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June 24, 2025
Ohio Derailment Deal Admin Wants Explanation For Ouster
The ex-administrator of Norfolk Southern's $600 million settlement with the people and businesses of East Palestine, Ohio, is asking a federal court to share why it was terminated, saying in filings Monday that the company had no idea the plaintiffs' counsel were going to ask for a new administrator.
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June 24, 2025
German Auto Parts Retailer Autodoc Scraps IPO Plans
Autodoc SE on Tuesday postponed its initial public offering and related private placement, one week after the German auto parts retailer unveiled plans to raise up to €463.6 million ($535.8 million) on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.
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June 24, 2025
Driver Must Serve Prison Time In DUI Case, Fla. Panel Rules
A Florida appellate panel ruled that a driver convicted in the drunken driving-related death of a motorcyclist must serve the minimum time of four years in prison, saying the lower court didn't have the authority to suspend the mandatory sentence for a DUI manslaughter charge.
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June 24, 2025
Co. Slams 'Overheated' Reed Smith Brief In Shipping Row
Reed Smith should not be allowed to halt court proceedings amid its effort to hold onto a client file sought by postbankruptcy owners of Eletson Holdings Inc., a reorganized international shipping company, amid its ongoing dispute with Levona Holdings Ltd., according to briefs both sides filed before the Second Circuit.
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June 24, 2025
Boeing Says COVID-Era Docs Needed In Suit Over 737 Sales
Boeing is urging a Washington federal court to compel a defunct South African airline to turn over documents about its financial state and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on its business from 2019 to 2021, as the plane maker fights a suit alleging it hid the flaws of its 737 Max line.
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June 24, 2025
Pot Dispatcher Can't Upend Co-Worker's $400K Wage Deal
A California appeals court has upheld a $400,000 wage-and-hour settlement between a cannabis delivery driver and The Highest Craft LLC, finding that a dispatcher whose claims are also covered under the settlement failed to show the deal was unfair or insufficiently investigated.
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June 24, 2025
Mass. Justices Say Key In Ignition Triggers DUI Law
Massachusetts' highest court on Tuesday found that the act of sitting behind the wheel with the key in the ignition is enough to sustain a drunken driving charge, even if the car is not in motion and the engine is not turned on.
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June 24, 2025
Father Sues Truck Manufacturer Over Son's Death From Heat
The father of a delivery driver is suing truck manufacturer Morgan Olson LLC in Michigan federal court, alleging that its trucks are defectively designed with cargo compartments without any climate control and that the high temperatures in the trucks led to his son's death.
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June 23, 2025
GOP Plan For Merging Agencies Faces Reckoning, And Alarm
The Senate parliamentarian has given a thumbs-down to a Republican budget proposal that would allow President Donald Trump to unilaterally eliminate agencies through mergers and consolidation, adding to what experts say are a host of problems with the little-noticed provision.
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June 23, 2025
Trump Admin Rescinds Clinton-Era 'Roadless' Logging Rule
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced Monday that she was rescinding the longstanding "Roadless Rule" limiting the number of roads built in national forests, calling the 2001 rule "outdated," contrary to the "will of Congress" and an obstacle to "common sense management of our natural resources."
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June 23, 2025
Feds OK License Transfers To Navigation Co. Subsidiary
A unit of 3D geolocation service NextNav has gotten the green light from the Federal Communications Commission to take over licenses for location services previously owned by Telesaurus Holdings.
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June 23, 2025
Guatemala Fights $38M Award Enforcement In US Court
Guatemala has asked a D.C. federal court to toss litigation seeking to enforce a nearly $38 million arbitral award issued to a construction and engineering firm in the parties' dispute over highway construction contracts, saying the case has no connection to the United States.
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June 23, 2025
Lima Can't Get $200M Award Enforcement Paused
A D.C. federal judge refused the Peruvian city of Lima's bid to pause enforcement of some $200 million in arbitral awards issued to a highway contractor during an ongoing appeal, saying Friday that the city's mayor has stated publicly that he has no intention of ever paying up.
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June 23, 2025
Mullen Auto Investors' $7.25M Settlement Gets Final OK
A California federal judge has granted final approval to a $7.3 million settlement between Mullen Automotive Inc. and a class of its investors that alleged the company made misrepresentations about its revenues and order volumes to inflate share prices ahead of a merger.
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June 23, 2025
Cessna Maker Says Crash Suits Lack 'Jurisdictional Hook'
The maker of a Cessna private jet that crashed in Connecticut, killing four people, including a married pair of New England doctors, told a state court judge Monday that it is not subject to the personal jurisdiction of the state's courts, so two product liability lawsuits against it must be dismissed.
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June 23, 2025
Paxton, Airline Co. Ask To Take Biz Doc Case Out Of 5th Circ.
The Texas attorney general's office and an airline parts manufacturer have agreed to remove a dispute over a state law allowing the office to examine business records from the Fifth Circuit back to district court.
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June 23, 2025
NC Judge Axes Trucking Co.'s Noncompete For Overreach
A North Carolina state court judge has truncated a freight factoring company's suit accusing its former client services supervisor of luring clients to a competing business, finding that the complaint fell short of identifying the allegedly stolen trade secrets and that the former employee's noncompete is too broad to be enforced.
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June 23, 2025
Ga. Family Slams Ford's New Trial Bid In $2.5B Rollover Case
A Georgia family hoping to safeguard its $2.5 billion punitive damages verdict against Ford Motor Co. has urged a federal judge to reject the auto giant's bid to introduce interviews it says will show jurors were aware of a prior verdict faulting the company for similar rollover deaths.
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June 23, 2025
Exela Gets OK For $1.25B Debt-Swap Ch. 11 Plan
A Texas bankruptcy judge on Monday approved a $1.25 billion Chapter 11 restructuring for units of business automation group Exela Technologies, saying the plan had creditor support and the creditor claim releases were voluntary.
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June 23, 2025
Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court
The Delaware Supreme Court reversed a year-old $199 million judgment against TransCanada in a suit challenging a merger that occurred nearly a decade ago, Aspen Technology Inc. was hit with another suit over its pending $7.2 billion merger with Emerson Electric, and Nielson Holdings Ltd. secured a temporary restraining order against its spinoff. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.
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June 23, 2025
US Says $1B Keystone XL Pipeline Claim Must Be Axed
The U.S. has urged an international tribunal to nix a $1.14 billion claim brought by a publicly owned marketing firm for Alberta's crude oil industry over the cancellation of the Keystone XL pipeline, repeating arguments that the panel lacks jurisdiction to consider the dispute.
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June 23, 2025
Texas Justices Find No Sign Of Negligence In Truck Crash
The Texas Supreme Court has thrown out a trucker's suit alleging that another trucker's negligence caused a collision after a tire blowout, saying the plaintiff failed to show any evidence that the crash was the result of anything other than an unavoidable accident.
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June 23, 2025
Justices Pass On La. Regulators' Tesla Sales Ban
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Fifth Circuit decision that revived Tesla's lawsuit accusing Louisiana car dealers and regulators of illegally excluding the direct-sale automaker from the state, following a notification from the parties of their intent to reach a settlement.
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June 20, 2025
Science Research Funding Cuts Blocked By Mass. Judge
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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June 20, 2025
Unsettling Expectations: Stewart Broadens Denials Again
The acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director has again held that patent owners eventually have the right to assume their patents won't be challenged in inter partes reviews, which many attorneys say is upsetting their understanding of how to navigate the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Expert Analysis
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Expropriation Claims After Justices' Holocaust Asset Ruling
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Hungary v. Simon, rejecting Holocaust survivors' claims against the Hungarian government under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act's expropriation exception, continues the trend of narrowly interpreting that exception and offers important guidance for future plaintiffs considering such claims, say attorneys at MoloLamken.
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Racing Corvettes Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The skills I use when racing Corvettes have enhanced my legal practice in several ways, because driving, like practicing law, requires precision, awareness and a good set of brakes — complete with the wisdom to know how and when to use them, says Kat Mateo at Olshan Frome.
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Opinion
At 100, Federal Arbitration Act Is Used To Thwart Justice
The centennial of the Federal Arbitration Act, a law intended to streamline dispute resolution in commercial agreements, is an opportunity to reflect on its transformation from a tool of fairness into a corporate shield that impedes the right to a fair trial, says Lori Andrus at the American Association for Justice.
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Opinion
Attorneys Must Act Now To Protect Judicial Independence
Given the Trump administration's recent moves threatening the independence of the judiciary, including efforts to impeach judges who ruled against executive actions, lawyers must protect the rule of law and resist attempts to dilute the judicial branch’s authority, says attorney Bhavleen Sabharwal.
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Rethinking 'No Comment' For Clients Facing Public Crises
“No comment” is no longer a cost-free or even a viable public communications strategy for companies in crisis, and counsel must tailor their guidance based on a variety of competing factors to help clients emerge successfully, says Robert Bowers at Moore & Van Allen.
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Del. Supreme Court TripAdvisor Ruling May Limit 'MFW Creep'
The Delaware Supreme Court's recent Maffei v. Palkon ruling regarding TripAdvisor's proposed reincorporation to Nevada potentially signals a turning point in the trend of expanding the protections from Kahn v. M&F Worldwide to other types of transactions, says Andrew J. Haile at Elon University.
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Reading The Tea Leaves On Mexico, Canada And China Tariffs
It's still unclear whether the delay in the imposition of U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports will result in negotiated resolutions or a full-on trade war, but the outcome may hinge on continuing negotiations and the Trump administration's possible plans for tariff revenues, say attorneys at Eversheds Sutherland.
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How Design Thinking Can Help Lawyers Find Purpose In Work
Lawyers everywhere are feeling overwhelmed amid mass government layoffs, increasing political instability and a justice system stretched to its limits — but a design-thinking framework can help attorneys navigate this uncertainty and find meaning in their work, say law professors at the University of Michigan.
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Biden-Era M&A Data Shows Continuity, Not Revolution
While the federal antitrust agencies under former President Joe Biden made broad claims about increasing merger enforcement activity, the data tells a different story, with key claims under Biden coming in at the lowest levels in decades, say attorneys at Covington.
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10 Issues To Watch In Aerospace And Defense Contracting
This year, in addition to evergreen developments driven by national security priorities, disruptive new technologies and competition with rival powers, federal contractors will see significant disruptions driven by the new administration’s efforts to reduce government spending, regulation and the size of the federal workforce, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.
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Navigating The Trump Enviro Rollback And Its Consequences
The Trump administration's rapid push for environmental deregulation will lead to both opportunities and challenges, requiring companies to adopt strategic approaches to a complex, unpredictable legal environment in which federal rollbacks are countered by increased enforcement by states, and risks of citizen litigation may be heightened, say attorneys at Beveridge & Diamond.
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Competitive Weightlifting Makes Me A Better Lawyer
The parallels between the core principles required for competitive weightlifting and practicing law have helped me to excel in both endeavors, with each holding important lessons about discipline, dedication, drive and failure, says Damien Bielli at VF Law.
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8 Ways Cos. Can Prep For Termination Of Their Enviro Grants
The federal government appears to be reviewing energy- and infrastructure-related grants and potentially terminating grants inconsistent with the Trump administration's stated policy goals, and attorneys at DLA Piper provide eight steps that recipients of grants should consider taking in the interim.
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Pier Pressure: Contract Takeaways From Pa. Ocean Liner Suit
The settlement that resolved the fate of the landmark SS United States ocean liner illustrates important lessons on managing contract disputes, illuminating common trade-offs such as the choice between deferred legal risk and the cost of legal foresight, says Christopher Seck at Squire Patton.
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.