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  • August 20, 2026

    Podhurst, Ex-Client Take Malpractice Fight To Lion Air Judge

    The Illinois federal judge handling consolidated wrongful death litigation over Lion Air Flight 610's crash agreed on Thursday to take on malpractice claims a widow recently lodged against Podhurst Orseck PA for allegedly failing to communicate about her $4 million settlement over the 2018 tragedy.

  • August 20, 2026

    SBA Proposes Broad Changes To Small-Biz Size Standards

    The U.S. Small Business Administration has moved to overhaul how the agency defines small businesses by proposing new standards that would simplify industry classifications and dramatically increase size thresholds, which would lead to about 114,000 more businesses being classified as small.

  • August 20, 2026

    11th Circ. Saves Delta-Aeromexico Joint Venture

    The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday handed Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico a decisive win by vacating a U.S. Department of Transportation order directing them to dismantle their nearly decade-long joint venture, saying the DOT applied a skewed standard and made unsupported findings about the partnership's purported anticompetitive effects.

  • August 20, 2026

    9th Circ. Sides With NLRB In Wash. Terminal Union Work Fight

    The full Ninth Circuit Thursday backed the National Labor Relations Board's decision in a union battle for work on a Seattle marine cargo terminal, ruling the International Longshore and Warehouse Union can't use the "work-preservation defense" to defeat accusations that it illegally pressured an employer for disputed work.

  • August 20, 2026

    USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. 'Settled Expectations' Is Constitutional

    The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject Google's constitutional challenge to the office's "settled expectations" policy of taking the age of patents into account when deciding whether to review them, saying the rule is "eminently rational."

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