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January 22, 2025
Mich. Justices Demand To Know Where The Sidewalk Ends
Michigan's chief justice conjured images of pens baked inside cakes and dozens of knives sticking out of concrete as she tried to pin down the city of Detroit on defining the physical limits of a sidewalk, in a case to determine whether the city is liable for a man who tripped on a metal pole surrounded by cement.
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January 22, 2025
Army, SD Tribe Fight For Early Win In Dakota Access Row
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers are both asking for early wins in a challenge to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline over alleged violations of federal environmental laws.
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January 22, 2025
Paul Weiss Guides Ares On $304M Form Technologies Buy
Paul Weiss is guiding an Ares Management-led group on the $304 million purchase of a majority of Form Technologies Inc.'s common equity, in a transaction that allows Kirkland & Ellis LLP-advised Form to "substantially deleverage" its balance sheet, Form said Wednesday.
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January 22, 2025
Calif. Panel Upholds $200K Fee Award In Dispatchers' OT Row
Two train dispatchers could recover $200,000 in attorney fees and costs after snagging a bench trial win in their overtime suit against a transportation company because a California state court looked at their case anew, a state appellate panel ruled.
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January 21, 2025
BofA Sued Over Credit Card Rewards 'Bait And Switch'
Bank of America has been hit with a proposed class action in Massachusetts federal court accusing it of failing to make good on a credit card reward bonus offer, an issue the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau previously warned banks about.
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January 21, 2025
FCC Floats Rules For Emerging Flight Technologies
The Federal Communications Commission wants to open the 450 megahertz band up to drones and manned aircraft that land and take off vertically and has proposed rules that will "facilitate the robust use of the band at a range of altitudes."
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January 21, 2025
EPA Tells Justices That Air Pollution Cases Belong In DC Circ.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is urging the nation's highest court to rule that most judicial challenges to its air pollution rules belong in the D.C. Circuit, while small petroleum refiners say other, regional circuit courts are proper venues.
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January 21, 2025
Trump EV Rollbacks Spell Regulatory Whiplash For Auto Cos.
President Donald Trump's rollback of Biden administration policies intended to accelerate the U.S. auto industry's movement toward electric vehicles creates new uncertainties for a domestic EV supply chain that was already grappling with slowing consumer demand, experts say.
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January 21, 2025
4 Plaintiffs' Firms Is Too Many, Chrysler Says In EV Class Suit
Fiat Chrysler slammed an "extremely excessive" bid asking a Michigan federal court to appoint four law firms as plaintiffs' counsel in a suit accusing the automaker of selling electric vehicles with defective batteries, telling the court there was no way that many firms could be efficient.
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January 21, 2025
Court Tosses Yacht Sale Broker Fee Antitrust Case, For Now
A Florida federal court dismissed a case on Tuesday from boat sellers alleging they paid inflated broker fees when selling used vessels through yacht listing services, but will allow the sellers to file an amended complaint.
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January 21, 2025
Lyft Driver Says Carjacking Suit Should've Settled Sooner
A Lyft driver accused his insurer of violating Washington's Insurance Fair Conduct Act over his bid for uninsured motorist benefits following a carjacking, saying the insurer forced him to go to arbitration and win an over $1.1 million award rather than accept his earlier $1 million policy limit demands.
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January 21, 2025
Spate Of Pre-Trump EEOC Suits Hit AT&T, DHL, Dollar General
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission launched a wave of new cases as the Biden administration came to an end, including suits accusing AT&T of unlawfully reassigning workers based on their weight and DHL of allowing widespread sexual harassment in a Tennessee facility. Here, Law360 takes a look at six lawsuits filed by the federal bias watchdog on Friday.
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January 21, 2025
AI Auto Damage-Assessing Giant Settles Monopoly Claims
Tractable Inc. and CCC Intelligent Solutions have reached a deal to end their trade secrets and antitrust dispute, after Tractable accused CCC of leveraging its dominant share of the auto collision-assessment market to stifle consumer choice and increase prices.
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January 21, 2025
CNN Inks Post-Verdict Deal In Contractor's Defamation Suit
CNN settled a defamation lawsuit just hours after a Florida jury awarded $5 million in compensatory damages to a U.S. Navy veteran turned private defense contractor who sued the network for defamation over a report on the evacuation of Afghans in 2021.
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January 21, 2025
4 Of 8 From Alleged Bronx Beer Heist Squad In Plea Talks
The leader of an eight-man crew accused of carrying out a brazen scheme to steal Mexican beer from trains and resell it in the Bronx is in plea talks along with three co-defendants, a New York federal judge heard Tuesday.
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January 21, 2025
NJ Unveils Plans To Retool Congestion-Pricing Fight
Undeterred by the denial of its bid to temporarily halt New York City's controversial congestion toll pricing plan, the state of New Jersey has notified a federal judge that it plans to drop its Third Circuit appeal and pursue a new plan of attack in district court.
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January 21, 2025
Trump Elevates Mark Christie To FERC Chairmanship
Republican Commissioner Mark Christie thanked President Donald Trump on Monday for appointing him to lead the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, while touting his own emphasis on addressing the "reliability crisis."
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January 21, 2025
Trump Orders Federal Workers Back To Office
On his first day back in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump ordered federal workers back to theirs.
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January 20, 2025
On Day 1, Trump Begins Dismantling Biden's Enviro Legacy
President Donald Trump signed a host of environmental executive orders shortly after taking office Monday, rolling back numerous Biden climate-related policies, including bans on Arctic drilling and the revocation of the Keystone XL Pipeline permit, while also nixing the federal government's net-zero emissions goals.
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January 20, 2025
Trump Ends Biden Moratorium That Limited LNG Exports
President Donald Trump on Monday lifted former President Joe Biden's moratorium on approvals of liquefied natural gas exports to countries that don't have free-trade agreements with the U.S., fulfilling a promise he made repeatedly on the campaign trail.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Practice Groups Of The Year
Law360 would like to congratulate the winners of its Practice Groups of the Year awards for 2024, which honor the attorney teams behind litigation wins and significant transaction work that resonated throughout the legal industry this past year.
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January 17, 2025
Law360 Names Firms Of The Year
Eight law firms have earned spots as Law360's Firms of the Year, with 54 Practice Group of the Year awards among them, steering some of the largest deals of 2024 and securing high-profile litigation wins, including at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 17, 2025
NHTSA Defends Fuel-Economy Regulations In 6th Circ.
The U.S. Department of Transportation told the Sixth Circuit on Friday that its new fuel-economy standards are technologically feasible and properly account for a variety of alternative-fuel vehicles, rejecting claims from Republican-led states and fuel industry groups that the stringent standards amount to an unlawful electric vehicles mandate.
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January 17, 2025
No Conflict In Judge's Friendship, John Deere, Farmers Say
John Deere and the farmers suing it in a right-to-repair suit said they have no concerns about the potential conflict of interest an Illinois federal judge flagged, saying there was "no reason" for the jurist to recuse himself, according to a joint letter filed by the parties.
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January 17, 2025
Instacart, Uber Team Up Against Driver Job Security Law
Instacart has joined Uber's fight against Seattle's new app-based worker account deactivation rules, with both companies urging the judge who refused to temporarily block the law to grant a stay while the companies appeal to the Ninth Circuit.
Expert Analysis
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Justices Must Weigh Reach Of Civil RICO In Cannabis Case
Oral arguments in Medical Marijuana Inc. v. Horn suggest that a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court may agree that a truck driver's losing his job after unknowingly ingesting THC and failing a drug test does not merit a racketeering claim — but the court may not buy the other side's theory of the case either, say attorneys at Lewis Baach.
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Promoting Diversity In The Selection Of ADR Neutrals
Excerpt from Practical Guidance
Choosing neutrals from diverse backgrounds is an important step in promoting inclusion in the legal profession, and it can enhance the legitimacy and public perception of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.
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Series
Playing Ultimate Makes Us Better Lawyers
In addition to being fun, ultimate Frisbee has improved our legal careers by emphasizing the importance of professionalism, teamwork, perseverance, enthusiasm and vulnerability, say Arunabha Bhoumik and Adam Bernstein at Regeneron.
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Key Legal Considerations After Supply Chain Disruptions
After U.S. supply chain disruptions — like the recent port workers' strike, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton — stakeholders should look to contractual provisions to mitigate losses, and keep in mind that regulators will be watching closely for unfair shipping practices, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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The Unfolding Potential of Green Hydrogen In Brazil
A new federal law in Brazil establishing a legal framework for hydrogen development is the country's latest step toward creating a favorable environment for green hydrogen production, but significant challenges — including high production costs, technological hurdles and a lack of infrastructure — remain, says David Andrew Taylor at Almeida Advogados.
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E-Discovery Quarterly: Recent Rulings On Metadata
Several recent rulings reflect the competing considerations that arise when parties dispute the form of production for electronically stored information, underscoring that counsel must carefully consider how to produce and request reasonably usable data, say attorneys at Sidley.
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A Shift In Control Of Congress May Doom These Enviro Regs
If the election leads to a change in control of Congress, lawmakers will likely use the lookback provision of the Congressional Review Act to challenge the Biden administration's late-term regulatory efforts — including recent initiatives on air pollutant source classification, lead pipe removal and hydrofluorocarbon emissions, say attorneys at Jones Walker.
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Opinion
PREVAIL Bill Is Another Misguided Attempt To Restrict PTAB
The decade-long campaign against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board — currently focused on the PREVAIL Act that's slated for markup in the Senate — is not really about procedural issues, and it is not aimed at securing more accurate patentability decisions, says Clear IP's Joseph Matal, former acting director at the USPTO.
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Striking A Balance Between AI Use And Attorney Well-Being
As the legal industry increasingly adopts generative artificial intelligence tools to boost efficiency, leaders must note the hidden costs of increased productivity, and work to protect attorneys’ well-being while unlocking AI’s full potential, says Ed Sohn at Factor.
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Empathy In Mediation Offers A Soft Landing For Disputes
Experiencing a crash-landing on a recent flight underscored to me how much difference empathy makes in times of crisis or stress, including during mediation, says Eydith Kaufman at Alternative Resolution Centers.
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Series
Being An Artist Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My work as an artist has highlighted how using creativity and precision together — qualities that are equally essential in both art and law — not only improves outcomes, but also leads to more innovative and thoughtful work, says Sarah La Pearl at Segal McCambridge.
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How Judiciary Can Minimize AI Risks In Secondary Sources
Because courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence and other safeguards do not address the risk of hallucinations in secondary source materials, the judiciary should consider enlisting legal publishers and database hosts to protect against AI-generated inaccuracies, say attorneys at Lankler Siffert & Wohl.
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How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment
Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.
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UCC Article 12 Offers Banks A Chance To Dive Into 'DePINs'
The 2022 update to Article 12 of the Uniform Commercial Code, which provides a legal framework for decentralized physical infrastructure networks, could offer trade and commodity finance banks attractive opportunities, like the energy-related DePIN projects that have recently made headlines, says Chris McDermott at Cadwalader.
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Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity
Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.