/transportation?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Transportation Copyright 2025 ÃÛÌÒÊÓƵ. en-US Mon, 07 Jul 2025 23:36:50 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361689?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361689 The Texas attorney general is urging a New York bankruptcy court to reject General Motors' bid to escape a data privacy suit being pressed by his office over the automaker's allegedly unlawful collection and sale of drivers' private information, arguing that the court lacks jurisdiction over the agency and that the claims aren't barred by prior bankruptcy proceedings.  Mon, 07 Jul 2025 22:31:18 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361720 Six out-of-state air ambulance companies suing Aetna in Connecticut federal court claiming violations of the federal No Surprises Act say they shouldn't be forced to face the insurer's Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act counterclaim because their billing practices were for a time allowed by federal law. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 21:37:16 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361816?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361816 The Third Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court's decision to certify classes of Pennsylvania drivers who accuse Progressive Insurance units of breaching their contracts by systematically underestimating the actual cash value of their totaled cars, finding that the lower court misapplied the standard to determine whether common issues predominate. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:50:06 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361781?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361781 A California federal judge has trimmed SpaceX's suit alleging the California Coastal Commission wrongly tried to block its plan to increase rocket launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base, saying the reworked complaint adequately alleges some, but not all, of the purported harms the company faces. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:49:34 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361712?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361712 An Illinois federal judge overseeing twin cases alleging Deere & Co. is violating the Sherman Antitrust Act through its control of repair tools decided Monday not to force the company to produce its dealer financial analysis documents, saying any relevant information in them has already been produced elsewhere in the cases. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:27:52 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361780?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361780 Green groups fighting to reclaim grant funding frozen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asked the D.C. Circuit on Monday to reject the agency's argument that Congress's recent tax and policy bill means their lawsuit should be dismissed. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 19:20:59 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361542?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361542 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has sued scooter rental company Go X Inc. and its executives in Florida federal court, alleging they fraudulently raised $4 million from 300 investors through unregistered securities sales. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:31:37 +0000 /transportation/articles/2360727?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2360727 A bartender at a Miami-area restaurant has sued Uber after she allegedly was raped by a driver in November 2023, saying the ride-hailing company failed to use real-time facial recognition to verify the identity of a male driver who was using his wife's account to complete rides. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:17:58 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361807?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361807 A former manager of an essential oils company was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison Monday for his role in an embezzlement scheme that stripped his employer of more than $29 million and awarded him millions in kickbacks he hid from the IRS, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:09:07 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361191?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361191 A D.C. federal judge has enforced a 12-year-old arbitral award worth some $7.6 million against Niger in a fight brought by a Luxembourg subsidiary of British aviation services company Menzies following a soured deal to operate ground handling services at the African country's airports. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:23:27 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361752?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361752 An energy company that ended a contract with a Houston Ship Channel facility over a lack of dock space is asking an appeals court to back its $7.6 million award, writing that the lack of availability was a clear violation of its original agreement. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:46:49 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361606?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361606 An airline lobby and the state of Colorado told a federal court last week that a settlement "appears unlikely" in the airline group's case claiming the state's sick leave law is preempted by federal law. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:46:03 +0000 /transportation/articles/2357541?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2357541 Law360 previews the lawsuits environmental attorneys will be watching closely during the second half of 2025, including the Trump administration's challenge to states' efforts to slow climate change, a lawsuit seeking to continue federal funding for climate change projects and product liability cases over forever chemicals in consumer goods. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:21:22 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361759?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361759 In Delaware in the past week, a vice chancellor awarded just $1 in damages to a China-tied company looking to secure a $50 million stake in SpaceX while also slamming the fund's manager for acting "insincerely," Tyson Foods won $55 million in damages in a suit claiming the owner of two poultry rendering plants Tyson acquired hid that it relied on a "disfavored" practice of recovering "unappetizing remnants of butchered chickens," and a suit over a one-site bank's 11-aircraft fleet was moved into the discovery phase. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:03:23 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361547?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361547 A Chubb insurer does not have to split the responsibility of an underlying $2 million wrongful death settlement with a Hartford unit, the Eighth Circuit has ruled, finding that the Hartford unit's commercial auto policy should pay first since the Chubb policy specifically stated that it was excess over all other insurance. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 15:55:14 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361188?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361188 An airline worker with ties to American Airlines who is accused of stalking and terrorizing passengers likely used generative artificial intelligence in filings he submitted after defaulting in a federal lawsuit, which include "phantom cases and nonexistent case law," a Connecticut judge has said in a ruling that nevertheless sets aside the defendant's default. Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:45:12 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361478 Three ringleaders of a €15 million ($17.6 million) value-added tax fraud ring involving motor oil were among 13 people convicted for their roles in the scheme, with Italian courts handing out a combined 34 years in sentences, the European Public Prosecutor's Office said. Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:41:56 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361253?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361253 The past week in London has seen the owner of Crystal Palace and the troubled Olympique Lyonnais football clubs sue its current chief executive John Textor, Fieldfisher faces a claim by Georgian businessman Zaza Okusahvili, and a dispute partner at Travers Smith file a personal injury claim against the firm. Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:42:21 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361142?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361142 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency confirmed Thursday that it had placed 139 employees on administrative leave after they signed onto a letter criticizing the Trump administration's policies as undermining the agency's "mission of protecting human health and the environment." Thu, 03 Jul 2025 21:25:41 +0000 /transportation/articles/2361189?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /transportation/articles/2361189 Ford Motor Co. cannot force drivers who allege defects in their Focus and Fiesta vehicles to take their claims to arbitration, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday, rejecting the automaker's argument that the dispute flows from dealership sales contracts containing arbitration provisions that it can invoke.