.

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Wilson Sonsini, Davis Polk Steer $1.9B Vehicle Auction Deal

By Al Barbarino

Copart Inc. has agreed to acquire ACV Auctions Inc. for about $1.9 billion, expanding the online vehicle auction operator into dealer-to-dealer wholesale remarketing, with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC advising Copart and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP representing ACV. 

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9th Circ. Upholds Workers' $7.8M BART Vax Exemption Verdict

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit on Friday declined to disturb a $7.8 million verdict for six former San Francisco public rail employees who were let go after refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on faith-based grounds, finding that the transit system did not show that it couldn't have safely accommodated the workers.

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Patent Co. Says 'Prejudicial Errors' Merit New DoorDash Trial

By Elliot Weld

A patent-holding company has asked a Texas federal judge to order a new infringement trial against DoorDash and grant it a favorable judgment on its enablement defense, arguing that the food delivery giant's conduct led to "prejudicial errors."

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Brief

Commerce Probing 3 Nations' Hydraulic Cylinders For Duties

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. Department of Commerce is investigating whether linear hydraulic cylinders imported into the U.S. from China, India and Mexico are benefiting from government subsidies, it said Friday.

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RV Part Cos. Give Enforcers More Time To Review Merger

By Matthew Perlman

LCI Industries and Patrick Industries have pulled and refiled their merger notices, giving enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice additional time to review a planned merger between two of the nation's biggest RV parts suppliers.

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Zurich Needn't Cover Auto Dealers In Deceptive Pricing Row

By Hope Patti

Two Zurich units have no duty to defend or indemnify a group of auto dealers accused by the Federal Trade Commission and the Maryland Attorney General's Office of misrepresenting the cost of vehicles to consumers, a Virginia federal judge ruled Friday.

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Fuel Wholesaler Seeks Toss Of Station Operators' Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Pennsylvania-based fuel supplier asked a Michigan federal judge Friday to toss a case brought by a group of gas station operators in Wayne County, saying it has not violated their fuel supply agreement terms.

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Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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Senior Lawyers Survey: Tell Us About Your Career

How are senior lawyers adapting to evolving career paths and emerging technologies? Share your perspective in this five-minute survey.

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Greenberg Traurig, Eckert Seamans Hit By Data Breaches

By Ryan Boysen

Greenberg Traurig LLP and Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC have publicly revealed that they've been hit by data breaches, adding to the dozens of cybersecurity incidents U.S. law firms have suffered this year.

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Analysis

Midterm Wins Could Help Dems Probe Trump's BigLaw Deals

By Courtney Bublé

If the Democrats take back one or both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, a big item on their oversight agenda will be to step up ongoing investigations of the deals that nine major law firms cut with the Trump administration last year.

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Trial Errors 'Crippled Goldstein's Defense,' 4th Circ. Hears

By Jeff Overley

Appellate luminary Tom Goldstein unveiled a sweeping and forceful critique aimed at erasing his felony fraud convictions, telling the Fourth Circuit that prosecutors were hell-bent on convicting him "no matter the facts or law," disregarded a star witness "incompetence" and benefited from a trial judge's "inexplicable" rulings.

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In-House Atty Org. Says Rival Ripped Off Data For AI Tool

By Andrea Keckley

The Association of Corporate Counsel alleges in Delaware federal court that its competitor used the nonprofit's proprietary materials to train its artificial intelligence tool Lloyd and "brazenly promoted its Lloyd product by showing the public that ACC materials could be accessed via Lloyd."

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ABA Cyber Task Force Co-Chair Eyes AI Education Boost

By Allison Grande

With the legal industry presenting a more and more enticing target for cyberattacks, it's becoming increasingly important for practitioners to know how to best protect clients' data and most effectively use emerging artificial intelligence tools — a task that the American Bar Association's Cybersecurity Legal Task Force is well positioned to assist with, its incoming co-chair recently told Law360.

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Personal Injury Firm Beats Atty's Bid For 'Birth Justice' TM

By Adam Lidgett

A former associate at a personal injury and medical malpractice law firm can't register in her own name a trademark for birth-injury legal services that she helped develop before and during her employment with the firm, the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board has ruled.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

AI is driving a significant gap between in-house legal departments' budgets and the cost of their workloads, according to a new study. Speaking of gaps, a new Law360 Pulse report on women in law found that men still make up 71% of law firm equity partners and 63% of nonequity partners. 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

Elias Law Group LLP and Stinson LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Missouri cannot use a newly drawn congressional map that favors Republicans in the midterms.

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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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