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  DOT Finalizes Rollback Of Biden-Era Fuel Economy Rules

  By Linda Chiem

  The Trump administration on Monday finalized its rollback of Biden-era fuel economy standards for passenger cars...(read more)

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  Kirkland, White & Case Lead Defense Firm's $1.25B SPAC Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  REDLattice and blank check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. said Monday they have agreed to merge in a deal ...(read more)

• CyberSec Pro Stole $53M In Uranium Finance Heist, Jury Told

  By Stewart Bishop

  A prosecutor on Monday told a Manhattan federal jury that a Maryland cybersecurity consultant stole around $53 million in crypto by exploiting software bugs on the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance, while defense counsel argued that the government won't be able to show "whose fingers were on the keyboard."

• Calif. Governor Vetoes Broad Ban On Sensitive Data Sales

  By Allison Grande

  California's governor has refused to sign off on legislation that would have made the state the latest to restrict the sale and sharing of consumers' geolocation, biometric and other sensitive information, saying the proposed "categorical ban" on these online data practices was "a step too far."

• Apple Briefs Set Stage For Challenge To Record $5.7B Verdict

  By Ryan Davis

  Friday's $5.7 billion verdict against Apple Inc. for infringing Taction Technology Inc.'s vibration technology patents is the largest in history, eclipsing many others that have been overturned, and filings by Apple preview its arguments for why this one should meet the same fate.

• Black Tesla Workers In Calif. Fired At Higher Rates, Judge Told

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An economics professor testified in a California state bench trial Monday over the California Civil Rights Department's claims Tesla fostered racism at its Fremont factory that he found Tesla's Black workers in California are paid 4.37% less, and involuntarily terminated at a 75% higher rate, than their white counterparts.

• Fla. AG Seeks To Put Guardrails On OpenAI's Models

  By Carolina Bolado

  Florida's attorney general on Monday asked a court to block OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman from developing artificial intelligence models without third-party guardrails and from offering ChatGPT to minors, in a suit accusing the AI company of spurring young people to commit crimes and acts of violence.

• Boston Sues Over DOT Grant Cut Tied To EV Chargers

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  The city of Boston brought a lawsuit in federal court Monday alleging the Trump administration canceled a $20 million road improvement grant because of electric vehicle infrastructure that was only "a fraction of 1%" of the project.

• White Worker Gets 2nd Chance In Race Training Bias Suit

  By Grace Elletson

  The Ninth Circuit reinstated Monday a white worker's claims that the City of Seattle subjected him to harassment by pushing race bias trainings that caused his colleagues to villainize white people, ruling that negative comments he received about his race were enough to keep the case in court.

• FTC Touts 'Dismantling' Of Corteva's Pesticide Rebates

  By Bryan Koenig

  The Federal Trade Commission on Monday touted its new settlement with Corteva Inc. for severely constricting the pesticide company's ability to pay distributors a loyalty rebate in exchange for limiting sales of cheaper generics, the latest in a string of agreements Trump-era antitrust enforcers have struck ending existing claims.

• Trump Asks Justices To Restore Fed. Prison Trans Care Ban

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to halt a district court order barring the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing a ban on gender dysphoria care for transgender people incarcerated in BOP facilities, arguing the lower court stepped beyond its proper role. 

• Seed Patent Fight Settles 3 Days Into Trial

  By Elliot Weld

  Corteva Agriscience and Inari Agriculture Inc. have settled a seed intellectual property dispute three days into a Delaware federal trial over whether the latter infringed three patents and misappropriated seed samples.

• Brixmor, Everview Team Up On $2.34B Grocery REIT Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Brixmor Property Group and private investment firm Everview Partners have agreed to acquire Canadian-listed Slate Grocery REIT in a transaction valued at about $2.34 billion, the companies said Monday, with at least seven law firms advising on the deal.

• Judge's Senior Status To Open Another 5th Circ. Vacancy

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump will be getting another vacancy to fill on the Fifth Circuit, as Judge Leslie Southwick told him on Monday he will be taking semiretired status.