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  7th Circ. Pick Shrugs Off Conservative Group's Opposition

  By Courtney Bublé

  During her confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Rebecca Taibleson, a federal prosecutor in Wisconsin tapped for th...(read more)

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  Skadden, Latham Guide $1.6B Paramount Real Estate Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Real estate investment trust Paramount Group will be sold to asset manager Rithm Capital Corp. for about $1.6 bi...(read more)

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• Winston & Strawn Blamed For 'Anti-Woke' Fintech $1.7B Crash

  By Lauren Berg

  The trustee of bankrupt "anti-woke" financial technology startup GloriFi on Wednesday launched malpractice litigation against Winston & Strawn LLP in Texas bankruptcy court, accusing the firm and one of its managing partners of putting the interests of the company's founder first and costing the business $1.7 billion in valuation.

• Movie Chain Shakes Privacy Row Over Meta Data-Sharing

  By Allison Grande

  A New York federal judge tossed a proposed class action accusing Bow Tie Cinemas of illegally sharing movie ticket buyers' personal information with Facebook parent Meta, finding a recent Second Circuit decision on what qualifies as data covered by the Video Privacy Protection Act was "fatal" to the plaintiff's claims.

• 'It Doesn't Look Good': CoComelon Foe Faces Uphill IP Fight

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Ninth Circuit panel judges doubted Wednesday a Chinese company's appeal of its $23.4 million copyright-trial loss to the maker of the children's YouTube channel CoComelon, with one judge telling counsel "it doesn't look good for you," and another observing he's "never seen copying evidence quite as compelling as this record."

• Judge Probes Alleged Rivalry In Captive Insurer's Collapse

  By Hayley Fowler

  A North Carolina Business Court judge on Wednesday wanted help deciding whether a Georgia insurance company belongs in a fight over a defunct captive insurer's demise, but neither party seemed to have the answers he needed.

• Del. Judge's US Atty Application Plan Draws Blanche's Ire

  By Lauren Berg

  Delaware's chief district judge, a Trump appointee, is seeking applications for the state's U.S. attorney position to prepare for an upcoming vacancy in the interim position, a move that drew the ire of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday.

• Tribal Members Tell 9th Circ. Tariff Suit Belongs In Fed. Court

  By Dylan Moroses

  Counsel for members of the Blackfeet Nation tribe told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday their suit challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs should stay in federal district courts, where constitutional and congressional claims over tribal commerce must be heard.

• 8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of FDIC Fee Guidance Challenge

  By Jon Hill

  The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a banking industry challenge to Biden-era Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guidance that cautioned banks about charging recurring fees on declined transactions, ruling the matter not ripe for court review.

• Missouri AG Can Seek Unredacted Trans Care Records

  By Yeji Jesse Lee

  The Missouri attorney general can demand that a hospital turn over unredacted records on patients getting transgender care as part of a probe of a whistleblower complaint, a state appeals court held Tuesday.

• House Votes To End DC Judicial Nominations Commission

  By Courtney Bublé

  The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-211 along party lines on Wednesday to eliminate the commission that vets and picks potential judicial nominees for Washington, D.C.'s local courts.

• Posting Standards Violates Copyright, ASTM Tells 3rd Circ.

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  The American Society for Testing and Materials told a Third Circuit panel in Philadelphia on Wednesday that a Pennsylvania federal judge was wrong to find that another company's posting of its copyrighted technical standards online was a noninfringing fair use of the material.

• Chancery Approves $30M Match.com Spinoff Suit Settlement

  By Jeff Montgomery

  A Delaware vice chancellor approved a $30 million mediated settlement Wednesday to resolve a five-year dispute over the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive, with stockholder attorneys taking home $6.9 million.

• Ex-Calif. Judge Gets 35 Years For Shooting Wife To Death

  By Gina Kim

  Former California state court judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson lost his bid for a new trial Wednesday and was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison for shooting his wife to death at home in a drunken rage, with the presiding judge expressing sympathy for his "extraordinary" son who tried to save his mother's life.