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  Trump Admin Appeals Perkins Coie Case To DC Circ.

  By Daniel Connolly

  The Trump administration announced in D.C. federal court on Monday that it's not giving up on its effort to puni...(read more)

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  High Court Takes Up $1B Copyright Fight Over ISPs' Liability

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday granted a petition for certiorari from Cox Communications Inc. that asked the j...(read more)

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• UMG Says Drake Insults Are Just Trash Talk, Not Defamation

  By Stewart Bishop

  Universal Music Group on Monday urged a New York federal judge to dismiss a defamation suit from hip-hop star Drake against the record label over the hit dis track "Not Like Us" by his rival Kendrick Lamar, casting Lamar's lyrics as opinion and hyperbole.

• Allergan Botox Patent Fight Headed To July Trial In Del.

  By Lauren Berg

  Allergan's lawsuit accusing two biotechnology companies of infringing patents related to Botox products is headed to trial in July after a Delaware federal judge rejected the parties' summary judgment arguments Monday.

• Genentech Says Biogen Owes $122M Royalties As Trial Opens

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Genentech Inc. told a California federal jury Monday that Biogen MA Inc. owes $122 million in royalties for supplies of Biogen's multiple sclerosis drug that it manufactured before Genentech's patent expired in December 2018, while Biogen said the companies' licensing agreement doesn't require royalties for drugs sold after the patent expired.

• Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

  By Sydney Price

  Delaware's Supreme Court was kept busy this past week with litigants' attempts to challenge its previous decisions, as well as those of Delaware's Court of Chancery, which included an argument that the state's high court incorrectly ruled in favor of energy company Boardwalk Pipeline Partners LP by rejecting the Chancery's decision upholding class claims branding the call-in of public shares unfair. In case you missed it, here's the latest from the Delaware Chancery Court.

• Md. Judge Presses DOJ On Baby Deportation Plans

  By Britain Eakin

  A Maryland federal judge ordered expedited briefing Monday amid an amended bid to block President Donald Trump's birthright citizenship executive order after questioning whether the administration can start deporting babies before a nationwide injunction expires in late July.

• 9 Charged With Cyberfraud In Aid Of North Korea

  By Julie Manganis

  Eight Chinese and Taiwanese nationals and a New Jersey resident have been charged in a cyberfraud scheme on behalf of North Korea, in which they allegedly posed as American information technology workers to get remote jobs with U.S. Fortune 500 companies and one defense contractor, federal prosecutors in Massachusetts announced Monday.

• DOJ Says Over 300 Charged In $14.6B Healthcare Fraud Sting

  By Mark Payne

  A healthcare fraud operation conducted by federal and state law enforcement groups netted more than 300 defendants in a slew of schemes amounting to $14.6 billion in potential false claims, the Justice Department announced Monday.

• Apple Can't Duck DOJ Monopolization Lawsuit

  By Bryan Koenig

  A New Jersey federal judge refused Monday to let Apple duck the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing smartphone markets, crediting DOJ allegations about the restrictions Apple imposes on iMessage, smartwatch compatibility, mobile wallets, cloud gaming and more.

• Chancery OKs $19.25M Settlement In Weber Squeeze-Out Suit

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Grillmaker Weber Inc. public stockholders secured an up to 87-cents-per-share boost Monday over the company's purportedly unfair, $3.7 billion take private sale, when the Delaware Court of Chancery approved a $19.25 million mediated settlement.

• Justices To Resolve Split On Supervised Release Fugitives

  By Phillip Bantz

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case poised to resolve a sharp circuit split over whether the "fugitive tolling" doctrine barring criminal defendants from earning credits to reduce prison sentences while they are not behind bars also should apply to defendants who abscond from supervised release.

• 3 Firms Advise As Home Depot Unit Scoops Up GMS For $5.5B

  By Al Barbarino

  The Home Depot-owned trade distribution subsidiary SRS Distribution Inc. will acquire building products distributor GMS Inc. in a $5.5 billion deal, inclusive of debt, the companies announced Monday. 

• Trump Administration Says Harvard Violated Civil Rights Law

  By Chris Villani

  The Trump administration on Monday informed Harvard University that it had run afoul of federal civil rights law by failing to protect Jewish and Israeli students on campus from harassment, and threatened to cut all funding from the nation's oldest university.