Top Stories

• 

  Trump's WilmerHale Order Struck Down In Forceful Decision

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A D.C. federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's executive order targeting WilmerHale in an impassioned...(read more)

• 

  Salesforce To Buy Informatica In $8B Deal Led By 4 Firms

  By Grace Dixon

  Salesforce announced plans Tuesday to purchase cloud data management company Informatica in an $8 billion deal o...(read more)

ADVERTISEMENT


• DOL Rescinds Warning Against Crypto In 401(k) Plans

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday rescinded guidance by former President Joe Biden's administration that warned against crypto offerings in 401(k) plans, which had sparked a legal challenge from a 401(k) provider against the agency.

• 1st Circ. Won't Revive Challenge To Federal Cannabis Ban

  By Hailey Konnath

  The First Circuit on Tuesday refused to resurrect a suit challenging the long-standing federal prohibition of cannabis, rejecting the argument that the circumstances underlying a U.S. Supreme Court decision on cannabis policy had changed so much in the last 20 years that the precedent was no longer relevant.

• Musk, DOGE Fail To Nix States' Suit Against 'Limitless' Power

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Fourteen states can proceed in their lawsuit challenging Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency's influence in the federal government after a D.C. federal judge Tuesday refused to toss their suit, rejecting the government's contention that Musk wasn't subject to the U.S. Constitution's appointments clause.

• Fortress' Power On VLSI Board Takes Spotlight At Trial's Start

  By Dani Kass

  Fortress Investment Group's head of intellectual property told a Texas federal jury Tuesday that his company's overlap with investment funds that run VLSI Technology and Finjan Holdings highlights its dedication to overseeing investors' best interests, not that Fortress controls the funds.

• Greenpeace Fights To Walk Back $666M Pipeline Verdict

  By Cara Salvatore

  Greenpeace on Tuesday continued its post-trial attack on a $666 million defamation and property damage case against Dakota Access pipeline builder Energy Transfer, telling a North Dakota judge that a lack of evidence requires overturning numerous jury findings.

• Bayer, Monsanto On Hook For $611M Roundup Cancer Awards

  By Craig Clough

  A Missouri appellate panel Tuesday affirmed a trial court's $611 million award reduced from a jury's $1.56 billion verdict for three people who claimed their cancer was caused by Bayer unit Monsanto Co.'s Roundup weedkiller, saying a law professor's testimony about a Ninth Circuit decision was not prejudicial.

• Atty Avoids Sanctions After Adding AI Hallucinations To Brief

  By Lauraann Wood

  A California attorney who represented a software company in a trade secret dispute will not be sanctioned for filing a brief that included two ChatGPT-hallucinated case citations under circumstances so unusual they "couldn't have been made up," an Illinois federal judge said Tuesday.

• Trump To Pardon 'Chrisley' Stars Convicted Of Tax Evasion

  By Anna Scott Farrell

  President Donald Trump is planning to pardon reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley, the Georgia duo sentenced to prison after being convicted of running a yearslong bank fraud scheme and dodging federal taxes, according to a post Tuesday on X by Trump's communications adviser.

• Chancery Footnotes Raise Post-SB 21 Stir In Delaware

  By Jeff Montgomery

  A Delaware vice chancellor has created a stir with expansive opinion footnotes pushing back on the state Supreme Court's rejection of a controller's liability to stockholders after rechartering a business in more board-friendly Nevada, close on the heels of a bitter legislative debate over reworking Delaware corporate law.

• 9th Circ. Revives Tribes', Green Groups' Power Line Suit

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday revived a lawsuit challenging the federal government's decision to allow a 520-mile power line route through cultural sites, saying in a published opinion that a coalition of tribes and conservation groups plausibly alleged the government authorized construction before properly identifying historic sites the project affected.

• Judge Follows The Users And The Money In Meta's FTC Case

  By Bryan Koenig

  A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday looked for the right metrics to measure the effect that Meta Platforms Inc. has had on Instagram and WhatsApp in terms of users, growth and money spent buying the apps in deals the Federal Trade Commission says were designed to buy or bury the competition.

• Expert Says DuPont Knew Of PFAS Risk At NJ Site

  By George Woolston

  A former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency policy adviser told a New Jersey federal court on Tuesday that E.I. du Pont de Nemours knew of the risk of "forever chemicals" and failed to disclose that risk to federal and Garden State regulators despite its obligation to do so.