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  Snapchat Inks Deal To Avoid 1st Social Media Bellwether Trial

  By Craig Clough

  Attorneys for Snapchat and the plaintiff in a bellwether trial starting next week over claims social media harms...(read more)

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  Justices Say State Med Mal Laws Don't Apply In Federal Court

  By Y. Peter Kang

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Delaware medical malpractice statute clashes with federal rules o...(read more)

• Trump Defends Birthright Citizenship Order At High Court

  By Hailey Konnath

  President Donald Trump on Tuesday urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the order doesn't run afoul of the 14th Amendment, which he said was intended for freed slaves and their children — not "children of temporarily present aliens or illegal aliens."

• DC Circ. Doubts If EPA Had To Quantify Costs In PFAS Rule

  By Ganesh Setty

  The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday seemed to favor the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's position that public comments were properly solicited before labeling two forever chemicals as hazardous substances, and expressed skepticism that the agency should have done a more rigorous analysis of clean-up costs for businesses.

• Edison Blames LA County, Others For Exacerbating Eaton Fire

  By Gina Kim

  Southern California Edison filed a cross-complaint in California state court on Friday against several public and private entities, including Los Angeles County and the city of Pasadena, alleging they are also at fault for exacerbating the damage left by the devastating Eaton fire that sparked in January 2025.

• Justices To Clarify What's Fair Game With 'Skinny Labels'

  By Ryan Davis

  A new U.S. Supreme Court patent case that will require the justices to spell out what generic-drug makers can say when marketing drugs with so-called skinny labels will shape whether and how those companies use the tactic of carving out patented uses from labels, attorneys say.

• Goldstein Poker Pals Got Money From Firm, Witness Says

  By Jared Foretek

  A former office manager at Thomas Goldstein's law firm Tuesday told the jury in his tax fraud trial in Maryland federal court that hundreds of thousands of dollars in wire transfers sent to the U.S. Supreme Court lawyer's poker counterparts were classified as business transactions in documents used by the firm's tax accountants.

• Plaintiffs Atty Who Disclosed Uber MDL Docs On 'Thin Ice'

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal magistrate judge warned plaintiffs attorney Bret Stanley of Johnson Law Group during a hearing Tuesday that he's on "thin ice" after Uber argued he should be sanctioned for allegedly repeatedly using discovery in multidistrict litigation over sexual assault liability to litigate other cases against Uber.

• Microsoft Warns Google Play Store Deal Invites Antitrust Harm

  By Lauren Berg

  Microsoft Corp. urged a California federal judge to reject the proposed Android app distribution settlement in Epic Games' antitrust suit against Google, arguing that the deal would essentially erase the court's injunction requiring Google to open up its Play Store to Microsoft and other competitors.

• Fed. Circ. Revives Inventor's Spinal Patent Case Against DePuy

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Federal Circuit on Tuesday revived an inventor's patent infringement suit against DePuy Synthes Cos., ruling that the persuasiveness of expert testimony that was excluded by a lower court is best left for the jury.

• Justices Icy To Time Limits For Union Actuarial Assumptions

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Tuesday of a push by employers to prohibit union actuaries from retroactively changing assumptions used to calculate how much employers must pay when they withdraw from multiemployer pension plans, with multiple justices questioning whether a timing rule aligned with federal benefits law.

• Delaware Supreme Court Reverses Moelis Governance Ruling

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday reversed a Chancery Court ruling that had invalidated key provisions of Moelis & Co.'s stockholder agreement, holding that the challenged governance provisions were not void but merely voidable, and that a stockholder challenge brought nearly nine years later was time-barred.

• Justices Ask If Hawaii 'Vampire Law' Violates 2nd Amendment

  By Marco Poggio

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared skeptical of a Hawaii law that makes it illegal for people to bring firearms onto private property open to the public without the owner's express permission.

• Justice Jackson Slams Fee Waiver Ban For Indigent Prisoners

  By Brandon Lowrey

  The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday rejected three pro se indigent prisoners' bids to file petitions to the court without fees and permanently barred them from seeking fee waivers from the high court, decisions that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called "foolish" in a passionate dissent.