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  • April 08, 2025

    'There Is No Duty To The World,' Hyundai Tells 9th Circ.

    Hyundai urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to toss negligence claims from cities in consolidated litigation alleging the automaker and its Kia subsidiary sold vehicles with design flaws that spawned car thefts prompted by a social media challenge, saying the cities are trying to impose on manufacturers "a duty to the world."

  • April 08, 2025

    Construction Co. Says Iraq In Contempt In $120M Award Suit

    A Cypriot construction company has urged a D.C. district court to fine the Iraqi government $15,000 per day on claims that it isn't complying with a discovery order over a $120 million arbitral award against the country in a port project dispute.

  • April 08, 2025

    OIG Finds $1.8M Of Potential 'Overbillings' In VA Contract

    The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General said Tuesday that a transportation services contractor may have overbilled the department by about $1.8 million over two years and recommended that VA contracting officials consider whether they could or should try to recover any money.

  • April 08, 2025

    FCA Seeks Sanctions For Driver Who Got Rid Of His Vehicle

    Fiat Chrysler Automobiles says a proposed class action over allegedly defective door panels in older model Dodge Chargers and Chrysler 300s should be ended, partly because the alleged defect isn't covered by a warranty and additionally because one of the drivers got rid of his car before the automaker could inspect it.

  • April 08, 2025

    Singapore Court Nixes Railway Award Over Copy-Paste Issue

    Singapore's highest court on Tuesday affirmed the nixing of an arbitral award issued in an Indian railway contract dispute that incorporated an "extensive" amount of passages copied and pasted from separate, related awards, saying a reasonable observer would likely conclude that the tribunal's decision was biased.

  • April 08, 2025

    Colo. Appeals Court Urged To Toss Transportation Fees

    Colorado's 2021 transportation funding law violates the state Taxpayer's Bill of Rights and related provisions, an anti-tax group told an appeals court panel Tuesday, urging it to reverse a district court order that stopped its lawsuit.

  • April 08, 2025

    Porsche Seeks Toss Of Taycan EV Defect Suit

    Porsche Cars NA Inc. has asked a federal court to dismiss nearly all claims brought against it in a proposed class action alleging the carmaker failed to disclose or adequately repair a defect in its Taycan electric vehicles for the model years 2020-2024.

  • April 08, 2025

    Volvo Battery Defect Risks Plug-In Hybrid Fires, Suit Says

    Certain Volvo plug-in hybrid vehicles risk catching fire due to the Swedish automaker's faulty design and manufacturing of battery modules, one consumer alleged in a proposed class action filed Tuesday in Pennsylvania federal court.

  • April 08, 2025

    9th Circ. To Hear Remaining AB 5 Challenge

    A Ninth Circuit panel is set to hear arguments Wednesday in likely the last ongoing high-profile challenge to California's Assembly Bill 5, leaving a potential path to striking down the independent contractor classification law's application to the trucking industry.

  • April 08, 2025

    Morrison Foerster-Led Infineon Paying $2.5B For Auto Tech Biz

    Morrison Foerster LLP is guiding Infineon Technologies AG on an agreement to purchase Marvell Technology's automotive Ethernet business for $2.5 billion, in a deal that will expand the German company's own automobile technology business.

  • April 08, 2025

    BMW Faces Class Action Over Water Pump Fire Risk

    A driver has hit BMW with a proposed class action in North Carolina federal court over the manufacturer's recall of roughly 721,000 cars containing faulty water pumps that could leak and cause a fire.

  • April 08, 2025

    Uber's Crash Coverage Bid 'Too Little, Too Late,' Insurer Says

    An insurer said it has no duty to defend or indemnify Uber in five underlying personal injury suits, telling a New York federal court that the company's bid for coverage is "too little, too late" because the active negligence claims don't trigger coverage and the request was not timely.

  • April 08, 2025

    Justices Halt Order To Reinstate Federal Workers

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause on a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, agreeing with the Trump administration that the nonprofit groups that obtained the order lack standing to challenge the firings. 

  • April 08, 2025

    Freight Co. XPO Sues Ex-Executive Who Left For Nearby Rival

    Less-than-truckload transportation company XPO Inc. has accused a former local account executive of breaking a noncompete agreement after he left his job at its Cincinnati service center to work at a competitor only a six-minute drive away.

  • April 07, 2025

    Autotrader Website 'Tester' Can't Carry Privacy Suit

    A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action accusing Autotrader of unlawfully sharing website visitors' search queries with third parties, finding that the plaintiff didn't suffer an actionable injury because her expectations were met when she visited the website to "test" for privacy violations.

  • April 07, 2025

    Pa. Supreme Court Snapshot: Electric Bills, Jock Tax

    The Pennsylvania Supreme Court will open its three-day session in Pittsburgh Tuesday with arguments over how to weigh when a coworker or co-owner shares in an employer's immunity from lawsuits under the state's workers' compensation law, and if electricity providers can get additional services put on the utility bills drawn up by power distributors.

  • April 07, 2025

    9th Circ. Partially Reverses LA Port Co.'s Coverage Suit

    The Ninth Circuit on Monday held that United National Insurance Company was obligated to defend a Los Angeles Port operator against pollution claims brought by the city, but said a district judge deprived the insurer of a jury trial on the operator's claimed defense costs due to the breach of contract.

  • April 07, 2025

    Insurer Seeks $300K For Damaged Crane Barge

    An insurer told a California federal court it is owed $300,000 from the federal government and a California county for damages its insured's barge sustained when it struck a drawbridge because the government entities failed to raise the bridge after receiving a signal to do so.

  • April 07, 2025

    FAA, SpaceX Failed Adequate Review For Starship, Groups Say

    Conservation groups told a federal court Friday that there is "clear record evidence" that the Federal Aviation Administration and SpaceX failed to complete an adequate environmental review for SpaceX's Starship rocket launch program in Texas.

  • April 07, 2025

    Tesla Fails In Bid To Get 'Blade Runner' IP Suit Dismissed

    A California federal judge denied a request Monday by Elon Musk and Tesla to dismiss a lawsuit alleging they used an image that infringes the science fiction film "Blade Runner 2049" to promote an autonomous taxicab, keeping in place some claims and allowing plaintiff Alcon Entertainment LLC to amend others.

  • April 07, 2025

    WHO Cancer Report May Spark Gasoline Toxic Torts

    A recent report from the World Health Organization linking automobile gasoline to cancer could spawn toxic tort lawsuits similar to the costly, and sometimes losing, battles that energy companies have had to fight over exposure to gasoline components and additives.

  • April 07, 2025

    Jaguar Land Rover Inks Patent License Deal With Avanci

    Avanci and British automotive manufacturer Jaguar Land Rover have struck a deal over a pool of essential patents linked to 5G connected vehicles, the U.S. license operator announced Monday.

  • April 07, 2025

    Judge Ends Mercedes Wheel Suit, 'Wondering' What Defect Is

    Mercedes-Benz USA LLC defeated a putative class action Monday claiming the company used defective wheels that caused customer tire blowouts, as a Georgia federal judge said the "shapelessness" of the suit left him "wondering what defect is even being alleged."

  • April 07, 2025

    Drivers Defend Class Action Over Ford Engine Fire Defect

    Ford shouldn't be allowed to evade claims that it sold hybrid electric vehicles with defective engines that could spontaneously stall and catch fire, drivers told a Michigan federal judge, saying the automaker's solutions require them to continue driving "dangerous vehicles" that could undergo "a spontaneous catastrophic engine failure"

  • April 07, 2025

    9th Circ. Says Teamsters Didn't Taint UPS Election

    Teamsters representatives didn't taint the results of a UPS union representation election by chatting with workers in a warehouse parking lot while the vote went on inside, a Ninth Circuit panel ruled Monday, saying the representatives' "brief conversations with three voters … did not constitute objectionable electioneering or voter intimidation."

Expert Analysis

  • Aviation Watch: Boeing Plea Agreement May Not Serve Public

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    The proposed plea agreement between the U.S. Department of Justice and Boeing — the latest outgrowth of the company's 737 Max travails — is opposed by crash victims' families, faces an uncertain fate in court, and may ultimately serve no beneficial purpose, even if approved, says Alan Hoffman, a retired attorney and aviation expert.

  • Secret Service Failures Offer Lessons For Private Sector GCs

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    The Secret Service’s problematic response to two assassination attempts against former President Donald Trump this summer provides a crash course for general counsel on how not to handle crisis communications, says Keith Nahigian at Nahigian Strategies.

  • Opinion

    Supreme Court Must Halt For-Profit Climate Tort Proliferation

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    If the U.S. Supreme Court does not seize the opportunity presented by Honolulu v. Sunoco to reassert federal authority over interstate pollution regulation, the resulting frenzy of profit-driven environmental mass torts against energy companies will stunt American competitiveness and muddle climate policy, says Gale Norton at Liberty Energy.

  • Takeaways From TOTSA Settlement And Critical CFTC Dissent

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    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's recent settlement with TOTSA highlights the agency's commitment to enforcing market integrity and deterring manipulative practices, while Commissioner Caroline Pham's dissent to the settlement spotlights the need for transparency and consistency in enforcement actions, say attorneys at Davis Wright.

  • How Cos. Can Protect Supply Chains During The Port Strike

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    With dock workers at ports along the East and Gulf Coasts launching a strike that will likely cause severe supply chain disruptions, there are several steps exporters and importers can take to protect their businesses and mitigate increased costs, say attorneys at Thompson Hine.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Honoring Your Learned Profession

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    About 30,000 people who took the bar exam in July will learn they passed this fall, marking a fitting time for all attorneys to remember that they are members in a specialty club of learned professionals — and the more they can keep this in mind, the more benefits they will see, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Opinion

    AI May Limit Key Learning Opportunities For Young Attorneys

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    The thing that’s so powerful about artificial intelligence is also what’s most scary about it — its ability to detect patterns may curtail young attorneys’ chance to practice the lower-level work of managing cases, preventing them from ever honing the pattern recognition skills that undergird creative lawyering, says Sarah Murray at Trialcraft.

  • A Class Action Trend Tests Limit Of Courts' Equity Powers

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    A troubling trend has developed in federal class action litigation as some counsel and judges attempt to push injunctive relief classes under Rule 23(b)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure beyond the traditional limits of federal courts' equitable powers, say attorneys at Jones Day.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: September Lessons

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    In this month's review of class action appeals, Mitchell Engel at Shook Hardy identifies practice tips from four recent class certification rulings involving denial of Medicare reimbursements, automobile insurance disputes, veterans' rights and automobile defects.

  • IP Concerns For Manufacturing Semiconductors In Low Orbit

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    With space habitation companies working to launch private space stations in the near future, semiconductor manufacturers aiming to execute research and development in low or microgravity must consider the unique claim drafting and patent protection issues that will emerge, says Greg Miraglia at Quinn Emanuel.

  • Taking Stock Of FCC's New Spectrum Rule For Drones

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    While an order recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission is intended to provide drones with rapid access to a limited amount of spectrum in the 5030-5091 megahertz band, the commission envisions an incremental approach to full usage that will play out over the course of the coming months and years, say attorneys at Wiley.

  • Series

    Round-Canopy Parachuting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Similar to the practice of law, jumping from an in-flight airplane with nothing but training and a few yards of parachute silk is a demanding and stressful endeavor, and the experience has bolstered my legal practice by enhancing my focus, teamwork skills and sense of perspective, says Thomas Salerno at Stinson.

  • And Now A Word From The Panel: The MDL Map

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    An intriguing yet unpredictable facet of multidistrict litigation practice is venue selection for new MDL proceedings, and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation considers many factors when it assigns an MDL venue, says Alan Rothman at Sidley Austin.

  • Boeing Ruling Is A Cautionary Tale For Trade Secret Litigants

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    A Washington federal court’s recent ruling canceling a $72 million jury award against Boeing because Zunum Aero had failed to properly identify its trade secrets highlights the value of an early statement of alleged secrets, amended through discovery and used as a framework at trial, says Matthew D'Amore at Cornell.

  • Why Now Is The Time For Law Firms To Hire Lateral Partners

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    Partner and associate mobility data from the second quarter of this year suggest that there's never been a better time in recent years for law firms to hire lateral candidates, particularly experienced partners — though this necessitates an understanding of potential red flags, say Julie Henson and Greg Hamman at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

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