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  Paul Weiss, Kirkland Steer $10.9B AbbVie, Apogee Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  AbbVie said Monday it has agreed to buy Apogee Therapeutics, a company developing therapies for inflammatory and...(read more)

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  NY High Court Upholds Mandatory Judge Retirement Age

  By Dorothy Atkins

  New York's highest court Thursday affirmed a ruling that rejected jurists' challenges to the Empire State's mand...(read more)

• 3 Firms Advise On CRH's $8.5B Arcosa Acquisition Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Building materials supplier CRH said Monday that it will acquire infrastructure products maker Arcosa in an all-cash deal valued at about $8.5 billion, with three law firms advising.

• EDTX Jury Says Verizon Wireless Owes $190M In Patent Trial

  By Adam Lidgett

  Verizon Wireless is on the hook for $190 million after a federal jury in the Eastern District of Texas found that it infringed a patent covering a way for cellphone calls to switch between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

• Justices Say Conviction In Patz Case Was Wrongly Overturned

  By Cara Salvatore

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed a Second Circuit decision that wiped out a murder conviction stemming from the 1979 disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz due to allegedly inaccurate jury instructions.

• High Court Leaves Intact Mich. Drone Hunting Restrictions

  By Melanie Dorsey

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to Michigan's ban on using drones to locate downed game animals, leaving in place a Sixth Circuit ruling finding the restriction does not violate the First Amendment.

• High Court Won't Wade Into Fight Over CBA Leave Provision

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Minnesota teachers union local's bid for review of an Eighth Circuit decision that revived a taxpayer challenge to a collective bargaining agreement's policy letting workers take paid time off to work for their union.

• Supreme Court Won't Review HFC Reduction Law

  By Jared Foretek

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a Georgia refrigerants company's petition to review a 2020 environmental law and subsequent U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring an 85% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon consumption by 2036, rejecting a chance to either modify or replace the "intelligible principle" test in nondelegation cases.

• High Court Won't Hear Dolby's PTAB Interested Party Case

  By Ryan Davis

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal in which Dolby sought to require Unified Patents to name the interested parties in an unsuccessful patent challenge, leaving intact a Federal Circuit decision that Dolby cannot appeal a validity decision in its favor.

• Justices Decline To Hear 'More Than An Athlete' TM Fight

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review a Federal Circuit ruling that allowed a company affiliated with LeBron James to cancel a Maryland youth nonprofit's "I Am More Than An Athlete" trademark registration based on common law rights acquired during the dispute.

• Justices Seek Input On NJ State Bar Diversity Challenge

  By George Woolston

  The U.S. Supreme Court has asked the federal government to weigh in on a Garden State appellate court's decision that approved a New Jersey State Bar Association system for fostering diversity in its leadership that was accused of being discriminatory.

• DC Circ. Sends CFPB Layoff Fight Back To District Court

  By Jon Hill

  The D.C. Circuit has declined to give the Trump administration an immediate green light for a plan to lay off around half of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's remaining workforce, instead handing it off for a Washington, D.C., federal judge to review first.

• Split 6th Circ. Revives Ohio's Social Media Age Limit Law

  By Hailey Konnath

  A divided Sixth Circuit panel Thursday wiped out a lower court's order blocking an Ohio law barring social media companies from allowing children under 16 to create accounts without parental consent, ruling that the measure does not run afoul of the Constitution.

• Meta Can't Undo $35M Political Ad Penalty, Wash. Justices Say

  By Rachel Riley

  Most of the Washington State Supreme Court justices rejected Meta's First Amendment challenge to a state political advertising disclosure law in a divided opinion, while also spurning the social media giant's argument that a $35 million penalty against it violates the Constitution's prohibition on excessive fines.