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  Puerto Rico Fiscal Board Gets More Time For Utility Plan

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  Puerto Rico's fiscal oversight board secured yet another filing deadline extension regarding its electric utilit...(read more)

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  Sen. Rand Paul Blocks Package Raising Fees For Big Mergers

  By Bryan Koenig

  Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., sent antitrust overhaul proponents back to the drawing board Thursday with little time re...(read more)

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• 9th Circ. Revives Native Student's Graduation Cap Suit

  By Caleb Symons

  The Ninth Circuit revived on Friday litigation accusing a Phoenix-area school district of denying the First Amendment rights of a Native American student by preventing her from wearing an eagle feather in her graduation cap, saying the allegations at least warrant further review.

• Paris Hilton, Fallon Among Celebs Sued Over Crypto Promos

  By Katryna Perera

  Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Bieber and other celebrities were hit with a proposed class action by investors of the crypto trading group Yuga Labs Inc. who say they were scammed by calculated and planned celebrity endorsements into buying non-fungible tokens, unregistered securities and other digital assets at artificially high prices.

• 9th Circ. Skeptical Of $1.7M Atty Fees For $53K Napster Deal

  By Gina Kim

  A Ninth Circuit panel on Friday appeared open to undoing a California federal judge's award of $1.7 million in fees to plaintiffs' attorneys in a royalties class action against Napster that yielded songwriters just $53,000, with one judge calling the fee award "wildly disproportionate" to the outcome.

• Unvaxxed NY Judge Sues Court Over 'Exile' From Courthouse

  By Elliot Weld

  A New York judge who flouted a ban on entering his courthouse over his lack of vaccination against COVID-19 has filed suit in Manhattan federal court against the state court system after he was denied a religious exemption and had his judicial duties reduced to lesser hearings.

• 4 Takeaways From FTC Bid To Block Microsoft Gaming Deal

  By Matthew Perlman

  The Federal Trade Commission lodged its second recent merger challenge targeting the tech space on Thursday, moving to block Microsoft's planned $68.7 billion purchase of video game developer Activision Blizzard over concerns about more games being released exclusively on Xbox.

• SBF 'Willing' To Go Before House Panel With Current FTX CEO

  By Dave Simpson

  Disgraced former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried said Friday on Twitter that he would be willing to testify at the House Financial Services Committee hearing over the collapse of crypto exchange FTX scheduled for Dec. 13, which will also feature current FTX CEO John Ray.

• J&J Unit Hit With $12M Verdict In Spinal Implant IP Suit

  By Adam Lidgett

  A Delaware federal jury on Friday found that Johnson & Johnson unit DePuy Synthes Sales Inc. infringed a spinal fusion surgery patent under the doctrine of equivalents and owed $12 million to RSB Spine LLC.

• Apple And Ericsson Cut Deal To End EDTX, ITC Fights

  By Andrew Karpan

  An Eastern District of Texas jury won't decide whether Ericsson's licensing of cellular patents considered essential to 4G and 5G standards are being sold to Apple at fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates, as both companies said Friday they had reached a deal to end multiple suits and simultaneous investigations at the U.S. International Trade Commission.

• NXIVM Leader Raniere Loses Sex Trafficking Appeal

  By Elliot Weld

  The Second Circuit shot down an appeal from self-professed executive coach and convicted sex cult leader Keith Raniere on Friday stemming from his guilty verdict and 120-year prison sentence on sex trafficking charges.

• Harvard Coach 'Clinched' Fencers' Admission, Jury Hears

  By Chris Villani

  A Harvard University fencing coach's support was the "clincher" in the admissions process for two team recruits whose father is accused of paying the coach $1.5 million in bribes, a Massachusetts federal jury heard Friday.

• Justices Could Settle Decades-Long Split On Arbitration Stays

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a petition brought by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase that could resolve an "entrenched circuit split" on whether litigation should automatically be stayed for parties appealing the denial of a motion to compel arbitration.

• Justices Take Up Ban On Encouraging Illegal Immigration

  By Alyssa Aquino

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to review whether a federal law barring individuals from encouraging others to come to the U.S. illegally violates the First Amendment's free speech protections.