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  DOJ Looks To Settle RealPage Rent Price-Fixing Claims

  By Isaac Monterose

  The federal government filed a proposed final judgment on Monday that aims to settle antitrust claims accusing p...(read more)

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  Comey, James Defeat Charges Over Halligan's Appointment

  By Ryan Boysen

  A federal judge on Monday dismissed the headline-grabbing indictments of former FBI Director James Comey and New...(read more)

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• Goldstein Asks 4th Circuit To Undo Pretrial Rulings

  By Jared Foretek

  SCOTUSblog co-founder Tom Goldstein is appealing a series of rulings from a Maryland federal judge denying his bid to toss five of the 22 federal tax charges he's slated to stand trial for next year.

• Weil Matches Year-End And Special Bonuses For Associates

  By Anna Sanders

  Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP on Tuesday joined a cadre of other firms in matching the BigLaw standard for this year's associate bonuses.  

• DOL Seeks To End 5th Circ. Fiduciary Rule Battle

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The U.S. Department of Labor asked the Fifth Circuit to dismiss two appeals defending a package of Biden-era investment advice regulations that had expanded the definition of a fiduciary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which two Texas courts had blocked in 2024.

• Feds Run Table In Housing Bribery Case With 70th Conviction

  By Pete Brush

  A former public housing superintendent from Brooklyn admitted accepting bribes in exchange for handing out no-bid work contracts Tuesday, as federal prosecutors secured the convictions of all 70 New York City Housing Authority workers arrested last year in an anticorruption sweep.

• Del. Supreme Court Backs FloSports In Records Fight

  By Jarek Rutz

  A fight among siblings over access to corporate records ended with the Delaware Supreme Court affirming that three stockholders of sports streaming platform FloSports Inc. failed to follow the procedural steps required under the Delaware General Corporation Law.

• Monsanto Must Pay $28M Roundup Award, Calif. Court Says

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California appeals court on Monday affirmed a $28 million award against Monsanto for a California man who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma after using the Bayer AG unit's Roundup weed killer for 20 years.

• Hytera Fights $290M Restitution Bid At Sentencing Hearing

  By Celeste Bott

  Counsel for Hytera Communications Corp. urged an Illinois federal judge Monday to reject prosecutors' request that it pay more than $290 million in restitution to Motorola Solutions Inc. for conspiring to steal its trade secrets, arguing during the first day of a two-day sentencing hearing that Motorola will be made whole by the more than $600 million Hytera must fork over in a parallel civil case.

• NBA Coach Chauncey Billups Denies Mob-Linked Poker Con

  By Stewart Bishop

  Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups on Monday pled not guilty in New York federal court to charges tied to a purported scheme to use Mafia-backed, rigged poker games to cheat unsuspecting players out of millions of dollars.

• Judge Lets FERC's $1B Market Manipulation Case Proceed

  By Keith Goldberg

  A North Carolina federal judge on Monday declined to block the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from imposing nearly $1 billion in enforcement penalties against an energy efficiency aggregator, saying the company hasn't shown its constitutional rights have been violated.

• Mass. Judge Says States Can Fight Planned Parenthood Cuts

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday chided a Trump administration lawyer for continuing to argue that a coalition of states lacks standing to seek to block what it says is the effective defunding of Planned Parenthood, even as it only just received a lengthy list of new requirements for Medicaid reimbursement.

• Judges Question Limits On FCC Power To Rework 4.9 GHz

  By Christopher Cole

  Washington, D.C., Circuit judges sounded unconvinced Monday that the Federal Communications Commission lacked authority to effectively hand control of 4.9 gigahertz airwaves to FirstNet during arguments from some band users' challenge to last year's controversial FCC revamp of the spectrum.

• Justice Thomas Says Court Should Clarify Military Immunity

  By Y. Peter Kang

  For the third time in five years, Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday said the U.S. Supreme Court should have granted review of a long-standing court precedent shielding the government from claims incidental to military service, in a suit over the death of an off-duty Air Force service member.