The U.S. Department of Defense urged an Oregon federal judge to reject renewable energy backers' claim that the Pentagon has continued its unlawful freeze on reviewing proposed wind energy projects, saying reviews have resumed at every stage.
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TOP NEWS

DOD Says It Has Resumed Wind Project Reviews

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense urged an Oregon federal judge to reject renewable energy backers' claim that the Pentagon has continued its unlawful freeze on reviewing proposed wind energy projects, saying reviews have resumed at every stage.

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ILC Cos. To Pay $13M To Resolve Cybersecurity Fraud Claims

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The U.S. Department of Justice has announced that defense and aerospace contractors ILC Dover LP and ILC Astrospace LLC will pay $13 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act.

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Gene Firm Sues Pentagon Over 'Chinese Military' Label

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

A Chinese genetic sequencing company has sued the Pentagon, saying it was wrongly labeled a "Chinese military company" without a warning or a chance to respond.

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POLICY & REGULATION

SpaceX Says Data Shows Need To Sunset High-Cost Program

By Christopher Cole

SpaceX has urged a Federal Communications Commission member to consider a phaseout of a high-cost program that serves rural areas, pointing to new data it says shows increasing overlap between subsidized and competing services.

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ENFORCEMENT

Ex-US Contractor Admits Giving Ethiopia Top Secret Intel

By Tom Lotshaw

A former contractor for several U.S. government entities including the Department of Justice has pled guilty to conspiring to send highly protected national defense information to Ethiopian officials, according to federal prosecutors.

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LITIGATION

Boeing Blowout Plaintiffs Can't Restore Punitive Damages Ask

By Rachel Riley

A Washington federal judge said Wednesday that he won't revisit a decision nixing a mother and son's bid for punitive damages in their negligence lawsuit against Boeing and supplier Spirit AeroSystems over a 737 Max door plug blowout on an Alaska Airlines flight.

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DOD Contractor Seeks $8.4M Under Cyber Contract

By Ganesh Setty

A cybersecurity contractor for the U.S. Department of Defense has accused the government of failing to pay roughly $8.4 million worth of invoices, telling the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that it had performed its contract "flawlessly."

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Chinese Bank Wants Out Of 'Far-Fetched' Boat Sinking Suit

By Jack McLoone

The New York arm of a Chinese bank told a D.C. federal court it should be removed from a "far-fetched" suit that claimed it was involved in an Iran-China conspiracy that resulted in Houthi rebels sinking a ship in the Red Sea.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

Skadden, Paul Hastings Guide Dronamics' $500M SPAC Deal

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Paul Hastings LLP-advised autonomous aviation company Dronamics on Wednesday unveiled plans to go public by merging with special purpose acquisition company GP-Act III Acquisition Corp., led by Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, in a deal that boasts an implied pro forma enterprise value of $500 million.

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PEOPLE

Ogletree Adds Ex-Amazon Employment Atty To Seattle Office

By Rachel Riley

A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

The Invisible AI Danger That May Undermine Legal Profession

A public database tracking cases involving hallucinations generated by artificial intelligence recently surpassed 2,200 entries, but the bigger risk underlying attorneys’ use of such tools is that they will slowly surrender their judgment to AI and lose analytical skills, says Massachusetts District Court Associate Justice Brian Palmucci.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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DOJ Accused Of Unlawfully Ending Crime Victim Agreement

By Tom Lotshaw

The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Boston University

China Construction Bank

Consulting Services Group LLC

Google LLC

International Legal Finance Association

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

LinkedIn Corp.

Microsoft Corp.

Nasdaq Inc.

Omni Bridgeway Ltd.

Panda Restaurant Group Inc.

RELX PLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

Stanford University

The Boeing Co.

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Thomson Reuters Corp.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Universal Service Administrative Co.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Ashurst Perkins

Blank Rome

Bradley Bernstein Sands

Connolly Gallagher

Cooley LLP

Foley & Lardner

Fox Rothschild

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Hafemann Magee

Holland & Hart

Holtzman Vogel

Jackson Lewis PC

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Morgan Lewis

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Hastings

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Sidley Austin

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Skadden Arps

Springer & Steinberg

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Troutman

Weil Gotshal

Whistleblower Law Collaborative

White & Case

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

City and County of San Francisco, California

Executive Office of the President

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

General Services Administration Office of Inspector General

Missile Defense Agency

NATO

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Institutes of Health

National Reconnaissance Office

National Transportation Safety Board

New York Attorney General's Office

Office of Justice Programs

Tennessee Department of Health

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of the Treasury

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon

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

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

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Navy

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Montana