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  DLA Piper Defeats Fired Associate's Claims Of Pregnancy Bias

  By Pete Brush

  A federal jury in Manhattan declined to award damages Monday to a former associate who says DLA Piper unlawfully...(read more)

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  K&L Gates Helps Hexagon Buy Baker Hughes Unit For $1.45B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Industrial technology company Hexagon AB said Monday that it has agreed to buy a German industrial testing busin...(read more)

• Disney, WB, Universal's AI Suit Is 'Artificial,' Tech Cos. Say

  By Hailey Konnath

  Chinese artificial intelligence companies have urged a California federal court to throw out allegations from Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery and Universal that their service has been stealing the studios' intellectual property, calling it "ironic" that the case about artificial intelligence is "entirely artificial."

• DC Circ. Digs Into FTC Rationale For Media Matters Probe

  By Nadia Dreid

  A D.C. Circuit panel tore into a Federal Trade Commission lawyer on Monday as the agency fought to convince the three judges that a lower court had no right to block it from investigating a left-leaning media watchdog, a probe the group claims is retaliation for publishing anti-Nazi content.

• State Meta Verdicts May Offer Clues For 1st Federal Bellwether

  By Cara Salvatore

  Meta's recent state jury losses in suits over social media's harms to mental health provide clues as to what will happen this summer when a school district's suit against social platforms goes to trial in the first federal bellwether — and down the road in appeals some believe will reach the nation's high court.

• PacifiCorp Damages Tab Rises With Liability Uncertain

  By Cara Salvatore

  An Oregon jury on Monday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $14.5 million to a group of 11 survivors of 2020 fires, although the validity of the damages-only verdict is uncertain after an appeals court days ago overturned the liability verdict underlying it.

• Stikeman-Led GFL Inks $4.6B Waste Management Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  GFL Environmental Inc. has agreed to buy Secure Waste Infrastructure Corp. in a CA$6.4 billion ($4.6 billion) deal that would combine one of North America's largest waste haulers with a Western Canadian disposal and industrial waste infrastructure operator.

• Texas Appeals Court Upholds Dismissal In $250M Fraud Case

  By Spencer Brewer

  A split Texas appeals court panel found that a company cannot bring claims against Morgan Stanley after an executive at the bank ran an alleged kickback scheme involving $250 million in mineral interests, saying the executive was working by himself when the alleged fraud occurred.

• Tesla Wins Chancery Suit Dismissal After Move To Texas

  By Sarah Jarvis

  A consolidated Delaware Chancery Court suit leveling breach of fiduciary duty claims against Elon Musk and Tesla Inc. directors belongs in Texas, a vice chancellor said Monday, finding that a forum selection bylaw applies retroactively even though the conduct at issue occurred before the company reincorporated in the Lone Star State.

• Trump Picks DOL Wage Official For NLRB Seat

  By Braden Campbell

  President Donald Trump tapped a U.S. Department of Labor wage official Monday to serve on the National Labor Relations Board in a move that could avert another quorum lapse and facilitate a shift away from the labor-friendly policy of the last administration.

• Gov't Appeal Could Throw Wrench In Tariff Refunds

  By Dylan Moroses

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced its court-ordered tariff refund system will be available for its first entries in a week's time, but practitioners remain concerned that a potential government appeal of the ruling could narrow the amount of imports and companies that can qualify for the relief.

• Chinese Developer Kaisa Files $15.7B Ch. 15 Recognition Bid

  By Rick Archer

  Chinese property developer Kaisa Group is asking a New York bankruptcy judge to extend U.S. recognition to a restructuring of its $15.7 billion in debt that it underwent last year after being hit with Chinese and U.S. lawsuits over missed payments.

• Cleary, Latham Steer $2.5B Somnigroup Bedding Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Somnigroup International Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Leggett & Platt Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at about $2.5 billion, with Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP advising Somnigroup and Latham & Watkins LLP representing Leggett & Platt.

• Trump's $10B WSJ Suit Tossed Over Thin Defamation Claims

  By David Minsky

  A Florida federal judge tossed a $10 billion defamation suit President Donald Trump brought against the Wall Street Journal over a published article linking him to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, ruling Monday that the newspaper didn't knowingly or recklessly run a false story.