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  9th Circ. Upholds Apple App Store Injunction In Epic Fight

  By Dorothy Atkins

  The Ninth Circuit mostly affirmed an injunction blocking Apple Inc. from charging developers "prohibitive" commi...(read more)

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  Terraform Founder Gets 15 Years For 'Epic' $40B Crypto Scam

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge hit Terraform founder Do Kwon with a 15-year prison sentence Thursday, saying he cause...(read more)

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• Google To Face Publishers' Class Claims Over AdX Exchange

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A New York federal judge Friday granted class certification in a multidistrict antitrust litigation over Google's advertising technology to publishers who sold ad space through the search giant's AdX ad space marketplace, but denied certification to publishers who used Google's AdSense platform and to a proposed class of advertisers.

• 1st Circ. OKs Barring Medicaid Planned Parenthood Coverage

  By Hailey Konnath

  A First Circuit panel on Friday upheld the Trump administration's ban on Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood, vacating a lower court's order that would've kept in place Medicaid reimbursements for Planned Parenthood clinics in 22 states.

• Fired MSPB Member Urges Full DC Circ. To Rehear Case

  By Emily Brill

  A D.C. Circuit panel based its decision to uphold Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris' firing on a mischaracterization of the agency, Harris argued Friday to the full D.C. Circuit, asking the en banc court to override the decision, bring her back to work and preserve MSPB members' job protections.

• J&J Hit With $40M Verdict In Bellwether Talc Trial In LA

  By Craig Clough

  A Los Angeles jury on Friday hit Johnson & Johnson with a $40 million verdict after a month-long bellwether trial, finding its talc products were a substantial factor in causing two women's ovarian cancer but declining to award punitive damages against J&J, which is facing thousands of talc claims nationwide.

• Hollywood Director Convicted Of $11M Fraud Against Netflix

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Film and television director Carl Erik Rinsch was convicted Thursday on charges he defrauded Netflix out of $11 million secured to make a sci-fi television show he never delivered, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York.

• National Trust Sues To Halt Trump's Ballroom Construction

  By Tom Lotshaw

  The National Trust for Historic Preservation asked a D.C. federal judge to stop construction on a White House ballroom until Trump administration officials complete mandatory review processes that they blew off before unilaterally razing the East Wing to make room for the structure.

• Anthropic Judge Rebuffs Bid For 'Sweeter' Part Of $1.5B Deal

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  The California federal judge overseeing Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors gave a terse response to notice that a Canadian publisher's counsel contacted the AI company looking for a better deal, saying the publisher could opt out but couldn't "seek a sweeter deal than other class members."

• 11th Circ. Scrutinizes Qui Tam History In FCA Challenge

  By Dan McKay

  The Eleventh Circuit Friday weighed both the history of whistleblower laws going back to the nation's founding and recent U.S. Supreme Court commentary on qui tam litigation in a closely watched challenge to the False Claims Act.

• US Atty Nominee For Wyo. Was Outside Capitol On Jan. 6

  By Courtney Bublé

  One of President Donald Trump's U.S. attorney nominees, who was on the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, and recently told senators he still thinks "there were imperfections" in the 2020 election process, has been advanced toward Senate confirmation.

• Dems Demand Release Of 2nd Jack Smith Report

  By Courtney Bublé

  Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday demanding she release the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith's report on President Donald Trump's retention of classified documents after he left office the first time.

• DoorDash, Uber Sue NYC To Block Checkout Tip Prompt Law

  By Rae Ann Varona

  DoorDash and Uber Eats filed suit together Thursday in Manhattan federal court, seeking to block two New York City laws that the food delivery companies say force them to solicit tips before or as customers check out, in an alleged violation of the companies' constitutional rights.

• Grants Can Be Axed For Political Reasons, DOJ Atty Says

  By Jared Foretek

  A Trump administration lawyer said Thursday that the president had blanket authority to cancel every discretionary grant slated for states that broke against him in the general election, and it wouldn't amount to a violation of the Fifth Amendment's equal protection guarantee.