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  Newman Cited In Tossing Ex-SAC Capital Exec's Guilty Plea

  By Jody Godoy

  A New York federal judge on Friday vacated the guilty plea of a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital who copp...(read more)

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  High Court Finds Landowner Has A Path To Federal Court

  By Andrew McIntyre

  A Pennsylvania property owner can take her claim that the government unconstitutionally took value from her land...(read more)

• Tupac Estate, Others Hit Universal With $100M Suit Over Fire

  By Dave Simpson

  Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle, and the estates of Tom Petty and Tupac hit Universal Music Group with a $100 million putative class action in California federal court Friday, alleging that it breached its contracts with its artists when it allowed their master recordings to be lost in a 2008 fire and failed to report the losses to them.

• Trump Taps Mark Esper For Defense Secretary

  By Mike LaSusa

  President Donald Trump said Friday he would seek the Senate's confirmation of acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper to occupy the Pentagon's top post on a permanent basis and also nominated candidates for deputy defense secretary and secretary of the Army.

• Facebook Wins Trim Of Most Data Breach Claims, For Now

  By Hailey Konnath

  A California federal judge on Friday granted in part and denied in part Facebook's attempt to kill consolidated litigation over a data breach that affected nearly 50 million of its user accounts, cutting the bulk of users' claims but giving both named plaintiffs leave to amend.

• Kelley Drye Attys' 'Bad Decisions' Don't Merit DQ, Judge Says

  By Dave Simpson

  A Florida federal judge on Friday recommended denying a bid to disqualify Kelley Drye & Warren LLP for passing confidential discovery information to its client, calling the firm's conduct "disappointing" but suggesting in a strongly worded report that it should instead face sanctions and pay the legal fees stemming from the scuffle.

• J&J Opioid Program For Schools A Marketing Tool, Judge Told

  By Cara Salvatore

  An Oklahoma health official testifying Friday in the state's landmark opioid-crisis trial heavily criticized Johnson & Johnson unit Janssen's motives for funding a prescription drug abuse education program in 2009, saying it appeared the program was "not supposed to work" as anything more than an image-burnishing tactic.

• 3rd Circ. Partly Revives Heraeus Trade Secrets Suit

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Third Circuit revived a portion of bone cement maker Heraeus Medical GmbH's trade secrets suit against chemical manufacturer Esschem Inc. on Friday, saying Heraeus can pursue claims stemming from any alleged misappropriation that occurred within a three-year window before the suit was filed.

• Podhurst Wins Atty Fees Dispute In NFL Concussion MDL

  By Kevin Penton

  A Pennsylvania federal magistrate judge has recommended that Podhurst Orseck PA receive 20% of a former NFL player's settlement award in multidistrict litigation over concussion injuries related to play on the field, rejecting the player's contention that he did not hire the firm to individually represent him.

• Amazon Studios Atty Joins Sex Bias Suit Against Jones Day

  By Kevin Penton

  An in-house Amazon Studios attorney and former Jones Day associate has sought to be included in a $200 million proposed class and collective action that contends the BigLaw firm discriminates against women.

• House Dems Put Forth $4.5B Emergency Border Spending Bill

  By Suzanne Monyak

  House Democrats put forward a $4.5 billion emergency spending bill Friday to address the increasing number of people crossing the southern border, with the lawmakers saying the measure includes provisions that will better protect migrant children than the Senate bill that advanced earlier this week.

• Justices Nix Conviction For 'Relentless' Black Juror Exclusion

  By Jimmy Hoover

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday threw out the conviction of a Mississippi man sentenced to death because the local prosecutor, over the course of six separate trials, systematically excluded African Americans from serving on the jury, calling that history strong enough evidence of discriminatory intent.