A Texas federal judge on Thursday dismissed the 737 Max criminal conspiracy case against Boeing, saying the court's hands are tied if the U.S. Department of Justice declines to prosecute the company, but noted that a $1.1 billion nonprosecution agreement still doesn't fully hold Boeing accountable.
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Judge OKs DOJ Bid To Drop Boeing 737 Max Conspiracy Case

By Linda Chiem

A Texas federal judge on Thursday dismissed the 737 Max criminal conspiracy case against Boeing, saying the court's hands are tied if the U.S. Department of Justice declines to prosecute the company, but noted that a $1.1 billion nonprosecution agreement still doesn't fully hold Boeing accountable.

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EchoStar Sells Spectrum Licenses To SpaceX In $2.6B Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Telecommunications company EchoStar, led by White & Case LLP, announced Thursday that it agreed to sell certain licenses to Elon Musk-controlled SpaceX in a $2.6 billion stock deal that builds on a previous agreement they entered into earlier this year.

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Judge Backs $68M Army Support Services Award To DNI

By Tom Lotshaw

A Court of Federal Claims judge affirmed the U.S. Army's decision to award a $68 million systems engineering support deal to DNI Emerging Technologies LLC, ruling that an incumbent contractor's protest failed to raise any reason to disturb it.

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LITIGATION

VA Union Sues Feds Over CBA Termination

By Madeline Lyskawa

A union representing more than 300,000 employees in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs have sued the federal government in Rhode Island federal court, alleging the agency's termination of the parties' collective bargaining agreement is unconstitutional. 

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Brief

Insurer, Former Exec Settle In Military Housing Fraud Case

By Tom Lotshaw

Military housing developers alleging that they were defrauded out of millions of dollars through excessive and undisclosed premiums and fees have struck a settlement agreement with two defendants, Ambac Assurance Corp. and its former managing director, Chetan Marfatia, court records show.

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PEOPLE

Amazon Taps Crowell & Moring Partner For Aviation Biz

By Gina Kim

Aviation expert and former U.S. Department of Transportation senior trial attorney Amna Arshad has joined Amazon as an associate general counsel in charge of the legal teams for its worldwide aviation business, after spending the last year and a half in the aviation and transportation practices at Crowell & Moring LLP.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Federal Acquisition Rules Get Measured Makeover

The Trump administration's promised overhaul of the Federal Acquisition Regulation is not a revolution in rules, but a meaningful recalibration of procurement practice that gives contracting officers more space to think, to tailor and to try, say attorneys at Mayer Brown.

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Series

Mindfulness Meditation Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Mindful meditation enables me to drop the ego, and in helping me to keep sight of what’s important, permits me to learn from the other side and become a reliable counselor, says Roy Wyman at Bass Berry.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Lawmakers Rip Judges Over Anonymous High Court Criticism

By Ryan Boysen

Two Republican lawmakers have asked Chief Justice John Roberts to rein in judges who've anonymously criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's flurry of "shadow docket" rulings, but a full-on investigation appears unlikely.

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Atty Exits Bankruptcy Case Amid Judge Romance Fallout

By Emily Sawicki

The embattled wind-down trustee for defunct life insurance bond seller GWG Holdings in a Houston Chapter 11 case has resigned from the role amid the fallout from her secret romance with a then-bankruptcy judge in the Southern District of Texas.

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Trump Taps Ex-Kansas AG Deputy For DOJ Legal Policy Role

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump has nominated Dan Burrows, a White House official and former chief deputy attorney general of Kansas, to be assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Legal Policy.

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Goldstein Loses Bid To Trim Tax Charges Before Trial

By Jared Foretek

A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.

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Tom Girardi's Brother, Bankruptcy Trustee Settle Legal Fees

By Lauren Berg

The brother of disgraced attorney Tom Girardi and the trustee for their now-defunct law firm, Girardi Keese, have reached an agreement resolving John Girardi's claim seeking legal fees for cases he worked on after leaving the firm, the trustee told the California bankruptcy court.

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Atty Ordered Detained After Harassment Of BigLaw Attys

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge on Thursday ordered U.S. marshals to put an attorney accused of cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms in jail until trial, saying the attorney has continued to make harassing online posts while on pretrial release and didn't attend mandatory mental health treatment.

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Judge Mehta 'Still Digging Out' From Google, Oath Keepers

By Bryan Koenig

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta said Thursday he is still playing catch-up from a period during which his time was spent with virtually nothing but the Google search case and the prosecution of Oath Keepers charged with sedition and other crimes from the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

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DOJ Gives Comey Seized Materials, Balks At Grand Jury Docs

By Lauren Berg

The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday informed a Virginia federal court that it has handed over to former FBI Director James Comey materials seized under years-old search warrants, but it will challenge a magistrate judge's order to produce grand jury materials.

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Ex-DOJ Staffer Cleared After Tossing Sandwich At CBP Officer

By Elaine Briseño

A D.C. federal jury on Thursday found former U.S. Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, not guilty of misdemeanor assault.

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2nd Circ. Orders New Look At Trump's Hush Money Case

By Aaron Keller

In a published opinion, the Second Circuit on Thursday ordered a federal district judge to take a fresh look at President Donald Trump's attempt to move his New York hush money conviction to federal court, citing the U.S. Supreme Court's 2024 presidential immunity ruling as grounds for reconsidering the case.

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Miss. Judge, US Atty Nominees Held Up In Committee

By Courtney Bublé

Consideration of judicial and U.S. attorney nominees for Mississippi has stalled in committee over tensions between senators that are unrelated to the nominations, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair's office.

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