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  Software Pioneer John McAfee Indicted In Crypto Case

  By Reenat Sinay

  Antivirus software innovator John McAfee and his bodyguard have been indicted on fraud and money laundering cons...(read more)

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  Barrett's 1st Opinion Draws Dissent In Break With Tradition

  By Jimmy Hoover

  Justice Amy Coney Barrett issued the first majority opinion of her U.S. Supreme Court career Thursday, siding ag...(read more)

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• Judge Says School District 'Greatly Overpaid' Morgan Lewis

  By Lauren Berg

  A New York federal judge awarded millions of dollars in attorney fees Friday to the NAACP after a Hudson Valley school district was found to be blocking minority voters' preferred candidates from the school board, while criticizing how much the school district paid its counsel at Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP.

• Bezos Scores $218K Fees After 'Overstaffed' Legal Team's Win

  By Craig Clough

  A California judge granted Jeff Bezos' request for attorney fees Friday after defeating a defamation suit by his girlfriend's brother over a phone hacking incident, but signed off on just $218,000 of the $1.68 million Bezos requested, finding his team was "overstaffed" with seven partners and 11 associates from two firms.

• Intel Cites VLSI's 'Enormous Verdict' As Reason To Delay Trial

  By Dave Simpson

  Three days after a jury in Waco, Texas, said Intel should pay over $2 billion for infringing VLSI's chip patents, Intel Corp. urged U.S. District Judge Alan Albright not to move the next trial in the case over different patents to Waco, citing the pandemic and the possibility of the first verdict tainting the jury.

• House Democrat Accuses Trump Of Terrorism In Riot's Wake

  By Hailey Konnath

  A House Democrat who pushed for the impeachment of former President Donald Trump took his accusations to D.C. federal court on Friday, hitting Trump with another suit alleging he committed acts of terrorism by inciting the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

• Ex-Foundation Exec Avoids Prison For UN Bribery Scheme

  By Stewart Bishop

  The former finance director of a Manhattan-based economic development organization on Friday avoided any prison time for her role in a scheme to facilitate bribe payments to the president of the United Nations General Assembly.

• Jones Day's Hacked Vendor Taps Latham For Breach Suits

  By Dave Simpson

  File transfer software vendor Accellion, whose recent hack may have exposed data from its BigLaw clients like Jones Day, has hired Latham & Watkins LLP to represent it in a slew of data breach lawsuits in federal court, according to attorney notice filings Thursday.

• KeyBank Settles NY AG Probe Over Check-Cashing Services

  By Emilie Ruscoe

  KeyBank has made a $150 million commitment to assisting low- and middle-income homebuyers after the New York attorney general found that a check-cashing program for nonaccount holders was often unavailable to Western New York consumers when they tried to make use of the program.

• $660M Mellon Estate Battle Must Await State Court Action

  By Caleb Drickey

  A Pennsylvania federal judge abstained from a battle between the claimants to a $660 million trust established by members of the Mellon banking and oil dynasty, holding that a state court's experience with the intricacies of the long-running dispute outweighed federal jurisdiction.

• DC Circ. Won't Review EPA's Emissions Record-Keeping Rule

  By Clark Mindock

  The D.C. Circuit said Friday it won't consider the legality of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that allows polluters to skip keeping records if their projected emissions fall below a certain threshold, saying the agency adequately explained itself already.

• Opioid Litigation Is Prying Open Vaults Of Big Pharma Secrets

  By Jeff Overley

  In an unveiling with few historical parallels, major pharmaceutical corporations are poised to settle sweeping opioid litigation by agreeing to publicize millions of pages of internal documents illustrating how they marketed and sold narcotic painkillers amid a dire addiction epidemic, according to lawyers and court records.

• US Lawmakers Say Energy Policy Rifts Are Already Clear

  By Keith Goldberg

  Congressional leaders on Friday said partisan divides on energy policy during the Biden administration have already emerged and may only deepen as the president pushes to combat climate change.

• COVID-19 Business Liability Shield Bill Passes Fla. House

  By Grace Dixon

  The Florida House of Representatives voted on Friday to approve a contentious bill outlining a COVID-19 liability shield that aims to protect Florida businesses from a tidal wave of virus-related claims.