Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Monday it has agreed to purchase Varex Imaging Corp. in a deal valued at about $1.1 billion, with Latham & Watkins LLP and McGuireWoods LLP advising Teledyne and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP representing Varex.
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3 Firms Guide Teledyne's $1.1B Varex Imaging Deal

By Al Barbarino

Teledyne Technologies Inc. said Monday it has agreed to purchase Varex Imaging Corp. in a deal valued at about $1.1 billion, with Latham & Watkins LLP and McGuireWoods LLP advising Teledyne and Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP representing Varex.

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Judge Blocks DOD Military Label For Chinese Biotech Co.

By Tom Lotshaw

A D.C. federal judge temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Defense from enforcing a decision to designate WuXi AppTec Co. Ltd. as a Chinese military company, ruling the department's justifications appeared to lack a grounding in the evidence they cited.

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Judge Certifies Military Class In Delta Pilots' Leave Suit

By MJ Koo

Delta pilots who alleged that the airline failed to pay them for short-term military absences secured class certification in Georgia federal court, with a judge finding the core question of whether the airline's uniform leave policy violates federal military leave law can be resolved using common evidence.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Team Telecom Probing T-Mobile's Plan To Buy Fiber Co. Stake

By Nadia Dreid

T-Mobile has a $2 billion plan to acquire a 50% stake in a joint venture that seeks to combine two fiber companies, but the FCC won't say yea or nay to the deal until Team Telecom — a multiagency group that vets transactions involving foreign individuals and U.S. telecom companies — finishes looking into the matter.

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Calif. Unveils Novel AI Cyber Defense Plan For Critical Assets

By Allison Grande

California's governor on Monday rolled out a first-of-its-kind initiative to help state agencies, local governments and critical infrastructure providers use artificial intelligence to detect and respond to increasingly sophisticated cyberthreats and be better prepared for incidents fueled by emerging AI technologies.

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FCC Urged To Tighten 'Covered List' Regs

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A foreign policy think tank has asked the Federal Communications Commission to adopt a more comprehensive set of regulations to bar devices containing parts that are made by entities on the agency's Covered List, which identifies equipment and services deemed national security risks.

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ENFORCEMENT

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Soldier Must Wait To Argue CFTC Case Over Maduro Trades

By Jessica Corso

The U.S. Army sergeant facing allegations that he profited off his insider knowledge of the raid that captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro cannot challenge the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission case against him while he faces criminal charges, a New York federal judge has ruled.

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LITIGATION

Boeing Must Face Depositions In Moon Exploration IP Row

By Benjamin Morse

A Washington federal magistrate judge has partly granted a Colorado aerospace company's bid for more depositions in an intellectual property suit against Boeing over technology used in NASA's moon program, while rejecting broader requests for financial information and documents.

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Boeing 737 Max Door Plug Suits Get Special Discovery Judge

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state court appointed retired King County Superior Court Judge Bruce W. Hilyer to oversee discovery matters in more than a dozen lawsuits related to the January 2024 blowout of a Boeing 737 Max 9 jet door plug that allegedly left passengers with physical and emotional injuries.

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Okla. Co. Says Rig Seizure Claims Don't Need Redo

By Caroline Simson

An Oklahoma-based oil drilling company urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to disturb a D.C. Circuit ruling ordering Venezuela's state-owned oil company to face long-pending expropriation allegations, saying an underlying circuit split is too narrow to warrant the high court's attention.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

Defense Tech Startup Lyntris Launches Plans For $492M IPO

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Private equity-backed defense technology company Lyntris Inc. on Monday filed plans with U.S. regulators to raise roughly $492 million in its initial public offering led by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Trump Picks Ex-Personal Lawyer As New White House Counsel

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's incoming White House counsel is a former personal attorney for the president who is already working for the White House and was at the U.S. Department of Justice during his first term.

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Ill. Gov. Signs Bill Restricting PE Role In Legal Industry

By Emma Cueto

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker has signed into law a bill designed to target nonlawyer ownership of law firms, outlawing fee sharing with out-of-state alternative business structures and attempting to place restrictions on law firms' use of managed services organizations.

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Spa Fights 9th Circ.'s 'Swinging Dicks' Order At High Court

By Jeff Overley

The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a spa's religious objections to serving transgender customers is incompatible with several major precedents, according to a U.S. Supreme Court petition filed Monday in litigation that soared in prominence when dozens of circuit judges decried a salacious dissent.

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CREXi Can't Stay CoStar Case For Quinn Emanuel DQ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

A California federal court rejected a bid Monday from Commercial Real Estate Exchange Inc., or CREXi, for a stay in CoStar's copyright case while CREXi looks to undo the disqualification of its attorneys from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

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Biz Owners Appeal Morgan Lewis Win In Tax Shelter Suit

By Andrea Keckley

A pair of business owners asked the Florida Supreme Court to reverse a decision affirming judgment in favor of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP in a dispute over whether the law firm had routed income through illegal tax shelters.

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BDO LLP

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CoStar Group Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

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Greenlight Networks

Helmerich & Payne Inc.

Lambda Legal Defense & Educational Fund

LinkedIn Corp.

LoopNet Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Oak Hill Capital Partners LP

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Pacific Justice Institute

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Teledyne Technologies Inc.

The Boeing Co.

Trive Capital

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Johnson Pope Bokor Ruppel & Burns LLP

Kneupper & Covey

Latham & Watkins

Mark Lindquist Law

McGuireWoods

Morgan Lewis

Orrick Herrington

Outten & Golden

Peter Romer-Friedman Law

Quinn Emanuel

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Sperling Kenny

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Susman Godfrey

The Barton Firm LLP

Troutman

Vinson & Elkins

Willkie Farr

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National Transportation Safety Board

U.S. Army

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

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