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  SEC Reports Continued Decline In Enforcement Actions

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission brought 22% fewer actions during its first full fiscal year under Ch...(read more)

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  Wachtell To Probe Nvidia CEO's Affair With Alleged China Spy

  By Anna Scott Farrell and Sue Reisinger

  Nvidia has hired Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz to lead an investigation into allegations that its founder and CEO...(read more)

• Gibson Dunn Gains 120 Funds Lawyers From Weil

  By Andrea Keckley

  A team of 120 private funds attorneys from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, including 23 partners, is joining Gibson Dunn & Crutcher in New York, London and Washington, D.C., as their predecessor firm prepares to close its doors, according to an announcement on Thursday.

• FedEx Hit With $3M Calif. Privacy Fine Over Ad Tracking

  By Allison Grande

  FedEx has agreed to pay nearly $3 million and overhaul certain data privacy controls to resolve the California Privacy Protection Agency's claims that the company shared website visitors' personal information with advertisers without telling the customers or giving them an opportunity to opt out of the disclosures, the agency announced Tuesday.

• Trump Swaps Out Blocked 8th Circ. Nominee With Ark. Justice

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday withdrew his pick for the Eighth Circuit and replaced him with a different nominee amid apparent opposition from Arkansas' senators. 

• Squires Officially Returns Merits Institution To PTAB Judges

  By Dani Kass

  Starting Monday, Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges will again decide whether to institute patent challenges, according to a new memorandum from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires.

• LA Judge Ousted After 'Extreme' Remarks Upend $10M Verdict

  By Dorothy Atkins

  California's judicial ethics watchdog Tuesday ordered Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert S. Draper, who lost reelection in June, to be removed from office due to willful misconduct, including "extreme and bizarre" racial comments that led a state appeals court to reverse a $10 million sexual harassment verdict. 

• 9th Circ. Says SpaceX Firing Fight Can Stay Out Of Arbitration

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that eight former SpaceX employees who claim they were fired for complaining about CEO Elon Musk's sexually charged social media posts may pursue their claims in court, saying the former employees did not have to "adequately allege" sexual harassment to avoid arbitration.

• Trump Asks High Court To Make Ballroom Decision Permanent

  By Katie Buehler

  President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to make permanent its temporary order allowing construction to continue on the White House ballroom without further litigation, suggesting the justices could rely on an emergency docket ruling to quickly free the project from unnecessary "judicial superintendence." 

• Dems Vow More FCC Oversight, Want Their Seats Filled

  By Christopher Cole

  Democrats promised Tuesday to bring top Federal Communications Commission officials to Capitol Hill for aggressive oversight next year, as they took issue with President Donald Trump's nomination of a third Republican to the regulatory body while he left a Democratic seat open.

• Justice Asks Gov't To Pick Best 'Poison' In H-2A Fine Case

  By Britain Eakin

  A government attorney told the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that it would be highly disruptive to require civil fines for H-2A visa program violations to be adjudicated solely in federal court, instead of through the U.S. Department of Labor's in-house court.

• 7th Circ. Mulls FCA Penalties For SuperValu Without Damages

  By Celeste Bott

  A Seventh Circuit panel grappled Tuesday with whether supermarket chain SuperValu Inc. could face billions of dollars in False Claims Act penalties for knowingly submitting false prescription drug claims when a jury found whistleblowers failed to prove the government suffered damages, with one judge characterizing the potential penalties as "mind-boggling."

• Block Inc. Makes $150M Deal To End Cash App Fraud Suit

  By Craig Clough

  Block Inc. reached a deal for insurers to pay it $150 million to resolve a shareholder derivative suit alleging that compliance failures fueled an "explosion" of fraud and other illicit activity on the company's Cash App, according to a motion filed Monday seeking a California federal judge's preliminary approval.

• Grassley Defends Rush To Confirm Trump Judicial Picks

  By Courtney Bublé

  Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Tuesday defended how quickly the committee is moving to confirm President Donald Trump's judicial picks before Democrats control the Senate.