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  Express Scripts Makes 'Fundamental Changes' In FTC Deal

  By Bryan Koenig

  Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promisin...(read more)

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  Uber Should Pay $144M For Sex Assault By Driver, Jury Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Uber should pay more than $144 million in compensatory and punitive damages for choosing "profit over safety," l...(read more)

• Albright Axes Texas' Anti-ESG Law As Unconstitutional

  By Lauren Berg

  Texas' law restricting state investments with financial firms and businesses that want to reduce their reliance on fossil fuels is both "overbroad and unconstitutionally vague," a federal judge has ruled, handing a sustainability-focused business group a summary judgment victory.

• Goldstein Accountant Admits Tax Return Errors

  By Jared Foretek

  A star government witness and the top outside accountant for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm admitted to making mistakes on Goldstein's tax returns and offering the grand jury erroneous testimony, under cross-examination in the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's tax fraud trial Wednesday.

• Medtronic Owes $381M For Antitrust 'War Games,' Jury Told

  By Craig Clough

  An attorney for Applied Medical told a California federal jury Wednesday during closing arguments in an antitrust trial against Medtronic that internal documents from the medical device giant show it played illegal "war games" against his client and should pay up to $381 million. 

• PacifiCorp Urges Appeals Court To Scotch Broad Fire Liability

  By Cara Salvatore

  The power utility PacifiCorp argued to an Oregon appeals court Wednesday that broad-brush trial evidence and class certification issues require overturning a 2023 verdict that made the company liable to property owners for wildfires around the state on Labor Day 2020.

• Fed. Circ. Leans Toward Vacating $12.7M Copyright Award

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The Federal Circuit appeared likely to vacate a $12.7 million copyright infringement award against the federal government on Wednesday, pressing attorneys for a software developer and the government to answer what instructions should be given to the claims court on remand.

• 'Extraordinary Circumstances': Elon Musk Faces USAID Depo

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday said billionaire Elon Musk must testify in litigation filed by U.S. Agency for International Development employees claiming he illegally dismantled the foreign aid agency while head of the advisory organization known as the Department of Government Efficiency, saying "extraordinary circumstances justify the deposition."

• Coinbase Sues Nev. To Block 'Unlicensed Wagering' Action

  By Katryna Perera

  Coinbase on Wednesday sued Nevada's casino regulator, seeking to block the Silver State's bid to halt the crypto exchange's alleged offering of "unlicensed wagering" to state residents through event contracts on sports and elections until it obtains a state gaming license.

• Mayweather Sues Showtime Over Missing Earnings

  By Tom Lotshaw

  Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. hit Showtime Networks Inc. with a lawsuit accusing the company of helping a former manager defraud him, with at least $340 million of fight earnings misappropriated or unaccounted for.

• Fed. Circ. Backs Infringement Immunity For NASA Contractor

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Federal Circuit on Wednesday endorsed a California federal judge's decision that a NASA contractor doesn't have to face a patent infringement suit from a pair of California men, given that its allegedly infringing use was authorized by the federal government.

• Ex-Fox News Host Decries Judge Pick's Arbitration Stance

  By Courtney Buble

  Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor and a leading advocate for ending forced arbitration of sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, has come out against a federal judicial nominee for Louisiana for her past comments on the issue.

• A&O Shearman, DLA Piper Lead $7.5B Texas Instruments Deal

  By Spencer Brewer

  Texas Instruments on Wednesday announced that it will acquire Silicon Labs in a $7.5 billion deal, saying the transaction will generate nearly half a billion dollars' worth of annual manufacturing within three years after close.

• Teva Wins 1st Paragard IUD Bellwether Trial

  By Kelcey Caulder

  Teva Pharmaceuticals won a complete defense verdict Tuesday in the first trial testing claims that the company failed to warn consumers that its Paragard IUD has a defect making it prone to breakage inside patients' uteri.