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  Musk Can't Dodge SEC's Twitter Share Buy-Up Suit

  By Jessica Corso

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Elon Musk cannot escape a U.S. Securities and Exchange C...(read more)

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  1st Circ. Pushes For Settlement In Mass. 'Right-To-Repair' Suit

  By Chris Villani

  The First Circuit suggested Tuesday that major automakers and the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office should...(read more)

• BREAKING: Express Scripts Makes 'Fundamental Changes' In FTC Deal

  By Bryan Koenig

  Express Scripts on Wednesday agreed to what the Federal Trade Commission called a "landmark settlement" promising major changes to its drug formulary practices, allowing the company to duck out of a case accusing all three of the country's largest pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices through rebate schemes.

• Glencore To Sell 40% Stake In Congo Assets For $3.6B

  By Dawood Fakhir

  A consortium of investors has reached a deal with Glencore to acquire a stake in the assets of the Anglo-Swiss mining giant in Congo for approximately $3.6 billion to secure critical minerals for the U.S. and its partners.

• Feds Vow New Effort To Protect Privacy Of Epstein's Victims

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge said Tuesday evening that women abused by Jeffrey Epstein have resolved privacy complaints stemming from the government's release of documents related to the deceased financier's sex crimes, after the victims' lawyers flagged widespread deficiencies.

• XAI Fights Uphill To Keep Alive OpenAI IP Theft Suit

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Elon Musk's xAI urged a California federal judge Tuesday to change her tentative decision to toss its suit accusing OpenAI of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, arguing that when considered together, the "whole gestalt" of xAI's allegations against individual employees is enough to state viable claims against OpenAI.

• En Banc 5th Circ. Wipes Out Airline Fees Disclosure Rule

  By Hailey Konnath

  The full Fifth Circuit on Tuesday vacated a Biden-era rule requiring airlines to more clearly disclose add-on fees upfront, this time holding that the U.S. Department of Transportation's failure to properly consider public comments warrants doing away with the rule altogether.

• Ex-Fed Adviser Acquitted Of Espionage Conspiracy Charge

  By Lauren Berg

  A Washington, D.C., federal jury Tuesday acquitted a former senior adviser to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors of conspiring to steal confidential data for Chinese intelligence.

• DOJ, AGs Lodge Cross-Appeal Over Google Search Remedies

  By Lauren Berg

  The U.S. Department of Justice and state enforcers on Tuesday launched an appeal of a D.C. federal judge's scaled-back remedies in their case targeting Google's search monopoly, after the tech giant filed its own appeal to knock out the penalties.

• Fed. Circ. Questions Bid To Undo Google, Microsoft PTAB Win

  By Ryan Davis

  A Federal Circuit panel appeared unpersuaded Tuesday by an inventor's arguments that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board should have ended reviews of computer-locating patents challenged by Google and Microsoft due to actions by LG in a related case, and that the board wrongly invalidated the patents.

• Martin Shkreli Countersues, Adds RZA To Wu-Tang Fight

  By Hailey Konnath

  Martin Shkreli has filed counterclaims and added Wu-Tang Clan rappers and producers RZA and Cilvaringz as counterdefendants in litigation over the group's one-of-a-kind album he once owned, a move that comes just weeks after a New York federal judge rejected Shkreli's request to bring the Wu-Tang members into the dispute.

• Ex-SPAC CEO Cops To Defrauding Lottery.com Investors

  By Emilie Ruscoe

  The former CEO of a blank check company that took Lottery.com public pled guilty on Tuesday to securities fraud over charges that he schemed to inflate the revenue of the lottery products platform by means including a $9 million round-trip transaction.

• Goldstein Knew What Was On His Returns, Accountant Claims

  By Jared Foretek

  The top outside accountant handling tax returns for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm said Tuesday that Goldstein wasn't forthcoming about his gambling records and that he firmly believed the former U.S. Supreme Court attorney knew what was in his allegedly false tax returns when they were filed.

• Boston IP Firm Sees Malpractice Claims Revived By 1st Circ.

  By Elliot Weld

  The First Circuit has revived legal malpractice claims from a Colorado tech company that alleged it was betrayed when its lawyers at a Boston intellectual property law firm filed patents for another client, finding that a lower court's ruling that the claims were time-barred assumed the three-person company comprised exclusively of engineers had an understanding of tricky legal concepts.