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  'It's Confidential': Judiciary Chair Mum On Court System Strife

  By Jeff Overley

  The federal judiciary's leaders heard sharp criticism at a private meeting Tuesday regarding the U.S. Supreme Co...(read more)

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  Twitter Stock Maven Tells Jury He Was 'Addicted' To Trading

  By Pete Brush

  An Ohio salesman accused of securities fraud told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was hooked on trading...(read more)

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• Substitute Expert Testimony Is Hearsay, Mass. Justices Rule

  By Julie Manganis

  Trial prosecutors' use of a state crime lab supervisor to introduce results of drug tests performed by a former subordinate violated the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, the Massachusetts high court said Wednesday, in a decision with potentially far-reaching implications for the use of forensic evidence.

• Ex-CDC Head Says RFK Jr. Urged Vax Schedule Rubber Stamp

  By Dan McKay

  Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told federal lawmakers on Wednesday she was abruptly fired just weeks into her tenure for "holding the line on scientific integrity."

• Sky-High AI Valuations Are Reshaping Dealmaking Playbook

  By Al Barbarino

  The latest financing for Anthropic underscores how difficult it has become to dismiss sky-high valuations backing AI as froth, and shows how such numbers could reshape acquisition and exit strategies while exposing investors to heightened legal and financial risks.

• Yale Health System Settles $435M Hospital Sale Suit

  By Brian Steele

  Yale New Haven Health Services Corp., Connecticut's largest hospital system, has reached a settlement in principle with bankrupt Prospect Medical Holdings Inc. that would resolve a $435 million contract dispute over the sale of several hospitals in the state.

• Strip Club Execs Accused Of Bribing Auditor With Lap Dances

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Executives of strip club operator RCI Hospitality Holdings Inc. bribed a tax auditor for more than a decade to avoid paying $8 million in New York City sales taxes, providing him free trips to Florida strip clubs and expensive lap dances, the state of New York alleged Tuesday.

• 2nd Circ. Revives Suit Over Buddhist Group's Water Pollution

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The Second Circuit on Tuesday revived an environmental group's Clean Water Act enforcement suit accusing a New York Buddhist center of contaminating nearby waterways with wastewater containing fecal coliform bacteria.

• Meta Loses Bid To Overturn Verdict In Flo Privacy Class Action

  By Allison Grande

  A California federal judge has refused to disturb a jury verdict that found Meta Platforms Inc. liable for using an online tracking tool to unlawfully obtain sensitive health data that users entered into the Flo menstrual tracking app, finding that there was nothing to justify reversing this result.

• Goldman, Morgan Stanley Beat Archegos Suit At 2nd Circ.

  By Jessica Corso

  The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley of profiting off insider knowledge that the investment firm Archegos Capital Management was about to collapse, ruling that the companies had no duty to withhold from trading on the information.

• Latham, Cooley Lead Ticket Sales Giant StubHub's $800M IPO

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  StubHub, an online ticket reseller backed by private equity and venture capital firms, is set to hit the public markets Wednesday after pricing an $800 million initial public offering within its targeted range.

• PacifiCorp Owes $63M In Latest Wildfire Trial

  By Cara Salvatore

  An Oregon jury on Tuesday ordered utility PacifiCorp to pay $63 million in noneconomic damages to 10 people who fled from a group of 2020 wildfires, after hearing in closing arguments that some plaintiffs "didn't know they were going to make it out."

• 4th Circ. Revives RICO Claims On Amazon Project Kickbacks

  By Nate Beck

  The Fourth Circuit in a published decision Tuesday revived racketeering and other claims from Amazon.com Inc. after two former employees, a real estate developer and an attorney operated a kickback scheme as the company spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a set of data center projects in northern Virginia.

• Influencers Walk Back Claim Of Capital One Settlement

  By Sydney Price

  Attorneys for a proposed class of social media influencers on Tuesday withdrew a notice of settlement in their suit accusing Capital One of stealing commissions from creators, saying no settlement exists and that they signed the notice on Capital One's behalf without permission.