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  US, 14 Allies Pledge Coordination On EV, Chip Overproduction

  By Dylan Moroses

  The U.S. and 14 trading partners, including some that are subject to a pending and related tariff investigation,...(read more)

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  HUD Probes Wells Fargo's 'Racial Equity' Mortgage Initiatives

  By Jon Hill

  The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said Wednesday that it is investigating whether Wells Fargo...(read more)

• Uncertainty Surrounds Judge Newman's 11th Circ. Transfer

  By Dani Kass

  Chief Justice John Roberts' order to transfer the Federal Circuit Judicial Council's disability investigation of a suspended 99-year-old judge to another court offers the neutral evaluation the judge has long been asking for, but attorneys are concerned about the transparency of the proceeding.

• Florida AG Seeks To Force Meta To Curb Addictive Features

  By Emily Field

  The Florida attorney general Wednesday asked a state court to compel Meta Platforms Inc. to impose age verification measures and curb addictive features, saying that a recent $17.1 billion settlement with other state attorneys general shows that the social media giant can do so.

• DNC Sues Over Trump's Taxpayer-Funded 'Propaganda Ads'

  By Lauren Berg

  The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday sued the Trump administration over its use of taxpayer dollars to air "political propaganda ads" promoting the president ahead of the November midterm elections.

• 5th Circ. Ponders Stanford Scheme Receiver's $30M Fee Bid

  By Spencer Brewer

  A Fifth Circuit judge on Wednesday questioned the rationale for restraining a portion of a receiver's fees, as the lawyer who clawed back $2.8 billion for victims of Robert Allen Stanford's multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme argued he was entitled to $30 million.

• Justices Wary Of Prolonging Guam Ammo Disposal Suit

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared wary of ruling that a Guam-based nonprofit can't challenge the U.S. Air Force's plan to explode expired munitions because its application to do so has yet to be approved by the territory's Environmental Protection Agency.

• Alito Explains Recusal But Says It Shouldn't Become Practice

  By Katie Buehler

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said this week he "reluctantly" recused himself from a dispute that could decide whether state and local government can sue Big Oil in state courts for damages related to greenhouse gas emissions, while suggesting the high court's members shouldn't make a practice of explaining their reasons for stepping away from cases.

• ATG Hid Alliance In Chancery Proxy Fight, Del. Justices Told

  By Jarek Rutz

  Empery Digital Inc. directors urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to reverse a ruling requiring activist investor ATG Capital Opportunities Fund LP's board nominees to stand for election, arguing ATG failed to disclose an alleged voting arrangement with another stockholder, while ATG maintained the company is trying to impose disclosure requirements its bylaws do not contain.

• Televangelist, Network Owner Face Off In Race Bias Trial

  By Susan Smiley

  A Michigan federal jury was told on Wednesday that deciding a Black televangelist's race discrimination claim against the white owner of a religious network will require deciding if the owner's sharing of a meme was racist or simply a joke between old friends that was misunderstood.

• Fed. Circ. Won't Rehear Axed $49M Verdict In Stent Fight

  By Elliot Weld

  The Federal Circuit on Wednesday denied a bid from the University of Texas to get a panel to rehear its patent infringement case where a $49.4 million jury verdict against Boston Scientific was overturned.

• PhRMA Sues To Block Medicare Foreign Drug Price Rule

  By Jared Foretek

  The pharmaceutical industry's top lobbying group asked a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to block a new Medicare rule tying Part B drug payments to prices abroad, claiming that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is imposing a "most-favored-nation" price control that Congress has repeatedly declined to enact.

• 3rd Circ. Upends Sandoz's $61.6M Award Against UTC

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday erased Sandoz Inc.'s $61.6 million award in a breach of contract case against United Therapeutics Corp., in a decision that sidesteps the major pharmaceutical company's request to reinstate a $137.2 million damages calculation that had been halved by the trial judge.

• 1st Circ. Skeptical Of Legal Basis For IRS-ICE Data Sharing

  By Julie Manganis

  The First Circuit repeatedly suggested during a hearing Wednesday that the Trump administration's use of a privacy exception in the tax code for criminal investigations to justify demanding tax records of noncitizens could allow it to target nearly anyone's private returns.