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  Attys Seek $6.9M For 'Trailblazing' Work On Fresh Market Suit

  By Rose Krebs

  Friedlander & Gorris and Robbins Geller are seeking roughly $6.9 million for what they say was "trailblazing" wo...(read more)

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  Colorado Adds Wrinkle To Emerging State Privacy Law Quilt

  By Allison Grande

  Colorado is on the brink of becoming the third U.S. state to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, a...(read more)

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• Jury Says Service Member's 3M Earplug Injury Worth $1.7M

  By Cara Salvatore

  A Florida federal jury said Friday that a service member sustained $1.7 million in hearing loss damages from 3M's combat earplugs, and that 3M was 62% responsible, handing the company its second loss in three rapid-fire bellwether trials.

• Many Zohar Claims Get 2nd Chance In Tilton Ch. 11 Suit

  By Jeff Montgomery

  A Delaware bankruptcy judge dismissed a string of claims Friday in a 15-month-old Chapter 11 battle between interests of distressed-debt mogul Lynn Tilton and bankrupt Zohar Funds holding more than $1.4 billion in Tilton venture-related debt, but allowed repleading for a majority of those tossed.

• $110M Deal Reached In Suit Over $8.7B GCI Liberty Merger

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Former GCI Liberty Inc. directors have agreed to a $110 million settlement in Delaware to end stockholder class litigation over alleged maneuvers by its controllers and fiduciary duty breaches in GCI's stock-for-stock acquisition, valued at $8.7 billion, by Liberty Broadband Corp. last year.

• Meet Biden's HHS Watchdog Pick, Who Stoked Trump's Ire

  By Adam Lidgett

  President Joe Biden on Friday tapped Christi Grimm, the principal deputy inspector general for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General, to officially lead the watchdog division.

• Iowa Groups Can't Force State To Control River Pollution

  By Clark Mindock

  A bitterly divided Iowa Supreme Court on Friday tossed an effort by environmental groups to force state lawmakers to curtail river pollution, with the majority saying the groups had presented a political issue inappropriate for the courts to decide.

• Puerto Rico Federal Judge Retiring After High Court Wins

  By Andrew Kragie

  Puerto Rico U.S. District Judge Francisco A. Besosa plans to take senior status Jan. 1, after a judicial career that saw the U.S. Supreme Court back his rulings on a Puerto Rican debt restructuring law and the criminal-law principle of double jeopardy.

• Boy Scouts Pledge $250M For Ch. 11 Abuse Settlements

  By Rick Archer

  The Boy Scouts of America on Friday filed a revised Chapter 11 plan with a Delaware bankruptcy court, saying after talks with tort claimants it is willing to pledge up to $250 million, double its previous contribution, to a settlement trust for sexual abuse survivors.

• Airlines' Post-COVID Challenges Mount Amid Travel Surge

  By Linda Chiem

  The summer's surging travel bookings, vaccination rates and business reopenings spell a host of challenges for commercial airlines plotting an economic rebound following the heavy blows wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Girardi Keese Loaned $20M To Erika Girardi's Biz, Atty Says

  By Brandon Lowrey

  Reality television star Erika Girardi's companies may have received over $20 million in loans from her husband's law firm, Girardi Keese, along with improperly assigned fees from a client settlement, a bankruptcy trustee's special counsel claimed Friday in court documents.

• Munger Tolles 3 Years Ago Quietly Set Stage For ACA Win

  By Jeff Overley

  It wasn't just Don Verrilli. Although the Munger Tolles & Olson LLP partner delivered arguments that helped save the Affordable Care Act once again, Thursday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court shielding the ACA had clear echoes of a pioneering and little-noticed brief his colleagues authored more than three years ago.

• Feds Seek Hard Time For Avenatti In Nike Extortion Case

  By Stewart Bishop

  New York federal prosecutors are clamoring for a stiff prison term for Michael Avenatti, who was convicted at trial on fraud and extortion charges over a scheme to squeeze Nike Inc. for upward of $25 million in exchange for holding back on negative press coverage.

• Ex-NY Court Official, Atty Husband Charged Over Condo Deal

  By Max Jaeger

  A former New York state courts director misused her position to advise her attorney-husband's client on a lucrative Manhattan real estate deal that allegedly cheated an elderly couple and netted her husband's firm $50,000, the Manhattan district attorney charged Thursday.