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  Coalition Rips Trump Deputy AG's Claim Of 'War' With Judges

  By Rose Krebs

  A group of former federal judges on Thursday condemned what they called "inflammatory remarks" last week by Depu...(read more)

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  Efforts To DQ Judge In Venezuelan Debt Case Come Up Short

  By Caroline Simson

  A federal judge on Thursday denied efforts to unseat him and the court-appointed special master overseeing the s...(read more)

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• BofA, BNY Slam 'Razor-Thin' Epstein Enabling Claims

  By Lauren Berg

  Bank of America and the Bank of New York Mellon Corp. urged a Manhattan federal judge Thursday to toss lawsuits accusing them of enabling Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking enterprise and failing to timely report the late sex offender's suspicious transactions, saying "razor-thin allegations" don't connect the institutions to the crimes.

• 7th Circ. Judge Questions Pilgrim's Chicken Price-Fix Win

  By Lauraann Wood

  A Seventh Circuit judge seemed skeptical Thursday that a brief email acceptance and an unsigned agreement are enough to say Pilgrim's Pride had definitively settled chicken and other protein price-fixing claims with Sysco before a Burford Capital LLC unit picked them up to continue litigating.

• Trump To Pardon UK Billionaire Lewis For Insider Trading

  By Dorothy Atkins

  President Donald Trump has agreed to pardon 88-year-old British billionaire Joseph Lewis, who was sentenced to three years of probation for feeding nonpublic stock tips to his girlfriend and private-jet pilots.

• Ex-Judge Worries Top Court Will Be 'Timid' In Checking Trump

  By Chris Villani

  A Massachusetts federal judge who recently resigned to more openly speak out against the Trump administration told Law360 on Thursday he is concerned the U.S. Supreme Court will be unwilling to provide a constitutional check on presidential overreach.

• Wachtell-Led Pfizer Closes Metsera Deal Worth Up To $10B

  By Al Barbarino

  Pfizer Inc. said Thursday that it has successfully completed its acquisition of Metsera Inc., securing the obesity drug developer after a tumultuous bidding war with Novo Nordisk and court fights that redirected the deal in Pfizer's favor.

• MLB Star Reliever Denies Pitch-Fixing Conspiracy

  By Pete Brush

  Cleveland Guardians pitcher Emmanuel Clase on Thursday pled not guilty and vowed to fight charges in Brooklyn federal court accusing him of conspiring with gamblers to rig pitches during Major League Baseball games.

• Judge Casts Doubt On Legitimacy Of Halligan's Appointment

  By Jared Foretek

  A federal judge in Virginia said Thursday that Attorney General Pam Bondi couldn't have reviewed the full transcript of the grand jury proceedings that netted an indictment of James Comey before ratifying the charges against the former FBI director because the U.S. Department of Justice didn't have them at the time.

• Gov't Funding Deal Ends SNAP Benefits Battle

  By Matthew Santoni

  President Donald Trump's signing of a government funding bill Wednesday rendered moot lawsuits seeking to make his administration tap emergency funds for food assistance benefits, the administration told the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday.

• Presidential Firing Limits Needed At FERC, Justices Told

  By Keith Goldberg

  Former Federal Energy Regulatory Commission members on Thursday told the U.S. Supreme Court that overturning limits on the president's authority to fire certain agency officials could undermine FERC's independent oversight of the electricity and gas industries and harm companies and consumers.

• Tesla Fatal Crash Trial Delayed Over Discovery Disputes

  By Carolina Bolado

  A Florida state judge granted a request Thursday to push back the trial date of a suit against Tesla over a fatal crash and said he would be appointing a magistrate judge to handle the discovery disputes delaying the case.

• Justices Won't Block 5th Circ. Order On Child's Removal

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday denied an emergency application to stay a Fifth Circuit decision that would allow an asylum-seeker's 7-year-old daughter to be deported to Venezuela.

• CFPB Forges Ahead On Rules As Funding Hangs In Doubt

  By Jon Hill

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is rolling out plans to narrow how it defines and watches out for lending discrimination, even as the Trump administration casts fresh doubt on any plans to fund the agency once its reserves dry up.