Analysis

Closing The Chapter On DOJ-Boeing 737 Max Criminal Case

By Linda Chiem

Boeing appears to have closed a chapter in the legal saga over the two 737 Max 8 crashes after a Fifth Circuit ruling underscored that courts cannot interfere with prosecutors' choices to bring criminal charges, dashing the hopes of victims' families for justice and accountability.

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Calling Snapchat User 'Expert' Can't Upend $26M Crash Award

By Y. Peter Kang

The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday affirmed a $26.1 million jury verdict against a trucking company and its driver over a catastrophic underride crash, saying the reference by the plaintiffs' counsel to the crash victim's friend as a "Snapchat expert" didn't warrant a new trial.

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Yellow Corp. Gets OK For Most Of $1.4B Pension Deals

By Emily Lever

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has mostly approved settlements that trucking company Yellow Corp. struck to resolve $7.4 billion worth of pension fund claims, finding three of the deals were outside the range of reasonableness but the other 12 were acceptable. 

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7th Circ. Says Ford Plant Drivers Fall Under OT Exemption

By MJ Koo

Shuttle truck drivers who hauled automobile parts between storage lots and a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant in Chicago were engaged in interstate commerce and thus exempt from federal overtime requirements, the Seventh Circuit has ruled, affirming a win for their employers in two consolidated class actions.

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NJ Top Court Snapshot: ICE Detention, Megan's Law

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Supreme Court in March granted petitions for certification and leaves for appeal on issues ranging from late tort notice claims to medical malpractice liability.

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Law360 Announces The Members Of Its 2026 Editorial Boards

Law360 is pleased to announce the formation of its 2026 Editorial Advisory Boards.

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Delta Pay Range Suit Goes Back To Wash. State Court

By Ben Adlin

A Delta Air Lines Inc. job applicant's proposed class action accusing the carrier of failing to include required pay information on job postings will return to Washington state court after a Seattle federal judge ruled Friday that the plaintiff didn't suffer the type of concrete harm necessary to have federal standing.

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Boeing Mechanic Wage Class Action Takes Off In Wash.

By Rachel Riley

Boeing has been accused of shorting thousands of Washington state mechanics and other airplane assembly workers on break time and forcing them to work off the clock, according to a proposed class action the aerospace giant removed to Seattle federal court Friday.

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Patent Holder Says JetSuiteX Infringed Call Routing Patent

By Spencer Brewer

A patent holder told a Texas federal court that public charter operator JetSuiteX Inc. infringed its call routing and auction system patents, asking the court to find that JetSuiteX stole the intellectual property.

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Brief

DoorDash Dropped From Allstate Road Rage Coverage Row

By Gianna Ferrarin

Allstate voluntarily dropped DoorDash from its Washington federal suit seeking a judgment that it has no duty to defend a delivery driver facing allegations he killed another man in a road rage incident, leaving Uber as the only corporate defendant in the coverage dispute.

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$9.5M FedEx Security Screening Pay Deal Gets Initial OK

By Matthew Santoni

A Connecticut federal judge gave preliminary approval to a $9.5 million settlement between FedEx and workers at eight of its facilities in the state over unpaid time spent going through security screening before and after their shifts.

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Analysis

Ill. Businesses Score Win In 7th Circ. BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

By Celeste Bott

The Seventh Circuit's holding that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies retroactively to all cases pending before the change took effect is a major victory for businesses facing potentially enormous damages in those lawsuits, and offers important clarity for the lawyers handling them and negotiating settlements, attorneys told Law360.

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Gulf Reinsurance Plan Doubles To $40B With Added Insurers

By Hope Patti

Six major American insurers will join Chubb in providing $20 billion for the U.S. International Development Finance Corp.'s initiative to restore maritime trade in the Gulf region amid the Iran war, doubling the total amount of available reinsurance to $40 billion, according to an announcement Friday.

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Parsing Rule 12(c) Motion Overuse In Securities Class Actions

Defendants in securities class actions have more frequently been filing motions for judgment on the pleadings following the denial of motions to dismiss, but courts have recently demonstrated an increasing willingness to reject these previously rare motions, finding them transparent attempts to relitigate already-decided issues, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

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How Cos. Can Prepare For 'Made In America' Ad Scrutiny

The Trump administration's executive order to combat fraudulent "Made in America" claims in consumer-facing advertising, along with actions by the Federal Trade Commission, suggest a potential increased focus on consumer protection and pricing-related matters, say attorneys at Skadden.

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What's Missing From Latest Gov't Claims Against Harvard

The most interesting thing about the Trump administration’s recent civil rights enforcement efforts targeting Harvard University is its decision not to assert violations of the False Claims Act when given the opportunity, despite signals that its enforcement efforts will include use of the federal FCA, say attorneys at Bass Berry.

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ABA, Ex-Judges And Many More Back BigLaw In EO Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

Numerous bar associations, 239 former judges, 21 states, lawmakers and dozens of other amici curiae have thrown their weight behind BigLaw firms in the Trump administration's consolidated D.C. Circuit appeal seeking to revive executive orders targeting the firms, broadly arguing that the orders are an affront to foundational constitutional rights.

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Legal Sector Lost 700 Jobs In March, Ending Hiring Streak

By Tracey Read

The legal sector began to slow down in March after a year and a half straight of gains, with 700 fewer people employed in lawyer, paralegal and other law-related professional roles last month than in February, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Progressive Org. Rolls Out $3M Anti-Trump High Court Push

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump does not have any vacancies on the U.S. Supreme Court, but a progressive court advocacy organization is not waiting for a justice's departure to launch a multimillion-dollar campaign opposing a possible Trump pick.

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Brief

Justice Alito Treated For Dehydration After Federalist Event

By Courtney Buble

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito felt ill during a Federalist Society event last month and was seen by a doctor "out of an abundance of caution," the high court announced on Friday.

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6th Circ. Axes Atty For 'Inexcusable' AI 'Transgressions'

By Rae Ann Varona

An attorney committed "inexcusable transgressions" by relying on Westlaw's internal CoCounsel artificial intelligence platform for appellate filings and by failing to catch erroneous AI-generated content, the Sixth Circuit said Friday and removed the lawyer from further representing a man who pled guilty to drug trafficking charges.

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Analysis

'Political' Deals Pit DOJ Against State AGs, And Not Just Dems

By Bryan Koenig

Controversial U.S. Department of Justice settlements with Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Live Nation, along with the approval of Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, are increasingly inspiring state attorneys general to strike out on their own as antitrust enforcers, often in direct challenge to a federal government that Democrats have cast as "corrupt."

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Florida Gov., AG Face Criticism For Judge Impeachment Push

By Rose Krebs

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Attorney General James Uthmeier faced pushback this week from some in the state's legal community for calling for the impeachment of a judge for releasing a man who went on to allegedly kill his five-year-old stepdaughter, with critics blasting those calls as being politically motivated and "unethical."

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Analysis

DOJ's New Corporate Enforcement Policy May Eclipse SDNY's

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice has put to use for the first time its new corporate enforcement policy of declining prosecutions when companies self-report potential criminal violations, but experts say the new, department-wide initiative has rendered a more business-friendly approach by the Southern District of New York moot.

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Ex-DOJ Official Wants Epstein-Talk Suit Kept In District Court

By Emily Sawicki

A former U.S. Department of Justice acting deputy chief who was fired last year after a hidden-camera video of him discussing the Epstein files was posted online has told a D.C. federal judge his due process case must survive in district court because the Trump administration now controls federal oversight agencies.

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Trump Seeks 13% Boost In DOJ Funding

By Courtney Bublé

The White House budget request for fiscal 2027, released on Friday, seeks $40.8 billion in discretionary funds for the U.S. Department of Justice, a 13% increase from the current year level.

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Judge Stands By Block Of DOJ Subpoenas In Powell Probe

By Jon Hill

A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Friday rejected a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to revive subpoenas from its investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, saying the government hadn't "come close" to giving him a reason to rethink blocking them.

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Schneider Wallace Loses Bid For Bigger Piece Of $75M Fee

By Lauren Berg

A California federal magistrate judge on Friday rejected Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP's bid to increase its cut of a $75.4 million fee award for representing plaintiffs in a $228.5 million Sutter Health antitrust deal, saying lead counsel Constantine Cannon LLP's allocation of $1.4 million to Schneider Wallace was fair.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

PayPal was hit with a proposed investor class action that claims the payments giant hid slowing growth for its critical branded checkout business. In the meantime, a Shopify lawyer encouraged his peers during a webinar to make sure their outside counsel have "met the moment" by leveraging artificial intelligence in smart ways. 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

Alliance Defending Freedom, Pearman Law Firm PC and attorney Barry Arrington lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Colorado ban on therapy intended to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity amounts to viewpoint discrimination against a Christian therapist.

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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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