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  Congress Passes Stopgap Funding Bill With Judicial Security

  By James Arkin

  The U.S. House passed legislation Friday to fund the federal government through mid-December, including a boost ...(read more)

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  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Takes Bench, Makes History

  By Jimmy Hoover

  Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson received her official commission Friday in a ceremony attended by President Joe Bi...(read more)

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• Tillerson To Take Stand In Trump Ally's Foreign Lobbying Trial

  By Stewart Bishop

  Former U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will be called as a witness for the government in the trial of Colony Capital Inc. founder Thomas Barrack, in a case accusing the onetime Trump confidant of secretly acting as an agent of a foreign government.

• Pennsylvania Chief Supreme Court Justice Max Baer Dies

  By Matthew Santoni

  Max Baer, the chief justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died at his Pittsburgh-area home Friday night at 74, the court announced Saturday.

• Mass. Judge Disarms Mexico's Gun Trafficking Suit

  By Lauren Berg

  A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday tossed a lawsuit by Mexico seeking to hold the top U.S. firearms companies responsible for deaths caused by trafficked weapons, saying the suit is doomed by a federal law that shields gun manufacturers from litigation for the legal sale of firearms.

• 'Serial Liar' Or FBI Briber? Jury To Weigh Ex-Atty's Testimony

  By Gina Kim

  Ex-FBI agent Babak Broumand accepted cash, escorts and a Ducati bike from a since-disbarred attorney in exchange for sharing restricted information, federal prosecutors told a California jury during closing statements on Friday while defense counsel maintained the attorney — the government's star witness — is a "serial liar" who can't be trusted.

• 5th Circ. Won't Revive US Inventor's Fintiv Suit

  By Dani Kass

  US Inventor doesn't have standing to challenge the process used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office when setting out factors for Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges to discretionarily deny challenges, the Fifth Circuit affirmed Friday.

• Ex-Dewey CFO To Pay $95K To End SEC Civil Fraud Suit

  By Dave Simpson

  Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP's former chief financial officer has agreed to pay about $95,000 to end the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's suit over an alleged scheme to con banks and insurer-investors out of $250 million to keep the doomed firm afloat, the commission said in a request for final approval of the deal Friday.

• Hurricane Causes Mistrial In Fla. Oncology Antitrust Case

  By Matthew Perlman

  A Florida federal judge declared a mistrial Friday over Hurricane Ian's impact on jury deliberations in a criminal antitrust case that accuses the founder of an oncology group of splitting the cancer treatment market in Southwest Florida.

• ESPN Latest Co. On Hook For Sharing User Data With Meta

  By Elaine Briseño

  ESPN Inc. has joined the ranks of those being sued for allegedly sharing, without consent, their subscriber information with Facebook parent Meta in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, according to a complaint filed in a Pennsylvania federal court.

• BakerHostetler Accused Of Fraud In $100M Bankruptcy Suit

  By Vince Sullivan

  A liquidating trustee for a reorganized pharmacy company has filed an adversary complaint in a Texas bankruptcy court, accusing law firm BakerHostetler of helping facilitate a $100 million insurance billing fraud scheme before the company filed for bankruptcy in 2017.

• Longtime Copyright Office Leader Marybeth Peters Dead At 83

  By Ryan Davis

  Marybeth Peters, who led the U.S. Copyright Office from 1994 to 2010 and helped put in place many key laws including the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, died Thursday at 83, the office announced.

• Fed. Circ. Lets IP Row Stay In Texas, Citing Remote Workers

  By Andrew Karpan

  In a split ruling, the Federal Circuit on Friday affirmed U.S. District Judge Alan Albright's decision to keep a patent lawsuit against a chip company in his Waco courtroom, based on the presence of four remotely working employees who live in Texas.

• Gov't Asks Judge To Limit Navarro Contempt Defenses At Trial

  By Katie Buehler

  Prosecutors have asked a D.C. federal judge to prohibit former Trump White House trade adviser Peter Navarro from arguing executive privilege as a defense or politicizing an upcoming jury trial on charges he defied a congressional subpoena related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.