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  Del. Justices Reinstate Elon Musk's $56B-Plus Pay Package

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Elon Musk saw his once-$56 billion, now larger, Tesla Inc. compensation package rescued Friday, as the Delaware ...(read more)

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  LA Angels, Skaggs Family Reach Deal Amid Jury Deliberations

  By Gina Kim and Craig Clough

  The Los Angeles Angels reached a settlement Friday ending a wrongful death suit brought by the family of pitcher...(read more)

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• Google Says SerpApi Bypasses Security To Scrape IP

  By Lauren Berg

  Google says data-scraping firm SerpApi circumvents its security measures protecting copyrighted content that appears in search results, alleging in a California federal lawsuit Friday that SerpApi steals content Google licenses from others "at an astonishing scale" and then resells it to its own customers.

• 4 Stories That Shaped Civil Rights, Access To Justice In 2025

  By Marco Poggio

  Civil rights and access to justice advocates faced mounting pressure in 2025, as President Donald Trump's return to office drove aggressive immigration enforcement, deep cuts to criminal justice funding, renewed Supreme Court scrutiny of the Voting Rights Act, and a steep increase in executions.

• More Pardon Seekers Going 'Straight To The White House'

  By Phillip Bantz

  A nonprofit's unusual plan to make a mass pardon request directly to the Trump administration highlights burgeoning optimism among white collar defendants about their chances of securing relief, and a recognition that the clearest path to clemency no longer runs through the traditional channels.

• BioMarin Inks $4.8B Amicus Buy As Patent Litigation Resolved

  By Al Barbarino

  BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. has agreed to acquire Amicus Therapeutics for $4.8 billion, in a deal bolstered by Amicus' settlement of patent litigation that secures U.S. exclusivity for its Galafold drug until 2037, the companies said Friday.

• NLRB To Get Quorum, GC As Senate Confirms Trump Picks

  By Braden Campbell

  The National Labor Relations Board is set to end 2025 with a quorum after the U.S. Senate confirmed the president's nominees to two board vacancies and the agency's open general counsel post as part of a bloc of picks for jobs across the government.

• Instacart Will Pay $60M Over FTC's Deceptive Delivery Claims

  By Lauren Berg

  Instacart has agreed to pay $60 million to resolve Federal Trade Commission claims it deceptively advertised "free delivery" on customers' first orders while charging a service fee and for not clearly disclosing the terms of its subscription membership.

• DC Circ. Wonders If Noncitizen Registration Is New Rule

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. Circuit pushed back Thursday morning on the idea that the Trump administration created a new rule by requiring all noncitizens to register with the federal government under threat of federal prosecution, suggesting it might just be enforcing federal immigration law.

• Senate Package Includes US Attorney, DC Judge Confirmations

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate confirmed 13 U.S. attorneys and three local judges for the District of Columbia as part of a nominations package confirmed 53-43 along party lines on Thursday.

• 'Disturbing Revelations': Judge Says ICE Lied, Violated Order

  By Lauren Berg

  A New York federal judge Thursday excoriated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the "inhumane and unlawful treatment" of an immigrant in its custody, accusing the agency of providing false information in a declaration, refusing to follow an emergency release order, and ignoring other court directives.

• Trump Order Rallies Cannabis Industry, Advocates Want More

  By Sam Reisman

  The executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday, marking the most substantial shift in federal cannabis policy in over half a century, is expected to have favorable ramifications for the marijuana industry even as it falls short of decriminalizing the drug or resolving the many tensions between federal and state law.

• Top Trade Secrets Decisions Of 2025

  By Ivan Moreno

  The Ninth Circuit clarified the rules of engagement in trade secrets disputes with guidance on when confidential information must be precisely detailed during litigation, and jurors delivered a $200 million verdict against Walmart over product freshness technology. Here are Law360's picks for the biggest trade secrets decisions of 2025.

• Fed. Circ. Axes Appeal Of $8M Bond Under Idaho 'Troll' Law

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday dismissed an appeal by patent assertion entities challenging an $8 million bond imposed on them in an infringement case against Micron Technology, ruling that the order under an Idaho state law discouraging "bad faith" patent litigation is not an appealable final decision.