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Editors-in-Chief Column: Summer 2026
Summary A review of federal laws highlights the conflict between safety disclosures for spaceflight participants and U.S. export control regulations, advocating for reforms to balance these competing obligations. A discussion of secured lending for off-world assets identifies challenges in collateral management and explores solutions like the U.C.C., blockchain, and smart contracts amid regulatory constraints.
Choppy Airspace Awaits Airlines Attempting Mergers in 2024
A merger between the nation’s fifth- and tenth-largest airlines – Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines, respectively – likely would not have prompted aggressive scrutiny by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Antitrust Division just a few years ago. Indeed, the biggest airlines have long used mergers to increase market share. However, there is now considerable turbulence in the atmosphere as regulators try to stop mergers of smaller airlines seeking a competitive market advantage of their own.
Alaska-Hawaiian Airline Deal Is Exposed to Anti-Merger Fervor
Alaska Air Group Inc. and Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. in early December announced Alaska Airlines’ plan to buy Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9 billion, while agencies were concluding the bench trial over the government’s challenge to the merger between JetBlue Airways Corp. and Spirit Airlines, Inc. Alaska declared it would assume $900 million of Hawaiian’s debt but keep the airlines separate, much like it operates Horizon Air.
Antitrust Suit Alleging Price-Fixing in the Markets for Cement Additives Lands in Pa. Court
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US Airlines Face Heightened Merger Scrutiny From Democratic Officials
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US Airlines Face Heightened Merger Scrutiny From Democratic Officials
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Federal Road Map for Sustainable Aviation Needs Teeth
An escalating climate crisis, advances in alternative fuel technologies, and a more favorable political environment have ushered in new initiatives to reduce and ultimately eliminate the use of carbon fuels to operate commercial aircraft. The ultimate goal is to develop sustainable aviation fuel and similar bio-fuel precursors of sufficient quantity. In essence, it would be the “nautilization” of the airline industry.
Biden Plan Calls for Carbon Neutral Jet Fuel by 2050 With Eye Towards Biofuels | JD Supra
A recently-issued multi-agency report highlights a path for the U.S. government to replace fossil fuel-based jet fuel with renewable sources to address climate change and encourage infrastructure development. The U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Transportation, and Department of Agriculture, with input from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, unveiled their Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge Roadmap on September 23, 2022.
The Impact of the New Inflation Reduction Act on Infrastructure Initiatives | JD Supra
Congress has injected yet another wave of stimulus funding as the Biden Administration attempts to shape the future of America’s infrastructure. On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed into law House Bill 5376, known as the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The IRA, like the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) that preceded it, establishes several funding opportunities and subsidies for key infrastructure industries.
Ten Things to Know About Successful Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Cases | JD Supra
U.S. manufacturers face many challenges, but they do not do so alone. An entire system of trade laws and enforcement exists to help “level the playing field” and respond to competition from unfairly priced imports. Sometimes the decision not to take advantage of trade laws and to allow foreign competition to take away sales or induce lower prices or inhibit price increases is in itself a monumental decision.
Can the Dormant Commerce Clause Shield Airlines from Applying State Wage-and-Hour Laws to Employees who Fly Predominately Outside that State? | JD Supra
Airlines are creatures of interstate and international commerce: roaming the skies and crossing territorial boundaries to deliver passengers and cargoes to destinations not cabined by state lines. To avoid unfair application of laws and conflicting legal regimes, individual state laws must be applied in a manner that does not overreach.
Chicago Court Rules Montreal Convention Preempts an Airfare Class Action for Weather‑Cancelled Flights | JD Supra
In an opinion issued on January 15, 2021, the Circuit Court for Cook County, Illinois dismissed an attempted class action lawsuit seeking refunds for flights canceled by Interjet Airlines. The plaintiff claimed that her January 30, 2019 flight from Chicago to Mexico was cancelled because of the Polar Vortex that brought sub-zero temperatures into the area, and that she chose to buy a ticket on another airline rather than fly on Interjet’s next available departure, which was five days later.
DC Circuit is Considering Issuance of an Emergency Order to Re-Ground the Boeing 737 MAX Aircraft | JD Supra
After two foreign-territory crashes and a resulting 21-month-plus forced grounding, the Boeing 737 MAX returned to the U.S. skies on December 29, 2020, which followed authorization from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on November 18.
Contractors Should Not Leave Money On The Table: The Federal Circuit Clears The Way For Boeing To Use The Tucker Act To Sue DoD For
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. In these unprecedented, economically-challenging times for the aviation industry, it is especially important that airlines, manufacturers and other industry stakeholders have an accessible avenue open to them for pursuing reimbursement claims against the federal government arising out of government contracts.
Contractors Should Not Leave Money on the Table: The Federal Circuit Clears the Way for Boeing to Use the Tucker Act to Sue DoD for “Illegal Exaction” in Connection with Contract Costs | Stinson - Government Contracting Matters - JDSupra
In these unprecedented, economically-challenging times for the aviation industry, it is especially important that airlines, manufacturers and other industry stakeholders have an accessible avenue open to them for pursuing reimbursement claims against the federal government arising out of government contracts.
Pandemic Class Action Refund Lawsuits Against Airlines Ignore Long-Standing Precedent | JD Supra
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Pandemic Class Action Refund Lawsuits Against Airlines Ignore Long-Standing Precedent | Lexology
Class action plaintiffs lawyers have reacted to the COVID-19 pandemic by filing putative class actions against airlines which, in order to conserve desperately needed cash, are offering travel credits in lieu of cash refunds for flights canceled because of the pandemic.
Are Airlines on the Hook for State and Local Taxes Addressing Homelessness? | JD Supra
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CATEX Controversy: The Ninth Circuit Strikes Down FAA Decision to Exempt a Sea-Tac Operational Change from Environmental Review | JD Supra
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United States to Allow U.S. Nationals to Sue Companies Alleged to be Trafficking in Property Confiscated by the Cuban Government | JD Supra
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Airline Passengers Should be Free from Exorbitant PFCs | JD Supra
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Texas Duel Between Lufthansa and Sabre | JD Supra
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Fuel for Thought: Let's Close the "Leaky Valve" in How Aircraft Fuel Taxes are Spent | JD Supra
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Federal Court Greenlights Car Sharing Company's Challenge to LAX Fees | JD Supra
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Wyoming Supreme Court Rules that Airport Operator Is Subject to Open Records Law | JD Supra
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Amiodarone Use in Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Residents
To view the full text, please login as a subscribed user or purchase a subscription. Click here to view the full text on ScienceDirect. Amiodarone is a potent antiarrhythmic which is effective for maintaining sinus rhythm but with potentially disabling side effects. There are well known black-box warnings associated with its continued use: sudden death and deadly side effects including pulmonary toxicity, hepatotoxicity and proarrhythmia.
Let’s get an LTCI army
I own long-term care insurance (LTCI) myself who’s struggled for years to promote LTCI. Here’s an idea for a low-cost way of expanding the LTCI market: Let’s get Congress to make any taxpayers who are already eligible for a federal LTCI income tax break to make that break available for a given taxable year from Jan. 1 through April 15 during the “tax filing” year. Think about it: From Jan.
The answer: Now | ThinkAdvisor
It’s a good time to be in the long-term care insurance (LTCI) business. New policy designs can fill most any need. And, with the revolution in the way medical care is paid for and how medical care will be delivered in the future, the public’s mind is open to change, thus enabling the LTCI industry to enter into a new growth phase, with big consequences for the channels of distribution. Product evolution The life insurance industry has had more than 200 years to evolve; LTCI products, less than 40.
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