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  Ex-Trump Aide Bolton Indicted Over Classified Info Handling

  By Lauren Berg

  John Bolton, the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, was indicted Thursday by a Maryland...(read more)

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  Bavarian Nordic Gets Sweetened $3.1B Bid But Hurdles Linger

  By Al Barbarino

  Danish vaccine biotech Bavarian Nordic on Thursday urged shareholders to accept a sweetened, roughly $3.1 billio...(read more)

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• 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.

• Akin Guides Metals Co. CMC On $1.8B Concrete Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Akin is advising Commercial Metals Co. on its plan to acquire Foley Products Co., a large U.S. regional supplier of precast concrete products, for $1.84 billion in cash, CMC said Thursday.

• Top Del. Judge Details Views On Willful Infringement Issues

  By Ryan Davis

  A lawsuit cannot provide an accused infringer with the notice needed for a patent owner to allege indirect and willful infringement, and enhanced infringement demands aren't subject to dismissal motions, Delaware's top judge has ruled.

• Goldstein Can't Dismiss 2016 Tax Charges As Time-Barred

  By Jared Foretek

  A Maryland federal judge denied SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein's motion to dismiss four of the 22 federal tax charges brought against him in January, ruling that his defense that the counts stemming from the 2016 tax year should be time-barred will have to be raised at trial.

• Trump Fundraiser Guilty Of Mar-A-Lago Straw Donor Scheme

  By Cara Salvatore and Stewart Bishop

  A New York man who raised funds for President Donald Trump's 2020 reelection campaign was found guilty Wednesday of making straw donor contributions under others' names, a scheme prosecutors said was partly intended to help Chinese nationals gain access to Trump.