First up this week are lawyers from Haynes Boone, King & Spalding, Legal Aid at Work and the Impact Fund who represent a class of LGBTQ+ veterans who were discharged prior to the end of the U.S. military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. A proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Defense filed this week would allow class members to remove discriminatory indicators from their military records through a streamlined process and potentially upgrade their discharge status. The deal is pending approval from U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph Spero in San Francisco. The list of class counsel includes Chelsea Corey of Haynes Boone; David Willingham, Radha Sathe Manthe and Rachel Yeung of King & Spalding; Elizabeth Kristen and Lynnette Miner of Legal Aid at Work and Jocelyn Larkin, Lindsay Polastri Nako, Lori Rifkin, Fawn Rajbhandari-Korr and Meredith Dixon of the Impact Fund.

A Greenberg Traurig team led by Robert “Bobby” Kane III helped telecommunications and technology companies secure a win in a long-running case involving underwater fiber-optic cables in Florida. Palm Beach County Circuit Judge John J. Parnofiello last week granted summary judgment to the defendants on the last remaining claims in a case where they were accused of trespassing on private property without consent. The ruling comes after a separate judge found after a four-day trial last year that the property in question was “sovereign submerged lands held in trust for the people of the State of Florida” and not subject to private claims. The Greenberg Traurig team included shareholders Mark Bideau, Lorence Jon Bielby, John Londot, Jessica Johnson Fishfeld and Humberto Ocariz, of counsel Joshua Forman, and associates Corey Gross and Taylor Patton.