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Every dispatch, filed by category. Litigation tracks how disputes actually resolve; Regulation covers the rules themselves; Engineering Failure works from the technical record; Strategic Risk maps exposure before it becomes a filing.

01

Vermont Yankee to Diablo Canyon: How Nuclear Liability Suits Actually Get Won

A survey of forty years of nuclear tort litigation shows plaintiffs rarely win on the science — they win on the paper trail.

02

Why § 50.59 Is the Most Litigated Regulation You've Never Heard Of

The provision letting licensees make changes without prior NRC approval also generates more enforcement disputes than any other single rule.

03

Reconstructing the O-Ring Timeline: What the Data Actually Shows

A minute-by-minute reconstruction of temperature data against the launch-decision record, and where the two diverge.

04

Export Control Exposure for Aerospace Subcontractors: A Risk Map

Where ITAR and EAR jurisdiction actually overlaps with subcontractor deliverables — and where most compliance programs assume coverage they don't have.

05

The Discovery Fight Over Flight Data Recorders: A Practitioner's Guide

Black box data is public in theory and adversarial in practice. A guide to the motions that actually determine what gets released, and when.

06

The FAA's ODA Program After MCAS: What Changed, What Didn't

Delegated certification authority survived its highest-profile crisis largely intact. A close read of what the post-MCAS reforms actually altered.

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