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May 07, 2025
Fed. Circ. Affirms Army Win In Practice Bomb Contract Fight
The Federal Circuit upheld an Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals decision that granted summary judgment to the Army in a dispute over a contract to procure practice bombs.
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May 07, 2025
DLA Piper Follows Trade Lateral Trend With DC Partner Hires
As the Trump administration continues making global trade policy one of its top priorities, law firms are fortifying their legal teams focused on national security regulations governing international trade deals, including DLA Piper, which has hired two new partners in Washington, D.C.
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May 07, 2025
Jenner & Block Brings On Former White House Tech Adviser
Jenner & Block LLP has added a former senior White House official with deep experience in telecommunications and national security to strengthen its bench in emerging technologies, the firm announced Wednesday.
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May 07, 2025
Wyden Urges Probe Of White House Use Of TeleMessage App
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Pam Bondi requesting an immediate investigation of the "serious threat to U.S. national security" posed by White House personnel using TeleMessage, an app that archives Signal messages.
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May 07, 2025
Obama Admin Secretary Johnson To Retire From Paul Weiss
Former Homeland Security secretary under President Barack Obama Jeh Johnson is planning to retire from Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP at the end of June, leaving his post as co-chair of cybersecurity at the law firm and taking up a co-chair position on Columbia University's board of trustees, according to a recent announcement.
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May 06, 2025
Mobile Cos. Ramp Up Call For Spectrum, But Face Hurdles
The nation's mobile service providers on Tuesday pushed for more midband spectrum to fuel the wireless industry, even as key policymakers worried Congress could act too hastily to commercialize airwaves the military needs for defense operations.
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May 06, 2025
Judge Scolds US Over 'Vague' Bid To Stay $380M Award Row
A California federal judge has scolded the Trump administration as it tries to seize part of a $380 million arbitral award purportedly tied to embezzled Malaysian funds, saying it has not constructively engaged in the discovery process while seeking a stay during related criminal proceedings.
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May 06, 2025
Quarles & Brady Adds New IP, Real Estate Partners
Quarles & Brady LLP has welcomed a Milwaukee-based intellectual property litigator from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and a Phoenix-based real estate and public finance attorney from Ice Miller LLP.
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May 06, 2025
Boeing Battles Bid To Depose Engineer In 737 Max Fraud Suit
Boeing is fighting LOT Polish Airlines' bid to force the deposition of a former 737 Max program engineer, contending the ex-employee's testimony isn't necessary in the airline's $200 million federal lawsuit accusing the aerospace giant of concealing jet design safety concerns to ink a 2016 lease deal. Â
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May 06, 2025
Russia Loses DQ Bid In Ukraine Case Over Arbitrator's Tweet
An international tribunal has voted by majority to reject Russia's bid to disqualify an arbitrator appointed to oversee Ukraine's claim against Moscow over the detention of Ukrainian naval vessels and servicemen, a challenge based in part on a social media post made by the arbitrator in Feb. 2022.
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May 06, 2025
House OKs Economic Espionage Act Targeting Russia, China
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would give President Donald Trump the authority to sanction certain countries that support other foreign adversaries' military aims by providing trade secrets or proprietary information owned by American entities, in legislation crafted over Russia's purported reliance on technology from China.
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May 06, 2025
DOD Says It Has Standing To Halt Labor Contracts
The U.S. Department of Defense asked a court not to end its lawsuit over President Donald Trump's move to end collective bargaining with its workers, saying it cannot manage its workforce "without facing substantial legal uncertainty."
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May 06, 2025
Army Base Teachers' Unions Sue Trump Over Executive Order
Unions representing schoolteachers on military bases have sued President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management over a March executive order aimed at stripping them of their bargaining rights, asking a Washington, D.C., federal judge to invalidate the directive.
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May 06, 2025
National Security Atty Who Lost Clearance Sues Trump Admin
National security whistleblower lawyer Mark S. Zaid alleged in a suit this week that Donald Trump's administration stripped his security clearance as an act of political retaliation, and Zaid is backed by a big legal team that includes a new law firm that specializes in defending people in similar situations.
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May 06, 2025
McCarter & English Pushes To End Ex-Atty's Firing Suit
McCarter & English LLP has urged a New Jersey state court to toss an anti-veteran discrimination suit from a former firm attorney and Navy SEAL this week, arguing the lawyer is unsuccessfully trying to pivot off failed claims from his original complaint in later filings.
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May 06, 2025
Meta Wins $168M Verdict Against NSO Over WhatsApp Hack
A California federal jury found Tuesday that Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta Platforms Inc. $444,719 in compensatory damages and a staggering $167.25 million in punitive damages for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices.
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May 06, 2025
High Court Lets Transgender Troop Ban Take Effect
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday lifted a Washington federal judge's nationwide order barring implementation of the Pentagon's ban on transgender military service, allowing the controversial policy to take effect while its constitutionality is challenged.
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May 05, 2025
4th Circ. Seems Split On Fight Over DOGE's Data Access
The Fourth Circuit on Monday seemed poised for another split on letting the government share citizens' personally identifiable information with Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, with a line of questioning that parroted their earlier division over pausing the trial court's injunction blocking DOGE from accessing that data.
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May 05, 2025
Are Circuits Suddenly Split 11-1 Over Forum Selection Fights?
Holy split! That exclamation would be a reasonable reaction to a new and lopsided divide described by industrial giant Honeywell, which contends that the Seventh Circuit abruptly and erroneously broke with all its sister circuits regarding enforcement of forum selection clauses.
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May 05, 2025
'Punish' NSO For WhatsApp Hack, Meta Tells Jury In Closings
Meta's counsel urged a California federal jury during trial closings Monday to "punish" Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group by awarding "significant" punitive damages, plus $445,000 in compensatory damages, for "vile" conduct hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices, while NSO's counsel argued Meta never lost money and its demands are a PR stunt.
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May 05, 2025
GAO Backs FBI Price Evaluation For IT Support Deal Award
A West Virginia company challenging a $93 million FBI award for information technology services failed to show that the agency erred by rejecting its own proposal for carrying an unrealistically low price tag, the U.S. Government Accountability Office said.
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May 05, 2025
National Guard Worker Challenges Trump Order On Gender
The National Guard Bureau violated federal civil rights law when it barred transgender employees from using bathrooms and exercise facilities that align with their gender identity, according to a complaint Monday challenging the Trump administration's policy recognizing only two "immutable" sexes.
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May 05, 2025
Ex-NY Gov. Aide Can't Ax Foreign Agent Charges
A Brooklyn federal judge said Monday that a former aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul can't ditch charges of money laundering and acting as an unregistered agent of the Chinese government, saying prosecutors sufficiently alleged she knowingly used her position to advance that nation's interests.
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May 05, 2025
High Court Won't Touch $44M Award In Deadly Navy Crash
The U.S. Supreme Court has dashed Energetic Tank Inc.'s hopes of its own payout from the U.S. Navy over a deadly 2017 tanker ship collision that it says was the government's fault, after the Second Circuit declared the Navy immune from the company's counterclaims and left it on the hook for $44.5 million in damages.
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May 05, 2025
Fed. Circ. Affirms Coverage Denial Over Pre-Service Surgery
A lower court did not err when it upheld the denial of a Navy veteran's shoulder disability claim based on a surgery that he had before entering the service, a Federal Circuit panel ruled.
Expert Analysis
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The Case For Compliance During The Trump Administration
Given the Trump administration’s shifting white collar enforcement priorities, C-suite executives may have the natural instinct to pare back compliance initiatives, but there are several good reasons for companies to at least stay the course on their compliance programs, if not enhance them, say attorneys at Riley Safer.
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Opinion
Undoing An American Ideal Of Fairness
President Donald Trump’s orders attacking birthright citizenship, civil rights education, and diversity, equity and inclusion programs threaten hard-won constitutional civil rights protections and decades of efforts to undo bias in the law — undermining what Chief Justice Earl Warren called "our American ideal of fairness," says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.
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Nippon Order Tests Gov't Control Over Foreign Investments
The U.S. government is primarily interested in restraining foreign transactions involving countries of concern, but former President Joe Biden’s January order blocking the merger of Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel shows that all foreign direct investments are under the federal government’s microscope, say attorneys at Blank Rome.
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Opinion
Inconsistent Injury-In-Fact Rules Hinder Federal Practice
A recent Third Circuit decision, contradicting a previous ruling about whether consumers of contaminated products have suffered an injury in fact, illustrates the deep confusion this U.S. Supreme Court standard creates among federal judges and practitioners, who deserve a simpler method of determining which cases have federal standing, says Eric Dwoskin at Dwoskin Wasdin.
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In-House Counsel Pointers For Preserving Atty-Client Privilege
Several recent rulings illustrate the challenges in-house counsel can face when attempting to preserve attorney-client privilege, but a few best practices can help safeguard communications and effectively assert the privilege in an increasingly scrutinized corporate environment, says Daniel Garrie at Law & Forensics.
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How SDNY US Atty Nom May Shape Enforcement Priorities
President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, former U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton, will likely shift the office’s enforcement priorities, from refining whistleblower policies to deemphasizing novel prosecutorial theories, say attorneys at Cohen & Gresser.
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How FAR Council's Proposal May Revamp Conflicts Reporting
The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council's recent proposal for updating organizational conflict of interest rules includes some welcome clarifications, but new representation and disclosure obligations would upend long-standing practices, likely increase contractors’ False Claims Act risks, and necessitate implementation of more complex OCI compliance programs, say attorneys at Wiley.
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How Criminal Enforcement Of Trump Tariffs May Work
While tariff enforcement has traditionally been handled as a civil matter, tariffs are central to President Donald Trump's broader economic, immigration and national security agendas — making it likely that the U.S. Department of Justice will be tasked with criminal enforcement of tariff evasion, say attorneys at BakerHostetler.
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Series
Collecting Rare Books Makes Me A Better Lawyer
My collection of rare books includes several written or owned by prominent lawyers from early U.S. history, and immersing myself in their stories helps me feel a deeper connection to my legal practice and its purpose, says Douglas Brown at Manatt Health.
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DeepSeek AI Investigation Could Lead To IP Law Precedents
The investigation by OpenAI and Microsoft into DeepSeek's artificial intelligence model raises interesting legal concerns involving intellectual property and contract law, including potential trade secret appropriation and fair use questions, say Saishruti Mutneja and Raghav Gurbaxani.
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Preparing For Stricter Anti-Boycott Enforcement Under Trump
Given the complexity of U.S. anti-boycott regulations and the likelihood of stepped-up enforcement under the new administration, companies should consider adopting risk-based anti-boycott compliance programs that include training employees to recognize and assess potential boycott requests, and to report them expeditiously when necessary, say attorneys at Debevoise.
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Opinion
New DOJ Leaders Should Curb Ill-Conceived Prosecutions
First-of-their-kind cases have seemingly led to a string of overly aggressive prosecutions in recent years, so newly sworn-in leaders of the U.S. Department of Justice should consider creating reporting channels to stop unwise prosecutions before they snowball, says Jonathan Porter at Husch Blackwell.
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Opinion
Judge Should Not Have Been Reprimanded For Alito Essay
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Ponsor's New York Times essay critiquing Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for potential ethical violations absolutely cannot be construed as conduct prejudicial to the administration of the business of the courts, says Ashley London at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University.
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Navigating The Ins And Outs Of Gov't Contracting SAM Site
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Recent developments at the U.S. Government Accountability Office highlight the importance of government contractors knowing how to navigate the online System for Award Management and maintaining an up-to-date registration, says Matthew Moriarty at Schoonover & Moriarty.
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Aviation Watch: Litigation Liabilities After DC Air Tragedy
While it will likely take at least a year before the National Transportation Safety Board determines a probable cause for the Jan. 29 collision between a helicopter and a jet over Washington, D.C., the facts so far suggest the government could face litigation claims, says Alan Hoffman, a retired attorney and aviation expert.