Aerospace & Defense
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Latest News in Aerospace & Defense
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May 17, 2019
SF Picks Side Of Privacy With Ban On Facial Recognition Tech
The debate over facial recognition is heating up as San Francisco prepares to enact the nation's first ban on the controversial technology, with privacy advocates praising the step and others warning against too harshly limiting a useful tool for guarding public safety.
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May 17, 2019
Gov't Must Provide Info In Challenge To 2-For-1 Rule Order
The D.C. federal judge presiding over public interest groups' challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order requiring that for every new regulation, two rules must be eliminated, said Friday that federal agencies must do a better job complying with discovery.
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May 17, 2019
Trump’s Border Wall Faces Skeptical Calif. Judge
A California federal judge appeared open Friday to blocking the Trump administration from repurposing defense funds to build a wall along the southern border, saying he doesn't know if it is right to let the government build the wall before legal challenges to it are resolved.
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May 17, 2019
Military Medical Malpractice Legislation Gives Victims Hope
A recently floated bill that would allow active-duty military members to sue the federal government for medical malpractice is an encouraging first step in providing justice for victims who are barred from filing such cases because of a 70-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent, experts said.
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May 17, 2019
Don't Reduce Arbitration To 'Sham' Proceeding, 5th Circ. Told
China’s state-run aerospace corporation again told the Fifth Circuit on Thursday to overturn the confirmation of a $70 million award over a soured joint venture, arguing that the prevailing companies' perspective would turn arbitrations into “sham proceedings.”
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- AGENCIES
- U.S. Department of Defense
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- Lateral hires in aerospace and defense practices
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- Profiles of aerospace and defense practices
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