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  EU Warns TikTok To Change 'Addictive' Design Or Face Fines

  By Sophia Dourou

  The European Union's enforcement arm warned TikTok on Friday to change its "addictive" design to avoid potential...(read more)

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  Uber Hit With $8.5M Verdict In 1st Fed. Sex Assault Bellwether

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  An Arizona federal jury on Thursday found that Uber wasn't negligent with respect to rider safety but was liable...(read more)

• Jury Awards $8.4M In Oilfield Trade Secrets Theft Case

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal jury has handed an oilfield services company $8.4 million in damages after finding a rival had willfully pilfered trade secrets related to nitrogen rejection unit technology when an employee left to start the rival firm.

• 4 Takeaways From EU's Latest Trade Agreements

  By Dylan Moroses

  The European Union recently cemented formal trade agreements with India and Mercosur, a group of Latin American countries, which — along with creating certainty for businesses in the regions — strike a sharp contrast with the approach taken in framework deals reached by President Donald Trump. Here, Law360 examines four takeaways from the two trade agreements announced by the European Union.

• 4th Circ. Says Trump Anti-DEI Orders Are Constitutional

  By Grace Elletson

  The Fourth Circuit on Friday lifted a block on President Donald Trump's executive orders that terminated federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs and aimed to encourage government contractors to do the same, saying it's not the court's role to determine if the directives are "sound policy."

• FTC Scrutinizing Merger Creating $22B Chip Giant

  By Bryan Koenig

  Skyworks and Qorvo disclosed that the Federal Trade Commission had kicked off an in-depth probe that pumps the brakes on the two leading U.S.-based semiconductor-makers' plans to merge into a $22 billion industry giant.

• Beasley Allen Disqualified From NJ Talc Multicounty Litigation

  By George Woolston

  A New Jersey state appeals court disqualified the Beasley Allen Law Firm from representing plaintiffs in multicounty litigation over Johnson & Johnson's talc-based baby powder, ruling Friday that a former Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP lawyer's collaborative efforts with the firm's attorneys violated ethics rules.

• Graham Pushes Bill To Allow Suits Over Smith Investigations

  By Courtney Bublé

  Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is working on a bill to allow nonmembers of Congress to sue for damages after being investigated by special counsel Jack Smith.

• HHS Ends 340B Drug Rebate Pilot After Legal Challenge

  By Mark Payne

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has ended a proposed rebate program that would have altered how hospitals receive payments for participating in the federal 340B drug discount program, which provides discounted prescription drugs for low-income Americans, after facing a lawsuit from a major hospital association.

• Conagra Owes $25M For Man's Lung Disease From Pam Spray

  By Gina Kim

  A California state civil jury hit Conagra Brands with a $25 million verdict after unanimously finding it liable for causing a debilitating lung disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans of a man who says he was exposed to diacetyl that was added to the company's Pam butter-flavored cooking spray.

• Meta Must Redo User Engagement Data In Mental Health MDL

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.

• Wash. Lawyer Faces Sanction Threat Over Alleged AI Errors

  By Ben Adlin

  A federal judge has ordered an attorney in Washington state to submit a sworn declaration explaining why she shouldn't be sanctioned for what opposing counsel claimed are dozens of artificial intelligence "hallucinations" across multiple case filings.

• Bessent Knocks 'Nihilist' Crypto Critics Of Market Reg. Bill

  By Jon Hill

  U.S. Department of the Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday defended Republican-backed legislation to regulate crypto markets as critical to the future of digital assets in the U.S., telling senators that industry players who are holding out "should move to El Salvador."

• NY Times Article Excerpts Admitted In Goldstein Trial

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors pressing their case against SCOTUSblog co-founder Thomas Goldstein for tax evasion and misleading statements on mortgage applications were finally able on Thursday to present jurors with key statements the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer made to legal journalist Jeffrey Toobin for a long New York Times Magazine article.