States Say Trump's DEI Rule For Contractors Is Unclear, Illegal

By Ben Adlin

Attorneys general from 19 states and Washington, D.C., on Wednesday sued numerous federal officials and agencies in an attempt to block the Trump administration's March 26 executive order prohibiting government contractors — including states — from engaging in "racially discriminatory" activity around diversity, equity and inclusion.

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SpaceX Rocket Base Ruining Wildlife Habitat, Green Groups Say

By Spencer Brewer

Environmental advocacy organizations told a D.C. federal district court Wednesday that Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s use of formerly protected land near the Texas coast would endanger vulnerable wildlife, saying SpaceX's occasional rocket explosions spew debris directly into protected habitat.

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Colo. Co. Says Boeing Tolled Contract Claim In NASA IP Suit

By Zach Dupont

A Colorado aerospace company has told a Washington federal judge that its breach of contract claim against The Boeing Co. alleging theft of its patented technology was timely and that Boeing's bid to dismiss the claim cited the incorrect statute of limitations for a breach of a written contract.

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Warren Asks SEC To Delay SpaceX IPO Over 'Troubling' Risks

By Dorothy Atkins

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren called on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to delay SpaceX's anticipated $75 billion initial public offering until steps are taken to protect investors and market integrity, expressing concerns that the company's books contain "troubling gaps," and the IPO poses "unique and precedent-setting" risk.

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FCC Says Chinese Lab Falsified Reports Via Copy-Paste Ploy

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission has started the process of pulling U.S. certification from an equipment testing lab based in China that the agency claims submitted false test reports for devices by copying other reports.

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FCC Grants ISP Biz Waiver On Router Hardware For 1 Year

By Nadia Dreid

The Federal Communications Commission has come through and granted NCTA — The Internet & Television Association members a waiver allowing them to make changes to foreign-made routers after granting similar permission to telecom titan AT&T.

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Use 'Great Care' In Covered List Changes, Rural ISPs Tell FCC

By Christopher Cole

Rural internet service providers want the Federal Communications Commission to make sure only companies posing known risks are barred from interconnecting high-speed networks as the FCC looks to expand a national security program.

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2nd Circuit Rejects Nadine Menendez's Bail Bid During Appeal

By Phillip Bantz

A Second Circuit panel rejected Nadine Menendez's request for bail pending an appeal of her conviction in a bribery scheme involving her husband, former U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, concluding the legal questions raised were not substantial enough to delay the start of her four-and-a-half-year prison term.

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Shipowner Must Answer Maritime Surveillance Co.'s $4M Case

By Joyce Hanson

A New York federal judge has ordered a shipowner to reply to a maritime surveillance technology company's emergency motion to enforce approximately $4 million in arbitral awards against the owner, noting that it has not yet filed a response to the enforcement petition.

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Alachua Wants DOD's $147M Chapter 11 Claim Slashed To $5M

By Clara Geoghegan

Biotech group Alachua Government Services asked a Delaware bankruptcy judge to trim the U.S. Department of Defense's Chapter 11 claim by $142 million, saying the government relied upon inapplicable federal regulations in claims connected to rejected contracts.

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How Trump's Nuclear EO Has Transformed The NRC

In the year since President Donald Trump issued Executive Order No. 14300, directing sweeping reforms of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the agency has revised key oversight programs and proposed major rulemakings and new licensing frameworks — but the NRC must continue to center transparency and trust as key values, says Brooke Clark at Morgan Lewis.

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What Prop 65 Listings For Welding Fumes, Drugs Mean For Cos.

With California poised to add welding chemicals and three medications to its list of known carcinogens under Proposition 65, businesses must assess risks from nontraditional pharmaceutical dispensing, occupational and environmental exposures to welding operations, and downstream exposures from the manufacture of both types of substances, says Gregory Berlin at Alston & Bird.

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The 2026 Law360 400

By Daniela Porat

Law360 is pleased to announce its list of the 400 largest U.S. firms by headcount.

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Widow Sues Podhurst Orseck Over $4M 737 Max Settlement

By Mike Curley

An Indonesian widow is suing Podhurst Orseck PA and one of its attorneys in Illinois federal court, alleging they failed to keep her informed or get her all the money she was entitled to in a $4 million settlement with Boeing over the fatal crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

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Kellogg Hansen Bests Susman Godfrey's Associate Pay Hikes

By Andrea Keckley

More litigation boutiques are joining the growing number of firms raising their base salaries for associates, with Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick PLLC exceeding the scale Susman Godfrey LLP set earlier this week.

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Mass. Attys Ding Watchdog's 'Myopic' Public Defense Report

By Julie Manganis

The leader of a group of Massachusetts attorneys who stopped taking court-appointed cases last year over what they say are inadequate hourly rates on Thursday slammed a state inspector general's highly critical report on the state's indigent defense system as "myopic."

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Ex-Trump Atty Chesebro Gets Fla. Law License Back

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.

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SDNY US Atty Jay Clayton Picked For DNI After Pulte Pushback

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he's nominating Jay Clayton, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, to be director of national intelligence.

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Immigration Firm Says Attys Fraudulently Poached Clients

By Britain Eakin

A law firm recently accused of running a volume-driven immigration filing mill claimed in a new lawsuit in Ohio federal court that three attorneys and a TikTok personality orchestrated a social media campaign falsely accusing it of visa fraud as a way to poach its clients.

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Mich. Judge Bullied Staff, Disciplinary Adjudicator Finds

By Melanie Dorsey

A suburban Detroit district judge violated court rules by withholding a court-ordered psychological evaluation report and repeatedly mistreating court staff, a retired judge serving as a neutral in disciplinary proceedings found, while rejecting several other claims of misconduct.

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Mich. Judge Denies Law Firm's Bid To Toss Data Breach Suit

By Susan Smiley

A Michigan law firm's bid to toss a proposed class action alleging that it allowed a cybersecurity breach that exposed its clients' personal and medical information was denied Thursday by a federal judge who also granted the lead plaintiff's request to amend his complaint.

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