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  Europe Hits Google With $1.7B Fine For Ad Practices

  By Matthew Perlman

  Europe's competition enforcer on Wednesday hit Google with its third sizable fine for abuse of dominance, doling...(read more)

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  High Court Boots Google Privacy Deal For Standing Issues

  By Ben Kochman

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday remanded an $8.5 million Google privacy class action settlement to a lower c...(read more)

• S. Korean Oil Cos. To Pay $126M For Bid-Rigging Scheme

  By Kaitlyn Burton and Bryan Koenig

  Two South Korean petroleum and refinery companies have agreed to plead guilty and pay $126 million in criminal fines and civil damages for rigging bids on defense fuel supply contracts, the U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust chief said Wednesday.

• Justice Thomas Breaks 3 Years Of Silence At Hearings

  By Jimmy Hoover

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas asked a question at oral arguments for the first time in over three years Wednesday morning, breaking his silence in a Mississippi death penalty case where the lead prosecutor excluded virtually every potential African-American juror.

• Insys Founder's Atty Seeks Mistrial Over Addiction Testimony

  By Aaron Leibowitz

  An attorney for Insys Therapeutics founder John Kapoor asked a judge for a mistrial in Boston federal court Wednesday, saying a witness should not have been allowed to testify about how a heavy prescriber of Insys' fentanyl spray was also addicted to opioid painkillers himself.

• BakerHostetler DQ'd From Opioid MDL Bellwethers

  By Jeff Overley

  An Ohio federal judge on Wednesday disqualified BakerHostetler from two bellwether cases in the multidistrict opioid litigation, citing confidential information that a firm partner viewed while working at the U.S. Department of Justice.

• Supreme Court Says Foreclosure Firms Not Debt Collectors

  By Jon Hill

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that law firms that conduct nonjudicial foreclosures, or foreclosures outside of the court system, are not generally considered debt collectors under a key federal law that sets out a host of restrictions on the debt collection business.

• On Heels Of Boeing Crash, Trump Taps Ex-Delta VP For FAA

  By Hailey Konnath

  A week and a half after the Ethiopian Airlines crash that took 157 lives, President Donald Trump said he planned to nominate a former Delta Air Lines senior vice president to fill the long-vacant role of Federal Aviation Administration chief.

• McAfee Founder Must Pay $25M Over Belize Neighbor's Death

  By Y. Peter Kang

  A Florida federal judge ruled Tuesday that John McAfee, founder of the eponymous cybersecurity software company, must pay more than $25 million in damages in a wrongful death suit accusing McAfee of ordering the murder of a man who owned a vacation home next to his in Belize.

• Attorneys Earn Judge's Ire, $4.3M Fees In Drywall MDL

  By Adam Rhodes

  A Pennsylvania federal judge on Tuesday awarded more than $4.3 million in fees and costs to attorneys representing indirect purchasers in long-running multidistrict litigation over alleged drywall price-fixing after criticizing their work settling their clients' claims in the suit.

• Dentons Can Practice In Hawaii, State Supreme Court Rules

  By Aebra Coe

  Dentons can continue to practice law in Hawaii after a published decision from the state’s Supreme Court shot down a challenge contending the firm cannot practice in the state unless every partner is licensed in Hawaii.

• Venezuela’s Oil Co. Hit With Sanctions In Bribery Suit

  By Carolina Bolado

  A Florida federal judge sanctioned a litigation trust set up by Venezuela’s state-owned oil company Tuesday for failing to make two key witnesses available for deposition in its now-dismissed suit claiming an energy trading firm engaged in a bribery scheme that hurt the oil company.