Legal tech company Legion has sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court over a directive ordering Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced AI models to foreigners, alleging the move caused the company to lose access to one of the models that powers its platform.
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Legal Tech Co. Sues US Over Anthropic AI Shutdown Order

By Emily Sawicki

Legal tech company Legion has sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court over a directive ordering Anthropic to shut down two of its advanced AI models to foreigners, alleging the move caused the company to lose access to one of the models that powers its platform.

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Fed. Circ. Nixes Protest Over VA Endoscopy System Contract

By Ganesh Setty

The Federal Circuit ruled Wednesday that a healthcare IT company lacks standing to protest the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs' awarding of a contract for a system to manage clinical information for endoscopy procedures, further finding the solicitation patently ambiguous.

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Judge Poised To OK NJ's $3B PFAS Deals With 3M, DuPont

By George Woolston

A Garden State federal judge on Wednesday signaled that she would sign off on proposed deals worth a combined $3 billion between New Jersey, 3M Co. and various DuPont entities to resolve the state's claims over contamination caused by the manufacture and discharge of forever chemicals.

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NATIONAL SECURITY

Muslim Org. Says Fla. Can't Shield Info In 'Terrorist' Label Suit

By Carolina Bolado

The Council for American-Islamic Relations has told a federal court that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis cannot use the deliberative process privilege to prevent disclosure of documents showing why the Muslim civil rights nonprofit was designated as a "terrorist organization."

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POLICY & REGULATION

DirecTV Calls For FCC To Rework Spectrum Sharing Regs

By Nadia Dreid

DirecTV is worried that the revamp the Federal Communications Commission has planned for spectrum sharing rules in two bands critical to satellite operations do not provide enough protection against interference and wants the agency to make a few changes.

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Colo. Chamber Says Space Command Move Is Trump's Call

By Rachel Konieczny

A Colorado business group backed the Trump administration's bid to toss the state's challenge to the relocation of U.S. Space Command's headquarters to Alabama, writing Wednesday that the move falls squarely within the president's authority.

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Brief

New Expert Group Pushes Policies To Foster NGSO Satellites

By Christopher Cole

A new trade group has been created and will advocate in Washington, D.C., for the top priorities of the fast-growing nongeostationary orbit satellite industry, according to a Wednesday announcement.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

Contractor Seeks $4.78M From Air Force Over Labor Costs

By Elaine Briseño

A defense contractor lodged a lawsuit seeking to collect $4.78 million from the U.S. Air Force, alleging that the agency failed to properly calculate updated labor rates into its solicitation for support services at a base in Florida.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Trump AI Order: Voluntary Framework, Mandatory Implications

President Donald Trump's recent executive order promoting the advancement of artificial intelligence innovation and security establishes a new framework for government collaboration with the AI industry, but its classified benchmarking criteria, prerelease framework terms and operational rules will determine whether it establishes de facto compliance expectations, say attorneys at Ropes & Gray.

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Why Highly Specialized Experts May Risk Exclusion At Trial

Expert witnesses with highly specific areas of focus may be vulnerable to exclusion in court, making it important for attorneys to check how potential witnesses' qualifications can be bolstered by their publications and other professional activities, say Evan Weisberg and Christopher Cunio at Hunton, and Kevin Cahill at FTI Consulting.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

How 3 Courts Are Approaching AI Adoption

By Emily Sawicki

The rules surrounding artificial intelligence experimentation in courts run the gamut from court systems offering proprietary tools and training to unwritten policies that essentially amount to don't ask, don't tell.

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Analysis

With Data And AI, Whistleblowers Set Off An FCA Tidal Wave

By Phillip Bantz

Whistleblowers are increasingly using artificial intelligence to comb through public data in search of potential False Claims Act cases, unleashing a flood of new complaints that are shaking up white collar defense and government enforcement efforts while subjecting more companies to potentially false allegations, experts say.

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Conn. Justices Threaten Sanctions For AI Errors

By Andrea Keckley

The Connecticut Supreme Court has threatened to sanction GLG Law LLC and one of its attorneys for submitting documents in two cases "that misrepresented the law through the use of generative artificial intelligence," according to a Tuesday order that summoned them to appear in court next month.

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Atty DQ Over Inadvertent Doc Disclosure Overturned

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has upended the disqualification of defense counsel in a sexual battery suit, saying documents undermining the case that were accidentally produced via a Dropbox link were not privileged.

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DOJ Nominee Questioned About Deleted Social Media Posts

By Courtney Bublé

A nominee for a top U.S. Department of Justice position, who is a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur, came under fire on Wednesday for past social media posts that he's now deleted.

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Booker, Cassidy Press DOJ On Trump Immunity Deal

By Courtney Bublé

Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Cory Booker, D-N.J., wrote to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday expressing "serious concerns" about the alleged immunity for President Donald Trump, his family and businesses in the controversial settlement he reached with the IRS.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

Amazon.com Inc.

Anthropic PBC

Chicago Bar Association

Connecticut Legal Services

Corteva Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

FTI Consulting Inc.

Gerson Lehrman Group Inc.

Globalstar Inc.

Kubota Corporation

Muslim Legal Fund of America

New Jersey State Bar Association

Southern Poverty Law Center Inc.

The Chemours Co.

The DIRECTV Group Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akeel & Valentine

Bressler Amery

Callahan & Blaine

Cokinos Young

Crowell & Moring

DLA Piper

Dema Law

Dorsey & Whitney

Hogan Lovells

Hollingsworth LLP

Hunton Andrews

K&L Law Group

Kelley Drye

Maraziti Falcon

McCarter & English

Meyner & Landis

Morgan Lewis

Murphy Orlando

Norris McLaughlin

Paul Weiss

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Spencer Fane

Spiro Harrison

Taft Stettinius

Womble Bond

Woods Rogers

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bureau of Industry and Security

Colorado Attorney General's Office

European Union

Executive Office of the President

Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Reserve System

Florida Attorney General's Office

Internal Revenue Service

National Institute of Standards and Technology

National Security Agency

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

U.S. Air Force

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

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 Northern District of Florida

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

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

U.S. Government Accountability Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio