U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday grilled the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Army over miscommunication and policy lapses as thousands of near-misses between commercial jets and helicopters near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were documented well before January's devastating midair collision that left 67 people dead.
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Senate Panel Grills FAA, Army On DCA Midair Collision

By Linda Chiem

U.S. Senate lawmakers on Thursday grilled the Federal Aviation Administration and U.S. Army over miscommunication and policy lapses as thousands of near-misses between commercial jets and helicopters near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were documented well before January's devastating midair collision that left 67 people dead.

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Whistleblowers Seek Bigger Cut Of Tetra Tech Deal With Navy

By Bonnie Eslinger

Seven whistleblowers told a California federal judge on Thursday they deserve a cut of the total $97 million settlement the government inked over allegations a Tetra Tech unit billed the Navy for radiation remediation that was not done, and not a smaller share covering only the government's False Claims Act claims.

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DC Judge Seems Open To Fired Inspectors' Reinstatement Bid

By Ali Sullivan

A D.C. federal judge on Thursday questioned whether it would make practical sense to reinstate eight inspectors general fired by President Donald Trump while signaling openness to the federal watchdogs' argument that the president must follow the legally mandated process before they can be terminated.

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1st Circ. Denies Gov't Bid To Enforce Funding Freeze

By Julie Manganis

The First Circuit has declined to interfere with a Rhode Island federal judge's order that the government continue releasing federal funds while the Trump administration appeals a ruling blocking its efforts to enforce the freeze.

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9th Circ. Won't Stay Injunction Compelling Fed. Worker Rehire

By Emily Brill

A split Ninth Circuit panel has refused to block an injunction compelling the Trump administration to reinstate about 16,000 probationary employees to six federal agencies, saying the administration will likely lose its argument that the agencies weren't acting on an order from above when they fired the workers.

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POLICY & REGULATION

FCC Ready To Explore Earth-Based Backstop For GPS

By Christopher Cole

The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday started looking into methods of backing up the satellite-based Global Positioning System, which national security experts say is vulnerable to foreign attacks and signal interference in space.

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Commerce Nominee Demurs On Broadband Fund At Hearing

By Nadia Dreid

Sen. Ted Cruz's top aide, Arielle Roth, skirted the question Thursday when asked how much each state would receive under the $42.5 billion broadband deployment program during her confirmation hearing to be the next head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

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Trump Targets National Security Workers' Bargaining Rights

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump on Thursday issued an executive order ending collective bargaining with unions representing workers at a number of agencies "with national security missions," saying that allowing the workers to bargain is "dangerous" in agencies with such responsibilities.

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ENFORCEMENT

Brief

Cruz Says DOD Lobbied Against FCC Spectrum Auctions

By Nadia Dreid

The U.S. Department of Defense has been asked to turn over documents that U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said he believes will show that executive agency officials leaned on defense contractors, so they would lobby to keep the FCC's spectrum auction authority from being reauthorized.

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LITIGATION

Sikorsky Loses Bid To Move Fatal Crash Suit To Conn.

By Matthew Santoni

Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. can't get a lawsuit over a fatal helicopter crash transferred from Pennsylvania to Connecticut, in part because the crashed helicopter underwent finishing and flight testing at Sikorsky's former facility in the Keystone State, a federal judge has ruled.

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Chamber Asks Justices To Review Duke Energy Monopoly Suit

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review a decision that revived a case accusing Duke Energy of squeezing a rival out of the market in North Carolina, saying the appeals court was wrong to recognize a "Frankenstein's monster" theory of harm.

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Raytheon, Black Accounting Workers End Hiring Bias Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Raytheon Technologies Corp. has resolved a lawsuit alleging it refused to permanently hire four temporary Black accountants and replaced them with less qualified non-Black workers, according to a Thursday filing in Texas federal court.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Opinion

Airlines Should Follow Treaty On Prompt Crash Payouts

In the wake of the recent crash of a Delta Air Lines flight during landing in Toronto, it is vital for air carriers and their insurers to understand how the Montreal Convention's process for immediate passenger compensation can avoid years of costly litigation and reputational damage for companies, says Robert Alpert at International Crisis Response.

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Series

Baseball Fantasy Camp Makes Me A Better Lawyer

With six baseball fantasy experiences under my belt, I've learned time and again that I didn't make the wrong career choice, but I've also learned that baseball lessons are life lessons, and I'm a better lawyer for my time at St. Louis Cardinals fantasy camp, says Scott Felder at Wiley.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Judges Block Trump's Jenner & Block, WilmerHale Orders

By Lauren Berg, Ali Sullivan and Alison Knezevich

Jenner & Block LLP and WilmerHale both won temporary restraining orders late Friday blocking President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting the firms, with two Washington, D.C., federal judges determining the firms have shown the orders are likely retaliation for their representation of certain clients.

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Skadden Offers $100M In Pro Bono Work To Avoid Trump Order

By Aebra Coe

Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to avert an impending executive order that could have prevented it from taking on work connected to the federal government and its contractors, according to an announcement by the president Friday on social media platform Truth Social.

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Up Next At High Court: Terror Liability, Health Provider Choice

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench this week to consider whether a federal law subjecting Palestinian government organizations to federal jurisdiction violates due process principles and if the Medicaid Act's provider choice provision allows individual benefit recipients to sue states over the disqualification of healthcare providers. 

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Trump Grants Clemency To Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson

By Hailey Konnath

President Donald Trump has granted clemency to former Ozy Media CEO Carlos Watson, who was facing nearly a decade in prison for lying to banks and investors to secure funding for his now-shuttered multimedia company, the White House confirmed Friday.

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Trump Pardons BitMEX Crypto Co., Four Ex-Executives

By Aislinn Keely

President Donald Trump has pardoned the business entity behind cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX and four of the firm's former executives years after they copped to Bank Secrecy Act violations and lax anti-money laundering controls, the White House confirmed Friday.

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Tubi Says Keller Postman Breached Deal In Arbitration Fight

By Emily Sawicki

The D.C. federal judge overseeing video streaming service Tubi Inc.'s tortious interference suit against Keller Postman LLC over mass arbitration claims ordered the parties on Friday to schedule a status conference for next month, in light of Tubi's claims that the firm violated an agreement.

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Ex-Paralegal Sues Ga. Personal Injury Firm Over 658 OT Hours

By Irene Spezzamonte

An Atlanta-based personal injury law firm didn't pay a former paralegal for 658 hours of overtime, and it erroneously considered her a salaried-exempt employee, according to a lawsuit filed in Georgia federal court.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Max Austin

This past week in London has seen sparkling winemaker Nyetimber hit a rival distillery with an intellectual property claim, Newcastle United's former owner Mike Ashley target the club's ex-vice president for damages tied to a fraudulent investment, and a real estate agency file a legal claim against law firm Winston & Strawn LLP. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

As a growing number of companies and their general counsel consider moving their incorporation out of Delaware, the state's governor has quickly signed into law a measure revising its corporation statutes, though there are still critics. And 98% of legal leaders in a recent survey said their budgets are increasing in 2025 to handle the extra work stemming from new diversity risks, tech changes and cybersecurity threats.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

UCLA School of Law's Supreme Court Clinic and Gair Gallo Eberhard LLP head this week's list of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a Seventh Circuit ruling that upheld the conviction of a former Chicago alderman for making false statements about loans from a defunct bank.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Antitrust Institute

American Federation of Government Employees

Amicus

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Axis Bank Ltd.

BDO LLP

Barclays PLC

Bayer CropScience Ltd.

BuzzFeed Inc.

Computer & Communications Industry Association

Coupang Inc.

Delta Air Lines Inc.

Digital River Inc.

Duke Energy Corp.

EE Ltd.

Elliott Investment Management LP

Endeavor Air Inc.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

FTI Consulting Inc.

Fayetteville Public Works Commission

Great American Insurance Co.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Intel Corp.

James Hardie Industries PLC

LG Electronics Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Lockheed Martin Corp.

Major League Baseball Inc.

Mars Inc.

McKinsey & Co. Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Monsanto Co.

National Westminster Bank PLC

Netlist Inc.

PSA Airlines Inc.

Phillips 66

Planned Parenthood Federation

RELX PLC

RTX Corp.

Ryanair Holdings PLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Severn Trent PLC

Sony Music Publishing LLC

St. Louis Cardinals

Tetra Tech Inc.

The AZEK Co. LLC

The Boeing Co.

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

Vice Media Inc.

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

Warner Bros. Records Inc.

WeWork Inc.

World Airways Inc.

YouTube Inc.

LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Aidala Bertuna

Akin Gump

Altshuler Berzon

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Arthur Cox

Ashfords LLP

Ashurst LLP

Barclay Damon

Birketts LLP

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Clark Smith Villazor

Clement & Murphy

Clifford Law Offices

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

DWF LLP

Dickinson Wright

Druces LLP

Eversheds Sutherland

Fisher & Phillips

Fitzpatrick Hunt

Foley Hoag

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert & Tobin

Gordons LLP

Gutride Safier

Hecker Fink

Irell & Manella

Jenner & Block

Keller Postman

Kellogg Hansen

Keystone Law

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Lankler Siffert & Wohl

Latham & Watkins

Macfarlanes LLP

Mayer Brown

Mitchell Silberberg

Morgan Lewis

Morvillo Abramowitz

Nabarro LLP

Pallas Partners

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Rawle & Henderson

Raynes & Lawn

Robinson & Cole

Ropes & Gray

Sanford Firm

Seyfarth Shaw

Shook Hardy

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Simmons & Simmons

Skadden Arps

Squire Patton

Stephenson Harwood

Sullivan & Cromwell

Sullivan Law Firm PLLC

Sweet James LLP

TLT LLP

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Weightmans LLP

Wiley Rein

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

gunnercooke LLP

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Aviation Administration

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Financial Reporting Council

NATO

National Labor Relations Board

National Science Foundation

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

National Transportation Safety Board

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

U.S. Army

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

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Interior

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 Eastern District of New York

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. Navy

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

UK High Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United Nations

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court