Wash. Municipal Judge Fights State Board's Removal Petition

By Rachel Riley

A suspended Washington municipal court judge has urged the state Supreme Court to reject a judicial board's recommendation that she be removed from the bench for allegedly mistreating staff and attorneys, saying she has been unfairly punished for her former attorney's actions "in a racially charged environment."

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737 Max Families Push For Special Prosecutor In Boeing Case

By Linda Chiem

Families of victims of the 737 Max 8 crashes have asked a Texas federal judge to appoint a special prosecutor in Boeing's criminal conspiracy case, saying the U.S. Department of Justice's latest nonprosecution agreement with the American aerospace giant sets a dangerous precedent for corporate defendants to evade accountability.

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Wash. AG Says Hops Farm Favored H-2A Workers Over Locals

By Rachel Riley

Washington state's attorney general launched a lawsuit on Friday accusing a hops grower of illegally firing local employees, often women, and replacing them with foreign farmworkers, abusing the federal H-2A temporary visa program for seasonal agricultural labor.

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Boeing Nears Dismissal From Calif. Door Blowout Lawsuit

By Craig Clough

A California federal judge indicated Friday that he's leaning toward dismissing Boeing from a lawsuit over the midair blowout of a door plug on an Alaska Airlines flight in January 2024, saying Boeing's ties to California are not strong enough for his court to exercise jurisdiction.

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Science Research Funding Cuts Blocked By Mass. Judge

By Hailey Konnath

A Massachusetts federal judge Friday prohibited the Trump administration from cutting certain National Science Foundation research funding associated with facilities and administrative costs, ruling that the policy runs afoul of multiple laws and the government hasn't adequately explained its reasoning.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Senior Living, Data Centers, CEQA

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into a senior housing surge, data center construction, and the Golden State's latest efforts to spur housing construction without upsetting the California Environmental Quality Act.

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Brief

Alaska Airlines Arm Reaches Deal To End Wage Suit

By Emmy Freedman

A subsidiary of Alaska Airlines struck a deal Friday with a former training specialist to resolve her lawsuit accusing the company of shaving hours off her pay and ignoring the work she performed outside her scheduled shift, a filing in Washington federal court said.

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DOT Blocked From Conditioning Grants On Immigration Policy

By Dorothy Atkins

A Rhode Island federal judge on Thursday preliminarily blocked the U.S. Department of Transportation from conditioning billions of state grant dollars on enforcing President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown agenda, finding that a 20-state coalition is likely to win its constitutional legal fight and will be irreparably harmed without an injunction.

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9th Circ. Allows Trump To Federalize National Guard In LA

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Ninth Circuit ruled that President Donald Trump can federalize the California National Guard while the state's lawsuit challenging his mobilization of the troops in Los Angeles plays out, saying the president likely acted under statutory authority that Congress granted.

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High Court Urged To Rein In FDA Oversight Of Stem Cells

By Gianna Ferrarin

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons asked the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to review a Ninth Circuit decision the organization argued would wrongly give the government control over a patient's own stem cells.

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9th Circ. Finds Calif. One-Gun-A-Month Law Unconstitutional

By Mike Curley

The Ninth Circuit on Friday struck down California's so-called one-gun-a-month law, finding that it violates the Second Amendment by categorically preventing state residents from buying more than one firearm every 30 days.

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9th Circ. Backs 'Legitimate' Bar Membership Admission Rules

By Lauren Berg

The Ninth Circuit on Friday tossed a challenge to local rules in district courts in the circuit requiring lawyers to be bar members in the state where the court is located in order to seek general admission, saying admission rules aren't unconstitutional and there are several "legitimate reasons" for the rule.

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9th Circ. Says NY Claims Against Hyundai Raise 'Novel' Issue

By Bonnie Eslinger

A split panel of the Ninth Circuit Friday refused to toss negligence claims from cities in Ohio and Wisconsin in consolidated litigation alleging Hyundai and Kia, of which Hyundai is a major shareholder, sold vehicles with design flaws that enabled car thefts nationwide, but said negligence claims under New York law "raise a novel issue" of state law.

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Series

Competing In Modern Pentathlon Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Opening myself up to new experiences through competing in modern Olympic pentathlon has shrunk the appearance of my daily work annoyances and helps me improve my patience, manage crises better and remember that acquiring new skills requires working through your early mistakes, says attorney Mary Zoldak.

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Ex-Sidley, Covington Partners Launch White Collar Boutique

By Phillip Bantz

The former global co-head of Sidley Austin LLP's white collar defense and investigations practice has joined an ex-white collar partner from Covington & Burling LLP to launch a boutique litigation firm based in New York.

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'Absolutely Disgusting': Litigant's Stashed Gum Irks Judge

By Hailey Konnath

A Florida federal judge admonished a plaintiff for sticking her chewed gum to a courtroom table, leading to a federal prosecutor getting the gum stuck to her skirt later, calling it "absolutely disgusting" and saying he "never dreamed" he would have to "write an order like this."

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Attys Face Sanctions For 'Sweeping' Copying Of Firm's Motion

By Dorothy Atkins

A California federal judge has ordered The Neil Jones Food Co.'s defense counsel to explain why she shouldn't sanction them for filing a dismissal motion that appears to plagiarize a losing motion filed by another firm in another case in the district, slamming the "sweeping copy and paste" conduct as "patently unacceptable."

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Analysis

Many Foreign Firms Could Face Stricter Access To US Markets

By Tom Zanki

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's reevaluation of the definition of a foreign private issuer could have far-reaching consequences, potentially tightening access to U.S. markets for companies based in China and beyond, lawyers say.

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Supreme Court Won't Leapfrog DC Circ. Over Trump's Tariffs

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request from two Illinois-based toy makers challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs to consider their case before it is reviewed by the D.C. Circuit.

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Trump Taps Atty Dropped By Biden For Eastern Ky. Fed. Court

By Ali Sullivan

President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate former Kentucky Solicitor General Chad Meredith to serve as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky.

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Boies Schiller Fights DQ Bid In Law Firms' Fee Dispute

By Madison Arnold

Boies Schiller Flexner LLP pushed back on a bid to disqualify the firm in a Florida state court case between pharmaceutical mass tort firms and their former counsel, in which Boies Schiller is both representing itself as a defendant and its co-defendants, arguing there is no conflict because all their defenses are the same.

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NJ Court Greenlights Beasley Allen Attys In Talc Litigation

By George Woolston

A New Jersey state judge will allow two Beasley Allen Law Firm attorneys to represent a California couple in their suit accusing Johnson & Johnson of selling carcinogenic talc-based baby powder and appear pro hac vice despite the company's vehement opposition.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Laura Stewart Liberty

This past week in London has seen Pogust Goodhead face legal action from mining giant BHP Group, Trainline bring a procurement claim against the Department for Transport, Sworders auction house sue Conservative peer Patricia Rawlings, and Nokia hit with a patents claim by Hisense. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

A new report showed a dip in the average size of corporate legal teams over the last year, and an attorney focused on special purpose acquisition companies is predicting the Trump administration's friendly stance on cryptocurrency will spawn a wave of new cryptocurrency-related ventures going public in the coming months. 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 and Andrea Keckley

WilmerHale leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Federal Circuit vacated a $300 million patent infringement jury verdict against Apple, based on instructions by a Texas federal judge that the appellate court panel determined to be erroneous.

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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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