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  High Court Refuses To Halt Border Wall Construction

  By Suzanne Monyak

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday refused to put the brakes on wall construction along the southwest border, desp...(read more)

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  USCIS Hikes Citizenship Costs, Sets First-Ever Asylum Fee

  By Suzanne Monyak

  U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services hiked its fees by an average of 20% on Friday, nearly doubling the cos...(read more)

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• 9th Circ. Rejects Stormy Daniels' Libel Suit Against Trump

  By Dave Simpson

  The Ninth Circuit on Friday rejected a libel suit that Stormy Daniels brought against President Donald Trump over his tweet about a "nonexistent man," ruling that a past precedential decision favored the application of a state statute aimed at protecting free speech in federal court.

• Valeant Pharma Settles SEC Accounting Probe For $45M

  By Jody Godoy

  Bausch Health agreed to pay the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission $45 million on Friday to settle allegations of accounting fraud dating back to when the company was known as Valeant Pharmaceuticals, while three former executives agreed to fines.

• NJ Shooting Spotlights Darker Side Of Judicial Careers

  By Jeannie O'Sullivan

  The fatal shooting at U.S. District Judge Esther Salas' New Jersey home is a somber reminder of the job hazards in one of the nation's busiest court systems, where menacing letters, suspicious packages and smuggled weapons are the more chilling moments recalled by jurists who served on the Garden State's benches.

• 5th Circ. Says States Wrongly Won $479M ACA Insurer Fee

  By Joshua Rosenberg

  Six states were wrongly awarded $479 million in disgorgement from the federal government over the Affordable Care Act's health insurance provider fees, as the fees were not unconstitutional and their suit came too late, the Fifth Circuit said Friday. 

• Fla., UK Teens Helped Stage Bitcoin Twitter Hack, Feds Say

  By Allison Grande

  A 17-year-old Florida resident and two others have been charged with carrying out a major mid-July cyberattack that resulted in identical messages about a cryptocurrency scam being posted from the accounts of some of Twitter's most high-profile users, including Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Apple, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber and Kanye West, prosecutors announced Friday.

• DC Top Court Mulls Letting Law Grads Skip Bar Exam

  By Khorri Atkinson

  The D.C. Court of Appeals is considering whether to allow law school graduates to obtain a D.C. bar license and begin practicing law without taking an exam due to ongoing concerns about in-person testing and health risks associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

• Chevron Defeats Bias Suit Marred By Butt-Shaking Allegation

  By Kevin Stawicki

  Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. has notched a victory in an employment discrimination case that raised eyebrows when a former BakerHostetler partner who represented Chevron was accused of verbally taunting and shaking his butt at opposing counsel during a mediation session. 

• Noble Corp. Hits Ch. 11 With Deal To Cut $3.4B In Debt

  By Rick Archer

  The COVID-19 pandemic claimed another energy sector victim Friday as offshore oil drilling contractor Noble Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Texas court with an equity swap agreement to cut $3.4 billion in debt.

• Varo Granted National Bank Charter, A First For Fintechs

  By Philip Rosenstein

  Consumer fintech company Varo Money Inc. has been granted a charter to launch a full service national bank, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said Friday, the first fintech company of its kind to do so.

• New OSHA Guidance Debunks Fears About Wearing Masks

  By Anne Cullen

  Masks worn to stymie the spread of coronavirus won't hinder the wearer's oxygen levels or cause a harmful buildup of carbon dioxide, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration made clear in new guidance Friday.  

• Trump DOJ Loses Push To Bust Up Immigration Judges Union

  By Braden Campbell

  A Federal Labor Relations Authority official on Friday rejected the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the National Association of Immigration Judges, saying a U.S. Department of Justice regulation scaling back oversight of the judges did not make them union-ineligible managers.

• IRS Proposes Restricting Carried Interest Workaround In TCJA

  By Amy Lee Rosen

  The IRS proposed rules Friday that would restrict a workaround in the 2017 tax overhaul that has allowed some hedge fund managers to avoid a three-year holding period to qualify for preferential capital gains rates on carried interest.