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  House Dems Push To Ban Judges From Prediction Markets

  By Emily Sawicki

  Ranking members of the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday called on the federal judiciary to ban judges from t...(read more)

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  Stikeman-led Axia Offers CA$1.23B For Plaza Retail REIT

  By Al Barbarino

  Canadian real estate investment firm Axia Real Assets said Tuesday it has taken its roughly CA$1.23 billion ($86...(read more)

• 6th Circ. Says MillerKnoll Owns Rights To Iconic Lamp Design

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Sixth Circuit Tuesday refused to disturb a lower court's decision awarding intellectual property rights for late designer George Nelson's iconic bubble lamp to furniture company MillerKnoll, ruling that a 2006 royalty agreement authorized the company to use and own those rights.

• 2 Ex-Telehealth Execs Sentenced For $100M Adderall Scheme

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge on Tuesday sentenced two former executives of a telehealth company who were convicted of operating a $100 million scheme to illegally distribute Adderall over the internet, fining them $1 million each and giving the founder six years in prison.

• Meta Pans States' Bid For $1.4T In Social Media Addiction MDL

  By Emily Field

  Meta said Monday that California and three other states are seeking more than a trillion dollars in penalties in their upcoming August trial in the multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, based on sweeping, "unmoored" calculations.

• Ex-SEC Filing Co. Staffer Gets 2 Years For Insider Trading

  By Stewart Bishop

  A former staffer for a firm that helps companies with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filings on Tuesday was sentenced to over two years in prison for using confidential information pilfered from his employer to fuel an insider trading scheme with a colleague that netted nearly $2.4 million in illicit profits.

• CEO Cops To Conspiracy In BigLaw Insider Trading Case

  By Sydney Price

  A Dubai-based CEO and trader has pled guilty in Massachusetts federal court to charges that he worked with a former BigLaw associate and others to carry out a far-reaching insider trading scheme.

• Trump Seeks High Court Rehearing In Carroll Case

  By Cara Salvatore

  President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to let stand a jury's $5 million verdict finding he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room.

• Align's Invisalign Patents Are Infringed But Invalid, Jury Finds

  By Adam Lidgett

  A Texas federal jury has found that claims in four patents Invisalign maker Align Technology Inc. asserted against orthodontics company ClearCorrect were invalid, but the jurors also rejected ClearCorrect's antitrust claims against Align.

• Food Deal Rivals Battle In Chancery Over Competition Claims

  By Jarek Rutz

  Lawyers for Global Market Foods LLC urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday to block the former owner of a food distribution business from competing after selling the company for $58 million, while the sellers argued the buyer is improperly trying to rewrite the parties' contracts and expand negotiated noncompete restrictions.

• 9th Circ. Appears Icy Toward Calif. Captive Meeting Law

  By Vin Gurrieri

  The Ninth Circuit seemed hesitant Tuesday to unblock a 2-year-old California law that prohibits employers from punishing workers for skipping what are commonly known as captive audience meetings in which companies convey views about political or religious topics, with two judges suggesting that the statute infringes on employers' free speech rights.  

• Unstable Ex-Pfizer Office Spurs Evacuations In Manhattan

  By Isaac Monterose

  The reported instability of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer's former New York City office headquarters, which is undergoing a conversion into residential units, led to the evacuations of multiple nearby buildings in Midtown Manhattan Tuesday.

• 5 Midyear White Collar Trends To Watch

  By Phillip Bantz

  The practice of white collar criminal defense is fraught with uncertainty halfway into 2026 as lawyers try to navigate upheaval in the U.S. Department of Justice, the prospect of big changes in Congress and the rapidly developing use of artificial intelligence.

• DC Circ. Backs Tax Bribery Convictions Despite Jury Error

  By Jack McLoone

  A D.C. Circuit panel refused on Tuesday to reverse a lower court's judgments against two men in connection to a bribery scheme carried out to evade $2.3 million in business tax obligations, finding a jury instruction error "harmless," among other unsuccessful arguments.