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  DEI Provision Dooms Boeing's 737 Max Plea Deal

  By Linda Chiem

  A Texas federal judge on Thursday rejected Boeing's plea agreement in its 737 Max criminal conspiracy case, find...(read more)

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  Insulet Wins $452M In Trade Secret Theft Trial

  By Ivan Moreno

  A Massachusetts federal jury has awarded Insulet Corp. $452 million after concluding that a South Korean company...(read more)

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• Internet Archive Won't Take E-Book Fair Use To Justices

  By Lauren Berg

  The Internet Archive on Wednesday said it will not ask the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on whether its practice of distributing copyrighted e-books for free without permission from some of the world's biggest publishers is excused by the Copyright Act's fair use doctrine.

• Rocket Mortgage Sues HUD, Hits Back At DOJ Race Bias Suit

  By Jon Hill

  Rocket Mortgage, the largest U.S. mortgage lender, has punched back against housing discrimination claims brought by the U.S. government, countersuing in Colorado federal court to challenge what it argues are "conflicting and irreconcilable" mandates at play.

• CFTC Flags AI Compliance Obligations In New Advisory

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Thursday issued a staff advisory outlining its registrants' compliance obligations under the Commodity Exchange Act regarding the myriad of ways they may be using artificial intelligence, with the agency's chair painting the guidance as a first step ahead of potential policies.

• Apple To Appeal Epic's Atty-Client Privilege Challenge Win

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Apple and Epic Games told a California federal judge Thursday that they've agreed on a protocol for a special master to re-review 57,000 documents that Apple claims are attorney-client privileged in their antitrust fight, while Apple added that it plans to appeal his finding that its privilege assertions over a sample were overbroad.

• 'Texas Two-Step,' Exec Bonus Bankruptcy Bills Reintroduced

  By Clara Geoghegan

  Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate this week renewed efforts to pass two bankruptcy bills that would bolster rights for employees and crack down on the controversial use of so-called Texas two-step bankruptcies.

• Vidal Sends Nokia's Patent Challenges Back To PTAB, Again

  By Adam Lidgett

  The head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has again vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board refusal to hear three patent challenges by Nokia, saying the board needs to take a look at the case a third time.

• Sanctioned VLSI Patent Challenger Must ID Members In Va.

  By Dani Kass

  VLSI Technology LLC won a major victory Thursday in litigation where it's looking for compensation from a mysterious company that tried to extort it at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, with a Virginia federal judge ordering that company to disclose its members.

• Infringing Phone Mounts Permanently Blocked In Patent Case

  By Adam Lidgett

  A Washington federal judge agreed on Thursday to block a maker of electronic device mounts from selling certain products that have infringed a patent owned by a rival.

• Fed. Circ. Unlikely To Help Realtek Pursue ITC Sanctions

  By Dani Kass

  A Federal Circuit panel seemed baffled Thursday as a K&L Gates attorney argued that the U.S. International Trade Commission wrongly stopped his client from pursuing sanctions, with the panel repeatedly noting that the semiconductor company wasn't even a party in the import dispute.

• Boies Tells 1st Circ. Cannabis Precedent Is Outdated

  By Sam Reisman

  The premises undergirding a 19-year-old U.S. Supreme Court precedent on cannabis policy have changed so dramatically in the intervening years that its holdings no longer apply to the current marijuana landscape, litigator David Boies told a First Circuit panel during oral arguments Thursday.

• Disgruntled Dems Move On From Appellate Noms Deal

  By Courtney Bublé

  While some Democrats have gripes about the deal Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer made with Republicans before Thanksgiving on judicial confirmations, they grudgingly concede the deal helps them fill as many seats as possible even if it means leaving choice circuit seats for President-elect Donald Trump to fill.

• Morgan Lewis Matches Bonuses, Cahill Raises The Bar

  By Xiumei Dong

  Bonus announcements continued Thursday, with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP matching Milbank LLP's year-end and special cash bonuses, while Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP upped the ante with higher special bonuses.