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  Even Trump's Most Promising Pa. Lawsuits May Prove Futile

  By Matt Fair

  Despite a flurry of litigation from President Donald Trump and GOP allies as his lead over Joe Biden in the clos...(read more)

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  USPS Must Sweep For Mail-In Ballots Twice A Day In NC, Pa.

  By Khorri Atkinson

  A D.C. federal judge on Thursday ordered mail facilities in North Carolina and Pennsylvania to conduct sweeps fo...(read more)

• Tracking Trump's Pa. Election Litigation Whirlwind

  By Matt Fair

  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign and other Republican candidates have launched a battery of lawsuits in the hotly contested battleground state of Pennsylvania since Election Day challenging various aspects of the vote-tallying process.

• SEC Expands Pfizer Bribery Inquiries Into China

  By Al Barbarino

  Pfizer Inc. is cooperating with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission following a bribery-related inquiry into the drugmaking giant's China operations, according to the company's third-quarter financial statements.

• October Marked 6 Months Of Job Growth For Legal Sector

  By Kevin Penton

  The legal industry has banked six straight months of job increases following a huge hit at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, with the sector most recently gaining approximately 4,800 jobs in October, according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor.

• Ex-BigLaw Bankruptcy Atty Mulls Guilty Plea In Extortion Rap

  By Pete Brush

  A fund founder and onetime BigLaw bankruptcy lawyer accused of illegally pressuring Jefferies Financial Group not to challenge his bid for assets being sold by insolvent retailer Neiman Marcus is exploring a guilty plea with the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, according to an order docketed Friday.

• Pa. AG Shapiro Declared Victor In Reelection Contest

  By Matt Fair

  Attorney General Josh Shapiro was declared the winner Friday afternoon in his bid for reelection as Pennsylvania's top law enforcement official as he beat back a challenge from Republican opponent Heather Heidelbaugh.

• Pa. GOP Candidates Win Short Hold On Provisional Ballots

  By Matthew Santoni

  A Pennsylvania appellate court granted a pair of Republican candidates a temporary hold on some of the provisional ballots yet to be counted in that state Friday, but did not order them thrown out entirely amid a challenge to whether people were still allowed to vote in person if their mail-in ballots were rejected.

• Trump Demotes Chatterjee From FERC Chairman's Role

  By Keith Goldberg

  President Donald Trump has removed Neil Chatterjee as Federal Energy Regulatory Commission chairman and replaced him with fellow Republican commissioner James Danly, a demotion that comes on the heels of Chatterjee helping push through bipartisan, clean energy-friendly policies at the agency.

• Ex-US Attys Picked By GOP Rip Trump's Voter Fraud Claims

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Nineteen former Republican-nominated federal prosecutors slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday for falsely claiming that widespread voter fraud has unfairly influenced post-election day results against him, saying the president's comments are "premature, baseless and reckless" and they threaten the nation's democracy.

• Senate Control Likely Hinges On Georgia Runoffs In January

  By Andrew Kragie

  A U.S. Senate race in Georgia dipped below the threshold for a runoff election Thursday, meaning that control of the upper chamber — and the legislative agenda — likely depends on another round of Peach State voting Jan. 5.

• $26B Opioid Deal Offer To Include $2B In Atty Fees

  By Emily Field

  The $26 billion settlement proposal from Johnson & Johnson and McKesson Corp., Cardinal Health Inc. and AmerisourceBergen Corp. will include a separate $2 billion fund to pay attorney fees and costs for the local governments that have sued over the opioid epidemic in multidistrict litigation, a source confirmed Thursday.

• Pa. Dems Try To Keep Trump Out Of High Court Ballot Case

  By Matthew Santoni

  Pennsylvania Democrats made a bid Thursday to block President Donald Trump from entering the state GOP's U.S. Supreme Court case over Pennsylvania's extended mail-in ballot deadline, arguing there is no basis yet for the president's campaign to intervene in a case if it wasn't likely to sway the election.

• Ex-Amazon Finance Worker's Spouse Cops To Insider Trading

  By Lauren Berg

  The husband of a former Amazon finance manager pled guilty in Seattle federal court Thursday to using inside information from the online retail giant to make more than $1.4 million in stock trades, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.