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  Google-Epic Judge Raises Doubts About App Antitrust Deal

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  The California federal judge overseeing Epic Games' antitrust suit against Google expressed serious doubts Thurs...(read more)

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  Deutsche Börse And Nasdaq Face EU Derivatives Cartel Probe

  By Eddie Beaver

  The European Commission revealed Thursday that it is investigating Deutsche Börse and Nasdaq over possible collu...(read more)

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• DOJ Gives Comey Seized Materials, Balks At Grand Jury Docs

  By Lauren Berg

  The U.S. Department of Justice Thursday informed a Virginia federal court that it has handed over to former FBI Director James Comey materials seized under years-old search warrants, but it will challenge a magistrate judge's order to produce grand jury materials.

• Egg Producers Blamed Bird Flu While Fixing Prices, Suit Says

  By Craig Clough

  A New York grocer filed a proposed class action Thursday in Indiana federal court against the nation's largest conventional egg producers and two industry publications accusing them of a price-fixing conspiracy they falsely blamed on years-old bird flu outbreak.

• Capital One's $425M Rate Deal Rejected Over Low Payouts

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Virginia federal judge Thursday refused to sign off on Capital One's proposed $425 million settlement with customers accusing the bank of deceptively advertising its 360 Savings accounts, finding that the customers deserve "significantly greater relief" than what's outlined in the deal.

• 'Restore Coherence': Trump Admin Told To Fully Fund SNAP

  By Lauren Berg

  The Trump administration must fund the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in full this month, a Rhode Island federal judge ruled Thursday while admonishing the government for "entrenching delay" of benefits for the 42 million low-income Americans who rely on food assistance.

• Miss. Judge, US Atty Nominees Held Up In Committee

  By Courtney Bublé

  Consideration of judicial and U.S. attorney nominees for Mississippi has stalled in committee over tensions between senators that are unrelated to the nominations, according to the Senate Judiciary Committee chair's office.

• T-Mobile Fairly Canceled $27M In Phone Orders, 9th Circ. Says

  By Nadia Dreid

  The Ninth Circuit isn't going to disturb a ruling tossing out a cellphone manufacturer's $27 million lawsuit against T-Mobile accusing it of reneging on purchase orders, after finding that the mobile behemoth had the right to unilaterally end their agreement.

• Goldstein Loses Bid To Trim Tax Charges Before Trial

  By Jared Foretek

  A Maryland federal judge Thursday handed SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein a series of losses on pre-trial motions aimed at trimming the 22 federal tax charges he'll face at trial next year, ruling that many of the motions involved factual disputes fit for trial and keeping the government's case intact.

• Ex-NBA Player Damon Jones Denies Role In Gambling Ruse

  By Elliot Weld

  Former NBA player and coach Damon Jones pled not guilty on Thursday in a pair of cases accusing him of participating in mob-connected, rigged poker games that cheated players out of millions of dollars and conspiring to impact outcomes of bets on NBA games.

• Ex-DOJ Staffer Cleared After Tossing Sandwich At CBP Officer

  By Elaine Briseño

  A D.C. federal jury on Thursday found former U.S. Department of Justice employee Sean Dunn, who threw a Subway sandwich at a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer, not guilty of misdemeanor assault.

• Meta Accused Of AI Copyright Theft By Entrepreneur Mag

  By Theresa Schliep

  The owner of Entrepreneur magazine hit Meta Platforms Inc. with the latest suit accusing an artificial intelligence developer of infringing copyrighted material, telling a California federal court Thursday Meta "seeks to build a multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence empire on a foundation of systematic and widespread copyright theft."

• Social Media Apps Must Face Jury After Section 230 Loss

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California state judge refused Wednesday to grant social media companies summary judgment on claims their platforms harm young users' mental health, again rejecting arguments that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields them from liability, and sent three cases to bellwether trials, with the first to begin Jan. 27.

• AI Developer Made $100M By Dumping Tokens, Suit Says

  By Sydney Price

  A purported open-source artificial intelligence developer has been hit with a proposed class action accusing it of reaping over $100 million in ill-gotten gains by manipulating a token merger and breaching a covenant to develop AI tools in an "ethical and acceptable manner."