Mich. Justices Demand To Know Where The Sidewalk Ends

By Danielle Ferguson

Michigan's chief justice conjured images of pens baked inside cakes and dozens of knives sticking out of concrete as she tried to pin down the city of Detroit on defining the physical limits of a sidewalk, in a case to determine whether the city is liable for a man who tripped on a metal pole surrounded by cement. 

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Boeing Rips Investors' Class Cert Bid In 737 Max Blowout Suit

By Linda Chiem

Boeing told a Virginia federal judge that pension funds cannot reverse-engineer sweeping securities fraud claims based on last year's Alaska Airlines midair blowout incident, saying their bid to certify a class of investors who were purportedly misled by Boeing's assurances of the 737 Max jets' safety must be rejected.

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Paul Weiss Repping Aptiv On Plans To Split Into 2 Companies

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP-led technology company Aptiv PLC on Wednesday announced plans to separate its Electrical Distribution Systems business, creating two independent companies that it says are "optimally positioned" to serve customers.

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Space Explorer Voyager Technologies Confidentially Files IPO

By Tom Zanki

Defense and space exploration company Voyager Technologies Inc. said Wednesday it has confidentially filed plans for an initial public offering, marking the second company from the industry to join the IPO pipeline this week and potentially benefiting from increased government funding for space travel.

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American, JetBlue Ink $1.9M Atty Fee Deal After Antitrust Loss

By Rachel Scharf

A Massachusetts federal judge signed off Tuesday on a settlement requiring American Airlines and JetBlue to cover $1.9 million worth of legal fees that a group of state attorneys general spent successfully challenging the two airlines' Northeast Alliance joint venture as anticompetitive.

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Judge Won't Toss Bulk Of Chrysler Minivan MDL Claims

By Carolina Bolado

A Michigan federal judge has declined to significantly pare back multidistrict litigation over a risk of spontaneous explosion in certain Chrysler plug-in hybrid minivans, denying Chrysler's bid to toss fraud and other claims.

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Calif. Panel Upholds $200K Fee Award In Dispatchers' OT Row

By Irene Spezzamonte

Two train dispatchers could recover $200,000 in attorney fees and costs after snagging a bench trial win in their overtime suit against a transportation company because a California state court looked at their case anew, a state appellate panel ruled.

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Amazon Drivers Want Class Cert. In Suit Alleging Unpaid Tips

By Emmy Freedman

Amazon Flex delivery drivers urged a Washington federal court to certify a 150,000-member class in their lawsuit accusing the company of violating Evergreen State laws by withholding portions of drivers' tips, saying they were all impacted by the same unlawful practice.

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Full DC Circ. Stands By Wipeout Of FERC Pipeline Approvals

By Dorothy Atkins

The D.C. Circuit has rejected Williams Cos.' requests to reconsider a panel's decision scrapping Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approvals of a five-state expansion of the company's Transco pipeline system, despite more than a half-dozen amicus parties backing the rehearing requests.

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Army, SD Tribe Fight For Early Win In Dakota Access Row

By Crystal Owens

The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers are both asking for early wins in a challenge to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline over alleged violations of federal environmental laws.

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7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

A growing trend of U.S. Department of Labor enforcement against employment practices that limit workers' rights and avoid legal responsibility shines a light on seven unique contractual provisions that violate federal labor laws, and face agressive litigation from the labor solicitor, says Thomas Starks at Freeman Mathis.

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5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

Lawyers and their clients must be prepared to navigate an evolving litigation funding market in 2025, made more complicated by a new administration and the increasing overall cost of litigation, says Jeffery Lula at GLS Capital.

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The 2025 In-House Counsel Satisfaction Survey

Law360 Pulse asked in-house counsel about their jobs, workplace and career prospects. Find out how satisfied corporate lawyers are with their schedules, hours, work-life balance, opportunities for advancement and more.

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BigLaw Firms Report Record Lobbying Revenues For 2024

By Alison Knezevich

Several BigLaw firms pulled in record federal lobbying revenues in 2024, and now the change at the White House and in Congress has lobbyists gearing up for another busy year.

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Chutkan Says Trump's Pardon Can't 'Whitewash' Jan. 6 Terror

By Lauren Berg

President Donald Trump's pardon of defendants accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol "cannot whitewash the blood, feces and terror that the mob left in its wake," U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wrote Wednesday in an order dismissing one such case.

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Ex-Solicitor General Prelogar Joins Harvard Law

By Katie Buehler and Jeff Overley

Former U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth B. Prelogar, acclaimed for her oral advocacy in the U.S. Supreme Court's biggest cases during the Biden administration, has temporarily joined Harvard Law School, where she will teach a class called "Changing Paradigms in the Supreme Court," Law360 confirmed Wednesday.

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DOJ Aims To Prosecute Local Officials Who Impede Removals

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Department of Justice instructed its staff to investigate and take enforcement actions against state and local officials who interfere with the Trump administration's plans to deport unlawfully present immigrants, according to an internal agency memo.

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Kirkland Adds 5 Skadden Attys As Firm Plans Philly Launch

By James Boyle

National law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP has announced plans for a new Philadelphia office to be helmed by a civil litigator who is one of five attorneys moving their practices to the firm from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.

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Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds Slam Baldoni Atty's 'Media Blitz'

By Rachel Scharf

Counsel for celebrity couple Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds told a New York federal judge that Justin Baldoni's attorney from Liner Freedman Taitelman & Cooley LLP has violated ethical rules with an "all-out media blitz" during their thorny litigation over the movie "It Ends With Us."

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Kentucky, New Mexico Federal Judges To Take Senior Status

By Lynn LaRowe

Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Eastern District of Kentucky and U.S. District Judge James O. Browning of the District of New Mexico announced this week that they are taking senior status over roughly the next year.

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Case Removal Rules Aimed At Fairness, Ex-Atty Tells 5th Circ.

By Catherine Marfin

Several Fifth Circuit judges seemed keen Wednesday to clarify what activity in state court would bar litigants from removing their cases to federal court, as the full appeals court reconsidered a remand order for a Houston firm's poaching suit.

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Committee's Trump Probe Subpoenas Are Moot, Willis Says

By Emily Johnson

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has urged a Georgia state court to quash a bid to enforce subpoenas from a state Senate committee investigating her handling of the prosecution of President Donald Trump, arguing the subpoenas are moot because "the old special committee no longer exists."

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