Boeing Says NASA Program Contract Claim Came Too Late

By Zach Dupont

The Boeing Co. asked a Washington federal judge to dismiss a breach of contract claim as untimely from a Colorado aerospace company alleging theft of its patented technology, according to a motion for judgment on the pleadings.

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Gibson Dunn, Davis Polk Guide SpaceX's IPO Filing

By Jade Martinez-Pogue

Elon Musk's SpaceX has officially filed plans for its blockbuster initial public offering, a long-anticipated move that could value the private space exploration giant at up to $1.75 trillion.

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NC Co. Filed Veterans' Disability Claims Without Accreditation

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina business violated federal law by preparing veterans' disability claims for a fee without proper accreditation, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, handing a limited victory to a class of veterans by rejecting the company's claim that it acted merely as a consultant.

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Migrants Seek More Docs In Martha's Vineyard Flights Case

By Carolyn Muyskens

Migrants suing over an alleged scheme to lure them onto flights to Martha's Vineyard asked a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday to order a private contractor to turn over documents they say will illuminate the broader contours of a plan for migrant relocation trips.

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DOJ Unseals Charges Against Ex-Cuban Prez Raul Castro

By Carolina Bolado

The U.S. Department of Justice unsealed charges Wednesday against former Cuban President Raúl Castro over the deaths in 1996 of four Cuban Americans whose planes were shot down by the Cuban government, in a move that attorneys said could signal the beginning of the end for the Cuban regime.

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FCC Clears Nokia Routers After DOD Security Review

By Nadia Dreid

Nokia will still be able to import some of its foreign made routers after receiving the Federal Communications Commission's blessing and conditional approval and exemption from the agency's covered list of equipment the agency has deemed a national security risk.

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Aerospace Co.'s Bid Revived To Bar Alleged Secrets Use

By Elliot Weld

The Sixth Circuit has disagreed with a lower judge who declined to issue an injunction against an engineer accused of stealing trade secrets just before he left his old company for a rival, saying the facts "clearly weigh in favor of granting injunctive relief."

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Lendlease Wants NC Military Housing Suit Tossed

By Isaac Monterose

Lendlease Americas Inc. pushed for dismissal of a suit filed by U.S. military families who accused it and other companies of running uninhabitable homes on North Carolina's Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, arguing in North Carolina federal court that the plaintiffs are mistaken about the company's arguments for dismissal.

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Binance Libel Suit Doesn't Show Actual Malice, Dow Jones Says

By Bonnie Eslinger

Dow Jones urged a New York federal judge to toss a defamation suit brought by Binance over a Wall Street Journal article saying the cryptocurrency exchange fired internal investigators who uncovered transactions that purportedly went to sanctioned Iranian-backed entities, arguing that Binance hadn't shown the article was published with actual malice.

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How Anthropic's Mythos May Upend Defense Cyber Rules

Anthropic’s recent announcement that Claude Mythos, an AI general-purpose language model, could soon enable virtually anyone to exploit vulnerabilities in major web browsers and operating systems marks an imminent increase in threat levels that current defense cybersecurity regulations were not designed to navigate, say attorneys at Fluet.

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Big Issues Linger After Senate Prediction Market Trading Ban

Whether the Senate can — or should — extend prediction market trading restrictions beyond itself will test not only the boundaries of insider trading law, but also the structural limits of legislative power in an era where information itself has become a tradable asset, say attorneys at Benesch.

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Law School's Missed Lesson: Diagnose Before Arguing

Law school often skips over explicitly teaching students how to determine what kind of problem a case presents before they commit to a particular doctrinal path, which risks building arguments that are internally coherent but externally misaligned, says Melanie Oxhorn at Kobre & Kim.

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OpenAI Says ChatGPT Misuse Is Users' Responsibility

By Emily Sawicki

OpenAI has asked a federal judge in Chicago to end an insurance company's suit alleging it practices law without a license, arguing the complaint should be directed toward individuals who misuse the company's ChatGPT bot to file faulty motions, and not the generative AI platform itself.

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2nd Circ. Pick Questioned At Hearing On Role As Trump Lawyer

By Courtney Bublé

Matthew Schwartz, a nominee for the Second Circuit, was questioned by Democratic senators Wednesday about whether his current job as the president's personal attorney while his nomination process is underway poses a conflict of interest.

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Bad AI Citation Sanction Slashed Amid 7th Circ. Guidance

By Hailey Konnath

An Indiana federal judge Wednesday rejected a magistrate judge's recommendation that an attorney be sanctioned $7,500 for including faulty, artificial intelligence-generated legal citations in a discovery brief, pointing to recent Seventh Circuit guidance and sanctioning him $2,000 instead.

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2 Fla. County Courts Requiring AI Disclosure In Court Filings

By Sarah Martinson

Two Florida circuit courts in Miami-Dade and Broward counties are requiring attorneys and self-represented litigants to disclose when they use generative text tools to prepare their court filings and to certify they checked the generated content for accuracy.

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Hagens Berman Says Apple Smear Job Can't Stop Withdrawal

By Bonnie Eslinger

Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP urged a California federal judge to allow one of its named plaintiffs to withdraw from an Apple iCloud antitrust case, saying Apple Inc.'s filed opposition is rife with "misdirection and ad hominem" attacks and not about the merits of the dispute but "smearing opposing counsel."

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Atty Withdrawals Not Limited To Fee Conflicts, ABA Says

By Emily Sawicki

Lawyers whose clients fail to hold up their end of valid engagement agreements are clear to cease their representation, so long as certain criteria are met, according to the American Bar Association's ethics committee's latest guidance, published Wednesday.

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Comey Wants Arraignment Pushed For Dismissal Bid

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI Director James Comey asked a North Carolina federal court Wednesday to postpone his arraignment on charges alleging he threatened President Donald Trump, telling a judge that he is preparing to seek to have the case thrown out on constitutional grounds.

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Mich. Supreme Court Mulls Remote Court Access Rules

By Susan Smiley

The Michigan Supreme Court held administrative hearings on Wednesday concerning several proposed amendments to Michigan court rules, including adding more specific guidelines for remote hearings, making language services free for civil cases, and allowing law students and recent law graduates to appear on behalf of indigent people in all Michigan courts.

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