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  GoDaddy Hit With $170M Verdict In Express Mobile Patent Suit

  By Adam Lidgett

  A Delaware federal jury said website hosting platform GoDaddy owes $170 million after finding that it willfully ...(read more)

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  Solar Co. Pine Gate Hits Ch. 11 With $1B+ Debt, Sale Plan

  By Alex Wittenberg

  Solar energy developer Pine Gate Renewables has filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Texas bankruptcy court with...(read more)

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• Up Next At High Court: Religious Rights & Gov't Contracts

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court will return Monday for a short week of arguments, in which the justices will consider whether state and local government officials can be held personally liable for alleged religious rights violations and whether government contractors are entitled to immediately appeal denials of derivative sovereign immunity. 

• Supreme Court Temporarily Pauses Full SNAP Payments

  By Rae Ann Varona and Rachel Riley

  The U.S. Supreme Court Friday evening temporarily paused a Rhode Island federal judge's orders compelling the Trump administration to fully fund November Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits and transfer roughly $4 billion by the end of the day, hours after the First Circuit denied the administration's emergency request.

• OpenAI Hit With Wave Of Suits Over 'Suicide Coach' ChatGPT

  By Dorothy Atkins

  ChatGPT users and suicide victims' families hit OpenAI Inc. and its CEO Sam Altman with a wave of lawsuits in California state court Friday, alleging OpenAI knowingly released a dangerously designed sycophantic, psychologically manipulative, addictive version of ChatGPT that at times became a "suicide coach" to vulnerable users who killed themselves.

• Justices Cast Constitutional Clouds Over Trump's Tariffs

  By Dylan Moroses

  Several U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared skeptical of the government's arguments seeking to salvage President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs, signaling that the high court may come down with a ruling that reinforces Congress' constitutional authority to impose tariffs.

• Spurned Pfizer Turns To Antitrust Law To Reclaim Biotech

  By Bryan Koenig

  What may be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit is playing out as Pfizer Inc. turns to antitrust law to keep Novo Nordisk from usurping its bid for Metsera.

• Mistrial Declared For MIT Bros In $25M Crypto Heist Case

  By Stewart Bishop

  The trial of two MIT-educated brothers accused of a $25 million crypto heist that capitalized on a software glitch on the Ethereum platform ended in a mistrial late Friday, after jurors made clear in an emotional note that they could not reach a unanimous verdict.

• Nike Beats Bid To Revive Greenwashing Claims At 8th Circ.

  By Craig Clough

  The Eighth Circuit on Friday affirmed the dismissal of a proposed class action accusing Nike of greenwashing by falsely claiming that some of its clothing is sustainably made, holding that the lower court did not abuse its discretion when it nixed the complaint with prejudice because the plaintiff chose not to file amended claims.

• Javice Tells Chancery JPMorgan Is Stalling Appeal Fees

  By Jarek Rutz

  Charlie Javice, the convicted founder of college financial aid startup Frank, has told a Delaware judge that JPMorgan Chase & Co. is effectively trying to cut off her ability to appeal her criminal conviction by refusing to advance the vast majority of her ongoing legal fees.

• Shutdown, Funding Crisis Leave Federal Defenders Unpaid

  By Courtney Bublé

  The record-long government shutdown has hindered an already dire funding situation for the federal defense community, but now the judiciary is working on requests to Congress to alleviate that.

• Jury Clears Novo Nordisk Of Medicaid Fraud Over Blood Drug

  By Ben Adlin

  A Tacoma federal jury cleared Novo Nordisk on Friday of allegations that it defrauded Washington state's Medicaid and Medicare systems by paying kickbacks and promoting off-label use to illegally boost prescriptions of its hemophilia drug NovoSeven.

• 3 Firms Guide Dubai Hookah Maker's $1.75B SPAC Merger

  By Al Barbarino

  Three law firms are guiding Dubai hookah brand owner AIR Ltd. on its agreement to go public in the U.S. through a $1.75 billion deal with blank-check firm Cantor Equity Partners III, the companies said on Friday. 

• Fed. Circ. Upholds PTAB Rulings Favoring Uber

  By Adam Lidgett

  The Federal Circuit on Friday refused to restore claims in a pair of patents used to track individuals, leaving in place Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions that Uber showed the claims were invalid.