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  Comey, James Defeat Charges Over Halligan's Appointment

  By Ryan Boysen

  A federal judge on Monday dismissed the headline-grabbing indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New...(read more)

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  Smith Ventures, CommerceOne Buy Fintech Biz In $1.1B Deal

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Fintech company Green Dot Corp. on Monday announced that it has agreed to be bought by Smith Ventures and Commer...(read more)

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• Solar Energy Co. PosiGen Hits Ch. 11 After Loan Breach Suit

  By Emlyn Cameron

  Solar energy company PosiGen entered bankruptcy in Texas lugging at least $100 million in debt roughly a month after it was sued in a case alleging a breach of loan agreements.

• Del. Supreme Court Backs FloSports In Records Fight

  By Jarek Rutz

  A fight among siblings over access to corporate records ended with the Delaware Supreme Court affirming that three stockholders of sports streaming platform FloSports Inc. failed to follow the procedural steps required under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

• Monsanto Must Pay $28M Roundup Award, Calif. Court Says

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California appeals court on Monday affirmed a $28 million award against Monsanto for a California man who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma after using the Bayer AG unit's Roundup weed killer for 20 years.

• Hytera Fights $290M Restitution Bid At Sentencing Hearing

  By Celeste Bott

  Counsel for Hytera Communications Corp. urged an Illinois federal judge Monday to reject prosecutors' request that it pay more than $290 million in restitution to Motorola Solutions Inc. for conspiring to steal its trade secrets, arguing during the first day of a two-day sentencing hearing that Motorola will be made whole by the more than $600 million Hytera must fork over in a parallel civil case.

• NBA Coach Chauncey Billups Denies Mob-Linked Poker Con

  By Stewart Bishop

  Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups on Monday pled not guilty in New York federal court to charges tied to a purported scheme to use Mafia-backed, rigged poker games to cheat unsuspecting players out of millions of dollars.

• Judge Lets FERC's $1B Market Manipulation Case Proceed

  By Keith Goldberg

  A North Carolina federal judge on Monday declined to block the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in enforcement penalties against an energy efficiency aggregator, saying the company hasn't shown its constitutional rights have been violated.

• Mass. Judge Says States Can Fight Planned Parenthood Cuts

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday chided a Trump administration lawyer for continuing to argue that a coalition of states lacks standing to seek to block what it says is the effective defunding of Planned Parenthood, even as it only just received a lengthy list of new requirements for Medicaid reimbursement.

• Judges Question Limits On FCC Power To Rework 4.9 GHz

  By Christopher Cole

  Washington, D.C., Circuit judges sounded unconvinced Monday that the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to effectively hand control of 4.9 gigahertz airwaves to FirstNet during arguments from some band users' challenge to last year's controversial FCC revamp of the spectrum.

• Justice Thomas Says Court Should Clarify Military Immunity

  By Y. Peter Kang

  For the third time in five years, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday said the U.S. Supreme Court should have granted review of a long-standing court precedent shielding the government from claims incidental to military service, in a suit over the death of an off-duty Air Force service member.

• NCAA Votes To Keep Ban On Pro Sports Betting For Athletes

  By Elaine Briseño

  The NCAA Division I member schools, with a two-thirds vote, rescinded a rule change that would have allowed student-athletes and staff to bet on professional sports.

• Beyond Meat Hit With $38.9M Verdict In Ad Slogan TM Suit

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Massachusetts federal jury hit Beyond Meat Inc. with a $38.9 million verdict Monday, finding the meat-alternative food maker's use of the slogan "Great Taste, Plant-Based" in joint Dunkin' Donuts ads willfully infringes a trademark registered by rival Vegadelphia Foods, according to counsel.

• NJ Strikes $49.5M Deal Over Pollution At Superfund Site

  By Carla Baranauckas

  The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection has reached a $49.5 million settlement with Pechiney Plastics Packaging Inc., Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Citigroup Inc. and other companies, resolving the state's long-running natural resource damages suit over extensive groundwater contamination across a 10,000-acre Superfund site, state officials announced Monday.