Paul Weiss, Cleary Steer $11.75B GE Aerospace, CPP Deal

By Al Barbarino

GE Aerospace said Tuesday it has agreed to buy engineered castings maker Consolidated Precision Products from private investment firms Warburg Pincus and Berkshire Partners for $11.75 billion.

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Canada Defends Retaliatory Tariffs Against US As Necessary

By Jack McLoone

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. as they went into effect Tuesday, saying they are needed to protect Canadian workers and industries from President Donald Trump's latest trade war action.

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Boeing Avoids Broad Financial Discovery In IP Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Washington federal judge has ordered The Boeing Co. to provide some, but far from all, of the information Wilson Aerospace LLC sought for its suit accusing the aerospace giant of stealing patented technology for a NASA moon program.

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FCC Could Revamp Enviro Regs Over Broadband Deployment

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will consider slashing the number of permit reviews required for thousands of broadband deployment projects under the National Environmental Policy Act.

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Binance Seeks Dismissal Of Terrorist Attack Victims' Suit

By Madeline Lyskawa

Binance and its former CEO pushed a federal judge in Manhattan to dismiss a lawsuit claiming the cryptocurrency exchange aided and abetted 30 terrorist attacks, saying the plaintiffs still couldn't plausibly allege that the company provided knowing and substantial assistance to foreign terrorist organizations.

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Reusable-Rocket Maker Stoke Space Gets $1B Series E Boost

By Rachel Riley

Washington-based Stoke Space Technologies on Tuesday announced the initial closure of a $1 billion Series E financing round, saying the fresh funding will propel its plans to launch a fully reusable rocket early next year and accelerate its development of a larger, more advanced model.

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Defense Contractor Floats Oct. Asset Auction In Ch. 11

By Vince Sullivan

U.S. military contractor Noble Supply & Logistics LLC asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to approve bidding procedures calling for an auction of the company's assets in October, with the sale to close by Nov. 13.

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How Rogue AI May Shape Corporate Liability, Responsibility

Recent artificial intelligence cyber incidents offer a window into how companies deploying autonomous systems should document risk controls even when systems exceed their intended boundaries, as jurors may treat unexpected AI conduct as foreseeable evidence of inadequate safeguards, says Jorge Monroy at Verdict Insight Partners.

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DOJ Says Berkeley Law Is Racially Biased In Admissions

By Craig Clough

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education said Wednesday that the University of California, Berkeley School of Law discriminated against white and Asian applicants in its 2024 and 2025 admissions cycles by preferring Black applicants because of their race, violating federal civil rights law and recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent.

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Murdaugh Murder Retrial Venue Shift Fueled By Bias Concern

By Emily Sawicki

A South Carolina trial court has approved a request to move Alex Murdaugh's murder retrial to a different county, finding the disgraced attorney could not expect a fair trial in Colleton County, where his wife and son were killed and where he was previously convicted for the crimes.

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Sugar Buyers Want Paul Weiss DQ'd From Price-Fixing MDL

By Dorothy Atkins

Hershey, J.M. Smucker and other food makers urged a Minnesota federal judge Tuesday to disqualify Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP from representing Domino Foods in sugar price-fixing multidistrict litigation, arguing the firm is conflicted out because it saw their confidential sugar-purchasing data when it was being considered as plaintiffs' counsel.

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Virginia Law Prof Says He'll Take USPTO General Counsel Job

By Jack Rodgers

A University of Virginia School of Law professor who has taught tort, administrative, patent and international intellectual property law there for more than 15 years recently said he plans to become the new general counsel of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

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Hogan Lovells Partner Tapped For Mass. Judgeship

By Julie Manganis

A Hogan Lovells Cadwalader senior partner has been nominated to a seat as an associate justice on the Massachusetts Superior Court, the governor's office announced Wednesday.

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Kilpatrick Atty Tapped For Yakima County Bench In Wash.

By Ben Adlin

Washington's governor appointed Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP litigator Bree R. Black Horse to the Yakima County Superior Court bench on Wednesday, filling the first new position added to that court in nearly three decades.

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