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April 17, 2026
NorthStar Earth & Space said Friday it will merge with a blank-check company in a deal valuing NorthStar at $300 million, as the Canadian company bets that increasingly congested orbits will require continuous monitoring to avoid collisions and service disruptions.
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April 17, 2026
A pair of dueling California ballot initiatives both purport to increase consumers' access to justice — a righteous cause, most would say. If only the initiatives' backers agreed on what that means.
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April 17, 2026
New lawsuits and a tricky compliance landscape have besieged a trucking industry navigating the Trump administration's aggressive enforcement of restrictions on immigrant commercial truck drivers, as motor carriers, freight brokers and other ground-based shippers worry about escalating rates, driver turnover and service disruptions.
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April 17, 2026
Norfolk Southern opposed a class certification bid in Georgia federal court Thursday by investors alleging it misrepresented safety practices up until the fiery train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, arguing the lead plaintiffs' claims are atypical and, accordingly, are inadequate representatives for those who bought company stock after the derailment.
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April 17, 2026
Lockheed Martin can't escape a proposed class action alleging the company breached fiduciary duties under federal benefits law by offering underperforming proprietary target-date fund offerings in several employee 401(k) plans worth approximately $50 billion, after a New Jersey federal judge largely refused to toss the dispute.
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April 17, 2026
The parties in a consumer lawsuit challenging Alaska Airlines' 2024 acquisition of Hawaiian Airlines have been notified that the federal judge recently assigned to the case intends to disqualify himself unless they sign a waiver over one of his retirement accounts being tied to O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which is representing Alaska Airlines.
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April 17, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Amazon.com Inc. buys satellite communications company Globalstar Inc., waste management company GFL Environmental Inc. acquires Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp., and Standard Life PLC buys the British subsidiary of Dutch insurer Aegon.
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April 17, 2026
The past week in London has seen Aston Martin file an appeal in a row with Chinese carmaker Geely over its winged logo for London black cabs, Ineos sue Ben Ainslie's America's Cup team for a £180 million ($244 million) boat, White & Case face a claim from two energy storage companies, and a golf tour company bring a claim against Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund after the fund invested in its rival.
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April 17, 2026
Trade officials from the European Union and South Korea agreed to the final text of an "ambitious" digital trade agreement between the countries Friday, setting the stage for it to be signed at a summit later this year, the European Commission said.
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April 16, 2026
Lyft Inc. must be held accountable for a carjacking which resulted in the death of one of its drivers, according to a lawsuit filed in Texas state court, claiming the ride-hailing company sent the driver to a high-risk location without proper safety features like rider identity verification.
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April 16, 2026
San Diego has alleged in a federal lawsuit that fire truck manufacturers REV Group and Oshkosh Corp., along with private equity firm American Industrial Partners, orchestrated an anticompetitive scheme to consolidate the market and charge municipalities across the nation inflated prices.
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April 16, 2026
This year has brought major courtroom setbacks for tech platforms and app companies. Juries issued headline-making verdicts against Meta and Google over claims their platforms harm young users, while Uber lost its first federal bellwether trial over driver assaults and now faces a second sexual assault case.
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April 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday rejected a constitutional challenge to the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act by three drug traffickers who were picked up by the U.S. Coast Guard off the coast of the Dominican Republic, citing binding precedent that the felonies clause of the U.S. Constitution authorizes their prosecution.
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April 16, 2026
Lemonade will pay $10.5 million to settle with a proposed class of over 190,000 individuals who said the tech-forward insurer's online quote platform negligently disclosed their drivers' license numbers to cybercriminals, according to a preliminary approval motion filed Wednesday in New York federal court.
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April 16, 2026
The Delaware River Basin Commission and the developer of a proposed liquefied natural gas export terminal asked a New Jersey federal court to toss a suit alleging the commission wrongly renewed a construction permit for a second time, saying the dispute rests on differing grammatical interpretations.
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April 16, 2026
An assignee of three arbitration awards against a Peruvian transportation authority has asked a D.C. federal court to enter a more than $48.3 million default judgment against the agency and Peru, noting Peruvian officials have already acknowledged service of his petition.
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April 16, 2026
An Amazon delivery service provider told a Connecticut state court that two claims management services administrators inaccurately reported the provider was at fault for a collision that resulted in a $200,000 payout, causing its auto policy premiums to increase by more than $500,000 a year.
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April 16, 2026
An Illinois federal judge declined to certify a class of Progressive Insurance customers who claimed the insurer underpaid on their total-loss vehicle claims by adding a downward pricing adjustment, ruling that the customers' experiences were too different to resolve in one case.
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April 16, 2026
A former Uber driver denied sexually assaulting a North Carolina woman in a video deposition taken from his hospital bed, telling jurors in a Charlotte courtroom on Thursday that he has no memory of the passenger who is suing the ride-share giant over the alleged incident.
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April 16, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Thursday shut down proposed class claims alleging Southwest Airlines overcharged consumers for riskier flights on Boeing 737 Max 8 jets, saying the consumers' alleged economic injury theory was implausible and that they lacked standing to sue.
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April 16, 2026
A small U.S. computer company called Hyundai Technology has been told to pay $2.5 million by a California federal jury to Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co. after being accused of "piggybacking" off of the auto giant's trademark and causing confusion for consumers.
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April 16, 2026
Nineteen foreign truckers sued the federal trucking regulator and Florida's motor vehicle agency over a federal rule barring roughly 200,000 noncitizen truckers from getting commercial driver's licenses, saying those with valid federal work permits are being left in the lurch.
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April 16, 2026
Alcoholic drink giant Sazerac has offered to acquire Jack Daniel's maker Brown-Forman for $15 billion, United Airlines CEO pitched a mega-merger with rival American Airlines to President Donald Trump, and popular pizza chains Papa John's and Pizza Hut are considering new ownership.
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April 16, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday affirmed an $80 million judgment against The Lane Construction Corp. after finding its joint venture partner, Skanska USA Civil Southeast Inc., acted in the best interests of the venture when it refused Lane's calls to back out of a $2.3 billion central Florida highway project.
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April 16, 2026
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has unreasonably delayed for nearly four years its determination of whether to remove an Iranian former oil tanker captain from a sanctions blacklist, he told a Washington federal court.