July 09, 2026
Clashes over the Trump administration's bid to void California's vehicle emissions standards, federal restrictions on commercial drivers' licenses for foreign truckers and Boeing 737 Max securities litigation involving class certification standards are among the court battles that transportation attorneys are monitoring in the latter half of 2026.
June 26, 2026
A rail worker's estate told the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday that Norfolk Southern cannot keep trying to evade a Federal Employers' Liability Act lawsuit by refashioning its constitutional challenge to Pennsylvania's business-registration statute asserting jurisdiction over the rail giant.
May 28, 2026
Legal advocates said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's 2023 Mallory ruling unleashed a wave of forum-shopping by plaintiffs lawyers using states' business-registration laws to sue out-of-state companies, and that the justices should take up the case again to stop litigants from unconstitutionally interfering with interstate commerce.