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  Utah Fires Motley Rice From Opioid Case

  By Jack Karp

  The state of Utah has fired Motley Rice LLC from representing it in long-running litigation over the opioid cris...(read more)

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  Jack Nicklaus Tells Jury He Wanted 'Freedom' Back After Pact

  By David Minsky

  Golf legend Jack Nicklaus told a Florida jury on Thursday that he filed for an arbitration in Miami to reclaim h...(read more)

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• Fed. Circ. Reopens Grid Construction Contract Fight

  By Keith Goldberg

  The Federal Circuit on Friday again revived a company's long-running lawsuit over the termination of its contract to build an electrical substation serving a federally owned portion of the grid, saying a lower court wrongly dismissed the case.

• Federal Courts To Scale Back Operations Amid Shutdown

  By Ryan Boysen

  The federal court system has run out of money and will scale back operations beginning Monday as a result of the ongoing government shutdown, possibly leading to case delays.

• 2 Firms Steer $4.2B Mandarin Oriental Buyout

  By Al Barbarino

  Hong Kong-based conglomerate Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd. said Friday it will acquire the remaining 11.96% of Mandarin Oriental International Ltd. that it does not already own, valuing the luxury hotel operator at about $4.2 billion.

• Russia Loses $50B Yukos Award Appeal At Dutch High Court

  By Joyce Hanson

  The Dutch Supreme Court has rejected Russia's final remaining legal challenge to $50 billion in arbitral awards issued to former shareholders of Yukos Oil Co. over the illegal expropriation of their investment, ruling Friday that it has dismissed the Russian Federation's last appeal.

• Proposed New Rules Would Cut Off Many PTAB Challenges

  By Ryan Davis

  The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposed rules Thursday that would prevent inter partes reviews challenging patents from being instituted in many scenarios, and attorneys said implementing the plan would significantly reduce challenges and make them far less appealing to accused infringers.

• Bannon Tells Justices Legal Advice Dooms Contempt Rap

  By Cara Salvatore

  A lawyer's advice to Steve Bannon not to respond to a congressional subpoena over the Jan. 6 insurrection means he couldn't have "willfully" flouted the subpoena and negates his conviction, the onetime Trump adviser has told the U.S. Supreme Court.

• FEMA Ordered To Restore $34M NY Anti-Terror Funds

  By Lauren Berg

  A Manhattan federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $34 million in slashed funds to protect New York's massive transit system from terrorism, saying the White House unlawfully tied the state's grant to immigration policy.

• Smartmatic Faces FCPA Indictment In Philippine Bribery Case

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Florida federal grand jury on Thursday returned a superseding indictment that adds charges against Smartmatic, which wasn't previously a party to prosecutors' case accusing former executives at the voting machine company of bribing an elections official in the Philippines to secure contracts.

• Justices Told Presidential Firing Limits Rely On 'Soured' Logic

  By Katie Buehler

  President Donald Trump and a cadre of supporters have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to wipe out what remains of a 90-year-old ruling that empowers Congress to prohibit the president from firing certain agency officials at will, arguing the decision was flawed when originally issued and is now well past its prime. 

• States Battle Trump Admin To Recover Solar Program Funds

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  Attorneys general from across the country are suing the Trump administration for allegedly violating the Constitution and federal law by canceling a $7 billion program providing solar equipment to low-income households.

• Wells Fargo To Settle Investors' 'Sham' Hiring Case For $85M

  By Jessica Corso

  Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $85 million to exit an investor class action accusing it of conducting "sham" job interviews to meet diversity quotas, settling a yearslong dispute before it could reach trial in California federal court.

• Bankrupt Rite Aid Trust Sues Walgreens Over Opioid Costs

  By Jarek Rutz

  A trustee for Rite Aid Corp.'s bankruptcy estate has sued Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. and a subsidiary, Walgreen Co., in Delaware Chancery Court, accusing the pharmacy giant of failing to cover tens of millions of dollars in opioid epidemic-related litigation costs that it had agreed to cover.