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  Ancora Opposes Netflix-WBD Merger, Backs Paramount Bid

  By Al Barbarino

  Ancora Holdings Group said Wednesday it opposes Warner Bros. Discovery's planned merger with Netflix, faulting t...(read more)

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  Paul Weiss, Dechert Steer QXO's $2.25B Kodiak Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Building products distributor QXO Inc. said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Kodiak Building Partners from Cou...(read more)

• Avon Loses Appeal Over $51M Verdict In Mesothelioma Case

  By Hailey Konnath

  A California appellate court on Wednesday refused to wipe out a $51 million jury verdict against Avon for the cancer a woman says she got from using its asbestos-tainted talc, rejecting the cosmetic company's qualms with expert testimony and the trial court's evidentiary rulings.

• Epstein Survivor Can Pursue Claims BofA 'Turned A Blind Eye'

  By Lauren Berg

  A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking enterprise has adequately alleged Bank of America "turned a blind eye" to a trove of public information that the disgraced financier was a serial sexual abuser while monetarily benefiting from the scheme, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday.

• DC Circ. Questions Denial Of CFTC Whistleblower Award

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. Circuit seemed skeptical Wednesday morning about the argument that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission wrongly denied a man a $147 million whistleblower incentive award after he tipped off the agency about foreign exchange market manipulation.

• Goldstein Says He Lost Millions On Poker In 2016

  By Jared Foretek

  SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein told the Maryland federal jury in his tax fraud trial Wednesday that he lost nearly $3 million playing poker in 2016, directly contradicting charges that he underreported his gambling winnings, and pinned the blame for tax filing errors on his own miscalculations and shoddy work from his accountants.

• AbbVie Sues Medicaid, HHS Over Botox Fair Price Controls

  By Hailey Konnath

  AbbVie Inc. on Wednesday asked a D.C. federal court to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from controlling the price of Botox under the Inflation Reduction Act, arguing the cosmetic drug and migraine treatment should be excluded from the controls because it's a "plasma-derived" product.

• 'The Shoe Is On The Other Foot': Judge Needles Meta In MDL

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge presiding over social media addiction multidistrict litigation Wednesday criticized Meta's bid to push newly filed arbitration demands into court, saying she doesn't have jurisdiction over those claims and noting "big companies" are always insisting on arbitration, but "when they don't like the fact that they're arbitrating, they complain about it."

• Texas AG Adds Snapchat To Child Harm Suit Blitz

  By José Luis Martínez

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Snapchat's parent company Wednesday, saying a state investigation revealed that mature content on the app is easily available to children and that its addictive features are harming their health.

• Fed. Circ. Backs $85M Patent Antitrust Verdict Against Ingevity

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Federal Circuit on Wednesday declined to disturb a Delaware jury's $85 million antitrust verdict against Ingevity over it tying patent licenses to purchases of its automobile carbon filtering technology, rejecting the company's arguments that it was entitled to a certain statutory patent misuse defense.

• Not 'Your Dad's DOJ': Recapping Year One Under Bondi

  By Phillip Bantz and Carolina Bolado

  Even before her contentious congressional testimony on Wednesday, few U.S. attorneys general had been embroiled in so many controversies so early into their tenures as Pam Bondi, who critics and supporters alike say embodies a new era at the Justice Department.

• Trump Directs DOD To Purchase Power From Coal Plants

  By Keith Goldberg

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday directed the U.S. Department of Defense to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants to fuel its facilities, the latest in a series of efforts by his administration to boost the U.S. coal industry.

• Blockbuster's TM Legacy Tested By Dispute Over Deer Feed

  By Ivan Moreno

  Once a titan in U.S. retail, the Blockbuster brand is embroiled in an unexpected trademark battle with a Mississippi-based animal feed company that it accuses of trying to exploit the legacy of the once-ubiquitous video rental chain.

• Disney To Pay $2.75M In Record Deal Under Calif. Privacy Law

  By Allison Grande

  California's attorney general announced Wednesday that his office has secured its largest deal yet under the state's data privacy law, with entertainment giant Disney agreeing to pay $2.75 million and overhaul its opt-out mechanisms to resolve claims that it failed to allow consumers to completely stop the sale and sharing of their personal data.