Boeing Beats Bid For More Depos In Moon Mission IP Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado aerospace company cannot conduct additional depositions in its lawsuit accusing The Boeing Co. of stealing patented technology for a NASA moon exploration program, a Washington federal magistrate judge ruled.

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9th Circ. Panel Won't Revisit Boeing's $72M Trade Secret Loss

By Rachel Riley

A Ninth Circuit panel has rejected Boeing's bid for a panel rehearing of its August 2025 decision reinstating a $72 million jury verdict for electric jet startup Zunum Aero Inc. in a trade secret dispute, spurning the aerospace giant's fresh argument that the case belongs in the Federal Circuit because of the patent counterclaims involved.

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FCC Seeking More Spectrum For Space Launches, Reentry

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission is on the hunt for more spectrum that could support space launches and reentry, and is asking stakeholders to weigh in with their own ideas on how to free up the airwaves.

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ISIS-K Scout Loses Bid To Evade Verdict In Afghan Airport Bombing

By Elaine Briseño

A Virginia federal judge has ruled that the government did not have to prove that an Afghan national convicted of conspiring with ISIS-K caused a bombing at Kabul's airport as American forces were evacuating in 2021, just that he could have foreseen that the conspiracy would result in death.

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Lawmakers Press Commerce To Curb Exports To Adversaries

By Courtney Bublé

A bipartisan group of lawmakers is urging the U.S. Department of Commerce to block U.S. citizens and businesses from working for foreign civilian intelligence and security agencies in Russia, China and other "countries of concern."

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Trump Admin Unveils Smaller War Plants Commission

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Small Business Administration have established a new commission aimed at boosting the defense industrial base by expanding production capacity, eliminating regulations and providing targeted capital to small businesses.

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NTIA Has Given Final OK To All 56 State, Territory BEAD Plans

By Nadia Dreid

Nearly five years after the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act created the BEAD program, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration says it has approved all 56 final proposals from the states and territories.

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Italian Man Gets 18 Months For Ammo Export Scheme

By Elaine Briseño

A New York federal judge sentenced a wholesale distributor to 18 months in prison for allegedly helping funnel $540,000 worth of American made, military-grade ammunition to Russia during its war against Ukraine in violation of his company's license.

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4th Circ. Class Cert. Ruling Offers Tips For Damages Experts

The Fourth Circuit's recent decision reversing class certification in litigation against Boeing raises the cost of a bare-bones damages model proposal for plaintiffs, but it also clarifies what a defensible proposal should contain, say Alok Khare and Erica Rose at FTI Consulting.

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Del. Boeing Ruling Shows How Compliance Defeats Caremark

The Delaware Chancery Court's recent dismissal of shareholder litigation against Boeing's board in the wake of the Alaska Airlines door-plug blowout incident carries significant lessons for shareholders pursuing Caremark claims, and for corporate counsel advising boards on oversight obligations, says Brian Rostocki at Reed Smith.

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Bid Protest Spotlight: Evaluation Criteria, Omissions, Conflicts

In this month's bid protest roundup, James Tucker at MoFo offers takeaways from recent decisions examining a soliciting agency’s latitude to deviate from its own evaluation criteria, a missing small-business certification's materiality and an agency's mid-litigation waiver resolving meritorious conflict of interest allegations.

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Calif. Bill Curbing PE Role In Litigation Heads To Newsom

By Lauren Berg

A California bill to ban corporate investors from influencing litigation strategy is heading to Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk after passing with bipartisan support from the state Legislature.

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Pillsbury Settles Ex-Recruiting Director's Pregnancy Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has settled a Black former director's suit claiming the law firm fired her weeks after she shared that she was pregnant and would need accommodations, according to a Tennessee federal court filing.

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DOJ Flags Breach Of Internal Policies In Apple Suit

By Bryan Koenig

The U.S. Department of Justice told a New Jersey federal judge Tuesday that its staffers breached internal policies when they shared personally identifiable information with an outside discovery vendor that was hired not by the department, but instead by the DOJ's state attorneys general partners, in the monopolization case against Apple.

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Prosecutors Say Goldstein Must Stay Behind Bars

By Jared Foretek

Federal prosecutors told the Fourth Circuit on Tuesday to keep convicted Supreme Court attorney Thomas Goldstein behind bars while he appeals his conviction, arguing that he remains a serious flight risk with wealthy overseas connections and "an ongoing danger" whose tax crimes continued "even after conviction."

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Arizona Atty Reprimanded For Series Of AI Errors

By Matt Perez

An Arizona federal judge has formally reprimanded a lawyer who admitted to filing four briefs that contained errors including false quotes and a faulty case summary generated with artificial intelligence amid an employment discrimination suit, noting the lawyer previously faced sanctions on two separate occasions for violating court rules.

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House Committee Wants DOL IG To Widen Info-Sharing Probe

By Benjamin Morse

Top House Education and Workforce Committee Republicans urged the U.S. Department of Labor's watchdog Wednesday to expand its review of information-sharing arrangements with outside groups, asking whether three additional agencies improperly disclosed confidential investigative material during the Biden administration.

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