An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a suit by a Kenyan firm alleging that an Illinois firm wrongly pushed it out of a fee-sharing agreement stemming from a settlement with Boeing over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, finding some of the claims fall under Illinois' litigation privilege, while the rest are unsupported by the complaint.
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Kenyan Firm's Boeing Crash Fee-Sharing Suit Is Tossed

By Mike Curley

An Illinois federal judge has thrown out a suit by a Kenyan firm alleging that an Illinois firm wrongly pushed it out of a fee-sharing agreement stemming from a settlement with Boeing over the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash, finding some of the claims fall under Illinois' litigation privilege, while the rest are unsupported by the complaint.

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Charter Company On The Hook For Bruce Willis Flight Mishap

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas appeals court panel on Wednesday mostly kept intact a decision finding a private jet company tasked with transporting Bruce Willis on the hook for repairs after the plane had problems starting, saying that contract language made the company responsible for repairs.

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Unions Say Halt Of Parole Is Spreading Chaos In Workplaces

By Britain Eakin

A coalition of labor unions has told the First Circuit that the abrupt termination of Biden-era humanitarian parole programs is generating "chaos in American workplaces," as workers lose their work authorization and employers are left in the lurch.

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Ill. Judge Asks Deere Rivals To Stop Pestering Court Staff

By Nadia Dreid

The judge overseeing the FTC's antitrust enforcement action against farm machinery maker Deere & Co. has penned a light-hearted order calling out another judge and asking equipment manufacturers to stop calling his staff to ask for advice.

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GOP Reps. Want Probe Of RI Judge Blocking Funding Freeze

By Jack Karp

Two Republican U.S. House members have asked the First Circuit to investigate a Rhode Island federal judge who blocked a Trump administration spending freeze, claiming the judge's link to a funding recipient constitutes a conflict of interest, one of those congressmen's office confirmed to Law360 Pulse on Wednesday.

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Analysis

Top Product Liability News In H1 2025

By Y. Peter Kang

There was no shortage of big rulings, verdicts and happenings in the product liability sphere in the first half of 2025. Here, Law360 looks at the most significant news cross-referenced with the articles that garnered the most page views.

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Analysis

High Court Case Tops List of Securities Appeals To Watch

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up at least one shareholder's lawsuit when it reopens its doors in October, and securities attorneys from both the plaintiff and defense bars will be watching that appeal and several others as the year moves forward.

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SUPREME COURT

Feature

The Funniest Moments Of The Supreme Court's Term

By Jeff Overley

After justices and oral advocates spent much of an argument pummeling a lower court's writing talents, one attorney suggested it might be time to move on — only to be told the drubbing had barely begun. Here, Law360 showcases the standout jests and wisecracks from the 2024-25 U.S. Supreme Court term.

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MARITIME

Seaman Can't Seek Punitive Damages In Hand Injury Suit

By Mike Curley

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday found that an injured seaman can't amend his complaint against his employer alleging that it mistreated him following his injury to add a punitive damages claim, saying he has failed to allege that the company engaged in callous, egregious or lax conduct.

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INSURANCE

Mich. Justices Say Old Insurance Policies Violated New Limits

By Danielle Ferguson

In a closely divided order Wednesday, the Michigan Supreme Court held that insurance policies straddling the dates for which 2019 no-fault reforms went into effect are subjected to post-reform increased limits for liability, reversing a lower appellate opinion in favor of insurers.

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EVs

Samsung SDI Co. Escapes NY Woman's E-Scooter Fire Suit

By Mike Curley

A New York federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a woman's claims against Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. over an electronic scooter battery that she said caught fire and injured her, saying she failed to establish that the court has any jurisdiction over the South Korea-based company.

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LOGISTICS

States Say DHS' Softer Stance On Grants Doesn't Moot Suit

By Zach Dupont

A collective of 20 states said Wednesday that only Congress can change the terms of federal grants, telling a Rhode Island federal judge that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's softening of its stance on withholding funds to states that don't cooperate with immigration enforcement cannot moot their suit against the government.

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UK Gov't Stands By Digital Tax Despite US Trade Deal

By Josh White

The U.K. government is standing by its digital services tax after having secured a trade deal with the U.S., despite months of talks and continued U.S. opposition to the levy, a British government spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Kousisis Concurrence Maps FCA Defense To Anti-DEI Suits

Justice Clarence Thomas' recent concurrence in Kousisis v. U.S. lays out how federal funding recipients could use the high standard for materiality in government fraud cases to fight the U.S. Justice Department’s threatened False Claims Act suits against payees deviating from the administration’s anti-DEI policies, say attorneys at Miller & Chevalier.

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8 Ways Lawyers Can Protect The Rule Of Law In Their Work

Whether they are concerned with judicial independence, regulatory predictability or client confidence, lawyers can take specific meaningful actions on their own when traditional structures are too slow or too compromised to respond, says Angeli Patel at the Berkeley Center of Law and Business.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Legal Sector Jobs Continue To Climb, Nearing All-Time High

By Aebra Coe

The U.S. legal industry added 2,800 jobs in June, marking four months in a row of job growth in the sector, according to preliminary data released Thursday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Analysis

Breaking Down The Vote: The High Court Term In Review

By Jack Karp

The U.S. Supreme Court once again waited until the term's closing weeks — and even hours — to issue some of its most anticipated and divided decisions.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

Target's board faces a shareholder derivative suit that accuses the retail giant of damaging the company by implementing an LGBTQ+ Pride-themed marketing campaign, despite knowing the risk of "public backlash." Meanwhile, SolarWinds and the SEC are close to resolving a novel case that alleges the software developer hid faulty cybersecurity practices before a major breach. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Analysis

The Firms That Won Big At The Supreme Court

By Jack Karp

The number of law firms juggling three or more arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court this past term nearly doubled from the number of firms that could make that claim last term.

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Analysis

What Judges Might Ponder In Judicial Safety Law Challenge

By Carla Baranauckas

A Third Circuit panel set to examine the constitutionality of a judicial safety law born out of the murder of a New Jersey federal judge's son is tasked with what experts are viewing as a lesser-of-two-evils choice: chilling free speech or chilling public service.

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Ex-Treasury Official Joins Covington's Nat'l Security Practice

By Madeline Lyskawa

Covington & Burling LLP has boosted its national security practice with the hire of the former head of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence under former President Barack Obama's administration as of counsel.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty leads this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Maryland school district burdened parents' religious rights when it declined to provide opt-outs from a policy that introduced LGBTQ-themed storybooks into its K-12 English curriculum.

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Spectrum, Border, Injunction Changes Included In Mega Bill

By Courtney Bublé

The House voted 218-214, almost along party lines, on Thursday on the reconciliation budget package, which includes a range of policy provisions on nationwide injunctions, spectrum and immigration and now goes to President Donald Trump's desk ahead of the decided Fourth of July deadline.

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Orrick Adds Nixon Peabody Public Finance Atty In LA

By James Mills

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is boosting its finance team, bringing in a Nixon Peabody LLP public finance pro as a partner in its Los Angeles office.

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Analysis

The Moments That Shaped The Universal Injunction Case

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

The U.S. Supreme Court voted along ideological lines when it hindered the ability of federal district court judges to issue nationwide pauses on presidential policies, but that outcome didn't seem like a foregone conclusion during oral arguments earlier this year. What do the colloquies suggest about the justices' thinking? Here are some moments that may have swayed them.

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Justices Extend Due Process Pause To South Sudan Removals

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court clarified Thursday that its recent order allowing the Trump administration to send noncitizens to countries they have no connection to with little notice or chance to object extends to a group of men the government plans to send to South Sudan.

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Analysis

Circuit-By-Circuit Recap: Justices Send Message To Outliers

By Jeff Overley

It was a tough term at the U.S. Supreme Court for two very different circuits — one solidly liberal, one solidly conservative — that had their rulings overturned in eye-popping numbers. But it was another impressive year for a relatively moderate circuit that appears increasingly simpatico with the high court.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Bankers Association

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

BDO LLP

BDO USA LLP

Bayer AG

Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.

Boehringer Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc.

CTIA

Comcast Corp.

Competitive Carriers Association

Deere & Co.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

Drummond

Embraer SA

Equifax Inc.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

FirstEnergy Corp.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Human Rights First

Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.

International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers

Jetson Electric Bikes LLC

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Major Lindsey & Africa LLC

Medtronic PLC

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Nestle Purina PetCare Co.

Oracle Corp.

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development

PacifiCorp

Palantir Technologies Inc.

Planned Parenthood Federation

Pro Bono Institute

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

RELX PLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Service Employees International Union

Slack Technologies Inc.

Smith & Wesson Brands Inc.

SolarWinds Corp.

Stanford University

Starbucks Corp.

Supervalu Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Wireless Infrastructure Association

Thomson Reuters Corp.

TikTok Inc.

UNITE HERE

United Food & Commercial Workers International Union

United States Telecom Association

Universal Health Services Inc.

University of California Davis

University of the Pacific

Valve Corp.

Walmart Inc.

Werner Enterprises Inc.

Zillow Group Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

AFN Law PLLC

Agnifilo Intrater

Alexander Dubose

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Baker Botts

Ballard Spahr

Bartlit Beck

Behm & Behm

Blank Rome

Boies Schiller

Buchanan Ingersoll

Bucher Law PLLC

Bunsow De Mory

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Constangy Brooks

Covington & Burling

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dechert LLP

Farnan LLP

FisherBroyles

Gerson & Schwartz

Gibbons PC

Gibson Dunn

Goody Law Group

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Gupta Wessler

Hamilton Miller & Birthisel

Haun Mena

Hausfeld LLP

Hawkins Parnell

Hewson & Van Hellemont

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Knight

Jenner & Block

Johnson & Bell

Johnston Tobey

Jones Day

Keller Postman

King & Spalding

Klein Thomas

Kline & Specter

Korein Tillery

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Lee & Lin

Lewis Brisbois

Lomurro Munson

Lowenstein Sandler

Manatt Phelps

McDermott Will & Emery

McElroy Deutsch

McManis Faulkner

Mike Morse Law Firm

Milbank LLP

Miller & Chevalier

Miller Canfield

Morgan & Morgan

Morrison Foerster

Nixon Peabody

Orrick Herrington

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Plunkett Cooney

Prime Legal LLC

Quinn Emanuel

RKW LLC

Raj Ferber

Riker Danzig

Seyfarth Shaw

Shapiro Arato

Sheppard Mullin

Sidley Austin

Slack Davis

Smith LaCien

Stinson LLP

Stoel Rives

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

Troutman

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Wood Smith

Wright Close & Barger

Zimmer Citron

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

Bureau of Labor Statistics

California State Treasurer's Office

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Federal Reserve System

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

Michigan Supreme Court

New Jersey Legislature

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Office of Foreign Assets Control

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative

Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. Coast Guard

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Education

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United States District Court for the District of Wyoming