A D.C. federal judge pressed a Trump administration attorney to back up her claim that restricting reporters' access to the Pentagon has driven down the amount of classified information reaching the press, saying Friday that he'd seen nothing suggesting that unfettered access to the building was connected with leaks.
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TOP NEWS

Judge Questions Pentagon Claim That Press Escorts Curbed Leaks

By Jared Foretek

A D.C. federal judge pressed a Trump administration attorney to back up her claim that restricting reporters' access to the Pentagon has driven down the amount of classified information reaching the press, saying Friday that he'd seen nothing suggesting that unfettered access to the building was connected with leaks.

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OpenAI, Google Workers Back Anthropic In DOD Usage Feud

By Elaine Briseño

Google and OpenAI employees told a California federal court that autonomous lethal weapons systems used without human oversight pose several risks, backing rival artificial intelligence company Anthropic's bid to show the government acted arbitrarily in determining Anthropic posed national security risks.

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3M, DuPont Seek To Ax Out-Of-State PFAS Claims In Montana

By Lauren Berg

3M, DuPont de Nemours Inc. and other manufacturers asked a Montana federal judge to toss amended firefighter turnout gear PFAS claims brought by cities and municipalities in Connecticut, California and several other states, saying newly added out-of-state plaintiffs have no connection to Montana.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Eutelsat Seeks 'Relative' Payments For Upper C-Band Moves

By Nadia Dreid

The FCC ought to stick with its plan of paying companies who agreed to quickly clear out of the upper C-band "relative" to their contribution, but that doesn't mean using the same percentages it did to dole out payments for clearing out of the lower C-band, one satellite company said.

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ENFORCEMENT

Ex-Gov't Contractor Cops To $510K IT Kickback Scheme

By Gina Kim

A former intelligence agency contractor pled guilty in Maryland federal court to accepting $510,000 in kickbacks in exchange for using his access to sensitive government systems to influence the procurement process for IT products in favor of his co-conspirators, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

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LITIGATION

Supplier Says Sikorsky Owes $14M For Helicopter Job

By Brian Steele

Lockheed Martin unit Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. paid a subcontractor only $8 million for $22 million worth of work on a multibillion-dollar military helicopter program after causing the project to "balloon in time and cost," according to a federal contract suit.

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Brief

Families Appeal Loss Against Lockheed Martin To 11th Circ.

By Ganesh Setty

Three families who accused Lockheed Martin of causing their children's birth defects told a Florida federal court Thursday that they are appealing a May jury verdict in favor of the defense giant to the Eleventh Circuit.

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DEALS & CONTRACTS

Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Gibson Dunn, Davis Polk, S&C

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, SpaceX prices a $75 billion initial public offering at its designated price range, Apollo Global Management leads a capital commitment for a Broadcom initiative to build artificial intelligence infrastructure for companies including Anthropic, and pharma giant GSK acquires cancer therapy specialist Nuvalent.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

3 Things To Know About Trump's Pick To Lead SDNY

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

President Donald Trump has announced that he plans to appoint Sullivan & Cromwell LLP partner James M. McDonald to lead the Southern District of New York. Here are three things to know about him.

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Trump Personal Atty In Carroll Cases Confirmed To 8th Circ.

By Courtney Bublé

The Senate voted 48-43 on Monday evening to confirm Justin Smith, who represented the president in the defamation and sexual abuse cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

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Hagens Berman Must Cover Fees After Misconduct Findings

By Adrian Cruz

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP must cover the fees and costs of a special master who alleged the firm committed misconduct in product liability litigation over the morning sickness drug thalidomide, a Pennsylvania federal judge has said.

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Analysis

Newman's Appeal Loss Shows Limits On Suspension Reviews

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection on Monday of Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's appeal in the long-running dispute over her suspension made clear that the available routes to challenge such orders are narrow, and spurred critics to contemplate ways to revise the system.

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Justices Turn Down Judge Newman's Suspension Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman's effort to revive her lawsuit against her colleagues for suspending her, leaving intact a D.C. Circuit decision that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.

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Attys Want Up To $33M In Long-Running UBH Benefits Fight

By Kellie Mejdrich

Attorneys for employee benefit plan participants who sued to change how United Behavioral Health processed claims for mental health and substance use disorder treatment asked a California federal court for up to $33 million in fees and expenses for their work on the "groundbreaking" case.

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Ex-SEC Atty Reprimanded Over Misstatements In Crypto Case

By Julie Manganis

A former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission attorney has received a public reprimand for misleading a judge in a cryptocurrency fraud case that led to sanctions against the agency.

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Barnes & Thornburg Profit-Share Admin Wants Legal Bills Paid

By James Boyle

A company that oversaw recordkeeping duties of Barnes & Thornburg LLP's profit-sharing plan says in a complaint in Pennsylvania state court it is owed legal fees over a previous suit filed by a former firm partner.

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FBI Misplaced Nadine Menendez's Jewelry, Judge Told

By Parker Quinlan

An attorney for Nadine Menendez on Monday told a Manhattan federal judge that the FBI is still unable to locate pieces of her jewelry seized as part of the investigation that led to Menendez and her husband, former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, being convicted of participating in a bribery scheme.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.

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3M Co.

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Apollo Global Management LLC

Authentic Brands Group LLC

B. Riley Financial Inc.

Blackstone Inc.

Boston College

Broadcom Inc.

Cloudflare Inc.

Corteva Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

Elliott Investment Management LP

Eutelsat Communications SA

Fold

GSK PLC

Google LLC

Guess Inc.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Illinois Brick Co.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

LinkedIn Corp.

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Morgan Stanley

National Holdings Corp.

New Civil Liberties Alliance

Nuvalent Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

SPAR Group, Inc.

Sanofi

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Starbucks Corp.

The Charles Schwab Corp.

The Chemours Co.

The New York Times Co.

The PNC Financial Services Group Inc.

TopBuild Corp.

UnitedHealth Group Inc.

University of Virginia

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Arnold & Porter

Barnes & Thornburg

Bliven Law Firm

Browning Kaleczyc

Burnham & Gorokhov

Butler Snow LLP

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cozen O'Connor

Croke Fairchild

Crowell & Moring

Davis Polk

Demeo LLP

Gibson Dunn

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

Hagens Berman

Heenan & Cook

Holland & Hart

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Mike Scott Law

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morrison & Foerster

Psych-Appeal Inc

Reed Smith

Ropes & Gray

Sheppard Mullin

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Slaughter and May

Stris & Maher

Sullivan & Cromwell

Thompson Hine

WilmerHale

Zuckerman Spaeder

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers

Missouri Department of Agriculture

New York State Assembly

U.S. Attorney's Office

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. Marine Corps

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana