Two Los Angeles personal injury firms are asking a California federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging Uber is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, with one of them calling the purported scheme a "mere fantasy."
Two Los Angeles personal injury firms are asking a California federal court to toss a lawsuit alleging Uber is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents, with one of them calling the purported scheme a "mere fantasy."
A California judge said a class of thousands of Black workers should be disbanded in a suit alleging rampant racist harassment at Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, after the workers' lawyers faced difficulty in securing witness testimony and asked the court for a new trial plan.
American Airlines has won dismissal of an investor suit that alleged it implemented a botched sales and distribution strategy, with the court finding the suit's reliance on vague statements of optimism and faulty confidential witness claims aren't enough to show the company acted fraudulently.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up Latin America airline Avianca's challenge to the Second Circuit's decision that aircraft lease broker fees that became due during its Chapter 11 were administrative expense claims, not general unsecured claims.
The Port of Oakland faced turbulence Monday as it urged the Ninth Circuit to reverse an order barring it from using "San Francisco Bay" in its airport's name, with one judge immediately noting that its proposed name sounds "pretty close" to that of the nearby San Francisco International Airport.
The D.C. Circuit rejected a claim from Southern Airways Express that the U.S. Department of Transportation erred in passing over the airline's proposal to provide service at a West Virginia airport, finding the department thoroughly evaluated all the bids it received.
The former head of aviation for an oral surgery management services company in North Carolina says he was canned because of his age and hearing disability and for allegedly reporting flight scheduling practices that he said flouted federal safety laws.
A Kentucky federal judge has given Ford Motor Co. a win in a suit alleging a defect in the seatbelts in its F-150 pickup trucks worsened a man's injuries when he was involved in a fatal collision, saying his experts failed to present a feasible alternative design.
A Texas bankruptcy judge Monday said he plans to approve the appointment of an examiner for auto parts maker First Brands' Chapter 11, but held off on entering an order while parties decide the probe's scope and direction.
A California man can be charged with murder decades after the crime, as DNA evidence analyzed using new techniques has linked him to the San Diego killing, a state appeals court said, reversing a trial court's dismissal of the case.
A New York-based beer distributor has agreed to pay $1 million to more than 1,675 drivers and helpers who claimed they were not properly paid overtime under state law, the workers told a federal court, asking it to greenlight the deal.
Credit bureau TransUnion, airline Qantas and luxury goods seller Louis Vuitton — all clients of software company Salesforce Inc. — failed to adequately protect millions of users' data from a July "hub-and-spoke" data breach, a class action filed in California federal court claims.
A Brooklyn federal judge on Monday dismissed a jury that had been set to hear the government's $1 billion cocaine trafficking case against a former heavyweight boxer, after three Staten Island men were arrested for allegedly trying to bribe a juror.
A group of tribes and environmental organizations has urged the Michigan Supreme Court to order a more rigorous environmental review of Enbridge Energy LP's plan for an oil pipeline tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers on Monday proposed new limits on their ability to enforce the Clean Water Act, saying prior understandings of the federal government's authority were too broad.
A French competition regulator revealed Monday that it has imposed fines totaling almost €187.5 million ($217.4 million) against the owners of Corsican oil depots, including fuel giant TotalEnergies, for colluding to reserve the use of the only two fuel stores on the Mediterranean island for themselves.
As the risk of drones to sports stadium security grows, legal practitioners in the industry should focus on the need for rapid deployment of emergency services, crowd control, communications, strong organizational structure, and engagement across local, state and federal authorities, says Jennifer Daskal at Venable.
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five recent rulings and identifies practice tips from cases involving claims related to oil and gas royalty payments, consumer fraud, life insurance, automobile insurance, and securities violations.
Several recent federal court decisions illustrate how parties continue to grapple with the discovery of data in dynamic databases, so counsel involved in these disputes must consider how structured data should be produced consistent with the requirements of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, say attorneys at Sidley.
The merger announced Monday between British legal giant Ashurst LLP and American law firm Perkins Coie LLP is the latest in a spate of deals driven, in part, by an appetite among global firms to gain a strong presence in the U.S.
Holland & Knight LLP has forfeited a malpractice lawsuit in Alaska by refusing to turn over information to a Native American tribal corporation, with a state judge entering a default judgment as a sanction and calling the firm's conduct "a head scratcher" and "astounding."
A Virginia federal magistrate judge Monday ordered the disclosure of all grand jury materials related to the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, saying government misconduct may have tainted the grand jury proceedings.
A newly released legal opinion from the U.S. Department of Justice says the Trump administration is allowed to detail military lawyers to serve as immigration judges and special assistant U.S. attorneys in the District of Columbia.
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., accused President Donald Trump on Monday of skirting the process to nominate U.S. attorneys in Wisconsin with his pick of a failed Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate for the office that covers Milwaukee.
The Delaware Chancery Court and Delaware Supreme Court last week had a dense slate of fiduciary duty battles, merger-process challenges, post-bankruptcy fights and a series of cases probing the limits of fraud pleading, credible-basis inspections and board-level disclosure duties.
The Law School Admission Council is continuing its push to toss a proposed class action accusing it of fixing application fees with its member schools, saying in a Pennsylvania federal court filing last week that the applicant's opposition to its dismissal motion "entirely fails to engage with the incoherence at the core of his case."
Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest use of interim U.S. attorney appointments.
