The First Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision that a challenge to Massachusetts' 20-year-old ban on assault weapons is unlikely to succeed on the grounds that the ban comports with historical tradition.
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1st Circ. Upholds Massachusetts' Assault Weapons Ban

By Emily Field

The First Circuit on Thursday upheld a lower court's decision that a challenge to Massachusetts' 20-year-old ban on assault weapons is unlikely to succeed on the grounds that the ban comports with historical tradition.

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Sig Sauer Gun Gear Recall Doesn't Fix Past Harm, Buyer Says

By Jonathan Capriel

A Texas man is pushing back on gunmaker Sig Sauer Inc.'s bid seeking to end his lawsuit over a firearm-mounted product that had a faulty cap — allowing children easy access to a dangerous battery — telling a federal judge Friday that the company's recall doesn't resolve his claims.

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OxyChem Unit Settles Bid To Share Ohio Derailment Blame

By Matthew Santoni

Chemical shipper OxyVinyls Inc. and Norfolk Southern struck a deal toward the end of a trial seeking to spread the blame — and the cost of a $600 million settlement — for the 2023 derailment in East Palestine, Ohio.

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Nitrous Companies Decline Liability For Misused Products

By Jonathan Capriel

The companies behind nitrous oxide brand Galaxy Gas urged a Florida federal court to end a proposed class action filed by the family of a woman who died while inhaling their product, arguing that they can't be held liable for "reckless and illegal misuse" of their canisters.

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TECHNOLOGY

TRANSPORTATION

Boeing Bashed For 'Stonewalling' Discovery In 737 Fraud Suit

By Rachel Riley

Norwegian Air subsidiaries accusing Boeing of fraud in connection with jet purchase deals have urged a Washington federal judge to force the aerospace giant to hand over documents in the case, citing Boeing's apparent "playbook of repeated delay, resistance and obfuscation."

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Brief

Factory Worker Drops Injury Suit Over Cessna Crash

By Ryan Harroff

A factory worker has dropped his personal injury suit against aircraft company Textron Aviation Inc. over a Cessna Citation 560XLS+ plane that crashed into his workplace, according to a filing in Connecticut state court.

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ENERGY

Apache Ask High Court For Quick Ruling In Oak Flat Land Row

By Crystal Owens

An Apache nonprofit behind the effort to save an ancient worship site from destruction in Arizona is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to quickly rule on its petition after the federal government announced it is moving forward with plans to transfer the site to Resolution Copper for mining.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

WilmerHale, Feds Dispute Reach Of Trump Order Against Firm

By Jack Karp

WilmerHale and the U.S. Department of Justice traded salvos in the BigLaw firm's challenge to President Donald Trump's executive order targeting it, with the firm and the government offering "starkly different" versions of what's at stake in the dispute.

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Ex-Katten Partner Hits Firm With $67M Age Bias Suit

By Lauren Berg

A former Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP partner launched a $67 million discrimination lawsuit against his one-time firm in New York federal court, alleging he was pushed out of the aircraft-finance practice group, pressured to resign and then fired because of the firm CEO's "stereotyped views of lawyers in their 60s."

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Joel Katz, Music Law's Longtime Power Broker, Dies At 80

By Chart Riggall

Joel Katz, the powerful music industry lawyer who co-founded Greenberg Traurig LLP's media and entertainment practice and helped bring the firm to the Atlanta market, has died at the age of 80, Law360 confirmed Friday.

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Sunoco Accused Of Age Bias By Ex-Chief Counsel

By Gina Kim

A former chief counsel for Sunoco LP sued her ex-employer in Texas state court Wednesday, alleging she was denied promotional opportunities and later terminated due to her age, while also accusing the company of replacing attorneys older than 50 with significantly younger attorneys with less experience.

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How They Won It

How Manatt Beat A Crypto Trader's 'Code As Law' Defense

By Aislinn Keely

After a crypto user exploited a software bug to create millions of dollars' worth of new tokens from a blockchain network, a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP team defeated his claim to the tokens — and won an award worth millions — by showing that faulty code can't stand in for rule of law.

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Justices Temporarily Block Removals Under Wartime Law

By Britain Eakin

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt removals of alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in Texas under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, pending further input from the court.

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High Court's Pause Of Removals Was 'Premature,' Alito Says

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision early Saturday morning to prohibit the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to remove alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in northern Texas to an El Salvadoran prison was hasty and premature, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

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Ex-DOJ Atty Convicted In 1MDB Case Ordered Disbarred In NY

By Craig Clough

A New York appellate court ordered Wednesday that a former U.S. Department of Justice attorney be disbarred due to his felony conviction as part of a sprawling, billion-dollar fraud scandal connected to 1Malaysia Development Berhad and Fugees founder Pras Michél.

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Judge Nixes Feds' DQ Bid In Migrant Kids Legal Funding Case

By Ryan Boysen

A California federal judge has denied the Trump administration's bid to remove her from a lawsuit challenging funding cuts that prevent attorneys from representing child migrants, ruling her employment at one of the plaintiffs nearly seven years ago doesn't undermine her impartiality.

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PTAB Judge Heads To Boutique, Citing Return-To-Office Order

By Andrew Karpan

An outgoing Patent Trial and Appeal Board judge based in Austin, Texas, tells Law360 that President Donald Trump's return-to-office order was a "significant factor" in her decision to return to private practice, joining boutique patent firm Smith Baluch LLP as a partner.

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Judiciary Faces Security Risks Amid Spending Freeze

By Courtney Bublé

The federal judiciary is warning congressional appropriators that funding shortfalls could threaten courthouse security.

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Wis. Sens. Renew Bipartisan Judicial Nomination Commission

By Courtney Bublé

The Republican and Democratic senators from Wisconsin announced Friday they are renewing their bipartisan commission to recommend U.S. attorney and judicial nominees to the president.

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Up Next At High Court: Preventive HealthCare & LGBTQ Books

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventive healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties. 

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

Google and its chief legal officer have now lost two major antitrust cases to DOJ prosecutors after a federal judge ruled Thursday the search engine monopolized markets and servers related to display advertising. Meanwhile, a new study shows companies are disclosing their business risks, and how they are trying to mitigate those risks, amid changing tariffs and the uncertainty of the U.S.-China trade war. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Schlichter Bogard LLC and the University of Virginia School of Law Supreme Court Litigation Clinic lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the U.S. Supreme Court revived a class action from Cornell University workers who said their retirement plans were saddled with excessive fees.

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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Alston & Bird

Baker & Hostetler

Baker Botts

Ballard Spahr

Barnes & Thornburg

Benesch

Bowen & Schroth

Clarke Silverglate

Clement & Murphy

Covington & Burling

DLA Piper

Dickie McCamey

Foley & Lardner

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani

Greenberg Traurig

Greenspoon Marder

Habush Habush

Hueston Hennigan

Jenner & Block

Jones Day

Katten Muchin

Kilgore & Kilgore

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Latham & Watkins

Lewis Brisbois

Manatt Phelps

Martin Pringle

McNaul Ebel

Morgan & Morgan

Morris Nichols

Morrison Cohen

O'Melveny & Myers

Olshan Frome

Patterson Belknap

Paul Hastings

Paul Weiss

Perkins Coie

Pierson Ferdinand LLP

Poulin Willey

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Schlichter Bogard

Skadden Arps

Smith Baluch

Sullivan & Cromwell

Susman Godfrey

Vinson & Elkins

Vorys

Wachtell Lipton

Weber & Carrier

Williams & Connolly

WilmerHale

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Accenture PLC

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

American Airlines Group Inc.

American Bar Association

American Civil Liberties Union

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto

Cornell University

DePuy Synthes Cos.

Dell Technologies Inc.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

EMI Group Ltd.

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise

Federal National Mortgage Association

Global Payments Inc.

GoDaddy Inc.

Google LLC

Harvard University

Intel Corp.

Johnson & Johnson

LinkedIn Corp.

Match Group LLC

Meta Platforms Inc.

Molson Coors Beverage Co.

Monster Beverage Corp.

Norfolk Southern Corp.

Norwegian Air Shuttle ASA

NuStar Energy LP

Sony Music Publishing LLC

Sunoco LP

T-Mobile US Inc.

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

Textron Inc.

The Boeing Co.

The City University of New York

The Recording Academy

Trumpf Inc.

Tupperware Brands Corp.

Universal Music Group NV

University of Virginia

Vital Pharmaceuticals

Warner/Chappell Music Inc.

Worldpay LLC

e.l.f. Beauty Inc.

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Dallas County, Texas

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Executive Office of the President

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Judicial Center

Federal Trade Commission

Internal Revenue Service

Judicial Conference of the United States

New York State Division of Human Rights

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Copyright Office

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Sentencing Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio