Transportation

  • March 10, 2025

    Kia Hit With Pa. Class Claims Over Engine Defects In 2 Models

    Kia has been hit with a proposed class action in Pennsylvania federal court alleging that the automaker's recall for more than 137,000 Kia Soul and Seltos models from between 2021 and 2023 didn't go far enough to remedy damages felt by vehicle owners over engine issues.

  • March 10, 2025

    NJ Man Gets 18 Months In $50M Off-Road Tire Ponzi Scheme

    A New Jersey man who pled guilty to wire fraud for his role in a $50 million Ponzi scheme in which he took investor money on the promise he could buy and resell off-the-road tires at a substantial profit has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.

  • March 10, 2025

    Freight Co. Says Cellphone Dealer Ignoring Discovery Bids

    A freight coordination company said it has no choice but to ask a North Carolina federal court to sanction a cellphone dealer who sued it after a truckload of devices was stolen, claiming that it hasn't received adequate discovery responses.

  • March 10, 2025

    Justices Reject Red-State Bid To End State Climate Torts

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider a request from red states to stop climate change torts against fossil fuel companies brought by blue-state governments.

  • March 07, 2025

    DHS Ends TSA Labor Contract As Union Vows To Fight Move

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced Friday that it will no longer recognize the union that represents Transportation Security Administration officers, a move the union called retaliation for its recent federal worker advocacy and the AFL-CIO called "ripped from the pages of Project 2025."

  • March 07, 2025

    GAO Says Congress Can't Undo Calif. Emissions Waivers

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office is weighing in against the Trump administration's effort to team up with Congress to take away California's ability to set its own greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles.

  • March 07, 2025

    Goodyear Must Include Microplastic Proposal In Proxy

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.'s bid to exclude from its annual proxy statement a shareholder proposal calling for goals and timelines related to reducing tire wear shedding and subsequent microplastic pollution.

  • March 07, 2025

    $48M Progressive Deal With NY Drivers Gets Finalized

    A New York federal court on Friday officially signed off on a $48 million class action settlement various Progressive Insurance units reached with New York drivers to resolve their claims that Progressive underpaid their claims for totaled vehicles.

  • March 07, 2025

    CPKC Rail Merger Enviro Review Needs Redo, DC Circ. Told

    A group of Illinois towns told the D.C. Circuit on Friday that federal regulators relied on flawed train traffic data to approve Canadian Pacific's $31 billion merger with Kansas City Southern, failing to account for significant public safety and environmental harms to Windy City communities.

  • March 07, 2025

    Trucking Co. Liquidation Hearing Delayed Amid Sale Debate

    A hearing for bankrupt trucking company KAL Freight to determine whether to convert the case to a Chapter 7 liquidation was pushed back to next week as the debtor tried to finalize a Chapter 11 asset sale.

  • March 07, 2025

    No Ch. 11 Plan Stay For Ex-Eletson Owners

    A New York bankruptcy judge has declined to pause Greek shipping group Eletson Holdings' Chapter 11 plan while its former owners appeal the plan's confirmation, handing the company's current management a win as they seek to compel the ex-leadership to enforce the plan.

  • March 07, 2025

    Trucker Overtime Carveout Is Focus Of Reintroduced Bill

    A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a bill that would nix a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout making certain truck drivers overtime-exempt.

  • March 07, 2025

    Boeing Investors Certified As Class In 737 Blowout Suit

    A Virginia federal judge on Friday certified a class of Boeing investors in a securities fraud suit accusing the aviation giant of making false statements about the safety of its 737 Max fleet.

  • March 07, 2025

    Driver, Ex-Employer Settle After BIPA Retroactivity Ruling

    A distributor of fire sprinklers and other fire protection products has settled a lawsuit from one of its former delivery drivers who claimed the company's timekeeping violated Illinois' biometric privacy law, in the wake of the presiding judge determining that a legislative amendment limiting damages doesn't apply to the dispute.

  • March 07, 2025

    Tariffs, Diversity And DOGE Dominate Trump 2.0 'Risk Factors'

    Public companies are busily reworking risk disclosures since the arrival of President Donald Trump's second administration, seeking to walk a fine line of being upfront with investors about potential threats to business despite vast legal and policy uncertainties.

  • March 07, 2025

    Honda, Class Spar Over Defect Verdict And Fees At 9th Circ.

    Class counsel representing a certified class of Illinois Honda owners urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to reverse their partial summary judgment loss, along with a $1.5 million fee and cost award for securing a $1.4 million valve defect verdict, while Honda argued that the verdict should be tossed entirely.

  • March 07, 2025

    Delivery Drivers Get Trimmed OT Suit Cleared For Trial

    A New Jersey federal judge refused Friday to allow a delivery provider to escape a class action accusing it of failing to pay delivery drivers overtime wages, but determined no reasonable jury could find that a discount retailer partner was the workers' employer.

  • March 07, 2025

    Nikola's Ch. 11 Sale Timeline Gets Court Approval

    Bankrupt electric vehicle and hydrogen fueling technology maker Nikola Corporation received approval Friday in Delaware for its proposed bidding procedures, which seek to conduct an auction for its asset in a month's time.

  • March 07, 2025

    Dem AGs Back NLRB In Appeal Over Board Functionality

    Nearly two dozen Democratic attorneys general have backed the National Labor Relations Board in a Sixth Circuit fight over the agency's ability to adjudicate unfair labor practice cases, saying workers' rights under labor law would be trampled if the agency is restrained from performing its duties.

  • March 07, 2025

    Atty Fights $190K Demand After Malicious Litigation Trial Loss

    A lawyer who recently lost her malicious prosecution lawsuit against three Blank Rome attorneys and an aviation parts company is fighting their demand that she pay $190,000 in costs stemming from the litigation, arguing the amount is excessive and otherwise unrecoverable.

  • March 07, 2025

    Judge Upholds Denial Of Class Cert. For 'Bridgegate' Drivers

    A New Jersey federal judge has refused to disturb his 2023 denial of class certification for George Washington Bridge travelers who claimed the infamous "Bridgegate" traffic jam violated their constitutional rights, ruling that the plaintiffs' arguments were already considered and found to be immaterial to the case.

  • March 07, 2025

    Aecom Gets $8M Atty Fee Award In Colo. Toll Lanes Dispute

    A Colorado federal judge has awarded design firm Aecom nearly $8.3 million in attorney fees for prevailing in a contract fight over a state toll lanes project, but did not award the full amount the company requested because it failed to justify certain costs and separate attorneys' work across different disputes.

  • March 07, 2025

    UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

    This past week in London has seen an Iranian oil company sued for $95 million, Betfred hit with a lawsuit from a property company and NHS England face a human rights claim brought by a man detained under the Mental Health Act for over 20 years. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

  • March 07, 2025

    How A Showcase Prosecution Collapsed For New Jersey's AG

    New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin took a risk that backfired when he used over 100 pages to lay out his case accusing George E. Norcross III, one of the Garden State's most influential businessmen, of leading a racketeering enterprise to deepen his commercial footprint in a struggling city.  

  • March 07, 2025

    Amazon Driver Can't Get Mass. Court's Ear In Wage Suit

    A Washington federal judge refused to grant an Amazon delivery driver's request to allow Massachusetts' top court to weigh in on his case, saying the worker's plea came only after the court nixed his bid for class certification and thus arrived too late.

Expert Analysis

  • 8 Lessons Yellow Corp. Layoffs Can Teach Distressed Cos.

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    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.

  • The 7th Circ.'s Top 10 Civil Opinions Of 2024

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    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.

  • Class Actions At The Circuit Courts: Nov. And Dec. Lessons

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    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.

  • What's Next For Accounting Enforcement After SEC's Big 2024

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission under the Trump administration will likely continue to focus enforcement efforts on many of the same accounting and auditing issues that it pursued over the past year — but other areas, such as ESG, internal controls and cryptocurrency cases, may fall out of focus, say attorneys at Debevoise.

  • Mentorship Resolutions For The New Year

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    Attorneys tend to focus on personal achievements or career milestones when they set yearly goals, but one important area often gets overlooked in this process — mentoring relationships, which are some of the most effective tools for professional growth, say Kelly Galligan at Rutan & Tucker and Andra Greene at Phillips ADR.

  • Trump's Energy Plans For Generation, Transmission And More

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    The executive orders and presidential memoranda issued by President Donald Trump on the day of his inauguration, unwinding the Biden administration's energy policies and encouraging development of fossil fuels, may have significant impacts on the generation mix, electric transmission construction and the state regulatory environment, say attorneys at Polsinelli.

  • What Nearshoring Growth In Americas Means For Patents

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    With the new U.S. administration potentially focused on implementing draconian trade restrictions, nearshoring in the Americas is expected to grow, and patent prosecution attorneys will be kept on their toes as the patent landscape from country to country continues to evolve, says Ernest Huang at Procopio.

  • Key Trends In PFAS Regulation And Litigation For 2025

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    The critical policy milestones for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances expected in 2025 will not only shape the trajectory of PFAS regulation, but also set key precedents for environmental accountability, potentially reshaping the corporate approach to these "forever chemicals" for decades to come, say attorneys at MG+M.

  • UPS Penalty Demonstrates Goodwill Impairment Red Flags

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $45 million penalty against UPS for withholding reports of goodwill impairment should warn investors to watch for the telltale signs of companies inflating their worth by delaying tests that would reveal similar declines in the value of intangible assets, say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • Series

    Coaching Little League Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While coaching poorly played Little League Baseball early in the morning doesn't sound like a good time, I love it — and the experience has taught me valuable lessons about imperfection, compassion and acceptance that have helped me grow as a person and as a lawyer, says Alex Barnett at DiCello Levitt.

  • 7 Employment Contracts Issues Facing DOL Scrutiny

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    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.

  • 5 Litigation Funding Trends To Note In 2025

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    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.

  • High Court Unlikely To Expand FSIA In Holocaust Asset Fight

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    Not surprisingly for a court where the majority are strict textualists, the U.S. Supreme Court justices appear poised to rule in favor of Hungary in Republic of Hungary v. Simon, reaffirming the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act as a narrow exception to jurisdiction, say attorneys at Lewis Baach.

  • The Fed. Circ. In 2024: 5 Major Rulings To Know

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    In 2024, the Federal Circuit provided a number of important clarifications to distinct areas of patent law – including design patent obviousness, expert testimony admissions and patent term adjustments – all of which are poised to have an influence going forward, say attorneys at Knobbe Martens.

  • Rethinking Litigation Risk And What It Really Means To Win

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    Attorneys have a tendency to overestimate litigation risk before summary judgment and underestimate risk after it, but an eight-stage litigation framework can clarify risk at different points and help litigators reassess what true success looks like in any particular case, says Joshua Libling at Arcadia Finance.

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