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May 19, 2025
Ga. Judge Trims Delta's IT Outage Suit Against CrowdStrike
A Georgia state court judge has trimmed Delta Air Lines' lawsuit seeking to recover from cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike some $500 million in alleged out-of-pocket losses stemming from the July 2024 catastrophic global IT outage.
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May 19, 2025
Chicago's Climate Deception Suit Heads Back To State Court
An Illinois federal judge has found that the city of Chicago's lawsuit looking to hold the nation's largest oil producers liable for allegedly deceiving the public about fossil fuel consumption should be litigated in state court.
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May 19, 2025
Ex-CTA Worker Can Take Vaccine Bias Claim To Trial
An ex-Chicago Transit Authority employee fired after refusing COVID-19 vaccination can take his religious discrimination claim to a jury this summer after an Illinois federal judge grilled the agency Monday on its assertion that the plaintiff didn't seek an exemption for sincerely held religious beliefs and rejected its argument that he was "cherry-picking" Catholic doctrine.
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May 19, 2025
GM Issued 'Inadequate' Recall For Bad Engines, Drivers Claim
General Motors LLC knowingly sold vehicles "that were engineered to fail" and issued an "inadequate" recall to prevent "catastrophic" internal engine failure, a group of vehicle owners alleged in a proposed class action filed in Michigan federal court.
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May 19, 2025
Energy Cos. Escape Pa. County's Climate Change Suit
A Pennsylvania state judge threw out Bucks County's Big-Tobacco style lawsuit against 14 oil companies, concluding that neither Pennsylvania law nor any state law can address the greenhouse gas emissions-related claims raised in the county's complaint.
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May 19, 2025
Attys Seek $2M For Fees, Costs In GM Security Bias Deal
Attorneys for Black visitors to Detroit's General Motors-owned Renaissance Center who allege security there unlawfully detained and assaulted them asked a Michigan federal judge to approve almost $2 million in fees and litigation costs days after the court cautioned both sides for slow-rolling the deal's execution.
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May 19, 2025
Pepsi Arbitration Costs Bid Not For Court, Workers Say
A Pepsi distributor told a New York federal court that forcing him to pay arbitration-related costs in a wage case against the company would undermine federal and state wage laws' protective purposes, urging the court to deny the company's request to enforce the terms of the arbitration pact.Â
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May 19, 2025
Kirkland Guides Blackstone's $11.5B Deal For TXNM Energy
Blackstone Infrastructure has agreed to acquire regulated utility holding company TXNM Energy in an all-cash transaction valued at $11.5 billion, including net debt and preferred stock, TXNM said in a Monday announcement.
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May 16, 2025
9th Circ. Mulls DOJ Shield Of Jones Day VW Documents
A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday questioned whether it could force the U.S. Department of Justice to hand over confidential Volkswagen documents it obtained through a grand jury subpoena that were part of Jones Day's internal investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal.
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May 16, 2025
NJ Transit Calls Unions' Refusal To Cross Picket Line Unlawful
NJ Transit has hit two unions with lawsuits in New Jersey federal court over a rail strike that began Friday, accusing a Teamsters unit and the American Train Dispatchers Association of violating the Railway Labor Act by refusing to cross another Teamsters unit's picket line.
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May 16, 2025
Tesla Tells Justices Challenge To La. Sale Ban Should Stand
Tesla Inc. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a petition from Louisiana regulators seeking review of its case targeting the state's ban on direct sales by automakers, saying the regulators are in fact competitors who view Tesla's business model as an existential threat.
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May 16, 2025
'Tuna Bond' Defendants Ordered To Pay $352M In Restitution
A Brooklyn federal judge ordered three former Credit Suisse bankers and the former finance minister of Mozambique to pay a combined $352 million in restitution Friday after they pled guilty or were convicted of scheming to defraud investors in a $2 billion state-backed development initiative involving tuna fishing.
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May 16, 2025
Families Rip DOJ Bid To Ditch Boeing 737 Max Criminal Case
The U.S. Department of Justice might back down from criminally prosecuting Boeing over the deadly 737 Max crashes and save the American aerospace giant from a high-profile trial in Texas next month under a tentative deal that attorneys for crash victims' families decried Friday as offensive and "morally repugnant."
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May 16, 2025
Food Delivery App's $80M Investor Settlement Gets Final OK
Investors suing mobile food delivery and ride-hailing services operator Grab Holdings Ltd. have received final approval of an $80 million deal settling claims that several sections of a proxy statement Grab filed with a special purpose acquisition company were false and misleading.
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May 16, 2025
Driver Fights Sanctions For Trading Vehicle In FCA Suit
Drivers alleging Fiat Chrysler sold vehicles with defectively designed interior trim on door panels told a Michigan federal judge that one of its lead plaintiffs doesn't deserve sanctions for trading in his vehicle, saying the trade-in was a snap decision and wasn't done to prevent the automaker from inspecting the vehicle. Â
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May 16, 2025
9th Circ. Upholds California's Employee Classification Test
California's worker-friendly employee classification test doesn't violate the dormant commerce and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday, upholding the lower court denial of a preliminary injunction.
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May 16, 2025
Insurer Owes $3.8M For Honda Airbag Class Counsel Costs
A Tokio Marine unit must pay over 5.4 million Canadian dollars ($3.8 million) for class counsel fees that Honda Canada Inc. incurred in underlying class actions over airbag deficiencies, but is off the hook for CA$2.9 million in settlement administration costs, a Canadian court affirmed.
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May 16, 2025
Mich. Court Orders Redo Of Motorist's Insurance Award
A judge erroneously factored in a semi-paralyzed man's future care in allotting him the bulk of an insurance payout, a Michigan state appeals court said, partially reversing the decision at the request of two healthcare providers that had competing claims.
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May 16, 2025
Frost Brown Adds NY Litigator From Grant Herrmann
Frost Brown Todd LLP added a litigator from Grant Herrmann Schwartz & Klinger LLP to the firm's business and commercial litigation practice, as it expands from its stronghold in the Midwest.
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May 16, 2025
Progressive, Kanner & Pintaluga Slam Accident Data Suit
Progressive Casualty Insurance Co. and Kanner & Pintaluga PA have filed separate motions in Texas federal court to dismiss a proposed class action accusing the two of conspiring to share auto crash victims' private information against state and federal law, with each arguing that the allegations, as the insurer put it, "make no sense."
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May 16, 2025
Trucking Co. Worker Says Tobacco Surcharge Violates ERISA
An employee of Marten Transport Ltd. is suing the trucking company in Wisconsin federal court, alleging that a tobacco surcharge in its health plan violates federal antidiscrimination law.
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May 15, 2025
$666M Pipeline Verdict 'Poster Child' For Reduction, Judge Told
Lawyers for Greenpeace urged a North Dakota state judge Thursday to significantly reduce a $666 million verdict over claims that it falsely disparaged the Dakota Access pipeline amid environmental protests, with the jury having awarded ten times more on certain claims than even the pipeline's builder wanted.
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May 15, 2025
Polar Air Vendor Gets 2 Years For $32M Kickback Scheme
The owner of a California aviation company was sentenced Thursday in New York federal court to two years in prison for paying Polar Air Cargo executives $4.4 million in kickbacks in exchange for lucrative contracts, as part of a $32 million scheme to enrich the cargo airline's C-suite and others, at the company's expense.
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May 15, 2025
Semiconductor Co. Fights Investors' Pandemic Demand Suit
Semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics has urged a federal judge to boot an investor suit alleging the company and its executives failed to predict pandemic-related demand declines, arguing the suit is flawed with "fraud-by-hindsight" logic.
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May 15, 2025
Enterprise Inks $11.5M Deal In Wrongful Death Suit
The family of an Illinois man who died after being struck by an Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee while doing utility work has reached an $11.5 million settlement with the car rental company to end litigation over his death, marking the highest known wrongful death recovery in McHenry County history.
Expert Analysis
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When Innovation Overwhelms The Rule Of Law
In an era where technology is rapidly evolving and artificial intelligence is seemingly everywhere, it’s worth asking if the law — both substantive precedent and procedural rules — can keep up with the light speed of innovation, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Imagine The Possibilities Of Openly Autistic Lawyering
Andi Mazingo at Lumen Law, who was diagnosed with autism about midway through her career, discusses how the legal profession can create inclusive workplaces that empower openly autistic lawyers and enhance innovation, and how neurodivergent attorneys can navigate the challenges and opportunities that come with disclosing one’s diagnosis.
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Series
Documentary Filmmaking Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Becoming a documentary filmmaker has allowed me to merge my legal expertise with my passion for storytelling, and has helped me to hone negotiation, critical thinking and problem-solving skills that are important to both endeavors, says Robert Darwell at Sheppard Mullin.
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Litigation Funding Disclosure Debate: Strategy Considerations
In the ongoing debate over whether courts should require disclosure of litigation funding, funders and plaintiffs tend to argue against such mandates, but voluntarily disclosing limited details about a funding arrangement can actually confer certain benefits to plaintiffs in some scenarios, say Andrew Stulce and Marc Cavan at Longford Capital.
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Scope And Nature Of Judicial Relief Will Affect Loper's Impact
The practical result of post-Loper Bright rulings against regulatory actions will depend on the relief courts grant — and there has been controversy in these types of cases over whether the ruling is applied just to the parties or nationwide, and whether the action can be left in place while it's corrected, says Steven Gordon at Holland & Knight.
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Trump's Day 1 Orders Augur Disruptions In Travel To US
While the orders President Donald Trump issued his first day in office didn't impose immediate entry bans as some speculated, they authorized greatly increased scrutiny of foreign nationals at U.S. consulates and ports of entry, and laid the groundwork for future actions that could significantly disrupt international travel, says Jennifer Kim at Moore & Van Allen.
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Series
Adventure Photography Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Photographing nature everywhere from Siberia to Cuba and Iceland to Rwanda provides me with a constant reminder to refresh, refocus and rethink the legal issues that my clients face, says Richard Birmingham at Davis Wright.
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How Views On Healthcare Price Transparency Are Changing
Regulators' attitudes toward price transparency regulation have shifted over the past several years in ways that may seem contradictory, and research into detailed rate information published by hospitals and health plans has yielded mixed results, says Matthew List at Charles River Associates.
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What Vinyl Acetate's Prop 65 Listing Means For Cos.
California's recent move to add vinyl acetate to the Proposition 65 list of carcinogens, with enforcement starting later this year, will have sweeping compliance and risk implications for businesses in the retail, food and beverage, paint, adhesive, industrial manufacturing, and personal care product industries, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.
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5 Ways To Create Effective Mock Assignments For Associates
In order to effectively develop associates’ critical thinking skills, firms should design mock assignments that contain a few key ingredients, from messy fact patterns to actionable feedback, says Abdi Shayesteh at AltaClaro.
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Opinion
Legal Personhood Can Give Natural Entities Their Day In Court
Granting legal personhood to natural entities like the River Thames, or vulnerable species like the Pacific bearded seal and Arctic ringed seal, could protect them from ecological threats and the vagaries of politics, and help us transform our relationship with nature, says Sachin Nandha at the International Centre for Sustainability.
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Takeaways From DOJ Fraud Section's 2024 Year In Review
Attorneys at Paul Weiss highlight notable developments in the U.S. Department of Justice Fraud Section’s recently released annual report, and discuss what the second Trump administration could mean for enforcement in the year to come.
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8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.
A Delaware bankruptcy court’s recent decision, examining trucking company Yellow Corp.’s abrupt termination of roughly 25,500 employees, offers financially distressed businesses a road map for navigating layoffs under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act, say attorneys at King & Spalding.
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The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024
Attorneys at Jenner & Block examine the most significant decisions issued by the Seventh Circuit in 2024, and explain how they may affect issues related to mass arbitration, consumer fraud, class certification and more.
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Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons
In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy discusses five federal court decisions and identifies practice tips from cases involving takings clause violations, breach of contract with banks, life insurance policies, employment and automobile defects.