Justices To Review Guam Munitions Disposal Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Guam community group's challenge to the U.S. Air Force's bid to explode expired munitions on the island, after a divided Ninth Circuit found the agency should have conducted an environmental review.

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Anthropic Sues Over Trump Admin's 'Campaign Of Retaliation'

By Madeline Lyskawa

Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday, challenging the Pentagon's designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply chain risk to national security after Anthropic refused to allow its technology to be used for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. 

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Dutch High Court Affirms $1.3B Satellite Award Enforcement

By Caroline Simson

The Netherlands' highest court has affirmed that a decade-old $1.3 billion arbitral award issued to a satellite communications company can be enforced against a commercial division of India's space agency, despite the award being set aside in India.

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NY Judge Tosses Terror Victims' Binance Suit, For Now

By Sydney Price

A lawsuit against Binance and Changpeng Zhao, its former CEO, brought by the victims of 64 terrorist attacks was dismissed on Friday when a New York federal judge determined that the plaintiffs have not directly linked any wrongdoing by the cryptocurrency exchange to their injuries.

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Turkey's Halkbank Reaches Deal To Exit Iranian Sanctions Case

By Stewart Bishop

U.S. authorities and Turkey's Halkbank have agreed to end the long-running criminal case accusing the state-backed lender of scheming to launder billions of dollars in sanctioned Iranian oil proceeds, in a no-fine deal that's explicitly tied to Turkey's diplomatic efforts in the Israel-Hamas war.

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FCC Set to Hear Challenge To Nat'l Security Listing For Drones

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has asked the public what it thinks about drone maker DJI's request that the agency reconsider whether its products belong on a list of national security risks, giving anyone opposed to the petition a month to make themselves heard.

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Fed. Circ. Punts On Ligado's $40B Spectrum Takings Claim

By Christopher Cole

Federal Circuit judges declined to rule for now on whether to dismiss network company Ligado's nearly $40 billion claim alleging the government has trampled its property rights by using airwaves Ligado bought for exclusive use.

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5th Circ. Revives Fraud Case Against Lockheed Martin

By Spencer Brewer

A split Fifth Circuit panel gave a former auditor at Lockheed Martin Corp. another shot at pursuing claims alleging that her erstwhile employer defrauded the government, with the majority ruling Monday that her lawsuit had enough differences from an earlier suit to go forward.

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Intuit Faces MLA Suit Over 'Refund Advance' Loans

By Sydney Price

TurboTax distributor Intuit Inc. and several of its partners were hit with a proposed class action alleging their process for distributing tax refund advance loans comes with high costs and arbitration clauses that are prohibited by the Military Lending Act.

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NASA Contractors Seek Full Fed. Circ. Review Of Patent Fight

By Elaine Briseño

The owners of a rotary wing vehicle technology patent said the Federal Circuit expanded the scope of immunity when affirming a lower court ruling that said a NASA contractor could escape their infringement lawsuit because the government authorized use of its technology.

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Archer Says Air Taxi Rival Joby Hid China Ties, Imports

By Ivan Moreno

Archer Aviation fired back at electric air-taxi competitor Joby Aviation's trade secret lawsuit Monday, launching counterclaims that accuse Joby of unfair competition and false advertising by allegedly concealing China-based sourcing and misclassifying imports to evade tariffs.

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Resilience Planning As Nat'l Security Shifts Tech Import Policy

In response to a sustained reorientation of U.S. trade policy around national security considerations, businesses reliant on processed critical minerals must closely monitor diplomatic negotiations and the potential expansion of trade measures, incorporating contingency planning into procurement and long-term investment strategies, says attorney Sohan Dasgupta.

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How The New Tariff Landscape May Unfold

To replace tariffs formerly imposed under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the administration will rely on a patchwork of statutes, potentially leading to procedural challenges and a complex tariff landscape with varying levels, durations and applicability, says Joseph Grossman-Trawick at King & Spalding.

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Kavanaugh, Jackson Debate High Court Emergency Orders

By Katie Buehler

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back Monday against critiques that the high court is ruling in favor of President Donald Trump in emergency appeals more often than it did for prior presidents, saying people who believe those allegations have "short" memories. 

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Ex-DLA Piper Atty Alleging Rape Can't Remain Anonymous

By Lauren Berg

A former Boston-based DLA Piper associate cannot use a pseudonym to pursue a lawsuit alleging she was raped by one of the firm's former partners, a Massachusetts judge ruled, noting that she already publicly revealed her identity in a related suit against the accused attorney.

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Employment Law Cases Have Rebounded Except For FLSA

By Max Kutner

Employment law cases overall have bounced back from pandemic-era lows, especially discrimination and disability accommodation suits, though a slump has continued for Fair Labor Standards Act claims, according to a report by legal analytics provider Lex Machina.

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NJ US Atty Trio Booted In 2nd Leadership Ouster

By George Woolston

A federal judge on Monday disqualified the three assistant attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, finding the "byzantine" leadership structure is unconstitutional.

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SCOTUSblog Founder Goldstein To Be Sentenced In June

By Emily Sawicki

SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein, currently under home confinement in Washington, D.C., after a Maryland jury convicted him on tax evasion and mortgage fraud charges, will face sentencing in June.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured disputes spanning alleged forged board approvals at a telecom startup, evidence-destruction claims tied to WWE's blockbuster merger with UFC and investor scrutiny of a multibillion-dollar deal between Intel and the U.S. government.

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McGuireWoods Beats Sun Pharma's DQ Bid In NJ Suit

By George Woolston

A New Jersey federal court has denied Sun Pharmaceutical's bid to disqualify McGuireWoods LLP from representing pharmaceutical company Biofrontera in litigation over the alleged breach of a settlement agreement, ruling the firm's continued representation won't harm Sun Pharmaceutical and will avoid significant harm to Biofrontera.

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Lewis Brisbois Renews Bid To Force Paralegal To Arbitrate

By Adrian Cruz

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP asked a Florida state judge on Friday to have a former paralegal arbitrate her defamation claims that its actions tarnished her reputation and cost her a job at another firm.

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K&L Gates IP Atty Tapped For Wash. Supreme Court Seat

By Rachel Riley

A K&L Gates intellectual property litigator will become the Washington State Supreme Court's first justice of Middle Eastern descent, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said Monday, announcing his pick to replace veteran retiring Justice Barbara Madsen.

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