Judge Won't Toss Afghan Ally Suit Over Family Entry Block

By Tom Lotshaw

The Trump administration must face a lawsuit brought by asylees from Afghanistan who claim it unlawfully cited a presidential travel ban to deny their spouses and children entry to the U.S., a Virginia federal judge ruled.

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EchoStar, FCC Reach Deal To Settle Auction Defaults

By Christopher Cole

EchoStar inked a deal Friday with the Federal Communications Commission to settle debt claims from spectrum auction defaults for up to $2.9 billion, depending on how much money the FCC brings in from a new round of license sales.

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House Panel To Consider Ideas For New Navigation Systems

By Christopher Cole

A U.S. House subcommittee will hold a hearing June 4 on proposals to deploy new Earth-based systems that would buttress the GPS in case of sabotage and signal disruptions.

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GAO Says DOD Hasn't Analyzed Impact Of Workforce Cuts

By Madeline Lyskawa

The U.S. Department of Defense shed about 10% of its civilian workforce in 2025 yet failed to consistently analyze the impact of those reductions on military readiness and operational effectiveness, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report Friday.

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Brief

Russian Palladium Dodges Duties After ITC Finds No Harm

By Jack McLoone

Unwrought Russian palladium sold at ostensibly unfair prices won't be subject to triple-digit antidumping and countervailing duties after the U.S. International Trade Commission voted Friday to find the imports are not harming U.S. domestic industry. 

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Consultant In Rivera FARA Trial Asks For Redo

By Carolina Bolado

A political consultant convicted alongside ex-Florida Rep. David Rivera asked for a new trial Friday, arguing that the government "did not come close to proving" that she was guilty of willfully failing to register as a foreign agent for her work on a $50 million contract with a unit of Venezuela's state-owned oil company.

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Joint Venture Can't Claim Small Biz Status, Judge Finds

By Madeline Lyskawa

A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge said a joint venture can't upend the U.S. Small Business Administration's determination that it didn't qualify as a small business for a defense contract solicitation because its mentor-protégé agreement fizzled before the final proposal deadline. 

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Lockheed Beats Families' Birth Defects Suit At Trial

By Carolina Bolado

A Florida federal jury returned a defense verdict in favor of Lockheed Martin Corp. after finding the company's chemical handling practices at an Orlando weapons manufacturing facility did not cause birth defects.

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Army Exits Family's Negligence Suit Over Scuba Diving Class

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Army has escaped a negligence lawsuit brought by the family of a man who drowned during a scuba diving class, with a federal judge in Washington state ruling the plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies before filing their complaint.

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Wis. Says CFTC Lacks Standing To Block Its Betting Regs

By Ganesh Setty

Wisconsin told a federal judge on Friday that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission failed to specify injuries in a lawsuit seeking to block the state from regulating prediction market platforms, while also arguing against platforms' bid to intervene in the case.

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Suirui And Jupiter Systems Appeal Injunction, Receiver Order

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

Suirui Group, Suirui International and Jupiter Systems have appealed a D.C. federal court order granting the government's motion for a preliminary injunction in an ongoing battle to force it to divest itself of Jupiter Systems.

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Defense Patent Holiday's Real Prize May Be Collab Potential

The true value of participating in the ongoing defense patent holiday program might lie not in access to technology developed by the U.S. Department of War, but in developing a working relationship with a federally funded lab and potentially achieving a cooperative research and development agreement, says Lawrence Kass at Steptoe.

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Your Next Litigation Hold Should Cover AI Chat Logs

The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent decision in Fortis Advisors v. Krafton to treat a CEO’s artificial intelligence chats as substantive evidence is being read as a discovery warning to litigators, but there is a second duty-to-preserve lesson that is especially pertinent to in-house counsel, say attorneys at Faegre Drinker.

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Double Shooting Renews Courthouse Safety Fears In NC

By Hayley Fowler

The shooting of two Fox Rothschild LLP attorneys outside a courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina, ahead of Memorial Day weekend has renewed calls to protect the safety of judges and lawyers in an increasingly volatile justice system.

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Baker McKenzie Asks Judge Not To Toss Suit Against Ex-Atty

By Alison Knezevich

A lawyer for Baker McKenzie on Friday urged a Washington, D.C., judge not to dismiss the BigLaw firm's defamation suit against a former tax associate who accused a firm office leader of sexual assault, telling the court the accusations were false and made with "malice."

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Bonus Spotlight

Selendy Gay Doles Out Spring Associate Bonuses

By Aebra Coe

New York litigation boutique Selendy Gay PLLC paid its associates spring bonuses of as much as $25,000 this week, according to the firm.

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Akin Gump Owes Fees For Winebow's 'Self-Indulgent' Appeal

By Dorothy Atkins

The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered an importer's Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP attorneys to pay a European winemaker fees for having to defend against the importer's "spurious objections" to the winemaker's valid arbitral award, ruling that the importer's "self-indulgent" appeal warrants sanctions in the form of fees.

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Calif. Panel Reverses Order For Citing Atty's Bogus Case Law

By Dorothy Atkins

A California appellate panel on Thursday reversed a judgment in favor of a man accused of abusing his son, finding that "without doubt" the trial judge abused her discretion by incorporating the man's bogus legal citations into her ruling, despite being alerted to the mistakes in advance.

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NY Judge Doubts Nussbaum-Linked Firms Belong In Ch. 11

By Emily Lever

A New York bankruptcy judge on Friday questioned whether his court was the proper venue to wind down two commercial real estate law firms headed by Mark J. Nussbaum as the debtors sought to ditch an assignment for the benefit of creditors process in New York state court.

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Dems Say DOJ Blocked Bondi On Trump Questions

By Courtney Bublé

Democrats were incensed on Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice attorneys who accompanied former Attorney General Pam Bondi to her committee interview stopped her from answering questions about President Donald Trump.

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Civil Rights Icon Clarence B. Jones Dies At 95

By Andrea Keckley

Civil rights icon Clarence B. Jones, a speechwriter and personal attorney to Martin Luther King Jr., died May 22 at an assisted living facility in the Santa Clara County city of Cupertino, California, his family confirmed earlier this week. He was 95.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation; Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud; and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Kirkland & Ellis says it's investing a half billion dollars into developing its own artificial intelligence platform to better serve clients. And Law360 looks at the general counsel who is guiding BP through its latest leadership crisis after the company abruptly dismissed its board chair.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Phillips Black Inc., Hogan Lovells and Watkins & Eager PLLC lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a Black Mississippi death row prisoner who argued racial discrimination tainted his jury selection is entitled to habeas corpus relief.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Boies Schiller's Matthew Schwartz

By Sarah Jarvis

Matthew L. Schwartz oscillated among many career aspirations as a kid, from astronaut to mayor of New York. When it was time to head off to college, the man who would go on to handle the prosecution of employees tied to Bernie Madoff and become chair of Boies Schiller Flexner LLP set his sights on science, earning an undergraduate degree in physics.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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