A proposed class of businesses is asking a California federal court to give the go-ahead on a $436 million settlement with Toyota Industries Corp. and its material handling affiliates in a suit that alleged the company misled them on their forklift and construction engine emissions.
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Businesses Seek OK On $436M Toyota Forklift Emissions Deal

By Mike Curley

A proposed class of businesses is asking a California federal court to give the go-ahead on a $436 million settlement with Toyota Industries Corp. and its material handling affiliates in a suit that alleged the company misled them on their forklift and construction engine emissions.

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FedEx Loses $200M Interest Claim Against AIG Unit

By Mark Payne

A Pennsylvania state judge Wednesday said an AIG unit won't have to pay FedEx $200 million in post-judgment interest following a fatal crash involving one of its drivers, but allowed bad faith and promissory estoppel claims to move forward against the insurer because those claims require a trial. 

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Feds Back Freight Broker In High Court Negligence Case

By Linda Chiem

The federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to hold that federal law unequivocally shields freight brokers from state-based negligence and personal injury claims, throwing its support behind broker and logistics giant C.H. Robinson in a closely watched case.

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Insurer Loses Appeals Over $40M NC Drunken Driving Verdict

By Mike Curley

A North Carolina appeals court on Wednesday rejected efforts by insurer Integon Indemnity Corp. to appeal decisions in a pair of cases stemming from a $40 million drunken driving verdict, saying the receivers suing for breach of contract were in the correct venue.

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UPS Strikes Deal In Class Action Over Pay For Military Leave

By Benjamin Morse

UPS has reached a deal to end a class action alleging the package delivery giant violated federal law by failing to pay drivers for short-term military leave despite providing compensation for jury duty and other short-term absences, according to a filing in Washington federal court.

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FedEx Dodges Claims It Owed OT, Was Drivers' Employer

By Irene Spezzamonte

Drivers who worked for FedEx through intermediary entities failed to support their arguments that the freight company was their joint employer or that they worked unpaid overtime under federal wage law, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday.

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4th Circ. Says Judge Wrongly Blocked Trump Grant Freeze

By Keith Goldberg

The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday wiped out a federal district judge's order restoring 32 congressionally funded grants frozen by the Trump administration, saying it's a contractual matter for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to decide.

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AVIATION

5th Circ. Leans Toward Vacating Airline Fees Disclosure Rule

By Spencer Brewer

The full Fifth Circuit wanted to know Wednesday why it shouldn't just do away with a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront, saying that the government seemed to be arguing that the court should just vacate the rule.

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AUTOMOTIVE

Delivery Drivers Ink $975K Deal To End Misclassification Suit

By Celeste Bott

A class of truck delivery drivers asked an Illinois federal judge Tuesday to grant preliminary approval to a $975,000 settlement resolving their lawsuit alleging a logistics company they worked for misclassified them as independent contractors.

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Stellantis North America Didn't Thwart Ransomware, Suit Says

By Rae Ann Varona

An Illinois couple sued Stellantis North America in Michigan federal court on Wednesday, alleging in a proposed class action that the carmaker's lax data security practices led to a cyberattack around Christmas Day on Chrysler's database that put their Social Security numbers and other personal information in the hands of a ransomware group.

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LOGISTICS

Pa. Justices Reverse Clickwrap Arbitration Limits, For Now

By P.J. D'Annunzio

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has determined that a lower appellate court was too quick to declare that "clickwrap" arbitration agreements buried in apps' and websites' terms of service erode the constitutional right to trial by jury, reversing a decision that invalidated such an agreement in an injury suit against Uber.

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Bill Would Require Stays On Patent Claims Against End Users

By Elliot Weld

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives aims to mandate that a stay be implemented on claims against retailers or end users in patent infringement cases when a manufacturer steps in to defend those claims.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How A 1947 Tugboat Ruling May Shape Work Product In AI Era

Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

Nonprofits, Not BigLaw, Lead Legal Challenges To Trump

By Jack Karp

Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.  

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Ballard Partners Led In Lobbying Earnings As Trump Returned

By Alison Knezevich

Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.

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Former SG Prelogar Joins Cooley Team On Trump EO Appeal

By Alison Knezevich

Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.

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Lawyer Testifies Goldstein Dodged $500K Poker Repayment

By Jared Foretek

A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.

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House Speaker Johnson Supports Impeachment Of Judges

By Courtney Bublé

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Wednesday threw his support behind efforts to impeach federal judges in Washington, D.C., and Maryland.

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DOJ Outline Of New Fraud Role Doesn't Mention WH Oversight

By Courtney Bublé

A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.

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NYC Indigent Defense Program In 'Crisis,' Task Force Reports

By Andrea Keckley

The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.

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7th Circ. Cautions Pro Se Litigants To Avoid AI-Induced Errors

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.

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Justices Wary Of Greenlighting Trump Bid To Fire Fed's Cook

By Jon Hill

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Air Transport Association of America

Alliance for Automotive Innovation

Amazon.com Inc.

American Academy of Pediatrics

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

American International Group Inc.

American Public Health Association

Association of American Universities Inc.

BGR Government Affairs LLC

Ballard Partners Inc.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Democracy Forward Foundation

FCA US LLC

FedEx Corp.

Frontier Group

Great American Insurance Co.

Harvard University

KBR Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

National Association of Manufacturers

National Council of Nonprofits

National Retail Federation Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Public Citizen Inc.

Public Rights Project

RELX PLC

ROSS Intelligence

Southern Environmental Law Center

Spirit Airlines Inc.

Stellantis NV

Tesla Inc.

The Software & Information Industry Association

The UPS Store

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Toyota Industries Corp.

Toyota Motor Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

United Parcel Service Inc.

Wayfair LLC

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Ahdoot & Wolfson

Akin Gump

Armstrong Teasdale

Arnold & Porter

Baron & Budd

Block & Associates LLC

Brown & Crouppen

Brownstein Hyatt

Clement & Murphy

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Crowell & Moring

Foley Hoag

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Greenberg Traurig

Gupta Wessler

Hervas Condon

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jeffers Danielson

Jenner & Block

JonesPassodelis

K&L Gates

Kang Haggerty

Kennedys Law LLP

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kirstein & Young

Langsam Stevens

Latham & Watkins

Lichten & Liss Riordan

Lieff Cabraser

Lowell & Associates

Matthew G. Miller PC

McAngus Goudelock

Messa & Associates

Milbank LLP

Morgan Lewis

Munger Tolles

Napoli Shkolnik

Niemeyer Grebel

Norton Rose

Outten & Golden

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Peter Romer-Friedman Law

Riverside NW Law Group

Ruggeri Parks

Scopelitis Garvin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Skadden Arps

Squire Patton

Susman Godfrey

Thompson Coburn

Vaughan Baio

Wheeler Trigg

White & Stradley

Willkie Farr

WilmerHale

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Reserve System

Internal Revenue Service

National Institutes of Health

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget