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  SEC Ends 'Gag Rule' Policy For Enforcement Settlements

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday scrapped a decades-old enforcement policy that prohibited ...(read more)

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  Takeda Liable In IBS Drug Pay-For-Delay Trial

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A federal jury in Boston on Monday found Takeda Pharmaceuticals conspired with a generic-drug maker to delay the...(read more)

• Aspiring Georgia Justices Take Ethics Case To High Court

  By Kelcey Caulder

  A pair of plaintiffs attorneys running to unseat Republican-appointed justices on the Georgia Supreme Court asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate an Eleventh Circuit ruling that allowed Georgia's judicial watchdog to issue public statements about ethics violations they are accused of committing.

• Madigan Ruling May Offer High Court New Bribery Test

  By Celeste Bott

  The Seventh Circuit found enough "overwhelming" evidence last month to sustain the conviction of former Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan, but a U.S. Supreme Court that's spent years narrowing the reach of public corruption laws may be interested in whether prosecutors proved a sufficiently specific quid pro quo.

• DOJ Charges Bring More Complications For Key Bridge Ship

  By Linda Chiem

  Recent federal criminal charges over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster have created new risks for operators of the cargo ship at the center of the wreck, potentially upending a civil trial that's set to start next month to determine the scope of damages for victims' families and other injured claimants.

• Exxon Tells 9th Circ. Calif.'s Plastic Suit Belongs In Fed. Court

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  The state of California's claim that Exxon Mobil Corp. is responsible for plastic pollution belongs in federal court, the petroleum giant told a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing on Monday, arguing that federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction because the litigation targets pollution in navigable waters, among other alleged injuries.

• Mich. Secures $108M Monsanto PCB Pollution Settlement

  By Melanie Dorsey

  The Michigan Department of Attorney General announced Monday that it secured a settlement worth at least $108 million — and potentially as much as $240 million — with Monsanto Co. and affiliated entities over environmental contamination from toxic polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, across the state. 

• Chancery Sends Sinovac Biotech Suit To Antigua And Barbuda

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court on Monday dismissed a shareholder suit against Sinovac Biotech Ltd. and several investors, ruling a fight over control of the China-based vaccine maker belongs in Antigua and Barbuda, where Sinovac is incorporated, rather than in Delaware courts.

• Morgan & Morgan Atty Barred From Harvard Suit Over AI Error

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts judge on Monday said a Morgan & Morgan PA attorney may not appear before him in a suit against Harvard University over the theft of body parts donated to its medical school, saying the lawyer did not learn his lesson after signing off on briefs in another case with fake case law generated by artificial intelligence.

• Feds Move To Drop Adani Group Chair's Bribery Charges

  By Sarah Jarvis

  Federal prosecutors moved Monday to permanently dismiss criminal charges accusing Adani Group Chairman Gautam S. Adani and seven others of orchestrating a $250 million bribery scheme to secure lucrative Indian government renewable-energy contracts while misleading investors about the dealings of an Adani Group subsidiary.

• 2nd Circ. Looks Poised To Uncork Reversal In Wine TM Fight

  By Pete Brush

  The Second Circuit appeared inclined Monday to reverse a trial judge's findings that left a California winery owing $1.3 million to Italian vintner Cesari SRL in a well-aged trademark dispute, with three judges suggesting the case was improperly decided.

• Ex-Pol's Insider Trading Case Not Fit For Top Court Review

  By Phillip Bantz

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up former Indiana Rep. Stephen Buyer's appeal of his insider trading conviction, after he urged the justices to correct what he deemed to be an "outdated" venue rule that steers many such cases toward the Southern District of New York.

• Bitcoin Depot Hits Ch. 11, Blaming Crypto Crackdown

  By Rick Archer

  Bitcoin Depot, a nationwide operator of bitcoin automatic teller machines, filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with nearly $27 million in debt and plans to wind down and sell its assets, blaming increasingly stringent regulation and enforcement.

• Boating Retailer West Marine Files Ch. 11 To Stay Afloat

  By Emlyn Cameron

  Boating supply retailer West Marine commenced a Chapter 11 case in Delaware to deal with almost $550 million in debt after reaching a deal on a restructuring support agreement with lenders and equity holders.