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  Kirkland, Wachtell Guide $17.5B Waters-BD Life Sciences Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Waters Corp. and Becton Dickinson and Co., or BD, said Monday they will combine BD's Biosciences and Diagnostic ...(read more)

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  NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal Nets Athletes' Firms Over $455M In Fees

  By Craig Clough

  A California federal judge Friday approved approximately $455 million in attorney fees for class counsel in the ...(read more)

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• 2nd Circ. Affirms Biotech Founder's Win In Trading Suit

  By Katryna Perera

  The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed an early win for the founder of biotech Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc. in a suit alleging he realized more than $2.5 million in short-swing profits after he exchanged his shares for those of another company, agreeing with the lower court that the move didn't constitute a "purchase."

• Ex-ComEd Exec Gets 1½ Years For Hiding Madigan Bribes

  By Celeste Bott

  An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive and lobbyist to one and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to steer payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his support for energy legislation favorable to the utility, and for falsifying company records to hide no-show jobs for Madigan's associates.

• Mich. Jury Sides With Red Cross In COVID Vax Refusal Suit

  By Danielle Ferguson

  A Michigan federal jury on Monday found that a former American Red Cross nurse's request for an exemption from the organization's COVID-19 vaccine mandate wasn't based on a sincere religious belief that barred her from getting the injection, rejecting the worker's request for more than $6 million in damages for her firing.

• Calif. Panel Keeps Charter PAGA Case Out Of Arbitration

  By Irene Spezzamonte

  Charter Communications can't arbitrate an employee's Private Attorneys General Act suit because parts of the arbitration agreement are "unconscionable," a California appeals panel ruled, relying on the state Supreme Court's decisions addressing the same pact.

• NY Court Declines To Make Trump US Atty Permanent

  By Andrea Keckley

  The Northern District of New York said on Monday that it has declined to appoint interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III to the permanent seat ahead of his short-term tenure's expiration, despite his previous comments to the contrary to local media.

• Wachtell Guides Huntington Bancshares On $1.9B Veritex Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Huntington Bancshares Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Dallas-based Veritex Holdings Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.9 billion, deepening the Ohio-based lender's presence in the Texas market.

• Judge Bars Indiscriminate Immigration Stops In SoCal

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from relying on people's perceived ethnicity or job to stop individuals amid federal immigration raids in Southern California, while also ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide detainees with access to lawyers.

• Ethiopian Airlines Case Settles '2 Minutes' Before Last Hearing

  By Lauraann Wood

  A Chicago damages trial set for a man who lost his immediate family in an Ethiopian Airlines plane crash can be taken off the books because his case settled "literally two minutes" before his final pretrial hearing, attorneys told an Illinois federal judge Friday.

• Courts Face Early Push To Expand Justices' Injunction Ruling

  By Katie Buehler

  In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court curtailed federal judges' ability to issue universal injunctions, Trump administration attorneys have begun pushing to expand the decision's limits to other forms of relief used in regulatory challenges and class actions. So far, judges don't appear receptive to those efforts. 

• Fed. Circ. Questions Patent Ownership After J&J's $20M Loss

  By Dani Kass

  The Federal Circuit appeared somewhat skeptical Friday that an orthopedic surgeon held onto the rights of knee replacement patents that he disputably assigned elsewhere, which would endanger the $20 million infringement verdict he won against a Johnson & Johnson unit.

• Fired Red Cross Vax Refuser Seeks $6M As Jury Trial Wraps

  By Danielle Ferguson

  An attorney for a nurse fired from the American Red Cross after being denied religious accommodation from the COVID-19 vaccine mandate asked a Detroit federal jury Friday for more than $6 million in damages for what he said was the organization's disregard of the woman's beliefs.

• Meta's Alleged Book Piracy Is Next Phase Of Authors' IP Suit

  By Ivan Moreno

  A California federal judge said Friday that a group of bestselling authors' claims that Meta Platforms infringed their copyrights by downloading and allegedly distributing their works through peer-to-peer networks will proceed to summary judgment.