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  DOJ Official Among Trump Picks For District Courts

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump announced judicial nominees for federal courts in Tennessee, Indiana and Missouri on Frid...(read more)

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  Purdue's $7.4B Ch. 11 Plan To Be Confirmed

  By Vince Sullivan

  A New York bankruptcy judge agreed to confirm the $7.4 billion Chapter 11 plan of Purdue Pharma LP on Friday, sa...(read more)

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• 'Constitutional Word Salad': Judge Rips Suit Over Mascot Ban

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A New York federal court judge denied a Long Island school district's bid to amend claims in a lawsuit challenging the state's ban on Indigenous mascots, calling proposed changes a "constitutional word salad," but said a district parent could add First Amendment claims to the litigation.

• Google, TikTok, Meta Fight Calif. Law Over Kids' Online Feeds

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  TikTok, Meta and Google filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in federal court on Thursday seeking to block the state from enforcing a new law's requirement for parental consent before online platforms can deliver personalized content feeds to children, saying the provision infringes on their First Amendment rights.

• Prosecutorial Watchdog Takes Helm In Trump Election Case

  By Chart Riggall

  The Georgia election interference charges against President Donald Trump and others will continue after the head of the state's prosecutorial oversight agency said Friday that for now, he'll take over the case from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis after multiple outside prosecutors turned down the job.

• BofA, BNY Slam 'Razor-Thin' Epstein Enabling Claims

  By Lauren Berg

  Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. urged a Manhattan federal judge Thursday to toss lawsuits accusing them of enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise and failing to timely report the late sex offender's suspicious transactions, saying "razor-thin allegations" don't connect the institutions to the crimes.

• 7th Circ. Judge Questions Pilgrim's Chicken Price-Fix Win

  By Lauraann Wood

  A Seventh Circuit judge seemed skeptical Thursday that a brief email acceptance and an unsigned agreement are enough to say Pilgrim's Pride had definitively settled chicken and other protein price-fixing claims with Sysco before a Burford Capital LLC unit picked them up to continue litigating.

• Trump To Pardon UK Billionaire Lewis For Insider Trading

  By Dorothy Atkins

  President Donald Trump has agreed to pardon 88-year-old British billionaire Joseph Lewis, who was sentenced to three years of probation for feeding nonpublic stock tips to his girlfriend and private-jet pilots.

• Ex-Judge Worries Top Court Will Be 'Timid' In Checking Trump

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts federal judge who recently resigned to more openly speak out against the Trump administration told Law360 on Thursday he is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court will be unwilling to provide a constitutional check on presidential overreach.

• Wachtell-Led Pfizer Closes Metsera Deal Worth Up To $10B

  By Al Barbarino

  Pfizer Inc. said Thursday that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Metsera Inc., securing the obesity drug developer after a tumultuous bidding war with Novo Nordisk and court fights that redirected the deal in Pfizer's favor.

• MLB Star Reliever Denies Pitch-Fixing Conspiracy

  By Pete Brush

  Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase on Thursday pled not guilty and vowed to fight charges in Brooklyn federal court accusing him of conspiring with gamblers to rig pitches during Major League Baseball games.

• Judge Casts Doubt On Legitimacy Of Halligan's Appointment

  By Jared Foretek

  A federal judge in Virginia said Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi couldn't have reviewed the full transcript of the grand jury proceedings that netted an indictment of James Comey before ratifying the charges against the former FBI director because the U.S. Department of Justice didn't have them at the time.

• Gov't Funding Deal Ends SNAP Benefits Battle

  By Matthew Santoni

  President Donald Trump's signing of a government funding bill Wednesday rendered moot lawsuits seeking to make his administration tap emergency funds for food assistance benefits, the administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.

• Presidential Firing Limits Needed At FERC, Justices Told

  By Keith Goldberg

  Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission members on Thursday told the U.S. Supreme Court that overturning limits on the president's authority to fire certain agency officials could undermine FERC's independent oversight of the electricity and gas industries and harm companies and consumers.