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  $8B Risperdal Verdict Slashed To $6.8M

  By Matt Fair

  A Philadelphia County judge agreed Friday to cut an $8 billion punitive damages verdict against a Johnson & John...(read more)

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  No Standing For Kids In Climate Case, 9th Circ. Says

  By Juan Carlos Rodriguez

  The Ninth Circuit said Friday that although a group of children would have a strong enough case to go to trial o...(read more)

• Sidley Tapped For Investigation Into Best Buy CEO

  By Hailey Konnath

  Best Buy's Board of Directors has retained Sidley Austin LLP to lead an investigation into allegations its CEO had a romantic relationship with a fellow executive who has since left the company, the retailer confirmed Friday.

• Ex-NY Congressman Gets Over 2 Years For Insider Trading

  By Stewart Bishop

  Former U.S. Rep. Christopher Collins of New York was sentenced to over two years in prison Friday for leaking inside information to help his son avoid biotech investment losses and then lying to the FBI.

• 6th Circ. Is Told Opioid MDL Judge Flouting Court Rules

  By Emily Field

  Pharmacies launched another attack on the judge overseeing opioid multidistrict litigation, telling the Sixth Circuit on Friday that he has "repeatedly disregarded" federal court rules and should be ordered to follow them.

• Supreme Court Calls For More Briefing After ADEA Hearing

  By Jimmy Hoover

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday ordered the parties in a federal age discrimination case to file supplemental briefs about alternative ways to remedy age bias in the workplace other than the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, just days after the court heard oral arguments.

• Facebook Must Turn Over App Data As Part Of Mass. Probe

  By Chris Villani

  As part of an investigation launched in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook Inc. will have to turn over to the Massachusetts attorney general the names of any apps on its platform that may have misused user data, a state judge ruled Friday.

• High Court To Weigh Ford’s Challenge To State Defect Suits

  By Emily Field

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear Ford’s challenge to two “capacious” decisions that allowed plaintiffs to bring defect suits in states where the auto giant says it does not have a sufficient connection.

• Justices Will Hear ACA Contraception Clash

  By Jeff Overley

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the lawfulness of religious and moral exemptions from the Affordable Care Act’s requirement for employer health plans to cover birth control.

• Riddell Can't Dodge High School Football Player's Death Suit

  By Mike Curley

  A Texas federal judge said helmet maker Riddell Inc. must face a lawsuit alleging that its football helmets were defective and led to the death by suicide of a former high school football player, rejecting the company's arguments that the player's mother filed the suit too late. 

• RBS Demands £24M From Insurers Over Madoff Fraud Losses

  By Joanne Faulkner

  The Royal Bank of Scotland has taken aim at five insurers who wrote computer fraud policies for one of its subsidiaries, saying it is owed more than £24 million ($31.3 million) for losses caused by Bernard Madoff’s investment vehicle.

• Trump Taps Starr, Dershowitz For Impeachment Defense

  By Andrew Kragie

  President Donald Trump has expanded the defense team for his Senate trial by adding several veterans of the last presidential impeachment battle, including former independent counsel Ken Starr and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, as well as a pair of lawyers who have already worked with this White House.