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  High Court To Review Trump's Birthright Order

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's executive order...(read more)

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  3 Firms Advise On Netflix's Planned $82.7B Warner Bros Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Netflix said Friday it has agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business in a cash-an...(read more)

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• Michael Jordan Tells Jury He'd 'Never Jeopardize' NASCAR

  By Hayley Fowler

  From North Carolina, at 6'6", Michael Jordan took the stand Friday in his race team's antitrust trial against NASCAR, telling a jury that he would never jeopardize the sport but that the teams and their drivers deserve more credit from their sanctioning body.

• Netflix Merger Raises Theatrical Release Antitrust Fears

  By Bryan Koenig

  Netflix's $82.7 billion play for Warner Bros. Discovery's studio and streaming business drew rebukes Friday from critics and lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum, but antitrust observers offered a cautious assessment on the prospects of any government challenge.

• Fed. Circ. Questions Whether Ingevity Can Duck $85M Verdict

  By Nadia Dreid

  The Federal Circuit spent Friday morning debating whether Ingevity Corp.'s argument that it should be immune from an $85 million antitrust verdict holds water because the chemical and carbon product maker thought it was enforcing its patent rights, even though the jury said it was illegal tying.

• Meta CEO Zuckerberg Fights Privacy Suit Depo At 9th Circ.

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg urged a Ninth Circuit panel during a hearing Friday to scrap orders requiring him to give a limited deposition in privacy litigation over Facebook's alleged collection of health data, arguing the plaintiffs failed to exhaust alternative methods of getting the information they seek.

• Constellation To Sell Power Plants For $26.6B Calpine Deal

  By Matthew Perlman

  The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday that enforcers have reached a deal allowing Constellation Energy Corp.'s $26.6 billion purchase of Calpine Corp. to move ahead, with the sale of power plants located in Delaware, Pennsylvania and Texas.

• Justices Take Up Venue Dispute In Twitter Saudi Agent Case

  By Phillip Bantz

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider an ex-Twitter employee's appeal of his conviction for secretly acting as an agent of the Saudi government, taking up what the petition called a deep circuit split over whether the government can bring charges for certain crimes virtually "anywhere."

• Fed. Circ. Revives Targeted Ad Patent Suit Against Meta

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Federal Circuit revived an online advertising company's suit accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of infringing its patent covering a targeted advertising technology, finding Friday that a lower court "implicitly construed" an important claim term without letting the plaintiff challenge the construction.

• High Court To Weigh Courts' Power Over Arbitration Awards

  By Anne Cullen

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider whether federal courts have the authority to confirm or overturn arbitration awards arising out of cases they previously exercised authority over, taking up a tricky legal question stemming from a laid-off security guard's discrimination case.

• Cancer Detection Biz Going Public Via $1.1B SPAC Merger

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Cancer detection company Freenome Holdings Inc. announced plans Friday to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company Perceptive Capital Solutions Corp. in a deal that gives the combined business a post-transaction equity value of $1.1 billion and was built by three law firms.

• Mass. Justices Muse On Swift, 'FOMO' In Meta Addiction Case

  By Chris Villani

  Massachusetts' highest court appeared divided Friday as it wrestled with whether Meta Platforms Inc. should have to face a suit by the state attorney general claiming that it is illegally getting kids hooked on Instagram.

• NYT, Chicago Tribune Sue Perplexity Over 'Verbatim' Outputs

  By Elliot Weld

  Adding to the heap of pending federal court cases launched by publishers against artificial intelligence companies, The New York Times and Chicago Tribune sued Perplexity AI in New York, claiming its search engine illegally scrapes content from their websites and spits out portions verbatim.

• 2nd Circ. Backs Ex-Goldman Exec's 1MDB Conviction

  By Phillip Bantz

  Former Goldman Sachs managing director Roger Ng's attempt to overturn his conviction in the $6.5 billion 1MDB corruption scheme hit a wall Friday at the Second Circuit, where a panel categorically rejected his multipronged appeal.