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  Uber Should Pay $144M For Sex Assault By Driver, Jury Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Uber should pay more than $144 million in compensatory and punitive damages for choosing "profit over safety," l...(read more)

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  Musk Can't Dodge SEC's Twitter Share Buy-Up Suit

  By Jessica Corso

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Elon Musk cannot escape a U.S. Securities and Exchange C...(read more)

• Stockholders Ask Del. Justices To Revive Bylaw Suits

  By Jarek Rutz

  Stockholders challenging advance notice bylaws at AES Corp. and Owens Corning urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive their dismissed suits, saying boards should face fiduciary duty scrutiny the moment they adopt allegedly entrenching bylaws, not only after a proxy contest is triggered.

• Royal Caribbean Wants Volcano Suit In Australia, Not Fla.

  By Carolina Bolado

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. asked a Florida appeals court Wednesday to reverse an order denying its motion to dismiss a suit over a volcano eruption that killed a cruise passenger and her family, arguing that a clause in the cruise ticket contract requires the suit be brought in Australia.

• Drugmaker Claims Stake In La. Mail-Order Abortion Meds Row

  By Mark Payne

  An abortion medication manufacturer asserted its right Wednesday to defend mifepristone, moving to intervene in a federal lawsuit over mail-order abortion medication brought by Louisiana alleging that regulators violated federal law by removing an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug.

• Glencore To Sell 40% Stake In Congo Assets For $3.6B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  A consortium of investors has reached a deal with Glencore to acquire a stake in the assets of the Anglo-Swiss mining giant in the Congo for approximately $3.6 billion to secure critical minerals for the U.S. and its partners.

• Feds Vow New Effort To Protect Privacy Of Epstein's Victims

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday evening that women abused by Jeffrey Epstein have resolved privacy complaints stemming from the government's release of documents related to the deceased financier's sex crimes, after the victims' lawyers flagged widespread deficiencies.

• XAI Fights Uphill To Keep Alive OpenAI IP Theft Suit

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Elon Musk's xAI urged a California federal judge Tuesday to change her tentative decision to toss its suit accusing OpenAI of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, arguing that when considered together, the "whole gestalt" of xAI's allegations against individual employees is enough to state viable claims against OpenAI.

• En Banc 5th Circ. Wipes Out Airline Fees Disclosure Rule

  By Hailey Konnath

  The full Fifth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront, this time holding that the U.S. Department of Transportation's failure to properly consider public comments warrants doing away with the rule altogether.

• Ex-Fed Adviser Acquitted Of Espionage Conspiracy Charge

  By Lauren Berg

  A Washington, D.C., federal jury Tuesday acquitted a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors of conspiring to steal confidential data for Chinese intelligence.

• DOJ, AGs Lodge Cross-Appeal Over Google Search Remedies

  By Lauren Berg

  The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers on Tuesday launched an appeal of a D.C. federal judge's scaled-back remedies in their case targeting Google's search monopoly, after the tech giant filed its own appeal to knock out the penalties.

• Fed. Circ. Questions Bid To Undo Google, Microsoft PTAB Win

  By Ryan Davis

  A Federal Circuit panel appeared unpersuaded Tuesday by an inventor's arguments that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should have ended reviews of computer-locating patents challenged by Google and Microsoft due to actions by LG in a related case, and that the board wrongly invalidated the patents.

• Martin Shkreli Countersues, Adds RZA To Wu-Tang Fight

  By Hailey Konnath

  Martin Shkreli has filed counterclaims and added Wu-Tang Clan rappers and producers RZA and Cilvaringz as counterdefendants in litigation over the group's one-of-a-kind album he once owned, a move that comes just weeks after a New York federal judge rejected Shkreli's request to bring the Wu-Tang members into the dispute.

• Ex-SPAC CEO Cops To Defrauding Lottery.com Investors

  By Emilie Ruscoe

  The former CEO of a blank check company that took Lottery.com public pled guilty on Tuesday to securities fraud over charges that he schemed to inflate the revenue of the lottery products platform by means including a $9 million round-trip transaction.