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  High Court To Mull Home Distilling Ban Following Circuit Split

  By Spencer Brewer

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a case on the federal tax code's ban on distilling whiskey at...(read more)

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  9th Circ. Decertifies Tesla 'Full Self-Driving' False Ad Classes

  By Linda Chiem

  The Ninth Circuit on Friday decertified a class action alleging Tesla deceived consumers into believing that its...(read more)

• Taction Seeks To Boost $5.7B Patent Verdict Against Apple

  By Adam Lidgett

  Taction Technology Inc. has asked a California federal judge to award it even more damages, along with interest, on top of a jury's $5.7 billion award against Apple in a haptic vibration technology patent dispute.

• 5 Firms Steer $3.4B Silgan, Trivium Packaging Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Silgan Holdings Inc. said Monday it has teamed up with private equity firm American Industrial Partners on an agreement to acquire Trivium Packaging BV for an enterprise value of $3.4 billion, in a deal guided by five law firms.

• Ex-NYC Pol Denies Bribery Charges As Corruption Trial Opens

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  Counsel for Eric Ulrich, former commissioner of the New York City Department of Buildings, told a state judge Monday that prosecutors wrongly branded his long-standing borrowing from "friends and confidants" as bribery at the outset of the first corruption trial of a former official in Mayor Eric Adams' administration.

• Trump Taps DOJ Official, Federal Prosecutor For Judgeships

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump on Monday nominated a senior U.S. Department of Justice attorney for a Nebraska federal judgeship and an assistant U.S. attorney for a seat on the Northern District of Indiana bench.

• Khalil Asks Justices To Review His Right To Habeas

  By Britain Eakin

  Former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to decide whether district courts have authority to hear constitutional challenges to immigration detention through habeas corpus petitions.

• Supreme Court To Tackle Admissions Bias Circuit Split

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it will decide what type of evidence is needed to claim facially neutral admissions policies are racially discriminatory, after turning away two similar cases in the three years since the justices barred the use of affirmative action in higher education.

• 4 Justices Sit Out Appeal, Leaving Copyright Ruling Intact

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a far-reaching Fifth Circuit ruling holding that U.S. copyright termination can recapture foreign rights conveyed in a worldwide grant, not by denying an appeal from major music publishers, but because four justices sat out and left the court without enough members to hear the case.

• DOJ Official Tells Attorneys Not To Answer Judge At Hearing

  By Jared Foretek

  A top U.S. Department of Justice official told agency attorneys not to answer a D.C. federal judge's question Monday, in the latest clash between Trump administration attorneys and the judge presiding over a challenge by the D.C. Preservation League to a plan to overhaul East Potomac Golf Course.

• KKR, Ares Units Agree To $2.9B Infinity Transportation Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  KKR & Co. has agreed to sell Infinity Transportation to business units of Ares Management for an enterprise value of approximately $2.9 billion, the private equity giants said Monday, in a deal steered by Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP. 

• EU Says PE Firm KKR May Have Misled Merger Review

  By Dawood Fakhir

  The European Union antitrust enforcer escalated a case against KKR on Monday over its $23.7 billion acquisition of NetCo in 2024, alleging that the private equity firm might have provided incorrect or misleading information during the EU merger review process.

• Justices Remand 3rd Circ. Arbitration Ruling

  By Caroline Simson

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated and remanded a Third Circuit decision dismissing on jurisdictional grounds a bid by litigation funder Burford Capital to arbitrate a dispute relating to German antitrust litigation.

• Justices Want SG's Input On Block Of Iowa Immigration Law

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday called for the solicitor general's view on whether Iowa can implement a law allowing state officials to arrest previously deported noncitizens and requiring state judges to order that those individuals must leave the U.S.