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  Tesla Gets Del. Justices To Cut $100M From Investor Atty Fees

  By Lauren Berg

  The Delaware Supreme Court on Friday handed Tesla a win, reducing by roughly $100 million the attorney fees awar...(read more)

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  FTC Warns 42 Law Firms Of DEI 'Anticompetitive Collusion'

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The Federal Trade Commission announced Friday that it has sent warning letters to 42 major law firms for their p...(read more)

• Urgent Care Co. Carbon Health Hits Ch. 11 With $100M+ Debt

  By Ben Zigterman

  Carbon Health Technologies Inc., an urgent care provider based in California, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief Monday in Texas, listing more than $100 million in liabilities.

• Latham, Gibson Dunn Steer Brookfield's $1.2B Peakstone Buy

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Private equity giant Brookfield Asset Management, advised by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, on Monday unveiled plans to acquire Latham & Watkins LLP-led Peakstone Realty Trust in a $1.2 billion take-private transaction.

• Oilfield Co. Nine Energy Hits Ch. 11 To Cut $320M In Debt

  By Rick Archer

  Oilfield services provider Nine Energy Services filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court Monday with a prepackaged plan to cut $320 million of its $388 million in debt with an equity swap.

• Google Can't Ditch $425M Privacy Verdict, But Won't Owe $2B

  By Hailey Konnath

  A California federal judge on Friday refused to decertify a class of Google users who scored a $425 million jury verdict in their privacy suit; however, he also shot down the consumers' request that Google shell out an additional $2.36 billion in disgorgement of profits.

• 11th Circ. Urged To Undo $38M Chiquita Verdict, $229K Fee

  By David Minsky

  The Eleventh Circuit heard arguments Friday in two cases stemming from claims that Chiquita funded a right-wing paramilitary group, with Chiquita urging the court to vacate a $38 million verdict finding it caused eight deaths, while an attorney for the plaintiffs asked to reverse a firm's $229,000 fee award.

• Senate Passes Gov't Funding Package; House Must Vote Next

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate voted 71-29 on Friday to pass five of the remaining government funding bills for fiscal 2026 and a short tenure extension for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security bill to give lawmakers and the White House time to work on possible immigration enforcement changes.

• 'I Will Not Stop Now': Don Lemon Defiant After Arrest

  By Craig Clough

  A Los Angeles federal judge released journalist Don Lemon from custody Friday afternoon, rejecting a prosecutor's request that his travel be restricted after he was arrested Thursday on charges related to his coverage of a protest inside a Minnesota church. 

• 9th Circ. Says DOJ Can Withhold VW Grand Jury Records

  By Emily Field

  The Ninth Circuit on Friday held that the U.S. Department of Justice couldn't be forced to hand over about 6 million Volkswagen documents that were part of a Jones Day investigation into the automaker's 2015 emissions-cheating scandal, as the government obtained them through a grand jury subpoena.

• Planned Parenthood Drops Medicaid Fight After 1st Circ. Loss

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  Planned Parenthood abandoned a legal challenge to a ban on Medicaid reimbursements for its clinics Friday, following a loss at the First Circuit, which upheld the ban in December.

• Rio Tinto, Chalco Acquire Stake In Brazil's CBA For $903M

  By Al Barbarino

  Rio Tinto and Aluminum Corp. of China Ltd., or Chalco, have agreed to acquire Votorantim's controlling stake in Companhia Brasileira de Aluminio through a jointly owned vehicle, in a deal valuing the Brazilian aluminum producer at about $902.6 million.

• FTC Requires Facility Sales For $835M Healthcare Deal

  By Matthew Perlman

  The Federal Trade Commission reached an agreement Friday allowing Sevita Health to move ahead with an $835 million deal for BrightSpring Health Services Inc.'s community living business, conditioned on the sale of more than 100 facilities.

• Attys Rip Judge-Shopping Sanctions As Bid To 'Rewrite' Rules

  By Jake Maher

  Two Alabama attorneys who were sanctioned for allegedly judge shopping in a civil rights case urged the Eleventh Circuit to toss the sanctions Friday, arguing the judges accusing them were seeking to "rewrite" the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.