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July 08, 2026
A Georgia federal judge reportedly disciplined for having sexual intercourse in her chambers and attending a political event has opted not to recuse herself in the case of a former UPS employee in his dismissed racial discrimination lawsuit.
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July 08, 2026
The Mexican government said Toyota will retain operations in the country following the automaker's announcement to move some production of its Tacoma truck to the U.S. and indicated a new $500 million investment by an unnamed auto manufacturer will be announced imminently.
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July 08, 2026
A federal judge's ruling on whether the Trump administration can move U.S. Space Command's headquarters from Colorado to Alabama and a jury's determination of liability for a private prison operator in a forced labor class action are among the Colorado court cases to watch in the coming months. Here, Law360 looks at four Colorado cases to watch for during the rest of 2026.
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July 08, 2026
A small Massachusetts credit union for General Electric employees has agreed to a settlement with the state over its auto repossession practices.
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July 07, 2026
Mitsubishi Motors North America Inc. on Tuesday secured an order blocking a New Jersey car dealership from continuing to operate as an authorized Mitsubishi dealer after a federal judge determined the automaker likely lawfully terminated the franchise over alleged staffing, training and inventory issues.
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July 07, 2026
Baltimore County has told a Maryland federal judge that it's entitled to recover "concrete and calculable" economic damages and search-and-rescue expenses over the Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, rejecting efforts to slash damages owed by the owner and manager of the cargo ship that rammed into the bridge.
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July 07, 2026
Cadillac Lyriq owners from six states have dropped their proposed class action against General Motors that claims it sold luxury electric vehicles with defects that cause the SUV to become inoperable, with the counsel for the drivers saying they intend to move the case to Michigan.
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July 07, 2026
Truck drivers denied overtime under a Fair Labor Standards Act carveout for interstate commerce urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to find they're entitled to the pay, saying that they drove only within California and that their employers' "predictive model" order fulfillment system doesn't qualify their deliveries as interstate commerce.
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July 07, 2026
In an unpublished opinion issued Monday, a Sixth Circuit panel revived some disability claims brought against Kalitta Air LLC by a cargo pilot after he was fired for refusing to get a second COVID-19 vaccine because he suffered a severe reaction from the first dose.
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July 07, 2026
Elon Musk's Tesla has convinced the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to invalidate a wireless technology patent owned by Intellectual Ventures II, a win for the electric car company in its intellectual property war with the patent holding entity.
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July 07, 2026
A Massachusetts state court has certified a class of employees at dozens of car dealerships under the Herb Chambers brand who alleged they were not paid overtime or Sunday premium pay in accordance with the state's wage law.
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July 07, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Monday refused General Motors LLC's bid for the names and contact dates of drivers who reached out to plaintiffs' counsel in a faulty transmission suit, ruling that the information gathering would be overly burdensome to the plaintiffs and of limited value to GM's statute of limitations defense.
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July 07, 2026
A Connecticut automotive accessories company has reached a deal with a nonprofit that owns the rights to the "Terrible Towel" trademarks associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers fanbase to resolve a trademark infringement suit.
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July 07, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has denied FCA US LLC's motion to make an Illinois couple arbitrate their claims that the automaker manufactured and sold defective Jeep vehicles prone to dangerous underhood fires, saying FCA did not produce evidence that the consumers agreed to an arbitration provision.
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July 07, 2026
A Court of Federal Claims judge has scrapped a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers award for a river lock and dam project in Oklahoma, ruling that a disparity in its evaluation of proposals may have caused one company to land the deal over another.
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July 07, 2026
An estate trying to hold Uber accountable for the death of a driver should be forced to resolve its grievances in arbitration because Emmanuel Kwame Gbedee Sr. accepted a company agreement with an arbitration clause, Uber told a North Carolina federal court.
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July 07, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday partially unraveled an early win for a multiemployer pension fund in a dispute over $13 million in withdrawal liability against several Illinois truck dealership companies, holding the lower court needed to recalculate some of the interest and damages assessed.
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July 07, 2026
General Motors and class members who secured a $150 million settlement in a class action over alleged fire risks in the Chevrolet Bolt on Tuesday asked the Sixth Circuit not to let a small group of drivers opt out of the deal — or hold it up in their attempts to do so.
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July 07, 2026
A furniture retailer and a last-mile delivery company have agreed to a $2.5 million settlement resolving a roughly 9-year-old class action brought by workers alleging delivery truck drivers and helpers were misclassified and denied overtime pay, according to a motion for preliminary approval filed in New Jersey federal court.
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July 07, 2026
FedEx shorted warehouse workers by requiring them to undergo unpaid security screenings before and after their shifts, according to a proposed class action filed in Colorado federal court Tuesday.
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July 07, 2026
An insurer for a home renovation company is bound by a nearly $78 million judgment in an underlying suit over an auto collision involving a worker who was on the way to perform plumbing services and cannot attack the judgment as fraudulent, a California federal judge has ruled.
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July 06, 2026
Stability AI, Runway AI and DeviantArt used at least 100,000 copyrighted car photos without permission to train their artificial intelligence image generators, according to a lawsuit lodged by automotive photography company Evox Productions in California federal court.
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July 06, 2026
The manufacturer of devices that allegedly allow drivers to disable vehicle emissions controls cannot force the government to provide a deposition witness to explain the capabilities and uses of its own products, a New York federal judge ruled, slamming the request as "a thinly disguised attempt to obtain plaintiff's contentions and analysis."
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July 06, 2026
The first half of 2026 saw the Trump administration's push to restrict renewable energy development hit judicial speed bumps and the U.S. Supreme Court potentially change the course of long-running cases that pit state governments against oil and gas heavyweights. Here are several court decisions that stood out for energy attorneys in the first half of this year.
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July 06, 2026
A Michigan federal judge on Monday declined to sanction an auto parts supplier in a dispute over a temporary restraining order, finding the company did not make false statements or engage in the bad-faith conduct required to justify sanctions.