DOD Halts Cybersecurity Program Phase Over Cost, Alignment

By Madeline Lyskawa

The Pentagon has suspended the next phase of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program, which is aimed at boosting cybersecurity standards across the defense industrial base, or DIB, while it reviews whether the program aligns with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's acquisition priorities. 

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White House Unveils New AI Cybersecurity Clearinghouse

By Hailey Konnath

The White House has launched a clearinghouse for both the government and the private sector that's aimed at identifying and patching cyber vulnerabilities using artificial intelligence, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

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Key Witness In Halkbank Exec's Sanctions Trial Avoids Prison

By Stewart Bishop

A Turkish-Iranian businessman-turned-linchpin cooperator in the trial of a Halkbank executive has been spared further incarceration over his role in an alleged $20 billion scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil and gas proceeds through bribery and illicit transactions that laundered payments to Iran's government.

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Claims In Challenge To Coast Guard Vessel Routes Tossed

By Ganesh Setty

A California federal judge said environmental groups have prematurely challenged a U.S. Coast Guard vessel route study they said fails to protect species from shipping traffic along the Pacific Coast, noting the Coast Guard hasn't adopted its recommendations.

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Nadine Menendez Can't Reclaim Jewelry During Appeal

By Craig Clough

A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied Nadine Menendez's bid to force the return of jewelry seized from her home during a bribery investigation tied to her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, ruling that the government had lawfully taken the items and can keep them while her appeal is pending.

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2 Firms Tapped To Lead Super Micro Investor Action

By Sydney Price

A California federal judge has appointed Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP to lead a now-consolidated investor class action alleging Super Micro Computer failed to disclose that a large portion of its server sales were made to Chinese companies in transactions that violated U.S. export controls and led to three arrests.

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Gov't Shouldn't Face Vax Suit Targeting Moderna, Group Says

By Elliot Weld

Conservative advocacy organization Eagle Forum Education & Legal Defense Fund on Tuesday urged the Federal Circuit to reject a proposal to shift a multibillion-dollar patent infringement case over the COVID-19 vaccine that is targeting Moderna to the federal government, saying doing so would reduce the crucial economic incentives that power innovation in the pharmaceutical industry.

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Machinists Seek Arbitration Over Contractor Firing

By Corey Rothauser

International Association of Machinists affiliates have asked a Florida federal judge to order an Air Force contractor to arbitrate a grievance over the firing of a union-represented employee, arguing the company is refusing to follow the dispute resolution process required by the parties' collective bargaining agreement.

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Wilson Sonsini-Led TerraFirma Secures $115M Of New Capital

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Critical infrastructure-focused construction company TerraFirma, advised by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC, on Tuesday revealed that it raised around $115 million in new capital.

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Lessons On Contingency Planning From OFAC's Iran Reversal

The Office of Foreign Assets Control‘s abrupt revocation of a recent license easing sanctions on Iranian oil products shows commercial dealings relying on OFAC licenses or with higher sanctions risks should expressly address what happens if a policy change makes performance prohibited, says Michelle Roberts at Berliner Corcoran.

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Reviving Prize Law Would Reshape Maritime Seizure Risks

Recent U.S. maritime interdictions of sanctioned tankers and shadow fleet vessels raise urgent questions about whether civil forfeiture or prize law — a framework that has not been meaningfully tested since the Spanish-American War — governs and the potential impacts on vessel owners, charterers and insurers, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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Blanche Called Anti-Weaponization Fund 'Mistake,' Per Durbin

By Courtney Bublé

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Tuesday the anti-weaponization fund created as part of the president's settlement with the IRS was "a mistake," according to Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., after his meeting with Blanche.

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Justices Seek More Funds Over Increased Threats, Talk Ethics

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan made rare Capitol Hill appearances Tuesday, discussing the court's budget request for fiscal 2027, the "shadow docket" and ethics issues.

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Quinn Emanuel, Spiro Ousted From CoStar Copyright Fight

By Elliot Weld

A California federal judge has disqualified Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its attorney Alex Spiro from representing a commercial real estate platform in a copyright infringement suit brought by CoStar, agreeing that the firm's representation of CoStar in a different case should result in its removal from this one.

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Bronx Defenders Union OKs Strike 1 Year After Last Walkout

By Andrea Keckley

The Bronx Defenders has become the third New York City-based legal aid organization to authorize a strike this month, which comes just one year after the group's most recent walkout.

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Trump Lawyer Matthew Schwartz Confirmed To 2nd Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 50-45, along party lines, on Tuesday to confirm Matthew Schwartz, one of President Donald Trump's personal attorneys and a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

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Ky. Law Prof Wants Court To Block Judge For Dean Pick

By Hailey Konnath

A University of Kentucky law professor asked a federal court to block U.S. District Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove from becoming the next law school dean, claiming that the appointment has "stripped the faculty" of their credibility on the basis of peer review.

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Calif. Bar Settles With Administrators Of 'Disastrous' Bar Exam

By Andrea Keckley

The State Bar of California has reached a settlement with the administrators of its "disastrous" February 2025 bar exam, whose array of highly publicized technical glitches prevented hundreds of aspiring lawyers from completing the test.

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