U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor in Texas ordered Boeing and the DOJ to detail the impact of diversity and inclusion policies on the selection of an independent monitor as part of the airplane maker's plea deal, our colleague David Shepardson and Mike Spector report. O'Connor is weighing whether to accept the planemaker's agreement to plead guilty to conspiring to defraud regulators. The deal would include oversight for three years by an independent monitor. Boeing and DOJ did not immediately comment. Read O'Connor's order here.
The judge told the DOJ and Boeing to answer questions by Oct. 25 about the government policy of selecting a monitor in keeping with the government's commitment to diversity and inclusion. O'Connor wants the planemaker to detail how its existing diversity, equity and inclusion policies "are used in its current compliance and ethics efforts."
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- Courts in U.S. battleground states are taking steps to expedite lawsuits over the Nov. 5 election, hoping to avoid drawn-out disputes that could delay the results.
- Former Husch Blackwell and Dykema partner Eric Lenzen was sentenced to 16 months in prison for tax crimes. Prosecutors said he spent lavishly on private planes, jewelry and golf memberships. He pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors.
- Attorney Jesse Binnall is on the team representing Republican North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson in a defamation lawsuit against CNN. Binnall has represented Donald Trump in other legal matters.
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That's how many petitions to hold elections for workers to unionize that the NLRB said it received in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, a 27% increase from last year and more than double the petitions filed in fiscal year 2021, when President Joe Biden took office. The increase is due in part to a nationwide surge in organizing in industries that have long been union-free. Read more from Daniel Wiessner. |
Judge Alvin Hellerstein of Manhattan may have thought he'd heard the last of a securities class action by dogecoin investors who accused Elon Musk and Tesla of rigging the price of the cryptocurrency when he finally tossed investors' fourth amended complaint in late August. Boy was he wrong: Both sides have now moved for post-dismissal sanctions. Alison Frankel breaks down the latest motions in this already-vicious case. |
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- The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission in a court filing will ask the D.C. Circuit to overturn a lower judge's order that permitted New York derivatives trading platform Kalshi to list contracts that allow Americans to bet on election outcomes. The circuit court declined to bar that betting on a temporary basis, but agreed to fast-track the agency's appeal.
- In D.C., U.S. District Judge Randy Moss will hold a status hearing in the lawsuit filed by a married former Jones Day couple accusing the firm of bias over its parental leave policy. Moss in an order last month said the two former associates could pursue claims the policy discriminates against fathers.
- A 2nd Circuit panel in New York will hear a gun rights group's challenge to an assault weapons ban that the state of Connecticut adopted after a gunman in 2012 killed 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
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- A Georgia judge temporarily halted a rule requiring clerks to verify vote totals by hand counting ballots in the 2024 election. Judge Robert McBurney said in his Tuesday ruling that it was appropriate to pause the change because it introduced fresh uncertainty into the process just weeks before Election Day.
- The U.S. Supreme Court tackled a case involving a New York state man who was fired from his job as a commercial truck driver for failing a drug test after taking CBD that he said was falsely sold as lacking the psychoactive ingredient present in marijuana.
- The justices turned away a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a California law that could have forced the companies to treat drivers as employees rather than independent contractors who are typically less expensive.
- Video gamers who sued over Microsoft's $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard settled their lawsuit claiming the blockbuster deal would harm industry competition and drive up prices. The terms were not disclosed.
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- Hogan Lovells hired senior FTC lawyer Jennifer Fleury as a D.C.-based partner amid a period of increased antitrust enforcement activity by the agency. (Reuters)
- Milbank added New York-based litigation partner Gurbir Grewal from the SEC, where he led the enforcement division. Grewal is a former attorney general for New Jersey. (Milbank)
- Freshfields brought on Claire James as head of New York private equity. She previously was at Willkie. (Freshfields)
- White & Case added Houston-based energy partner Monica Hwang to its project development and finance practice from O'Melveny. (White & Case)
- K&L Gates added partner Sarah Riddell to its asset management and investment funds practice. She joins in Chicago from Morgan Lewis. (K&L Gates)
- Paul Hastings added Ronald Anguas as a D.C.-based commercial litigation partner from Kirkland. (Paul Hastings)
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Some of the rising legal risks associated with artificial intelligence involve privacy, violations of advertising and intellectual property law, and regulatory matters, write Evan Knott, Adrienne Kitchen and J. Andrew Moss of Reed Smith. One of the most sophisticated cyber risks is known as a "deepfake," in which it looks as if a person said something that he or she never did. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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