Soldier Can't Slip Charges Over Maduro Raid Polymarket Bet

By Aislinn Keely

A U.S. Army soldier must face charges that he profited from insider knowledge of the raid that captured deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro after a Manhattan federal judge ruled that whether his prediction market trades ran afoul of commodities laws is a question for trial.

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AeroVironment Says It Flagged Space Force Contract Risks

By Tom Lotshaw

AeroVironment Inc. asked a Virginia federal judge to throw out a proposed class action alleging it misled investors about a terminated U.S. Space Force contract worth up to $1.7 billion, arguing it reasonably characterized its contract performance and warned about such risks.

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New Jersey Says DuPont Deal Bars Town's $1B PFAS Claims

By George Woolston

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection backed various DuPont entities' bid to toss the remaining claims in a municipality's $1 billion lawsuit over forever chemical contamination stemming from a longtime DuPont facility, arguing that a landmark settlement the state reached earlier this year bars the claims.

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Kreindler Loses Bid To Cut 9/11 Fee Claims

By Jared Foretek

A Washington, D.C., federal judge denied law firm Kreindler & Kreindler LLP's bid to end a lawsuit from the estate of a deceased attorney over 9/11 victim's fund fees, potentially setting up a trial to resolve the 5-year-old litigation.

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SpaceX Wants Low-Band Rework In Space Coverage Plan

By Christopher Cole

SpaceX called on the Federal Communications Commission to add a potential spectrum revamp of the lower 900 megahertz band to a proposal the board will consider this week to expand space-based cellphone coverage.

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Feds Hit With Suit Over Cleanup From Colorado Gunnery Site

By Tom Lotshaw

A former owner of a 105-acre property in Aurora asked a Colorado federal judge to declare the U.S. government liable for $700,000 of costs incurred to investigate and clear old munitions from the site, which was part of a former military range.

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Analysis

3 Federal Circuit Clashes To Watch In November

By Ryan Davis

A high-stakes case that will determine whether the U.S. government should face patent infringement claims over Moderna's COVID-19 vaccines and Labcorp's appeal of a nine-figure patent verdict against it are among the arguments the Federal Circuit will hear in November.

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Feds Settle Suit Over Botched Atlanta VA Hysterectomy

By David Aaro

The federal government reached a deal to end a suit from a patient who claimed a doctor botched her hysterectomy at a Department of Veterans Affairs medical facility in metro Atlanta, according to a Tuesday filing in Georgia federal court.

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Justice Department Inks 1st 'Near-Miss' Nonprosecution Deal

By Hailey Konnath

Software company Extreme Networks Inc. has agreed to pay $975,722 in penalties to put to rest allegations it unlawfully sold to a sanctioned Russian weapons manufacturer as part of a nonprosecution agreement that the U.S. Department of Justice said marks its first "near-miss" case under a new corporate disclosure policy.

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FCC OKs Amazon's $11.6B Globalstar Satellite Buy

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on Amazon.com Inc.'s $11.6 billion plan to buy U.S. satellite company Globalstar Inc., bringing the e-commerce behemoth one step closer to expanding its nascent satellite internet business.

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DOJ Directive Gives Contractors A Fraud Risk Road Map

For government contractors, the 10 factors described in the U.S. Department of Justice's recent corporate fraud enforcement directive function as a de facto scoring rubric for internal audits that mirrors what prosecutors will prioritize, say attorneys at Spencer Fane.

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Judge Hellerstein, Gruff Moderator Of Major Cases, Dies At 92

By Pete Brush

Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, a former litigator and sometimes impatient Manhattan federal jurist who presided over decades of high-profile cases that often came under close appellate scrutiny, died Wednesday at the age of 92.

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BakerHostetler Malpractice Case To Expand With RICO Claim

By Emily Johnson

A Georgia federal judge has allowed a trustee who has accused BakerHostetler and an Atlanta-based attorney of legal malpractice to file an amended complaint after the trustee asked to add claims of Georgia RICO Act violations.

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Weil To Wind Down As Top Attorneys Abandon Firm

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson, Alex Wittenberg and Aebra Coe

Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, the restructuring powerhouse that led Lehman Brothers, Enron and General Motors through bankruptcy, told Law360 Pulse Wednesday that the firm is preparing to wind down operations.

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BigLaw Tip Middleman To Admit Role In $3.5M Trading Scheme

By Chris Villani

An alleged middleman in a sweeping scheme to trade off of deal information stolen from major law firms has agreed to plead guilty and potentially faces a prison term of nearly a decade, according to a plea agreement filed Wednesday in Massachusetts federal court.

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Mich. Judge Weighs Toshiba Legal Bills Discovery Fight

By Melanie Dorsey

A Michigan federal judge on Wednesday questioned whether she needs to review specific objections to DTE Electric Co. and Consumers Energy Co.'s multimillion-dollar attorney fee request before deciding whether Toshiba Corp. must disclose its own legal bills and litigation expenses following a nearly $394.4 million jury verdict over a botched power plant overhaul.

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Analysis

Albright Left Key Issue In Billion-Dollar IP Fight Unanswered

By Dani Kass

In May 2025, then-U.S. District Judge Alan Albright watched a jury hold that VLSI Technology is controlled by Fortress Investment Group, but by the time he left the bench in August 2026, the judge had yet to decide whether that ownership would let Intel avoid billions of dollars in patent infringement verdicts.

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Proskauer, Reddit Attys Called To Testify In Data-Scraping Suit

By Bryan Koenig

A New York federal judge on Wednesday called for live testimony from two Proskauer Rose LLP attorneys and Reddit's deputy general counsel as he weighs the law firm's bid to represent Perplexity AI in a lawsuit from Reddit, the firm's former client, over alleged data scraping.

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SC Gov.'s Counsel Still In The Running For Federal Judgeship

By Courtney Bublé

The chief legal counsel for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster is "being actively considered" for a federal judgeship, according to the White House, but it's not a done deal yet.

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