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ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL
PRODUCT LIABILITY
Boeing Faces New Passenger Suits Over 737 Blowout
By Rachel Riley
The Boeing Co. has been hit with a pair of fresh lawsuits in Washington state court by two California couples who say they were traumatized when a panel blew off a 737 Max jet during a January 2024 Alaska Airlines flight over the West Coast, which triggered an "explosive and violent decompression of the aircraft cabin."
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PERSONAL INJURY & MEDICAL MALPRACTICE
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Startup's Accent Translation Trade Secrets Suit Can Proceed
By Elliot Weld
A California federal judge has denied a technology company's attempt to escape a suit alleging it stole trade secrets related to an accent translation technology from an artificial intelligence startup, saying the tech company's insistence that its rival did not make enough of an effort to defend the secrets does not make for grounds to dismiss the case at this time.
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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT
EMPLOYMENT & BENEFITS
SECURITIES & BANKING
COMPETITION
BANKRUPTCY
FDIC Secures Dismissal Of SVB Cayman Deposit Suit
By Katryna Perera
A California federal judge has permanently tossed a suit against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. brought by liquidators of the Cayman Islands branch of collapsed Silicon Valley Bank, finding they lack standing to sue the agency and are barred from relitigating issues already decided in bankruptcy court.
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DEALS
PRIVATE EQUITY
IMMIGRATION
CANNABIS
HEALTHCARE
EXPERT ANALYSIS
LEGAL INDUSTRY
Approach The Bench: Judge Robart On Living Under Threats
By Cara Bayles and Steven Trader
It's been nearly nine years since U.S. District Judge James Robart blocked President Donald Trump's 2017 executive order barring travel from seven Muslim-majority countries, and though the judge has had a long career — including groundbreaking patent and securities decisions — he still occasionally gets recognized as that "so-called judge."
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Monthly Merger Review Snapshot
By Matthew Perlman
The FTC urged a D.C. court to block a deal involving a new heart valve treatment, and courts rejected the commission's monopolization case over Meta's past acquisitions and the agency's challenge of a medical device coatings deal. Here, Law360 looks at the major merger review developments from November.
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