The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that enforcers will allow Boeing to move ahead with its planned $4.7 billion purchase of aircraft parts-maker Spirit AeroSystems after the companies agreed to sell several assets.
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FTC Clears Boeing's $4.7B Spirit Aero Deal With Fixes

By Matthew Perlman

The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday that enforcers will allow Boeing to move ahead with its planned $4.7 billion purchase of aircraft parts-maker Spirit AeroSystems after the companies agreed to sell several assets.

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Fed. Circ. Pushes DC Circ. Not To Rethink Newman Decision

By Adam Lidgett

The Federal Circuit has urged the D.C. Circuit to ignore Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's request to rehear a decision upholding the dismissal of her suit against the colleagues who suspended her, saying the judiciary has the right to police its own internal matters.

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Trump Pardons Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar And Wife

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, and his wife, Imelda Cuellar.

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POLICY & REGULATION

State AI Law Ban Cut From Defense Bill As Fight Continues

By Allison Grande

The renewed push to block states from enacting laws to regulate emerging artificial intelligence technologies is unlikely to make it into a defense funding bill expected to pass by the end of the year, the House's second highest-ranking Republican has confirmed, although he stressed that the proposal was still active and could resurface elsewhere. 

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SIGAR Says $26B Lost To Waste, Fraud And Abuse In Afghanistan

By Ganesh Setty

An independent watchdog overseeing the U.S.' reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan found that of roughly $145 billion spent between 2002 and the Afghan government's collapse in 2021, there was at least $26 billion in waste, fraud and abuse.

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ENFORCEMENT

Chats Show Ex-NY Gov Aide Was Tight With Chinese Officials

By Stewart Bishop

Jurors weighing the fate of a former aide to two New York governors have seen a raft of chats and other documents over several days that the feds say support their case alleging she violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, including communications that seem to suggest she had a close working relationship with several Chinese government officials.

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4th Circ. Upholds 25-Year Sentence For Bomb Instruction

By Elizabeth Daley

A man sentenced to 25 years in prison for teaching an informant how to use explosives to repel federal agents cannot argue the law used to convict him is unconstitutional, the Fourth Circuit ruled on Wednesday, with a dissenting judge worried the decision could have the effect of "chilling" free speech.

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LITIGATION

Camp Lejeune Plaintiffs Want Base's Muster Roll Info

By Emily Field

Veterans and family members suing over injuries from toxic water at Camp Lejeune have urged a North Carolina judge to compel the federal government to produce muster rolls for the base, saying the government has refused to give up the information with no explanation.

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NJ Seeks $195M Fee Award In $2.5B DuPont PFAS Case

By George Woolston

New Jersey asked a Garden State federal judge this week to approve $195 million in attorney fees to its special counsel team of four firms whose six years of litigation work resulted in two landmark settlements that serve to clean up some of the state's most contaminated sites.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Law School's Missed Lessons: Practicing Client-Led Litigation

New litigators can better help their corporate clients achieve their overall objectives when they move beyond simply fighting for legal victory to a client-led approach that resolves the legal dispute while balancing the company's competing out-of-court priorities, says Chelsea Ireland at Cohen Ziffer.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Bonus Spotlight

Cahill Gordon Offers Associates 'Super Bonus' Of Up To $200K

By Anna Sanders

Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP won't just match BigLaw's prevailing scale for year-end bonuses — the firm will also reportedly offer outsized special bonuses, or super bonuses, up to $200,000 for high-performing associates.

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Analysis

Appeal Of US Atty Invalidations May Be 'Devastating' To DOJ

By Phillip Bantz

As the list of interim and acting U.S. attorneys found to be unlawfully appointed under President Donald Trump grows, so too does the pressure on his administration to make the next move, which could force a risky strategic decision on whether to push the issue up to the U.S. Supreme Court, experts said.

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Judge Nixes Hagens Berman's Recusal Bid After DOJ Referral

By Emma Cueto

Two days after referring powerhouse plaintiffs firm Hagens Berman to the U.S. Department of Justice for alleged misconduct, a Pennsylvania federal judge on Thursday dismissed the firm's request that he recuse himself from the long-running product liability suit, calling the firm's arguments "absurd."

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Senate Impeachment Hearing On Judges Likely In January

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate hearing on impeachment of "rogue" judges is likely going to be rescheduled for January, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, who will be chairing the hearing, told Law360 on Thursday.  

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SDNY Judge Unsure Of Jurisdiction In Maurene Comey Suit

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge said Thursday he may not have jurisdiction over former prosecutor Maurene Comey's suit claiming President Donald Trump's rivalry with her father, former FBI Director James Comey, led to her firing.

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Analysis

Wheeling & Appealing: The Latest Must-Know Appellate Action

By Jeff Overley

Is the False Claims Act constitutional? Will Mark Zuckerberg be deposed in high-profile privacy litigation? Did a major drugmaker's shenanigans cost investors nearly $7 billion? That's a small sample of the intriguing legal questions we're exploring in this preview of December's top appellate action.

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NY AG Applauds Reports Grand Jury Declined To Reindict

By Lauren Berg

New York Attorney General Letitia James Thursday hailed reports that a Norfolk, Virginia, federal grand jury had declined to reindict her on charges of mortgage fraud, refusing to revive a case that President Donald Trump had pushed prosecutors to pursue against his "guilty as hell" political opponent.

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NY Law Firm Files Ch. 11 After Hostile Takeover Allegations

By Ben Zigterman

A New York law firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief a week after its creditors filed involuntary Chapter 7 liquidation petitions and more than a month after the firm's founder accused the creditors of a hostile takeover of his firm.

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Google Fights Unlockd's Judge Recusal Bid In Antitrust Case

By Christine DeRosa

Google is opposing a move by Unlockd Media seeking the recusal of U.S. District Judge Haywood S. Gilliam Jr. in an antitrust lawsuit in California federal court, arguing that the judge's close relationship with Google's vice president for litigation and discovery doesn't require him to step away from the case.

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Brief

Senate Confirms 4th NC Federal Judge This Week

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate on Thursday confirmed its fourth federal judge this week for North Carolina.

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Fla. Judge Admits To Ethics Breach Over Bogus Recording

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state judge has admitted to an unintentional violation of the state's judicial ethics code over her publicly sharing a fabricated recording of a chief judge disparaging another judge during her 2024 election campaign.

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SEC Investor Panel Presses For Corporate AI Disclosures

By Jessica Corso

A U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission working group is urging the agency to adopt regulations that could standardize the way publicly traded companies report the way they use artificial intelligence, arguing Thursday that investors are not always being kept informed about the risks of the technology.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Above the Law

American Foreign Service Association

Association of Corporate Counsel

Bayer AG

Boston University

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

Cable News Network Inc.

Canon Inc.

Celgene Corp.

Center for Democracy & Technology

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Ferrari SpA

Ford Motor Co.

GSK PLC

Google LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

National Education Association

National Treasury Employees Union

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Onex Corporation

Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America

Public Citizen Inc.

Southeastern University

Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc.

The Florida Bar

The New York Times Co.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UMB Financial Corp.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Abell Eskew

Bedell Dittmar

Bell Legal Group LLC

Boies Schiller

Bracewell LLP

Bressler Amery

Brewer Attorneys

Bryan Cave

Cadwalader Wickersham

Cahill Gordon

Clarick Gueron

Cohen Ziffer

Cohn Lifland

Cooley LLP

Coppersmith Brockelman

Cravath Swaine

DLA Piper

David Boies

Dechert LLP

Dema Law

Diamond McCarthy

Garfunkel Wild

Gibbs Mura

Gibson Dunn

Hagens Berman

Hollingsworth LLP

Keller Postman

Kelley Drye

Koskoff Koskoff

Lake Law Firm LLC

Latham & Watkins

Lehotsky Keller

Lewis & Roberts PLLC

Lieff Cabraser

Lowell & Associates

McCarter & English

McCune Law

McGuireWoods

McKool Smith

Mike Scott Law

Milbank LLP

MoloLamken

Norris McLaughlin

O'Melveny & Myers

Paul Weiss

Pietragallo Gordon

Pillsbury Winthrop

Rasco Klock

Reese LLP

Saxton & Stump

Sheppard Mullin

Smith Tozian

Sparacino PLLC

Taft Stettinius

Togut Segal

Wallace & Graham

Weitz & Luxenberg

Welsh & Recker

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives

California Privacy Protection Agency

City and County of San Francisco, California

Competition and Markets Authority

European Commission

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Trade Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Food and Drug Administration

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

New York Attorney General's Office

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction

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

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

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

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 New Jersey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court