http://www.law360.com/ Latest articles for organization: Northwest Airlines Copyright 2009 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US http://www.law360.com/images/headings/logo.gif http://www.law360.com/ http://www.law360.com/articles/134787 For 75 years, the National Mediation Board has been guided by the principle that representation decisions in the airline and railway industries should be determined by a majority of eligible voters (as opposed to votes cast) in the applicable craft or class. Recently, however, the NMB took the unusual step of engaging in rulemaking for purposes of undoing that precedent, says Steven M. Bernstein of Fisher & Phillips LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/134787 http://www.law360.com/articles/131974 With the ink barely dry on an $85 million settlement between Lufthansa AG and plaintiffs in the massive multidistrict litigation accusing a host of air cargo shipping service providers of a worldwide price-fixing scheme, two class members have stepped forward to appeal the deal. http://www.law360.com/articles/131974 http://www.law360.com/articles/131110 Reversing a lower court decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that Northwest Airlines Inc. should be allowed to defend its interests in a dispute over Westchester Fire Insurance Co.'s duty to indemnify an elusive policyholder in an underlying suit brought by the airline. http://www.law360.com/articles/131110 http://www.law360.com/articles/124794 A federal judge has granted final approval for an $85 million settlement, including more than $14.3 million in attorneys' fees and expenses, between Lufthansa AG and plaintiffs in the massive multidistrict litigation that accused a host of air cargo shipping service companies of a worldwide price-fixing scheme. http://www.law360.com/articles/124794 http://www.law360.com/articles/123280 Delta Air Lines Inc. will pay $35,000 to the state of Massachusetts to settle allegations that it failed to pay certain workers on a biweekly or weekly schedule, as required by Massachusetts Law. http://www.law360.com/articles/123280 http://www.law360.com/articles/122549 Delta Air Lines Inc. is planning a private debt offering of $500 million in senior secured notes in an effort to repay all its outstanding loans under fully owned subsidiary Northwest Airlines Inc.'s credit facility, Delta said Wednesday. http://www.law360.com/articles/122549 http://www.law360.com/articles/115271 British Airways, Air France, China Airlines Ltd. and several other major airlines have been added as defendants to a passenger air transportation antitrust action alleging a global conspiracy to fix prices on long-haul trans-Pacific flights, effectively doubling the number of companies currently implicated in the massive multidistrict litigation. http://www.law360.com/articles/115271 http://www.law360.com/articles/114004 Former Hunton & Williams LLP competition practice group head R. Hewitt Pate has signed on as vice president and general counsel of Chevron Corp. to direct the company's worldwide legal affairs. http://www.law360.com/articles/114004 http://www.law360.com/articles/112466 With airlines forced to slash ticket prices just to fill the seats, many industry observers have begun to discuss potential changes to the industry, either through bankruptcy or consolidation. Either way, they say that not all of the passenger air carriers that are currently flying will be doing so in the near future. http://www.law360.com/articles/112466 http://www.law360.com/articles/109148 As part of a strategy to expand its presence in the European market, Hunton & Williams LLP has added a new partner to its global competition practice who joins the firm's Brussels office from Linklaters LLP. http://www.law360.com/articles/109148 http://www.law360.com/articles/103321 Congress should consider scrapping parts of the bankruptcy code that prevent companies from retaining their best talent, says Bruce R. Zirinsky, co-chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's business reorganization and bankruptcy group. http://www.law360.com/articles/103321 http://www.law360.com/articles/100789 A judge has ruled that a class action Northwest Airlines Inc. pilots filed against their union for allegedly negotiating a benefit plan that discriminates against older pilots can proceed, but dismissed allegations that the union acted arbitrarily or in bad faith. http://www.law360.com/articles/100789 http://www.law360.com/articles/99701 Veteran bankruptcy attorney and former Cooley Godward Kronish LLP partner Adam C. Rogoff started working in Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP's corporate restructuring and bankruptcy department in New York on Friday. http://www.law360.com/articles/99701 http://www.law360.com/articles/95766 Two patent holders have agreed to drop a case in which they accused Northwest Airlines Inc. of infringing their intellectual property for broadcast technology that helps to track aircraft, in a deal that saw no money exchange hands. http://www.law360.com/articles/95766 http://www.law360.com/articles/94494 A federal judge has ruled that counsel for Northwest Airlines Corp. quality service assistants who sued their union violated Federal Rules of Civil Procedure by not conducting a “reasonable investigation” into whether all of the plaintiffs were ever employed as QSAs at Northwest, and has granted summary judgment to the union. http://www.law360.com/articles/94494 http://www.law360.com/articles/93205 A second former assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division will join Covington & Burling LLP in April, returning to the firm to head its global antitrust and competition practice. http://www.law360.com/articles/93205 http://www.law360.com/articles/86457 A bankruptcy judge has denied Lazard Freres & Co. LLC a $3.25 million completion fee for its work for the unsecured creditors committee in Northwest Airlines Corp.'s Chapter 11 proceedings, writing that Lazard had not demonstrated that it played a vital role in the reorganization. http://www.law360.com/articles/86457 http://www.law360.com/articles/84702 A judge has thrown out the bulk of a class action filed by Northwest Airlines Inc. pilots alleging that a pension plan is age discriminatory. http://www.law360.com/articles/84702 http://www.law360.com/articles/84124 Despite protests from Northwest Airlines Inc., a federal judge has ordered the airline and a patent-holding company to resolve their infringement suit over an information processing methodology patent with a court-appointed mediator. http://www.law360.com/articles/84124 http://www.law360.com/articles/83240 The U.S. trustee overseeing Northwest Airlines Corp.’s Chapter 11 proceedings has reiterated her objection to a $3.25 million fee request made by Lazard Freres & Co., saying the firm failed to prove that an enhanced payout was warranted. http://www.law360.com/articles/83240