DOD Inks $925M In Loans For US Defense Manufacturing

By Ganesh Setty

The U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Strategic Capital announced a series of "conditional" loan commitments to companies developing critical battery materials, semiconductors, radar and drone technology, totaling $925 million.

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NY Sues Former Air Force Manufacturing Site For Pollution

By Madeline Lyskawa

New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the owner of an industrial site near Rochester, seeking compensation for the state's cleanup of hazardous substances stemming from the site's prior use in manufacturing B-52 bulkheads for the U.S. Air Force.

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Bessent, Greer Warn China Over Trade Truce Commitments

By Dylan Moroses

Top U.S. officials warned China on Friday over what they viewed as potential shortfalls in commitments made last year as part of the trade truce reached between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to readouts published Friday by the U.S. Treasury Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

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Brief

China Opens Antidumping Probes Of EU, Japanese Materials

By Dylan Moroses

The Chinese government said Friday that it will investigate whether certain chemical compounds used in rubber manufacturing from the European Union and Japan and a type of filament from the EU are being dumped into China.

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FCC To Allow Cable Biz's Router Hardware Upgrades

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission's staff has granted a one-year waiver to a major cable industry group, so its members can make certain hardware changes to previously approved routers that now fall under a national security restriction.

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Boeing Can't Appeal Punitive Damages Door Plug Ruling

By Ben Adlin

A Washington state judge Thursday rejected Boeing's effort to quickly appeal a ruling that denied its bid to block punitive damages in passengers' lawsuit over the 2024 blowout of an aircraft door panel, siding with plaintiffs attempting to show the incident had ties to the aerospace giant's former Chicago headquarters.

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Cities, Counties Fight Revival Of FEMA Election Conditions

By Tom Lotshaw

Cities and counties in Ohio, Tennessee and Texas, along with two dozen state allies, urged the D.C. Circuit to reject the Trump administration's push to revive a vacated Federal Emergency Management Agency rule that conditioned counterterrorism grant funding on election policy changes.

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Judge Doubts Ukrainians Can Tie Semiconductors To Strikes

By Spencer Brewer

A Texas federal judge seemed hesitant Friday to buy an argument that several semiconductor manufacturers had a duty to prevent their components from ending up in Russian missiles targeting Ukrainian civilians, asking what duty exists under Texas state law.

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DC Circ. Mulls Whether Gov't Can Drag Feet On Afghan Visas

By Nadia Dreid

The D.C. Circuit didn't seem so sure Friday morning that thousands of Afghan and Iraqi citizens who helped U.S. forces overseas should be stripped of their class status as they sue the government for making them wait more than five years for their special visa applications to be processed.

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Delta Seeks To Ground Wash. Noncompete Disclosure Lawsuit

By Ben Adlin

Delta Air Lines Inc. urged a Washington federal judge to throw out a worker's lawsuit accusing the airline of concealing the terms of noncompetition restrictions from job applicants until after they had accepted job offers, contending that Washington law doesn't allow damages for the claims and that the provisions don't count as covenants.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Wilson Sonsini, Fenwick

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Marvell Technology buys data center optics maker Lumentum, defense technology company Shield acquires radar company Echodyne, and CVS Health plans to split into two independent, publicly traded companies.

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Orrick Hires Fenwick Partner To Expand TM Practice In NY

By Ivan Moreno

Trademark attorney Mark Jansen has joined ​Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP as a partner in New York after 15 years at Fenwick & West LLP, Orrick has announced.

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Opinion

Judges Must Turn To Merits Earlier To Fix Civil Justice System

The U.S. justice system is long overdue for a cultural shift that encourages judges to engage with the merits of a case from the outset, which would help to cut through procedural complexities and deliver high-quality justice efficiently and at lower cost, says Steven Kayman at Rottenberg Lipman.

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Are You Happy With Your In-House Role? Take Our Survey

Is your company giving you everything you need to succeed? What are some misconceptions about working in-house? Help Law360 Pulse answer these questions and more in this year's In-House Satisfaction Survey.

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Squire Patton, Baker McKenzie Hit With Data Breach Suits

By Rae Ann Varona

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Baker McKenzie failed to protect private personal information stored in the law firms' systems from separate cyberattacks and delayed notifying affected individuals for roughly two months, two proposed class actions filed in Ohio and Illinois federal courts have alleged.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Susman Godfrey LLP, Langer Grogan & Diver PC, Hausfeld LLP and MoloLamken LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Ninth Circuit ruled that a former federal judge erred by scrapping a $4.7 billion jury verdict against the National Football League in a class action over the price of its Sunday Ticket broadcast package.

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Judge Kewalramani Warns Against Taking Sanctions Lightly

By Dani Kass

Retired U.S. Magistrate Judge Shashi Kewalramani on Friday cautioned patent attorneys to be extremely discerning when filing sanctions motions, comparing it to crying "fire" in a crowded room.

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Brief

US Legal Sector Jobs Reached Record High In October

By Tracey Read

The legal industry's hot streak continued last month, adding 2,400 more jobs in October to reach a record high, according to seasonally adjusted data released Friday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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US Charges 3 Over $129M AI Scam Using Fake UK Lawyers

By Laura Stewart Liberty

U.S. prosecutors said Thursday they have charged three men, including one facing extradition from London, for allegedly defrauding companies of $129 million through a scheme that used AI to impersonate executives and U.K. lawyers.

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Defeated Texas Justice Being Considered For Federal Bench

By Courtney Bublé

With the clock ticking on Republicans' control of the Senate, President Donald Trump is considering putting a Texas Supreme Court justice who just lost reelection on the federal bench.

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Attys Can Curb AI Error Fallout With Candor, Accountability

By Andrea Keckley

Nearly four years since ChatGPT launched and the legal industry began experimenting at scale with generative artificial intelligence, not a month goes by without another attorney finding a hallucination error in a court filing.

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Top Blanche Adviser Among Latest To Exit DOJ

By Jared Foretek

A top legal adviser to U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced his departure from the U.S. Department of Justice Friday, becoming the latest in a slew of high-profile resignations from the department since Republicans' midterm election defeat Tuesday night.

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Ice Miller Sued Over $729K Award After Losing Federal Forum

By Andrea Keckley

A couple who hired Ice Miller LLP to defend their organization against a breach of contract suit have accused the firm in Indiana federal court of exposing them to additional litigation with a settlement that failed to preserve federal jurisdiction over future disputes.

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Law Firm Sues Sierra Leone Over $361K Legal Bill

By Jared Foretek

Law firm Cohen Seglias Pallas Greenhall & Furman PC claims in a complaint filed in D.C. federal court that Sierra Leone's government stiffed it on more than $300,000 in legal fees and costs after the firm defended it against earlier claims of unpaid fees by Jenner & Block.

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Mich. Supreme Court Chief Next To Lead Chief Justice Group

By Melanie Dorsey

The Michigan Supreme Court's chief justice has been named president-elect of the Conference of Chief Justices, a national organization representing the highest-ranking state judicial officers, and she plans to focus on expanding access to legal services, reforming attorney licensing and strengthening courthouse security.

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Roundup

GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Michele Gorman

The U.S. Department of Justice's new cash rewards program for tips on criminal fraud could backfire in some cases, experts say. Elsewhere, attorneys are weighing new strategies in the wake of Texas' historic blue shift during the midterm elections. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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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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