A Fifth Circuit panel agreed Friday to toss its earlier decision ruling that President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors to $15, two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order nixing the wage bump.
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5th Circ. Nixes Fed Contractor Wage Decision After Trump EO

By Irene Spezzamonte

A Fifth Circuit panel agreed Friday to toss its earlier decision ruling that President Joe Biden had the authority to raise the minimum hourly wage for federal contractors to $15, two weeks after President Donald Trump signed an executive order nixing the wage bump.

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Judge Won't End Atty Dispute Over Beirut Bombing Suit

By Catherine Marfin

A federal judge declined to give a Maryland law firm a pretrial win in a lawsuit brought by two Houston attorneys who accused it of unfairly terminating a joint venture for litigation over the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing.

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DOD Seeks To Void Union Deals Over Efficiency Concerns

By Braden Campbell

The U.S. Department of Defense and other agencies asked a Texas federal judge to bless President Donald Trump's move to end collective bargaining with their workers, saying in a new suit that their union deals are hampering national security by inhibiting the president's federal workforce shakeup.

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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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ENFORCEMENT

Jury Clears Lab Owners In $40M COVID Test Fraud Case

By Ryan Harroff

A Florida jury found two testing lab co-owners not guilty of conspiracy, health care fraud and wire fraud after a nearly four-week-long trial on the government's claims the duo conspired with others to overbill healthcare benefit programs for COVID-19 tests to the tune of $40 million.

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LITIGATION

Protego Says Texas Firm Broke $200M Crypto Bank Promise

By Tom Lotshaw

Protego Holdings Corp. said a Texas-based firm promised to invest $200 million in its launch of a cryptocurrency bank but delivered only excuses as the funding failed to materialize and a rare conditional approval from the U.S. government lapsed when financing wasn't in place.

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Stay Of Sex Assault Suits Sought After Foreman's Death

By Elaine Briseño

The death of George Foreman has prompted two women suing the late boxer in California federal court for sexual assault to request a 90-day pause in their lawsuits until a legal representative can be appointed.

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FIFTH CIRCUIT

5th Circ. OKs Largest US Crude Export Terminal's Expansion

By Spencer Brewer

A Fifth Circuit panel found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dotted its i's and crossed its t's before it greenlighted an expansion of the largest crude oil export terminal by volume in North America, finding in a Friday opinion the agency adequately studied the project's effects.

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DEALS

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Real Estate Recap: Train Domain, FinCEN, Atlanta Data Centers

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including an insider's view of the Union Station takeover in Washington, D.C., the latest game-changing development at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, and a BigLaw dealmaker's take on Atlanta's data center boom.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

How Attorneys Can Master The Art Of On-Camera Presence

As attorneys are increasingly presented with on-camera opportunities, they can adapt their traditional legal skills for video contexts — such as virtual client meetings, marketing content or media interviews — by understanding the medium and making intentional adjustments, says Kerry Barrett.

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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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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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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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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Aidala Bertuna

Akerman LLP

Akin Gump

Arnold & Itkin

Arnold & Porter

Arthur Cox

Ashfords LLP

Ashurst LLP

Barclay Damon

Birketts LLP

Brown & James

Buchalter APC

CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang

Clark Smith Villazor

Clement & Murphy

Clyde & Co

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Crain Caton

DLA Piper

DWF LLP

Dickinson Wright

Dordulian Law Group

Druces LLP

Dykema

Eversheds Sutherland

Fay Law Group PA

Feldman Firm PLLC

Fisher & Phillips

Foley Hoag

Freeman Mathis

Freshfields

Gateley PLC

Gibson Dunn

Gilbert & Tobin

Gordons LLP

Gutride Safier

Hecker Fink

Irell & Manella

Jenner & Block

Keller Postman

Keystone Law

King & Spalding

Kinsella Weitzman

Kirkland & Ellis

Kline & Specter

Lankler Siffert & Wohl

Latham & Watkins

Macfarlanes LLP

Markus Moss PLLC

Mayer Brown

Mitchell Silberberg

Morgan Lewis

Morrison Cohen

Morvillo Abramowitz

Nabarro LLP

Pallas Partners

Paul Weiss

Perales Allmon

Perkins Coie

Quinn Emanuel

Robinson & Cole

Ropes & Gray

Shook Hardy

Shoosmiths LLP

Sidley Austin

Signature Litigation LLP

Simmons & Simmons

Skadden Arps

Sorrels Law

Squire Patton

Stephenson Harwood

Stinson LLP

Sullivan Law Firm PLLC

Sweet James LLP

TLT LLP

Vinson & Elkins

Wachtell Lipton

Waltzer Wiygul

Weightmans LLP

WilmerHale

Winston & Strawn

gunnercooke LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

A.P. Moller-Maersk

Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc.

Alliance Defending Freedom

American Federation of Government Employees

Amicus

Apple Inc.

Association of Corporate Counsel

Atlanta Braves

Axis Bank Ltd.

BDO LLP

Barclays PLC

Bayer CropScience Ltd.

BuzzFeed Inc.

Channell Commercial Corp.

Consolidated Rail Corp.

Coupang Inc.

Digital River Inc.

EE Ltd.

Egan-Jones Ratings Co.

Elliott Investment Management LP

FTI Consulting Inc.

Great American Insurance Co.

HDR Global Trading Ltd.

Hamilton Lane Inc.

Intel Corp.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

James Hardie Industries PLC

LG Electronics Inc.

LexisNexis Legal & Professional

Liberty Mutual Insurance Group

Mars Inc.

McKinsey & Co. Inc.

Mediterranean Shipping Co. SA

Monsanto Co.

National Westminster Bank PLC

Netlist Inc.

Phillips 66

Planned Parenthood Federation

Prysmian SpA

RELX PLC

Ryanair Holdings PLC

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

Severn Trent PLC

Sony Music Publishing LLC

The AZEK Co. LLC

The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC

UCLA School of Law

Uber Technologies Inc.

Vice Media Inc.

Warner Bros. Records Inc.

WeWork Inc.

Witkoff Group

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California State Teachers Employees' Retirement System

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Companies House

Delaware Court of Chancery

Executive Office of the President

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

Financial Reporting Council

Food and Drug Administration

Mississippi Attorney General's Office

National Labor Relations Board

National Railroad Passenger Corp.

North Carolina Attorney General's Office

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Texas Supreme Court

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of the Treasury

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

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

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

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

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

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

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Tax Court

UK High Court

United Nations

Wisconsin Department of Justice

Wisconsin Supreme Court