The Boeing Co. asked a Washington federal judge to dismiss a breach of contract claim as untimely from a Colorado aerospace company alleging theft of its patented technology, according to a motion for judgment on the pleadings.
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TOP NEWS

Boeing Says NASA Program Contract Claim Came Too Late

By Zach Dupont

The Boeing Co. asked a Washington federal judge to dismiss a breach of contract claim as untimely from a Colorado aerospace company alleging theft of its patented technology, according to a motion for judgment on the pleadings.

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Gibson Dunn, Davis Polk Guide SpaceX's IPO Filing

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Elon Musk's SpaceX has officially filed plans for its blockbuster initial public offering, a long-anticipated move that could value the private space exploration giant at up to $1.75 trillion.

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NC Co. Filed Veterans' Disability Claims Without Accreditation

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina business violated federal law by preparing veterans' disability claims for a fee without proper accreditation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, handing a limited victory to a class of veterans by rejecting the company's claim that it acted merely as a consultant.

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Migrants Seek More Docs In Martha's Vineyard Flights Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

Migrants suing over an alleged scheme to lure them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to order a private contractor to turn over documents they say will illuminate the broader contours of a plan for migrant relocation trips.

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DOJ Unseals Charges Against Ex-Cuban Prez Raul Castro

By Carolina Bolado

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges Wednesday against former Cuban President Raúl Castro over the deaths in 1996 of four Cuban Americans whose planes were shot down by the Cuban government, in a move that attorneys said could signal the beginning of the end for the Cuban regime.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Brief

FCC Clears Nokia Routers After DOD Security Review

By Nadia Dreid

Nokia will still be able to import some of its foreign made routers after receiving the Federal Communications Commission's blessing and conditional approval and exemption from the agency's covered list of equipment the agency has deemed a national security risk.

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LITIGATION

Aerospace Co.'s Bid Revived To Bar Alleged Secrets Use

By Elliot Weld

The Sixth Circuit has disagreed with a lower judge who declined to issue an injunction against an engineer accused of stealing trade secrets just before he left his old company for a rival, saying the facts "clearly weigh in favor of granting injunctive relief."

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Lendlease Wants NC Military Housing Suit Tossed

By Isaac Monterose

Lendlease Americas Inc. pushed for dismissal of a suit filed by U.S. military families who accused it and other companies of running uninhabitable homes on North Carolina's Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, arguing in North Carolina federal court that the plaintiffs are mistaken about the company's arguments for dismissal.

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Binance Libel Suit Doesn't Show Actual Malice, Dow Jones Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Dow Jones urged a New York federal judge to toss a defamation suit brought by Binance over a Wall Street Journal article saying the cryptocurrency exchange fired internal investigators who uncovered transactions that purportedly went to sanctioned Iranian-backed entities, arguing that Binance hadn't shown the article was published with actual malice.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Anthropic's Mythos May Upend Defense Cyber Rules

Anthropic’s recent announcement that Claude Mythos, an AI general-purpose language model, could soon enable virtually anyone to exploit vulnerabilities in major web browsers and operating systems marks an imminent increase in threat levels that current defense cybersecurity regulations were not designed to navigate, say attorneys at Fluet.

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Big Issues Linger After Senate Prediction Market Trading Ban

Whether the Senate can — or should — extend prediction market trading restrictions beyond itself will test not only the boundaries of insider trading law, but also the structural limits of legislative power in an era where information itself has become a tradable asset, say attorneys at Benesch.

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Series

Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

BigLaw Deals Scandal Puts Boston Back On White Collar Map

By Chris Villani

A sweeping insider trading case involving information stolen from BigLaw firms shows a return to bread-and-butter white collar enforcement for Boston federal prosecutors and provides a morale lift in an office that has seen shifting priorities and staff turnover since the signature "Varsity Blues" takedown in 2019, veteran prosecutors told Law360.

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Goldstein Taps Ex-SG Prelogar Before Sentence, Likely Appeal

By Jeff Overley

One of the nation's most accomplished oral advocates, Tom Goldstein, revealed Thursday he has retained another of the nation's most accomplished oral advocates, Elizabeth Prelogar, ahead of his sentencing and likely appeal in a criminal tax case that has captivated the appellate bar.

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Immigration Judges' 'Anxiety' Dialed Up Amid Mass Exodus

By Emma Cueto

Current and former immigration judges spoke on a web panel Thursday about threats to the independence of immigration judges and the strains on the immigration system, such as a massive backlog of cases at a time when many judges have been pushed out or fired.

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Analysis

How Exxon Attys Beat A 10-Year-Old Securities Class Action

By Spencer Brewer

This month, Exxon Mobil's defense team helped deliver a clean sweep victory for the energy giant when a federal jury in Texas found the company did not lie to investors about the profitability of some operations.

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PBM Swaps Cravath For WilmerHale In Price-Fixing Suit

By Bonnie Eslinger

Pharmacy benefit manager Prime Therapeutics LLC has replaced counsel Cravath Swaine & Moore LLP with WilmerHale and another firm in an antitrust case in Michigan federal court brought by the state's attorney general.

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Bush-Appointed Missouri Judge To Take Senior Status

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. District Judge David Gregory Kays of the Western District of Missouri will take semi-retired status in May 2027, according to an update from the federal judiciary on Thursday.

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Feature

5 Podcasts To Keep IP Attys Entertained And Informed

By Theresa Schliep

Whether intellectual property attorneys are hitting the road for a family trip or kicking their feet up at home, podcasts about legal news can offer an easy way for them to stay in the know while (hopefully) not working this Memorial Day weekend.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Actelion Ltd.

Alianza

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

Anthropic PBC

Binance Holdings Ltd.

Burberry Group

Christian Louboutin SA

Consolidated Precision Products Corp.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

Exxon Mobil Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

KFC Corp.

Lawyers for Civil Rights

Lendlease Corp.

Lowe's Cos. Inc.

NFL Enterprises LLC

Nasdaq Inc.

National Collegiate Athletic Association

NiSource Inc.

Nokia Corp.

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

PCC Airfoils LLC

Permira

Prime Therapeutics LLC

Saudi Arabian Oil Co.

Smithfield Foods Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

The Boeing Co.

Twitter Inc.

Vanity Fair

Yara International

eBay Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Anderson & Kreiger

Balon B. Bradley Law Firm

Beck Reed

Benesch

Berger Montague

Continental PLLC

Cooley LLP

Cravath Swaine

DarrowEverett

Davis Polk

Davis Wright Tremaine

Delaney Legal

Dorsey & Whitney

Dykema

Edelson PC

Fisher & Phillips

Fluet & Associates PLLC

Foley & Lardner

Foley Hoag

Gibson Dunn

Goodwin Procter

Haynes Boone

Henning Strategies

Hickey Hauck

Kaufman Drozdowski

Kendall Law Group PLLC

Kilpatrick Townsend

King & Spalding

Kobre & Kim

Latham & Watkins

Lauro & Singer

Lewis Brisbois

Mast Law Firm

McGuireWoods

McKool Smith

Munger Tolles

Nixon Peabody

Paul Weiss

Quinn Emanuel

Robbins Geller

Shutts & Bowen

Sidley Austin

Squire Patton

Susman Godfrey

Varnell & Warwick

Volpe Koenig

Wachtell Lipton

Weil Gotshal

WilmerHale

Withersworldwide

Womble Bond

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Manhattan District Attorney's Office

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Security Council

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

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

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

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

U.S. House of Representatives

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court