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  Google Reaches Deal With Epic For Android App Changes

  By Matthew Perlman

  Google has agreed to make a number of changes to the way apps are distributed on Android devices in a deal with ...(read more)

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  Novo Nordisk Boosts Metsera Bid To $10B After Pfizer Suit

  By Al Barbarino

  Metsera Inc. said Tuesday its board has determined that a sweetened offer from Novo Nordisk is a superior propos...(read more)

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• Ethiopian Air Crash Warrants Substantial Award, Jury Hears

  By Lauraann Wood

  The estate of a United Nations environmental worker who died in the 2019 Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash should be awarded substantial damages for her experience in the flight and how the crash affected her husband, both Boeing and the estate told Illinois federal jurors Wednesday.

• Mamdani Taps Ex-FTC Chief Lina Khan For NYC Transition

  By Lauren Berg

  New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani on Wednesday named an all-women transition team, including former Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, who attracted the ire of tech giants and corporations by spearheading the Biden administration's aggressive antitrust enforcement.

• Panama Triumphs Over Sacyr In $2.36B Treaty Arbitration

  By Joyce Hanson

  The Republic of Panama has won a favorable award under the arbitration rules of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in a $2.36 billion dispute initiated by Spain-based construction company Sacyr SA over a Panama Canal expansion project, the country said.

• Chancery Won't Let Pfizer Block $10B Novo Bid For Metsera

  By Jarek Rutz

  A Delaware vice chancellor Wednesday refused Pfizer Inc.'s emergency bid for a temporary restraining order to block Metsera Inc. from closing a now $10 billion competing bid by Novo Nordisk for the GLP-1 weight-loss drugmaker, saying Pfizer hasn't demonstrated Metsera's board acted in bad faith or that the company would suffer immediate irreparable harm.

• Del. Justices Hear Early Challenge To Corp. Law Amendments

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Delaware's corporate litigation elites squared off before the state's Supreme Court on Wednesday over arguments that state lawmakers either righted — or subverted — the Court of Chancery's equity powers in amending the state's General Corporation Law earlier this year.

• Amazon Sues Perplexity Over Shopper-Impersonating AI Tool

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Global retailer Amazon.com slapped Perplexity AI with a federal lawsuit that claims the San Francisco startup's use of an AI-powered "personal assistant" Comet to make purchases on the Amazon platform goes against its terms of service and is creating a security risk.

• Philip Morris Damages Guardrail Bid Meets Skeptical Justices

  By Chris Villani

  Massachusetts' top court appeared unreceptive Wednesday to arguments made by Philip Morris USA Inc. that a since-reduced $1 billion verdict issued by a state court jury means more guidelines are needed to curtail massive awards.

• Judge Slams DOJ's 'Indict First' Strategy In Comey Case

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors were given just over 24 hours to hand over all of the grand jury materials and anything seized under years-old warrants in the James Comey case when a Virginia federal judge said Wednesday that the government appeared to be pursuing an "indict first, investigate last" strategy.

• Senate Confirms Jones Day Partner For 9th Circuit Bench

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate voted 52-45 on Wednesday to confirm Eric Tung, a partner at Jones Day, as a judge on the Ninth Circuit.

• Luxury Developer Five Star Hits Ch. 11 In Texas

  By Emily Lever

  Five Star Development LLC, a company building a Ritz-Carlton property in Arizona, has filed for Chapter 11 relief in Texas bankruptcy court to gain protection from lender collection actions.

• Plastics Co. Klöckner Can Tap €610M In Ch. 11 Financing

  By Emily Lever and Clara Geoghegan

  A Texas bankruptcy judge Wednesday agreed to grant Klöckner Pentaplast Verwaltungs GmbH, a European plastic packaging maker, interim access to €610 million ($701 million) of its debtor-in-possession funding as it moves toward a pre-planned restructuring.

• Trump Again Nominates Jared Isaacman As NASA Chief

  By Rae Ann Varona

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday again nominated Jared Isaacman to lead NASA, months after yanking an earlier nomination due to the billionaire entrepreneur's "prior associations."