The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has partially dismissed a contractor's $3.8 million lawsuit alleging its task order with the Defense Logistics Agency to configure warehouse management software contained defective specifications, noting the distinction between design and performance specifications.
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Judge Trims DLA Contractor's $3.8M Warehouse Software Suit

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has partially dismissed a contractor's $3.8 million lawsuit alleging its task order with the Defense Logistics Agency to configure warehouse management software contained defective specifications, noting the distinction between design and performance specifications.

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Judge Denies Protest Of Updated SAM Registration Rule

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Army acted to promote competition when it stripped an outdated requirement from a solicitation for offerors to be continuously registered in the System for Award Management, which preserved the winning contractor's eligibility, a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge ruled.

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Texas Ties Sway Transfer Ruling In SpaceX Land-Swap Fight

By Elaine Briseño

A D.C. federal judge has allowed SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to shift a dispute over their planned land swap to Texas, finding most significant aspects of the case are tied to the Lone Star State.

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Afghan Families Must Be Admitted Into US Despite Trump Ban

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge Wednesday ordered that the families of five Afghans who fought for the United States be allowed to enter the country within weeks and that two other families who have yet to be interviewed by the State Department have their applications processed within the month.

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POLICY & REGULATION

GAO Finds Flaws With DOE's Nuclear Cleanup Contract Model

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Energy's new contracting model for nuclear waste cleanup has failed to consistently deliver more reliable costs, faster cleanup and better results, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Wednesday.

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ENFORCEMENT

Sierra Nevada Co. Will Pay $7.75M To Settle FCA Allegations

By Tom Lotshaw

Federal prosecutors have said a defense contractor in Sparks, Nevada, will pay $7.75 million to resolve allegations it violated the False Claims Act through its employment of a U.S. Department of Defense official involved with several contracts awarded to the company.

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LITIGATION

3M, DuPont Ordered To Face Montana PFAS Lawsuit, For Now

By Aaron Keller

DuPont de Nemours Inc., 3M Co. and other manufacturers of firefighter turnout gear must for now face a retooled class action complaint by local governments in a dozen states who claim an industrywide conspiracy concealed the dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, a Montana federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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ACLU Seeks DOD Docs On Military Role In Immigration Courts

By Chris Villani

The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts on Wednesday sued the Trump administration for records about the purported use of military personnel to serve as temporary immigration judges, which the organization called a violation of the founders' desire to keep the military out of domestic law enforcement.

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AFGE Says VA Plans To Ax Union Contract Despite Injunction

By Emily Brill

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would violate an injunction and its union contract if it carries out its plan to stop honoring the contract when the pact expires Aug. 8, a union local claimed, asking a D.C. federal judge to force the agency to continue complying.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

IonQ OK'd For $1.8B SkyWater Merger After FTC Ends Review

By Gina Kim

IonQ announced on Tuesday it scored final regulatory approval following an early termination notice by the Federal Trade Commission in its acquisition of U.S.-based semiconductor foundry SkyWater Technology and that it is aiming to close the deal Friday, which will allow both companies to serve the full quantum ecosystem. 

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PEOPLE

Former Trump Lawyer Officially Takes The Helm At SDNY

By Hailey Konnath

James McDonald, a former Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner who represented President Donald Trump in his appeal of his criminal conviction, was sworn in as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday after McDonald's predecessor Jay Clayton departed to serve as director of national intelligence.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

What Corporate Counsel Can Learn From OpenAI Test Breach

The significance of the recent artificial intelligence testing breach involving OpenAI and Hugging Face lies in what it reveals about the path of AI’s evolution, because legal professionals must translate that trajectory into actionable governance, contractual and advisory frameworks, says Jason Mueller at Vorys.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How Does In-House Pay Compare? Take The Law360 Survey

How do in-house salaries vary across industries, roles, and organizational revenue? What compensation tools are companies using to lure top talent? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Compensation Survey.

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Simpson Thacher Hung Client Out To Dry, Jury Hears

By Madison Arnold

A legal ethics expert told a Florida jury Wednesday that he believes Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP's actions when representing Patriot National Inc. constitute legal malpractice leading up to the insurance services company declaring bankruptcy.

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Senate Postpones Key Vote For AG Nominee Blanche

By Courtney Bublé

The committee vote on acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's bid to take the permanent role, slated for Thursday, was postponed after Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., were not fully on board.

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GOP Bill To Curb Judge Shopping May Have Limited Effect

By Courtney Bublé

A Senate Republican has introduced legislation that he says will fix the judge shopping issue, but court observers don't think it will make much of a difference.

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King & Spalding Told To End 'Shenanigans' In Bid To Exit Case

By Brian Steele

The individual defendants in a $300 million fraud lawsuit have accused King & Spalding LLP of appellate "shenanigans" while it seeks to exit the case due to an alleged ethics conflict, claiming the firm has falsely denied representing corporate clients despite an attorney's appearance suggesting otherwise.

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9th Circ. Vacates Orrick Win In Stock Transfer Deal Dispute

By Hailey Konnath

The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday reversed a lower court's finding that Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP can't be held liable in a battle over a stock transfer agreement gone awry, ruling that California law does allow a party to the transfer to pursue equitable indemnity in the case.

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DOJ Wants To Let Immigration Judges Fine For Contempt

By Britain Eakin

The Executive Office for Immigration Review proposed a rule Wednesday that would allow immigration judges to impose civil monetary penalties for contempt on attorneys, their noncitizen clients and witnesses, operationalizing a power that has lain dormant since 1996.

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Legal Aid Union Alleges Unlawful Incentives To Break Strike

By Andrea Keckley

The Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem union announced on the third workday of its strike Tuesday that it has filed unfair labor practice charges with the National Labor Relations Board, accusing its management of offering unlawful incentives to cross the picket line.

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2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Shkreli Atty's 401(k) Restitution Deal

By Lauren Berg

A New York trial judge erred in rejecting a retirement-fund garnishment deal that would have protected Martin Shkreli's convicted former lawyer from tax penalties, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday.

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DOJ Wants New Judge In Fired Court-Appointed US Atty's Suit

By Jack Karp

A lawsuit from the Seattle U.S. attorney who was swiftly fired from his post by President Donald Trump shortly after being appointed to it by a federal court should be reassigned to a different judge, the administration has told a Washington federal court.

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Segal McCambridge Settles Fired Secretary's Age Bias Suit

By Grace Elletson

Law firm Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney Ltd. has struck a deal to end a New York federal court suit from a former secretary who said her colleagues mistreated her because of her age, according to a Wednesday court filing.

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Comey Rips '86 47' Case, Says Warrants 'Misstated Facts'

By Lauren Berg

James Comey is taking another angle in his effort to dismiss an indictment stemming from a picture of seashells he posted on Instagram, telling a North Carolina federal judge that the government is pursuing the "vindictive" case because of President Donald Trump's "deep-seated animosity" toward the former FBI director.

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3M Co.

American Civil Liberties Union

American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts

American Federation of Government Employees

Brooklyn Defender Services

Center for Biological Diversity Inc.

Consulting Services Group LLC

Corteva Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

George Washington University

Gerald Holdings LLC

Getty Images Holdings Inc.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Instagram Inc.

International Refugee Assistance Project

IonQ Inc.

LinkedIn Corp.

McDonald's Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Patriot National Inc.

Retrophin Inc.

SAP AG

SkyWater Technology Inc.

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Travere Therapeutics Inc.

University of Miami

W. L. Gore & Associates Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bliven Law Firm

Bradley Arant

Browning Kaleczyc

Burns Charest

Butler Snow LLP

Cohen & Wolf

Conrad & Scherer

Cooley LLP

Cowdery Murphy

Crowell & Moring

Crowley Fleck

Crystal Pettiford Law

Davis Hatley

Dechert LLP

Freeman Mathis

Garlington Lohn

Gibson Dunn

Goldberg Segalla

Grant & Eisenhofer

HGT Law

HKM Employment Attorneys

Hagens Berman

Hall & Evans

Healy LLC

Heenan & Cook

Holland & Hart

Holtzman Vogel

Katten Muchin

Keker Van Nest & Peters

King & Spalding

L'Abbate Balkan

Laird Cowley

Lennon Murphy

Lewis Brisbois

Markun Zusman

Munger Tolles

Orrick Herrington

Polsinelli PC

Rivkin Radler

Robinson Bradshaw

Segal McCambridge

Shook Hardy

Silver Golub

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Stearns Weaver

Sullivan & Cromwell

Venable LLP

Vorys

Wiggin & Dana

Williams & Connolly

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Supreme Court

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Defense Logistics Agency

European Union

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Trade Commission

Fish and Wildlife Service

General Services Administration Office of Inspector General

Idaho National Laboratory

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

National Labor Relations Board

New York State Assembly

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

U.S. Army

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

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 District of Massachusetts

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Special Operations Command

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

United States District Court for the District of Nevada