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  Medtronic Hit With $382M Antitrust Verdict Over Bundling

  By Craig Clough

  A California federal jury on Thursday ordered Medtronic to pay nearly $382 million to business rival Applied Med...(read more)

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  Rio Tinto, Glencore Scrap $200B Merger Talks

  By Al Barbarino

  Rio Tinto said Thursday it is abandoning its possible merger with Glencore, about a month after the mining compa...(read more)

• Conagra Owes $25M For Man's Lung Disease From Pam Spray

  By Gina Kim

  A California state civil jury hit Conagra Brands with a $25 million verdict after unanimously finding it liable for causing a debilitating lung disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans of a man who says he was exposed to diacetyl that was added to the company's Pam butter-flavored cooking spray.

• Meta Must Redo User Engagement Data In Mental Health MDL

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.

• Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

  By Ben Adlin

  A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

• Bessent Knocks 'Nihilist' Crypto Critics Of Market Reg. Bill

  By Jon Hill

  U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday defended Republican-backed legislation to regulate crypto markets as critical to the future of digital assets in the U.S., telling senators that industry players who are holding out "should move to El Salvador."

• NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.

• PacifiCorp Owes $2M In Latest Wildfire Trial

  By Cara Salvatore

  An Oregon state jury on Thursday ordered PacifiCorp to pay $2 million in noneconomic damages to a firefighter captain and his wife in the latest trial over wildfire property damage.

• Tyson Won't Have To Hand Over Poultry Welfare Records

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday recommended against greenlighting a Tyson Foods Inc. stockholder's effort to obtain wide-ranging internal records about poultry welfare and labor practices, concluding the plaintiff failed to show a credible basis to suspect corporate wrongdoing that would justify further inspection.

• SDNY Chief Says Office Has Eye On Prediction Markets

  By Jessica Corso

  The Southern District of New York's top prosecutor said Thursday that his office is thinking about how the current laws apply to prediction markets, and said that he expects fraud cases to be brought against those taking advantage of those markets.

• Novo Threatens Hims & Hers With Suit Over GLP-1 'Knockoff'

  By Mark Payne

  Novo Nordisk said in a Thursday announcement it plans to take legal action against Hims & Hers Health Inc. after the telehealth company revealed a "knockoff" version of Novo's popular weight loss drug Wegovy earlier in the day. 

• DOJ Tells Immigration Board To Limit Cases Without Novel Issue

  By Tom Lotshaw

  The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday issued a rule directing its Board of Immigration Appeals to swiftly dismiss cases that don't raise "novel" issues to confront a backlogged docket of noncitizens contesting removal orders and other immigration court decisions.

• KKR Buying Pro Sports Investor Arctos In $1.4B Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  KKR & Co. Inc. said Thursday it has agreed to acquire Arctos Partners in a transaction valued at $1.4 billion in initial consideration, in a deal that will give the private equity firm a $15 billion sports-investing platform.

• FDA Changes 'No Artificial Colors' Food Claims Rules

  By Emily Field

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday said that companies can promote their products as containing "no artificial colors" when the colors aren't derived from petroleum, a move intended to make it easier for companies to claim that their foods aren't artificially colored.