Military Atty Can Prosecute Minn. Civilian Despite Regulations

By Jack Karp

A Minnesota federal judge won't stop a military attorney from being appointed to prosecute a civilian accused of assaulting federal immigration officers, despite finding that the appointment violates binding U.S. Department of Defense regulations.

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Maduro Gets June Court Date After US Relents On Atty Fees

By Pete Brush

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday directed former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to return to court in June, after he and his wife, Cilia Flores, reached an apparent agreement with the Trump administration to access Venezuela government funds for their legal fees.

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GAO Says Navy Can't Limit Contract Proposal Revisions

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Navy unreasonably prevented offerors from revising their technical proposals after it removed a requirement from a contract solicitation to support the Navy's emergency ship salvage material system, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.

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Fintech Cos., States Split On Scope Of Prediction Market Regs

By Aislinn Keely

Fintech platforms have told the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission that few events should be off-limits for trading as the agency crafts rules for prediction markets, while tribes, consumer groups and states are calling on the agency to ban sports markets altogether as off-label gambling.

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Pilots' Union Seeks FCC Focus On Safety In Drone Boost

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission must ensure that its drive to spur the drone industry's growth does not jeopardize air travel safety, the country's largest airline pilots' union has told the agency.

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FCC Says Crackdown Killed 3M Listings For Risky Devices

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission says its effort to stop e-commerce platforms from selling devices that pose "dangerous" security risks has stamped out more than three million retail listings in six months.

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FCC Grants Limited Extensions For 'Rip And Replace' Work

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission is handing out a few extensions for companies that are struggling to meet their deadlines for the agency's "rip and replace" program, which funds the replacement of Chinese technology, but it said it won't shift any more deadlines.

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Construction Co. Seeks $2.9M Over Lejeune Build Delays

By Ganesh Setty

A construction company has accused a demolition subcontractor in North Carolina federal court of delaying facility construction for more than 1,000 days at the U.S. Marine Corps' Camp Lejeune training base, seeking roughly $2.9 million in damages.

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Aviation Staffing Co. Used Per Diem To Dodge OT, Suit Says

By MJ Koo

An aviation staffing company paid its avionics technicians the same hourly rate for all hours worked, including overtime, and disguised the scheme using fake per diem payments, a proposed collective and class action filed in Georgia federal court alleges.

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Engineer Says Carnegie Mellon Stole Credit For AI Inventions

By Matthew Santoni

A software developer claims that Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute is falsely laying claim to his creations related to artificial intelligence security and privacy, allegedly despite an earlier determination that he'd invented the concepts in his spare time.

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Red Hill Fuel Leak Settlement Gets Judge's Backing

By Tom Lotshaw

A Hawaii federal magistrate judge said a settlement reached for 176 minor plaintiffs with claims in litigation over water contamination stemming from jet fuel spills at the U.S. Navy Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility in the Aloha State should be approved.

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Protest Over Army Sole-Source Contract Untimely, GAO Finds

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a challenge to the U.S. Army's temporary sole-source contract to provide intelligence support services after the military branch paused its original award, finding the protester's arguments on the temporary contract untimely or premature.

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Skadden Adds Former Collins Aerospace GC In Boston

By Christine DeRosa

The former general counsel for Collins Aerospace has returned to Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP, where he worked earlier in his career, the firm said Monday.

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2 AI Snafus Show Why Attys Can't Outsource Judgment

The recent incident involving Sullivan & Cromwell where citations in a filed motion were fabricated by artificial intelligence, as well as a punitive ruling from the Sixth Circuit in U.S. v. Farris, demonstrate that the obligation to supervise AI has belonged and always will belong to lawyers, says John Powell at the Kentucky School Boards Association.

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The 2026 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey: Make Your Voice Heard

How is your work-life balance? Are you content with your compensation and opportunities for advancement at work? Take the 2026 Law360 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey and share your thoughts.

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DOJ Atty Faces Possible Discipline Over DHS 'Lack Of Candor'

By Lauren Berg

A Rhode Island federal judge, whom the U.S. Department of Homeland Security criticized for releasing a noncitizen with an alleged overseas warrant for homicide, on Tuesday said she is referring an assistant U.S. attorney for disciplinary proceedings for not disclosing the warrant to her beforehand.

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Approach The Bench: Justice Bacon On School Accreditation

By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader

State high courts are responsible for regulating the legal profession in their jurisdictions, and so New Mexico Supreme Court Justice C. Shannon Bacon thinks it's only right that justices reevaluate the principles behind law school accreditation.

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Ga. Justices Sanction Asst. DA For AI Errors In Murder Case

By Lauren Berg

The Georgia Supreme Court on Tuesday sanctioned a Clayton County assistant district attorney for filing briefs that contained nonexistent case citations generated by artificial intelligence in a murder defendant's bid for a new trial, saying the prosecutor's misconduct has "sidetracked" the justices from delving into the merits of the appeal.

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High Court Clarity On Subpoenas Creates Murky Path For AGs

By Carla Baranauckas

The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous decision that the New Jersey Attorney General's Office infringed free speech by asking an anti-abortion nonprofit to release donor names gives nonprofits and companies more leverage for challenging subpoenas at the outset, although the question remains if and how attorneys general and other enforcers can ultimately obtain sought-after information following a constitutional affront.

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FCC Chair Carr Promotes 6 In Key Legal, Policy Roles

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff are playing musical chairs, and it means high-level promotions for a half-dozen legal aides of agency chief Brendan Carr.

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SEC Lifts NY Atty's Lifetime Practice Ban

By Katryna Perera

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday lifted a lifetime ban preventing a New York attorney from practicing before the agency, following an attempt to leverage a client's testimony before the SEC.

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