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  Meta Limits But Can't Shake Social Media Addiction MDL

  By Allison Grande

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• BREAKING: RTX To Pay $281M In DOJ Deal Over Qatari Bribes

  By Stewart Bishop

  Defense contractor RTX Corp. and its Raytheon subsidiary on Wednesday agreed to pay over $281 million to resolve Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and sanctions charges, stemming from a bribery scheme to secure Qatari military contracts.

• Would-Be Wash. Justices Butt Heads On High Court's Record

  By Rachel Riley

  A municipal judge running for an open seat on the Washington State Supreme Court criticized the high court's bench during a candidate forum Tuesday for not doing enough to support trial courts statewide, drawing pushback from both his opponent and a sitting justice who's seeking re-election unopposed.

• Santander Settles Investors' Squeeze-Out Suit For $162.5M

  By Hailey Konnath

  Santander Consumer USA Holdings Inc. has agreed to shell out $162.5 million to put to rest stockholders' consolidated class action challenging a $2.5 billion minority squeeze-out merger, according to a stipulation filed Monday in Delaware's Court of Chancery.

• Uber Faces Scrutiny From NY High Court In Negligence Case

  By Caroline Simson

  Judges on New York's highest court on Tuesday grilled an Uber attorney over whether the rideshare company violated ethical rules when it failed to omit a user already pursuing a negligence lawsuit against it from an email blast providing notice about an updated arbitration agreement in its terms of use.

• Crypto Huckster Slammed With 20 Years For Forcount Fraud

  By Pete Brush

  A New York federal judge on Tuesday sentenced an Ecuadorean man from Florida to 20 years in prison for pushing the $14 million, international Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme on his fellow Latinos over five years, saying he caused incalculable damage.

• Uncle Luke Says 2 Live Crew Songs Weren't Works For Hire

  By Carolina Bolado

  Rapper and producer Luther Campbell, also known as Uncle Luke, told jurors Monday that the checks they'd been shown for payments to members of hip-hop group 2 Live Crew were for per diem expenses, not paychecks, and insisted that the group members were not employees of his record label and can therefore claw back their rights to their old hit recordings.

• Standing Rock Sioux Ask Court To Shut Down Dakota Pipeline

  By Crystal Owens

  The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking a federal court to block a Texas-based energy company from continuing to operate the Dakota Access Pipeline across a flood control project on its reservation, arguing its latest emergency response plan fails to include a realistic calculation of a worst-case scenario liquid discharge.

• Gamers End Challenge Of Microsoft's $69B Activision Deal

  By Matthew Perlman

  Microsoft reached an agreement ending a challenge from a group of gamers targeting its $69 billion deal for Activision Blizzard as a merger challenge from the Federal Trade Commission remains pending at the Ninth Circuit.

• Justices Won't Look Into Avenatti's Identity Theft Conviction

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to consider whether the Second Circuit used an incorrect standard when ruling that identity theft played a "key role" in celebrity attorney Michael Avenatti's forging of ex-client Stormy Daniels' name and signature, upholding the disbarred lawyer's aggravated identity theft conviction.

• Justices Probe 'Oddities' Of Law On Revoked Visa Petitions

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Supreme Court questioned the federal government Tuesday over its argument that Congress intended to bar judicial review of revoked visa petitions, questioning why initial petition decisions are reviewable but revocations are not.

• 'Extraordinary' Blue Cross Deal Includes $2.8B Payout

  By Bryan Koenig

  The Blue Cross Blue Shield network will shell out $2.8 billion and invest "hundreds of millions" more overhauling its claims systems to soften barriers between members, in a massive antitrust settlement disclosed Monday in Alabama federal court under which healthcare providers' counsel stands to reap up to $700 million.

• Justices Mull RICO's Scope In Trucker's CBD Case

  By Sam Reisman

  U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared conflicted whether to sanction a commercial trucker's attempt to bring a racketeering claim against CBD companies, whose allegedly mislabeled products the trucker claims led to his firing.