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  VirnetX Seeks $718M From Apple In EDTX Patent Retrial

  By Katie Buehler

  VirnetX told an Eastern District of Texas jury Tuesday that Apple owes it at least $718 million for two network ...(read more)

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  DOJ Can't Intervene For Trump In Writer's Defamation Suit

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge on Tuesday rejected the U.S. Department of Justice's effort to argue for President Don...(read more)

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• GE Escapes Claims It Duped Baker Hughes Into Bad Merger

  By Rose Krebs

  The Delaware chancellor tossed most of the claims Tuesday in a securities proposed class action asserting that General Electric Co. used deceptive financial statements to induce Baker Hughes Inc. into a bad merger deal, saying the investors failed to show GE did anything wrong.

• Beam Suntory To Pay $19.6M To End Foreign Bribery Probe

  By Lauraann Wood

  Distiller Beam Suntory Inc. agreed to pay nearly $19.6 million to resolve a criminal case over a subsidiary's six-year scheme to bribe an Indian official in exchange for license approval for one of its product lines, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.  

• NXIVM Founder Gets 120-Year Sentence In Sex Cult Case

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A New York federal judge sentenced Tuesday the founder of purported sex cult NXIVM to 120 years in prison, concluding that the severity of his crimes warrant a significant sentence, particularly since he's using his convicted co-conspirator's "unlimited war chest" to wage a publicity campaign against the judicial system.

• Purdue Creditors Object To Sackler Part Of $8B DOJ Deal

  By Rick Archer

  Creditors of drugmaker Purdue Pharma on Tuesday asked a New York bankruptcy judge to bar the use of corporate funds to pay the $225 million that members of its former owning family owe the government under the $8 billion OxyContin sale settlement announced last week.

• Donziger Judge Punts Ethical-Disobedience Question To Trial

  By Cara Salvatore

  The judge overseeing an upcoming criminal trial against Chevron foe Steven Donziger said Monday she'll leave for trial a decision about whether to bar Donziger from arguing that he was fulfilling his ethical duties to his clients when he violated court orders.

• Jay-Z Erased Emails Amid Looming Perfume Suit, Judge Says

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  A New York state judge ruled Tuesday that Jay-Z destroyed evidence in a lawsuit accusing him of failing to promote a perfume line, and as the case nears a possible trial, the judge said jurors could infer that the rap icon's missing emails would have hurt his case.

• Fragomen Confirms Data Breach Of Google Employee Info

  By Xiumei Dong

  Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP, a law firm that provides employment verification compliance services for Google, confirmed that it recently suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of current and former employees at the tech giant.

• NLRB Wants Public To Weigh In On Muzzling 'Scabby The Rat'

  By Braden Campbell

  Scabby the Rat's days may be numbered after the National Labor Relations Board asked for public input Tuesday on whether it should limit workers' rights to display the notorious symbol of labor unrest and put up large banners during certain protests.

• Uber Can't Keep Drivers' Political Pressure Suit In Fed. Court

  By Amanda Ottaway

  A California federal judge on Tuesday kicked back to state court a lawsuit brought by Uber drivers who say the company unlawfully pressured them to support a controversial ballot initiative, agreeing with the workers that Uber hadn't shown enough money was at stake to keep the case in a federal venue.

• Pa. County Wants Justice Barrett Off Election Deadline Case

  By Matthew Santoni

  With a lawsuit over Pennsylvania's Nov. 6 deadline for mail-in ballots as one of the first cases on the newly full U.S. Supreme Court's plate, one county asked Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday to recuse herself because of President Donald Trump's stated desire to have her decide election cases in his favor.

• Split FCC Sticks With 'Net Neutrality' Rollback

  By Christopher Cole

  A bitterly divided FCC on Tuesday approved a new internet order that Republicans say marks the last step in President Donald Trump's rollback of Obama-era "net neutrality" rules by concluding that the 2017 deregulation was the right thing to do and by settling a narrow set of legal questions that the D.C. Circuit ordered the commission to address.

• 9th Circ. Won't Lift Block On White House's WeChat Ban

  By Nadia Dreid

  The Ninth Circuit has denied the Trump administration's bid to temporarily ban downloads of the Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat from U.S. app stores while the government appeals a lower court's preliminary injunction forbidding the ban.