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  Justices Wary Of Broader Removal In Coastal Pollution Suits

  By Keith Goldberg

  U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday questioned a bid by ExxonMobil and Chevron to move Louisiana pollution law...(read more)

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  Justices Sign Off On Dismissal Of FIFA Bribery Cases

  By Alex Lawson

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday erased criminal bribery convictions against a former media executive and an Arg...(read more)

• Jordan Card Forgery Case Just A Grading Dispute, Jury Told

  By Pete Brush

  A Washington man accused of a $2 million sports and trading card scam told a Manhattan federal jury Tuesday that he was charged in a "misguided" prosecution after a dispute with the major player in the card-grading world over a Michael Jordan rookie card.

• Capital One's Revised $425M Rate Deal Gets Judge's Initial OK

  By Sarah Jarvis

  A Virginia federal judge Monday preliminarily approved a revised settlement with Capital One over claims the bank deceptively advertised its 360 Savings accounts, with the new deal more than doubling the value of an earlier proposed deal the judge had refused to approve.

• 8th Circ. Lifts Injunction On Advisory Firm's Rival, Ex-Staff

  By Emilie Ruscoe

  Investment advisory firm Choreo LLC improperly got a preliminary injunction after claiming that former employees and a competitor stole trade secrets, the Eighth Circuit found Monday, ruling that the injunction was unwarranted because relevant losses to Choreo are calculable and associated damage has already been done.

• Ex-Google Engineer Stole AI Secrets To Help China, Jury Told

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Driven by greed, ex-Google engineer Linwei Ding stole thousands of confidential documents from the tech giant, launched his own startup and then offered Google's artificial intelligence trade secrets to China, a federal prosecutor told a California jury Monday at the start of Ding's high-profile economic espionage trial.

• The Issues That Could Decide The Tom Goldstein Tax Case

  By Jared Foretek

  Federal prosecutors are set to begin making their case against famed U.S. Supreme Court lawyer and SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein at trial Wednesday, alleging that he deliberately hid millions of dollars in high-stakes poker winnings from the Internal Revenue Service between 2016 and 2021 and lied on mortgage applications.

• Paramount Sues In Del. For Warner Bros., Netflix Merger Facts

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Paramount Skydance Corp. sued Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. in Delaware Chancery Court Monday for court-compelled disclosure of more details on WBD's proposed $82.7 billion tie-up with Netflix, and reported that it plans to run a slate of candidates for WBD's board to push Paramount's offer.

• Ørsted And AGs Win Bid To Resume Revolution Wind Project

  By Brian Steele

  A federal judge on Monday authorized construction to continue on the Revolution Wind project meant to power 350,000 New England homes, lifting a second stop-work order imposed by the Trump administration while litigation plays out.

• Skadden, Milbank Advise On Allegiant's $1.5B Airline Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Skadden and Milbank are advising on a transaction that will see U.S. discount air carrier Allegiant purchase rival Sun Country Airlines in a cash and stock deal valuing the Minneapolis-based airline at about $1.5 billion.

• Compromise Funding Bill Gives Judiciary $9.7B

  By Courtney Bublé

  Congressional appropriators have unveiled a bipartisan compromise funding bill for the federal judiciary for fiscal 2026, which includes the judiciary's requested funding for court security and federal public defenders.

• HHS' Pediatric Health Cuts Blocked As Likely 'Retaliatory'

  By Mark Payne

  A D.C. federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from cutting nearly $12 million in pediatric health funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics, finding HHS could be retaliating for a lawsuit challenging the agency's changes to members on a federal vaccine committee. 

• STG Logistics Hits Ch. 11 With Over $1B Debt, Reorg Plans

  By Alex Wittenberg

  STG Logistics Inc. and several affiliates filed for Chapter 11 protection in New Jersey bankruptcy court Monday with up to $10 billion in liabilities and an agreement with lenders to significantly trim the company's debt load.

• Justices Won't Hear Claims Highland Ch. 11 Judge Is Biased

  By Emily Lever

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear arguments from the founder of hedge fund Highland Capital Management that the judge who presided over Highland's bankruptcy case was biased, and that two novels she has published prove it.