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  Vt. Justices Revive Huntington Ingalls' Virus Coverage Suit

  By Ben Zigterman

  The Vermont Supreme Court on Friday revived Huntington Ingalls' lawsuit seeking coverage for losses it suffered ...(read more)

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  Boeing To Pay $200M To End SEC Fraud Probe Over 737 Max

  By Linda Chiem

  Boeing will pay $200 million to settle allegations it misled investors about the 737 Max jet's overall safety af...(read more)

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• Barclays Hit With Investor Suit Over $17.6B Securities Error

  By Lauren Berg

  Barclays PLC assured shareholders of the effectiveness of its internal financial reporting, but that clearly wasn't true as evidenced by the $17.6 billion of securities the British bank erroneously issued — a mistake that significantly damaged investors' pocketbooks, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in New York federal court.

• Musk's Dim View Of Patents Ignores Reality For Most Cos.

  By Ryan Davis

  Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk recently declared that "patents are for the weak," and while that mindset might make some sense for the billionaire entrepreneur given the industries he works in, shunning patents is a risky strategy for most other companies, experts say.

• Musk Loses Bid For Privilege Waiver Amid Twitter Doc Fight

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Delaware Chancery Court on Friday refused Tesla CEO Elon Musk's request for a "blanket" waiver of the attorney-client privilege Twitter Inc. has cited in refusing to hand over documents in litigation over Musk's attempt to get out of his $44 billion offer to buy the company.

• Deutsche Bank To Pay $26M To End Investor Suit Over Epstein

  By Dave Simpson

  Deutsche Bank has agreed to pay nearly $26.3 million to end a proposed class action from investors who accuse the German lender of causing its share price to drop through its dealings with bad actors such as Jeffrey Epstein, the investors told a New York federal court Friday.

• AIG Scores Early Win In Ex-Company Atty's Retaliation Suit

  By Lauren Berg

  A New York federal judge handed American International Group a win Friday in a lawsuit by the former head of its legal consulting arm, ruling the ex-employee's own statements doom his claims that he was retaliated against for reporting alleged fraud within the company.

• Jones Ends Trial Week With Wish Jurors Would Do Research

  By Cara Salvatore

  Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones told media outside of a Connecticut courthouse Friday morning that if he could speak to jurors in his Sandy Hook defamation trial, he would tell them to "research history," prompting a strong jury instruction from the judge.

• Fla. Senator Sues DeSantis Over $1.5M Paid To Fly Migrants

  By David Minsky

  Democratic Florida state Sen. Jason Pizzo has sued GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis and administration officials over the constitutionality of using $1.5 million of COVID-19 relief funds to fly migrants from near Texas' southern border to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts, accusing officials of spending taxpayer money on such programs before certain requirements were met.

• Equally Split Full 4th Circ. Affirms Toss Of Allergan FCA Case

  By Daniel Wilson

  An evenly split full Fourth Circuit on Friday upheld the dismissal of a whistleblower's False Claims Act case alleging Allergan overcharged Medicaid by more than $680 million by failing to offer its best prices, after a district court found Allergan's actions were "objectively reasonable."

• 'I Lost A Lot': Breyer Opens Up On 'Frustrating' Last Term

  By Jimmy Hoover

  Newly retired Justice Stephen Breyer spoke about his "very frustrating" final term on the U.S. Supreme Court in a sit-down with CNN to be aired Sunday, adding that he was particularly "sorry" about the conservative majority's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. 

• Jury Says LabCorp Owes $272M For Infringing Prenatal Test IP

  By Andrew Karpan

  A federal jury in Waco, Texas, found on Friday afternoon that LabCorp, one of the largest chains of clinical lab providers in the world, owes more than $272 million to a small Maryland biotech business for willfully infringing a patent covering a method of testing for genetic disorders during pregnancy.

• Jury Frees Delta, Drunk Passenger From Groping Suit

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  A federal jury in Pittsburgh on Friday cleared Delta Air Lines of liability for an intoxicated passenger who boarded a flight and allegedly groped a federal officer.

• Boy Scouts Appeals Roll In, Alex Jones Ch. 11 Attys Nixed

  By Vince Sullivan

  More than a dozen insurers commenced appeals of the Boy Scouts of America's confirmed Chapter 11 plan, proposed attorneys and advisers in an Alex Jones-linked bankruptcy were disqualified, and talc injury claimants questioned the good faith of Johnson & Johnson's talc unit in filing for bankruptcy. This is the week in bankruptcy.