The U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected an air transportation company's protest over being excluded from a $1.4 billion immigration contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, saying the company lacked standing since it failed to show it could adequately perform the work needed.
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TOP NEWS

Judge Denies Protest Of $1B DHS Procurement Exclusion

By Elaine Briseño

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims rejected an air transportation company's protest over being excluded from a $1.4 billion immigration contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, saying the company lacked standing since it failed to show it could adequately perform the work needed.

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Ill. Jury Awards $49.5M To Ethiopian Air Victim's Family

By Lauraann Wood

Illinois federal jurors awarded $49.5 million Wednesday to the family of a global health worker who died alongside 156 others when a Boeing jet carrying Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302 crashed within minutes of takeoff.

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Defense Tech Startup Anduril Raises $5B At $61B Valuation

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Military technology company Anduril, led by Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, on Wednesday announced it reached a $61 billion valuation after raising $5 billion in its latest funding round.

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POLICY & REGULATION

Rural Wireless Group Criticizes EchoStar Spectrum Deals

By Ganesh Setty

A trade group representing rural wireless providers said it opposes the Federal Communications Commission's recent approval of EchoStar's sales of spectrum to AT&T and SpaceX totaling roughly $40 billion, saying rural providers and consumers will likely suffer.

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Brief

FCC Ramps Up Focus On Cybersecurity In Telecom Biz

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission will kick off a pair of public workshops this week aiming to find ways to elevate cybersecurity in the telecom space.

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Brief

Canada Allocating Over $3.4M To Firms Hit By US Tariffs

By Jack McLoone

The Canadian government has announced a total of over CA$4.7 million ($3.4 million) in grants to support small or medium-size aluminum businesses this week to help the companies cope with U.S. tariffs, including nearly CA$2.1 million in funding Wednesday.

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LITIGATION

Army Contractor, Cable Co. Settle Missed-Delivery Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

A Texas federal judge agreed Wednesday to toss a lawsuit a U.S. Army contractor filed against a custom cable maker in California over undelivered cable sets after the companies reported that they had settled their dispute.

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Super Micro Hit With Investor Suit Over China Chip Sales

By Zak Kostro

A Super Micro Computer Inc. investor says he suffered losses as a result of a secret and illegal sale of servers embedded with Nvidia chips to China and the company's misleading statements, leading to a drop in its stock price, according to a proposed class action in California federal court.

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Conn. PFAS Plaintiffs Deny Forum Shopping In Montana Suit

By Mike Curley

The City of Stamford and a local fire district are pushing back against a bid by 3M and others to sanction them for moving their claims from Connecticut to Montana, saying the sanctions bid misrepresents the facts and circumstances motivating them to join the litigation.

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Brief

Engineers Drop General Dynamics From No-Poach Suit

By Bryan Koenig

General Dynamics can walk away from a proposed class action accusing major shipbuilders of using no-poach agreements to suppress wages for engineers and architects, after the parties stipulated Tuesday to dropping the company from the Virginia federal court suit from which other defendants have settled.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Cos. Can Navigate Iran Sanctions Risks In China

For multinational financial institutions and other companies caught between the U.S. and China’s competing compliance regimes as they relate to Iranian oil, finding a path forward will require careful, jurisdiction-specific analysis, say attorneys at Perkins Coie and Ashurst.

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Series

The Biz Court Digest: Georgia Court Has Business On Its Mind

Thanks to recent legislation, the Georgia State-wide Business Court will soon offer business litigants greater access to the court than ever before, further enhancing the court's emphasis on efficiency, predictability and accessibility for sophisticated commercial disputes, says former GSBC judge Walt Davis at Jones Day.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Analysis

Insider Trading Case Shows BigLaw Associate Vetting Gaps

By Chris Villani

A BigLaw attorney who was able to move through three major firms while allegedly orchestrating a massive insider trading scheme may have been aided by relatively loose hiring practices for associates that firms may consider strengthening moving forward, recruiting experts told Law360.

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DOJ Asserts Broad Power In BigLaw Executive Order Appeal

By Jared Foretek

A Trump administration attorney told the D.C. Circuit on Thursday that the courts have no authority to review the president's decision to revoke someone's security clearance for any reason, including race, religion, or even refusal to pay a $1 million bribe.

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Trump's 8th Circ. Pick Clears Senate Panel Vote

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump's nominee for the Eighth Circuit, who represented the president in the cases brought by writer E. Jean Carroll, advanced to the full Senate on Thursday.

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Thomas Urges Defense Of Constitution At Judicial Conference

By Carolina Bolado

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas urged attendees at the Eleventh Circuit Judicial Conference on Thursday to "stand up" for the U.S. Constitution and to see the positives in the country, despite its flaws, on its 250th birthday.

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Fenwick Hit With FTX Suit In DC Over $525M Losses

By Emily Lever

A group of former FTX customers has sued Fenwick & West LLP in federal court in Washington over its work representing FTX from 2018 to 2022, seeking to recover more than $525 million for losses stemming from the cryptocurrency exchange's collapse.

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NYC Bar Endorses Random Audits For Law Firm Accounts

By Emily Sawicki

The New York City Bar Association's Professional Discipline Committee on Thursday threw its support behind a statewide bill to institute a random audit program for law firm financial accounts.

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Ogletree Fights Atty's Discovery Bid For DQ Push In Bias Suit

By Lynn LaRowe

A Georgia federal court should deny a bid for discovery aimed at disqualifying Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending a security company against discrimination claims because the request stems from the plaintiff's lawyer's "personal grievances," the company said Thursday.

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Lover's Ex-Wife Fights Sinema's Request For Therapy Notes

By Abigail Harrison

A bid by former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona to unearth notes and communications from a therapist working with her lover's ex-wife should be summarily denied, as the ex-wife, Heather Ammel, told a North Carolina federal court Thursday that the request is a clear overreach.

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8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of Horse Breeder's Malpractice Suit

By Tom Lotshaw

The Eighth Circuit said a federal judge was right to dismiss a malpractice suit a Minnesota horse breeder brought against Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP and one of its former attorneys for mishandling malpractice cases against three other firms.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

3M Co.

ADT Inc.

AT&T Inc.

Amphenol Corp.

Andreessen Horowitz LLC

Beacon Hill Staffing Group LLC

Bollinger Shipyards Inc.

Boost Mobile LLC

CACI International Inc.

CSI Aviation Inc.

Corteva Inc.

DuPont de Nemours Inc.

EchoStar Corp.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

General Dynamics Corp.

Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

Microsoft Corp.

Momenta Pharmaceuticals Inc.

NVIDIA Corp.

New York City Bar Association

Northrop Grumman Corp.

Otis Worldwide Corp.

Rural Wireless Association

Serco Group PLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

Super Micro Computer Inc.

T-Mobile US Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The Chemours Co.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Watanabe Schwartz

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Ashurst LLP

Bean Kinney

Berger Montague

Bliven Law Firm

Bradford Andresen

Browning Kaleczyc

Butler Snow LLP

Clement & Murphy

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Cotten Schmidt

Crowell & Moring

Dorsey & Whitney

Eimer Stahl

Fenwick & West

Foley & Mansfield

Gibson Dunn

Godfrey & Kahn

Goodwin Procter

Grant & Eisenhofer

Greenberg Traurig

Gunderson Dettmer

Hagens Berman

Handley Farah

Heenan & Cook

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

JPS Law

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Koskoff Koskoff

Latham & Watkins

Lehman Lee

Lewis Brisbois

Lockridge Grindal

Lowell & Associates

McGuireWoods

Miller & Chevalier

Munger Tolles

Nixon Peabody

Ogletree Deakins

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pillsbury Winthrop

Porter Wright

Power Rogers

Poyner Spruill

Reed Smith

Shook Hardy

Sidley Austin

Silver Golub

Susman Godfrey

Taft Stettinius

Van Camp Meacham

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Watkins Calcara

Weil Gotshal

Wiley Rein

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Georgia Department of Labor

Office of Foreign Assets Control

U.S. Army

U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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 Massachusetts

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

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

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

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

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Montana

United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia