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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)

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  Musk Can't Dodge SEC's Twitter Share Buy-Up Suit

  By Jessica Corso

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Elon Musk cannot escape a U.S. Securities and Exchange C...(read more)

• 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.

• Fintech Exec Wins Toss Of $150M Fraud Case After Mistrial

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday said she had no choice but to dismiss charges against a former executive over an alleged $150 million credit card payment fraud scheme on double jeopardy grounds following a mistrial last year.

• Trump Bid To Move NY Appeal Faces 'Fatal' Error, Judge Says

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  A Manhattan federal judge on Wednesday repeatedly aired doubts that President Donald Trump can upend the pending New York state appeal of his hush-money conviction by moving the case to federal court.

• Stockholders Ask Del. Justices To Revive Bylaw Suits

  By Jarek Rutz

  Stockholders challenging advance notice bylaws at AES Corp. and Owens Corning urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Wednesday to revive their dismissed suits, saying boards should face fiduciary duty scrutiny the moment they adopt allegedly entrenching bylaws, not only after a proxy contest is triggered.

• Royal Caribbean Wants Volcano Suit In Australia, Not Fla.

  By Carolina Bolado

  Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. asked a Florida appeals court Wednesday to reverse an order denying its motion to dismiss a suit over a volcano eruption that killed a cruise passenger and her family, arguing that a clause in the cruise ticket contract requires the suit be brought in Australia.

• Drugmaker Claims Stake In La. Mail-Order Abortion Meds Row

  By Mark Payne

  An abortion medication manufacturer asserted its right Wednesday to defend mifepristone, moving to intervene in a federal lawsuit over mail-order abortion medication brought by Louisiana alleging that regulators violated federal law by removing an in-person dispensing requirement for the drug.

• Glencore To Sell 40% Stake In Congo Assets For $3.6B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  A consortium of investors has reached a deal with Glencore to acquire a stake in the assets of the Anglo-Swiss mining giant in the Congo for approximately $3.6 billion to secure critical minerals for the U.S. and its partners.

• Feds Vow New Effort To Protect Privacy Of Epstein's Victims

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday evening that women abused by Jeffrey Epstein have resolved privacy complaints stemming from the government's release of documents related to the deceased financier's sex crimes, after the victims' lawyers flagged widespread deficiencies.

• XAI Fights Uphill To Keep Alive OpenAI IP Theft Suit

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Elon Musk's xAI urged a California federal judge Tuesday to change her tentative decision to toss its suit accusing OpenAI of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, arguing that when considered together, the "whole gestalt" of xAI's allegations against individual employees is enough to state viable claims against OpenAI.