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  Kirkland, Wachtell Guide $17.5B Waters-BD Life Sciences Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Waters Corp. and Becton Dickinson and Co., or BD, said Monday they will combine BD's Biosciences and Diagnostic ...(read more)

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  NCAA's $2.8B NIL Deal Nets Athletes' Firms Over $455M In Fees

  By Craig Clough

  A California federal judge Friday approved approximately $455 million in attorney fees for class counsel in the ...(read more)

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• 6th Circ. Judge Is 1st Sen. Confirmation Of Trump's 2nd Term

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate voted 46-42 on Monday evening to confirm Whitney Hermandorfer, director of the Office of the Tennessee Attorney General's Strategic Litigation Unit, to the Sixth Circuit, making her the first judicial confirmation of the second Trump administration.

• LinkedIn Antitrust Deal Offers Open Access And $4M For Attys

  By Bryan Koenig

  LinkedIn will stop conditioning online interface access on would-be rivals agreeing not to field their own professional social network, under an antitrust settlement with premium subscribers disclosed Friday in California federal court that promises $4 million for class attorneys from Bathaee Dunne LLP, Burke LLP and Korein Tillery PC.

• Girardi Keese CFO Gets 5 Concurrent Years For Aiding Theft

  By Lauraann Wood

  Girardi Keese's former accounting head should serve more than five years alongside the 10 he's already logging for his role in helping Tom Girardi steal millions from plane crash clients who'd settled their cases in Chicago, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.

• Victim's Family Says Tesla 'Set Stage' For Fatal Fla. Crash

  By Carolina Bolado

  The family of a woman killed in a Florida Keys crash told jurors Monday that Tesla Inc. "set the stage" for a reckless driver to plow into the woman's vehicle by overhyping its autopilot software's capabilities despite knowing of vulnerabilities in the program.

• Fed. Circ. Upholds PTAB Ax Of J&J Unit's Catheter Patent

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Monday upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's invalidation of a Johnson & Johnson unit's patent on a device for clearing blocked arteries, saying an Abbott Laboratories unit's challenge was not improperly based on what the patent admitted was an earlier invention.

• 2nd Circ. Affirms Biotech Founder's Win In Trading Suit

  By Katryna Perera

  The Second Circuit on Monday affirmed an early win for the founder of biotech Y-mAbs Therapeutics Inc. in a suit alleging he realized more than $2.5 million in short-swing profits after he exchanged his shares for those of another company, agreeing with the lower court that the move didn't constitute a "purchase."

• Ex-ComEd Exec Gets 1½ Years For Hiding Madigan Bribes

  By Celeste Bott

  An Illinois federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Commonwealth Edison executive and lobbyist to one and a half years in prison for his role in a scheme to steer payments to allies of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to win his support for energy legislation favorable to the utility, and for falsifying company records to hide no-show jobs for Madigan's associates.

• Mich. Jury Sides With Red Cross In COVID Vax Refusal Suit

  By Danielle Ferguson

  A Michigan federal jury on Monday found that a former American Red Cross nurse's request for an exemption from the organization's COVID-19 vaccine mandate wasn't based on a sincere religious belief that barred her from getting the injection, rejecting the worker's request for more than $6 million in damages for her firing.

• Calif. Panel Keeps Charter PAGA Case Out Of Arbitration

  By Irene Spezzamonte

  Charter Communications can't arbitrate an employee's Private Attorneys General Act suit because parts of the arbitration agreement are "unconscionable," a California appeals panel ruled, relying on the state Supreme Court's decisions addressing the same pact.

• NY Court Declines To Make Trump US Atty Permanent

  By Andrea Keckley

  The Northern District of New York said on Monday that it has declined to appoint interim U.S. Attorney John A. Sarcone III to the permanent seat ahead of his short-term tenure's expiration, despite his previous comments to the contrary to local media.

• Wachtell Guides Huntington Bancshares On $1.9B Veritex Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Huntington Bancshares Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire Dallas-based Veritex Holdings Inc. in an all-stock transaction valued at $1.9 billion, deepening the Ohio-based lender's presence in the Texas market.

• Judge Bars Indiscriminate Immigration Stops In SoCal

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from relying on people's perceived ethnicity or job to stop individuals amid federal immigration raids in Southern California, while also ordering the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to provide detainees with access to lawyers.