Transportation

  • February 06, 2025

    Dealers Sue VW Unit Over Deposits For New Trucks, SUVs

    More than two dozen Audi and Volkswagen dealers in Florida have sued a Volkswagen unit, claiming it is violating a state law barring automakers from selling vehicles directly to the public by accepting $100 deposits for electric trucks and SUVs scheduled for release in 2027.

  • February 06, 2025

    EPA Places 168 Environmental Justice Workers On Leave

    Scores of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency workers who have been focused on environmental justice issues were placed on leave Thursday, in line with the Trump administration's promise to largely abandon that area of work.

  • February 06, 2025

    Tesla Fatal Crash's Tentative Trial Date Hinges On Fla. Justices

    The parents of a teenager who died in a crash involving a Tesla told a Florida state judge Thursday they'd be willing to drop an appeal to require deposition testimony from CEO Elon Musk on an alleged conversation regarding a speed limiter if that means finalizing a trial start date.

  • February 06, 2025

    Insurance Co. Must Cover Truck Driver Injury, 11th Circ. Rules

    The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed a Georgia federal judge's decision to hand a win to a transport company in a coverage dispute with Crum & Forster Insurance, ruling the insurer must cover a workers' compensation claim brought by a trucker maimed in an accident.

  • February 06, 2025

    EIP Grows US Team With 2 Pranger Law Attys

    Global intellectual property firm EIP said Wednesday it has hired two attorneys from Pranger Law PC, including the head of its patent prosecution team.

  • February 06, 2025

    Allstate Collected, Sold Driver Data, Suit Alleges

    Allstate unlawfully collected the driving data of at least 45 million policyholders through software integrated in third-party mobile apps, using information about their driving behavior as a basis for denying coverage, hiking up auto insurance premiums, or dropping them from coverage altogether, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court Wednesday.

  • February 06, 2025

    'Novel' Kia, Hyundai Theft Liability Theory Faces 6th Circ. Test

    A Sixth Circuit panel wrestled Thursday with whether to endorse a theory that automakers Kia and Hyundai could be liable for victims' injuries from crashes involving vehicles stolen during a TikTok-spurred wave of car thefts.

  • February 06, 2025

    Yellow Corp. Scores Partial Win In $540M Pension Plan Row

    Bankrupt trucking firm Yellow Corp. has secured a partial victory on summary judgment in a $540 million fight with several union pension funds, with a Delaware bankruptcy judge saying the funds set the company's withdrawal liability too high.

  • February 06, 2025

    Tort Report: Kiss Death Suit Must Be Axed, Band Says

    A bid to escape a suit accusing legendary rock band Kiss of causing a guitar technician's coronavirus death and the $8.5 million settlement of a convoluted medical malpractice case lead Law360's Tort Report, which compiles recent personal injury and medical malpractice news that may have flown under the radar.

  • February 06, 2025

    Meta Eyes Texas Skies, Another Crypto IPO, And More Rumors

    Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. is considering relocating its legal residence to Texas, while cryptocurrency exchange Bullish is moving forward on an initial public offering, and Unilever PLC is eyeing New York as a listing destination for its ice cream business.

  • February 06, 2025

    XPO Says Ex-Account Execs Poached Its Customers For Rival

    Logistics company XPO Inc. is accusing two ex-employees of violating their nonsolicitation and confidentiality agreements by poaching its clients after leaving to work for a rival firm, but the workers say the contracts are unenforceable, anyway.

  • February 05, 2025

    Motorcycle Co. Gets $2.7B Mexico Claim Revived

    A Canadian appeals court has revived U.S.-based Vento Motorcycles' claim seeking up to $2.7 billion after Mexico allegedly destroyed its business through unfair tariffs, ruling Tuesday that a lower court judge wrongly declined to nix an adverse award despite finding that an arbitrator was potentially biased.

  • February 05, 2025

    GAO Says Bidder Not Prejudiced By Solicitation 'Ambiguity'

    The Government Accountability Office rejected a Virginia-based contractor's challenge to the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's denial of its $74 million security screening contract proposal, saying it was not prejudiced by the agency's "latent ambiguity" in its solicitation. 

  • February 05, 2025

    Doubt Over NEPA Regs' Future Brings New Risk For Projects

    Recent court decisions and President Donald Trump have jeopardized long-standing federal regulations for environmental reviews, introducing uncertainty in the permit application and approval process for projects ranging from roads to pipelines that could lead to delays and new litigation.

  • February 05, 2025

    Toyota Urges NC High Court To Reverse 'Abusive' Ruling

    Toyota and Subaru Corp. are looking to the North Carolina Supreme Court to pull them out of an "impossible corner" they were pushed into by a trial judge overseeing a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from a fatal car crash, arguing on Wednesday that his orders "incentivize" widespread "tactical abuse of discovery."

  • February 05, 2025

    NJ Judge Finds For Textron Unit In Fatal Copter Crash

    A New Jersey state judge said Tuesday that Avco Corp., a division of Textron Inc., wasn't liable for a helicopter crash that resulted in the death of a country singer, since the company didn't design the engine part that the plaintiffs claimed was defective.

  • February 05, 2025

    Cruise Line Can't Avoid Trial In Suit Over Seaplane Crash

    A Washington federal magistrate judge has recommended the rejection of a cruise line's summary judgment bid in a lawsuit over a 2021 seaplane crash that killed passengers on an Alaskan excursion, saying a jury should determine whether Holland America had a duty to warn travelers of the flight's dangers.

  • February 05, 2025

    Chicago's Climate Suit Belongs In Federal Court, Judge Hears

    The city of Chicago should not be allowed to take environmental deception claims against the nation's largest oil producers back to state court because the city's suit targets conduct performed largely for the federal government, a judge heard during a Wednesday hearing.

  • February 05, 2025

    Tesla, Musk, Warner Bros. Ask To Toss 'Blade Runner' AI Suit

    Tesla, its CEO Elon Musk and Warner Bros. Discovery asked a California federal judge Tuesday to throw out Alcon Entertainment's lawsuit alleging the electric vehicle company used an image created by artificial intelligence that infringes "Blade Runner 2049" to promote an autonomous taxicab, saying a "familiar post-apocalyptic scene" is not protectable.

  • February 05, 2025

    NJ's Climate Change Suit Against Energy Cos. Tossed

    A New Jersey state judge on Wednesday threw out the Garden State's lawsuit accusing fossil fuel companies of concealing the climate change risks of their products, finding the state's claims are preempted by federal law.

  • February 05, 2025

    Mercedes-Benz Defective Brake Suit Narrowed Again

    A Washington federal judge has again narrowed a proposed class action against Mercedes-Benz over defective braking systems in SUVs, dismissing claims that the automaker fraudulently concealed the issue but allowing allegations that it unfairly shifted repair costs to customers.

  • February 05, 2025

    Senate Panel Approves Car AM Radio, Rural Broadband Bills

    A key Senate panel signed off on legislation Wednesday to require the continued installment of AM radio capability in cars, as well as to more thoroughly vet broadband providers that want to participate in federally funded deployment programs.

  • February 05, 2025

    Ryanair Loses €1B TAP State Aid Challenge

    Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair has lost yet another attempt to stop state aid from being delivered to its rivals in the airline industry after a European Union court on Wednesday batted away its challenge to a €1.2 billion ($1.249 billion) aid package for the parent company of TAP Air Portugal.

  • February 05, 2025

    Missile-Defense Firm Karman Launches Plans For $400M IPO

    Missile-defense and space programs company Karman Holdings Inc. launched plans Wednesday for an estimated $400 million initial public offering that would raise fresh funding for the private equity-backed business and its shareholders, represented by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and underwriters' counsel Latham & Watkins LLP.

  • February 05, 2025

    Calif. Panel Revives Malpractice Suit Against Insurer Attys

    A California state appeals court revived an Allstate policyholder's legal malpractice suit against his insurer-appointed attorney, saying the policyholder sufficiently alleged the attorney's drafting of an underlying settlement in a wrongful death suit caused him damages.

Expert Analysis

  • Opinion

    This Election, We Need To Talk About Court Process

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    In recent decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has markedly transformed judicial processes — from summary judgment standards to notice pleadings — which has, in turn, affected individuals’ substantive rights, and we need to consider how the upcoming presidential election may continue this pattern, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Series

    Playing Diplomacy Makes Us Better Lawyers

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    Similar to the practice of law, the rules of Diplomacy — a strategic board game set in pre-World War I Europe — are neither concise nor without ambiguity, and weekly gameplay with our colleagues has revealed the game's practical applications to our work as attorneys, say Jason Osborn and Ben Bevilacqua at Winston & Strawn.

  • How Multifamily Property Owners Can Plan For The EV Future

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    As the electric vehicle market expands, and federal and state incentives and mandates intended to promote EV use come into effect, owners and operators of multifamily residential properties should be prepared to meet the growing demand for onsite EV charging infrastructure, say Sydney Tucker and Andreas Wokutch at Frost Brown.

  • Conn. Court Split May Lead To Vertical Forum Shopping

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    As shown by a recent ruling in State v. Exxon Mobil, Connecticut state and federal courts are split on personal jurisdiction, and until the Connecticut Supreme Court steps in, parties may be incentivized to forum shop, causing foreign entities to endure costly litigation and uncertain liability, says Matthew Gibbons at Shipman & Goodwin.

  • Mental Health First Aid: A Brief Primer For Attorneys

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    Amid a growing body of research finding that attorneys face higher rates of mental illness than the general population, firms should consider setting up mental health first aid training programs to help lawyers assess mental health challenges in their colleagues and intervene with compassion, say psychologists Shawn Healy and Tracey Meyers.

  • John Deere Penalty Shows Importance Of M&A Due Diligence

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    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's recent $10 million penalty against John Deere underscores the risks of not conducting robust preacquisition due diligence and not effectively integrating a new subsidiary into the existing compliance framework, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

  • Enviro Policy Trends That Will Continue Beyond The Election

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    Come October in a presidential election year, the policy world feels like a winner-take-all scenario, with the outcome of the vote determining how or even whether we are regulated — but there are several key ongoing trends that will continue to drive environmental regulation regardless of the election results, say J. Michael Showalter and Samuel Rasche at ArentFox Schiff.

  • Series

    Collecting Art Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The therapeutic aspects of appreciating and collecting art improve my legal practice by enhancing my observation skills, empathy, creativity and cultural awareness, says attorney Michael McCready.

  • Navigating The Complexities Of Cyber Incident Reporting

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    When it comes to cybersecurity incident response plans, the uptick in the number and targets of legal and regulatory actions emphasizes the necessity for businesses to document the facts underlying the assumptions, complexities and obstacles of their decisions during the incident response, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • 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.

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