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Uber Technologies Inc. filed a lawsuit Monday against two Los Angeles personal injury firms, two of their attorneys and others, alleging the ride-sharing company is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents.
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Uber Sues LA Law Firms Over Alleged Crash Fraud Scheme

By Rose Krebs

Uber Technologies Inc. filed a lawsuit Monday against two Los Angeles personal injury firms, two of their attorneys and others, alleging the ride-sharing company is being targeted by a scheme involving fraudulent personal injury claims arising from motor vehicle accidents.

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Tesla Driver In Crash Says He Was 'Too Comfortable' With Car

By Carolina Bolado

The Tesla driver who killed a woman in a crash in the Florida Keys told jurors Monday that he had been "potentially too comfortable" with the vehicle's autopilot software that he regularly engaged on his 100-mile commute.

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Enterprise Need Only Check License, Conn. Panel Rules

By Jonathan Capriel

Enterprise Rent-A-Car can not be held liable for renting a vehicle to a man who became intoxicated and struck a jogger and his dog later that day, a Connecticut appeals court ruled, saying the company was only required to inspect the driver's physical license and not to find out if the state had limited him to vehicles equipped with car breathalyzers.

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4th Circ. Reverses Portion Of Railroads' Broadband Suit

By Jared Foretek

The Fourth Circuit has ruled that the Association of American Railroads has standing to challenge a Virginia state law requiring railroads to allow for broadband crossings, reversing a trial court decision and dealing another blow to a law that the Virginia Supreme Court already gutted on state constitutional grounds in May.

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Reed Smith's Doc Block Motion 'Hyperbolic,' 2nd Circ. Told

By Emily Sawicki

Reed Smith LLP cannot block the new owners of reorganized Greece-based international shipping company Eletson from viewing files already in its possession, the company has told the Second Circuit, arguing the law firm's emergency motion to stop the new owners from accessing the files was intentionally timed to head off anticipated district court rulings.

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ENERGY

Analysis

Energy Litigation To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025

By Keith Goldberg

Courtroom showdowns between the Trump administration and blue states over U.S. energy and climate change policy will dominate the energy litigation landscape for the rest of 2025. Here is what the energy industry will be watching closely in the second half of the year.

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AVIATION

Analysis

Top 4 Texas Cases To Watch: A Midyear Report

By Spencer Brewer

Several major cases are taking shape in the Lone Star State, including the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association's suit seeking to hold Boeing accountable for lost revenue after the 737 Max was grounded, as well as the continuing fallout of a former Houston judge's romance scandal that could cost a Texas firm millions of dollars. Here's a look at the top cases to watch in Texas through the rest of the year.

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JetBlue Says Fla. Used Unlawful Formula In Calculating Taxes

By David Minsky

JetBlue urged a Florida state court on Monday to negate a $631,000 corporate tax assessment by the state's Department of Revenue, arguing that a component of the agency's formula for taxing out-of-state miles is inconsistent with federal law.

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Gibson Dunn-Led L Catterton Leads $800M Plug In Flexjet

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private aviation company Flexjet, led by Jones Day, on Monday revealed that it has secured an $800 million equity investment from a consortium of investors led by private equity giant L Catterton, a move that the company said marks the largest equity investment in the history of private aviation.

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Archer Aviation Can't Ditch Suit Over $1.7B SPAC Merger

By Jeff Montgomery

Most claims moved toward trial Monday in a Delaware Court of Chancery suit accusing principals of a blank-check company that took vertical takeoff-and-landing aircraft venture Archer Aviation Inc. public of overhyping its strength and outlook, breaching their fiduciary duties and unjustly enriching themselves.

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INSURANCE

Erie Insurance Blames BMW For $2M Mini Cooper Fire Loss

By Ganesh Setty

An insurer for a Pittsburgh car dealership and car owner told a Pennsylvania state court that BMW's North American division owes nearly $2 million in coverage reimbursement for a Mini Cooper vehicle fire because of a faulty battery housing or related components.

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RAIL

Jury Axes Patent In Fight Between Railcar Scale Cos.

By Elliot Weld

A Houston federal jury has cleared a company that services scales for railroad cars of infringing 15 claims in a patent suit brought by a competitor, saying the patent was invalid because it was obvious and anticipated through prior art.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

The Metamorphosis Of The Major Questions Doctrine

The so-called major questions doctrine arose as a counterweight to Chevron deference over the past few decades, but invocations of the doctrine have persisted in the year since Chevron was overturned, suggesting it still has a role to play in reining in agency overreach, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump DOJ To Appeal Axing Of Order Targeting Jenner & Block

By Alison Knezevich

The U.S. Department of Justice plans to fight a federal judge's ruling that struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting Jenner & Block LLP, as it filed a notice of appeal Monday in D.C. federal court.

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NJ US Atty Accused Of Ethics Violations Amid Possible Exit

By Jake Maher

A group of ethics experts and former presidential advisors requested an ethics investigation into interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba on Monday, as she reportedly approaches the end of her run as the top federal prosecutor in the Garden State.

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Md. Judges Slam 'Unprecedented' Suit Over Habeas Orders

By Hailey Konnath

Maryland federal judges on Monday pressed a Virginia federal judge to throw out the Trump administration's "unprecedented" suit challenging their standing order that temporarily blocks deportation of detained noncitizens who file habeas petitions, warning that if the suit succeeds, "it will not be the last."

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Analysis

How GOP Judges Teed Up 4th Circ.'s Supreme Court Shutout

By Jeff Overley

No appeals court found the U.S. Supreme Court's latest term less endearing than the Fourth Circuit, where a supersize shutout accentuated a multiyear slump for the once-favored circuit and repeatedly vindicated conservative dissenters on the left-leaning bench.

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Fla. Judge Pick Probed On Trump Case, Nomination Timing

By Courtney Bublé

A judicial nominee for the Southern District of Florida has fielded more questions from Democrats who have suggested that he ruled in favor of President Donald Trump and repeated the president's "partisan talking points" while simultaneously being vetted for a federal judgeship.

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Revived Effort To Break Up 9th Circ. Makes Its Way To Senate

By Hailey Konnath

Idaho Republicans have reintroduced a U.S. Senate bill that looks to split up the Ninth Circuit and create a new Twelfth Circuit, according to an announcement made Monday, roughly nearly seven months after a similar bill was introduced in the House.

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Sens. Float Bill To Protect Against AI Data Piracy

By Adam Lidgett

Federal lawmakers said Monday that they are floating a measure that would give creators the right to sue companies that use their work to train artificial intelligence models without their permission, a move that comes amid concerns over AI and intellectual property.

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NY Judge Wants Atty To Explain Bogus AI Citations

By Jack Karp

A federal judge wants a New York attorney to explain himself after he potentially used artificial intelligence to write his response to an order she issued concerning his use of AI to write an earlier brief that cited nonexistent cases.

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Trump Admin's Harvard Cuts Vex Judge: 'Staggering To Me'

By Chris Villani

A Massachusetts federal judge said Monday that the Trump administration has not presented evidence that Harvard has failed to address antisemitism on its campus and expressed bewilderment at the government's legal justifications for cutting $2.2 billion in funding.

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Robinson & Cole Ducks Recruiter's Contract Breach Suit

By Adrian Cruz

A Connecticut federal judge has granted summary judgment to Robinson & Cole LLP in a legal recruiter's contract breach suit, determining that under its terms with the recruiter, none of the information disclosed to a second company violated the original agreement between the two sides. 

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Bronx Defenders Reaches Tentative Deal To End Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The union representing staff attorneys for the Bronx Defenders — one of several member shops of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys that went on strike last week — has reached a tentative contract agreement with their managers.

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Senate Panel To Revote On US Atty Noms After Dem Walkout

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to revote on five U.S. attorney nominees on Thursday, including Jeanine Pirro, former Fox News host and New York state judge, after Democrats walked out of last week's meeting over objections to how the consideration of controversial Third Circuit nominee Emil Bove was being handled.

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SEC Lifts FINRA Ban For Atty Accused Of Cheating On Exam

By Katryna Perera

A divided U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has lifted an industry ban placed on a former SEC enforcement attorney who was deemed by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority to have cheated on a securities exam, finding there was no conclusive evidence of cheating.

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Pot Drink Co.'s Case Belongs In Arbitration, Stoel Rives Says

By Mike Curley

Stoel Rives LLP and a group of its clients are urging a California federal court to send a fraud suit brought by a maker of nonalcoholic cannabis drinks back to arbitration, arguing all the claims are subject to a valid arbitration agreement.

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States Embrace Second Look Laws To Reward Rehabilitation

By Brian Steele

Criminal justice reform advocates have in recent years found an effective weapon against the effects of lengthy mandatory minimum sentences, convincing states to enact "Second Look" laws that enable judges to reward people in prison who show rehabilitation by shortening their original sentence.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Sydney Price and Jeff Montgomery

Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, a major settlement between Meta Platforms Inc. and its investors reached on the proverbial courthouse steps during day two of a trial ended an $8 billion-plus suit accusing the company's directors and officers of breaching privacy regulations and corporate fiduciary duties tied to allegations dating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a decade ago.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Association of University Professors

American Trucking Associations Inc.

Andreessen Horowitz LLC

Anthropic PBC

Archer Aviation Inc.

Association of American Railroads

BMW of North America LLC

Center for Appellate Litigation

Chevron Corp.

Corteva Inc.

Cox Communications Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Enterprise Holdings Inc.

Erie Insurance Inc.

Federalist Society

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.

Fluor Corp.

Google LLC

Hess Corp.

JetBlue Airways Corp.

KSL Capital Partners LLC

L Catterton

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Microsoft Corp.

Moelis & Co.

National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

National Employment Lawyers Association

Natural Resources Defense Council

New York Legal Assistance Group Inc.

New York University

OpenAI OpCo LLC

PJM Interconnection LLC

Planned Parenthood Federation

Sentencing Project

Sony Music Entertainment Inc.

Southwest Airlines Co.

Tesla Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Bronx Defenders

TransCanada Corporation

Uber Technologies Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Appellate Advocates

Arnold & Porter

Bowman & Brooke

Carlton Fields

Clement & Murphy

Conway Stoughton

Cooley LLP

Cowdery Murphy

Crowell & Moring

Davenport Evans

Downtown LA Law Group

Eaton & Wolk

Feldman & Associates PLLC

Foley Hoag

Gaul & Associates

Gibson Dunn

Goulston & Storrs

Grant & Eisenhofer

Halpern May

Healy LLC

Herbert Smith Freehills

Holland & Hart

Jackson Walker LLP

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Koffsky Schwalb

Kudman Trachten

Law Offices of Jacob Emrani

Lehotsky Keller

Mayer Brown

Morgan Lewis

Niemeyer Grebel

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pia Hoyt

Prickett Jones

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Robbins Geller

Robinson & Cole

Ropes & Gray

Ross Aronstam

Rousso Boumel

Sidley Austin

Singleton Schreiber

Stoel Rives

Susman Godfrey

Vinson & Elkins

WilmerHale

Wilson Sonsini

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Delaware Court of Chancery

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Florida Attorney General's Office

Florida Department of Revenue

Food and Drug Administration

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

National Institutes of Health

National Marine Fisheries Service

New Jersey Attorney General's Office

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

State of Michigan

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Louisiana

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Government Ethics

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

United States District Court for the District of Vermont

Virginia Attorney General's Office

Virginia General Assembly

Virginia State Corporation Commission