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  Visa, Mastercard Cut New Deal Worth 'Well More Than $200B'

  By Bryan Koenig

  Visa, Mastercard and a class of potentially millions of merchants announced a new settlement Monday resolving tw...(read more)

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  Calif. Judge Rejects $57M Deal On Former Navy Site's Cleanup

  By Tom Lotshaw

  A California federal judge refused to approve a $57 million settlement the U.S. government proposed to resolve w...(read more)

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• Trump Asks Justices To Overturn E. Jean Carroll's $5M Verdict

  By Rae Ann Varona

  President Donald Trump Monday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn writer E. Jean Carroll's $5 million sexual assault civil verdict win against him, saying the verdict resulted from "striking departures" from federal evidence rules that will repeat in other future cases unless the high court corrects them.

• Senate Committee To Investigate Impeachment Of Judges

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate Judiciary Committee will have a hearing next week to consider impeachment of "rogue" federal judges, according to an announcement on Monday.

• NY Jury Awards $112M To Migrants Detained Unlawfully

  By Lauren Berg

  A New York federal jury on Friday found Suffolk County and the Suffolk County Sheriff's Office liable for violating the due process rights of a class of hundreds of migrants detained past their release dates on behalf of federal immigration authorities, awarding the immigrants $112 million in damages.

• GTCR's $627M Medical Coatings Acquisition Can Get Moving

  By Lauraann Wood

  GTCR BC Holdings LLC can continue with its plan to acquire the nation's leading medical coatings supplier and merge it with the nation's second leading provider while federal regulators challenge the transaction in-house, an Illinois federal judge said Monday, refusing to halt the deal.

• Fiber Optics Co. Should Refile Antitrust Claims, Judge Says

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal judge said Monday a fiber-optics company should be required to refile its copyright infringement and antitrust claims against Parker-Hannifin Corp., but that a trade secret misappropriation claim should be left to stand as is.

• 'Legal Fiction' May Doom Rastafarian's Haircut Suit

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared to doubt Monday that a Rastafarian could hold Louisiana prison guards personally responsible for allegedly violating his religious rights when they forcibly shaved off his dreadlocks, with the justices splitting ideologically over whether a federal law gave the guards enough warning about their potential liability. 

• FTC Risks Help Push Metsera Back To Pfizer

  By Bryan Koenig

  Novo Nordisk AS' aspirations to pry Metsera away from Pfizer Inc. collapsed over the weekend under the pressure of a revised Pfizer offer, twin court challenges and "a call from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission."

• Kirkland Guides KKR'S $2.2B Novaria Sale To Arcline

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Private equity giant KKR announced Monday plans to sell Texas-based aerospace component-supplier Novaria Group to Arcline Investment Management in an all-cash transaction valued at $2.2 billion, guided by Kirkland & Ellis LLP for KKR and Novaria, and Ropes & Gray LLP and Paul Hastings LLP for Tennessee-based Arcline.

• PE Firm Investindustrial Inks $2.9B Deal For TreeHouse Foods

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Private equity firm Investindustrial has struck a deal to acquire food manufacturer TreeHouse Foods Inc. for $2.9 billion in an all-cash transaction that will take the company private, the two companies announced Monday.

• Shutdown Deal Funds Justices' Security, Public Defender Pay

  By Courtney Bublé

  The government funding agreement reached in the Senate on Sunday includes funding for public defenders, some of whom haven't been paid since July, and security for U.S. Supreme Court justices.

• Gorsuch, Thomas Urge Revisit Of Tribal Power Precedent

  By Crystal Owens

  U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas say the high court should correct its 19th century decision that gave federal power over tribal affairs, arguing that the precedent is a theory void of any constitutional foundation and that its roots lie only in archaic prejudices.

• 3rd Circ. Rules Post-Gazette Bargained In Bad Faith

  By Matthew Santoni

  The Third Circuit on Monday affirmed that the publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette had been bargaining with its unions in bad faith and should not have unilaterally imposed a new contract on newsroom employees more than five years ago.