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  Home Decor Retailer Blames Tariffs For New Ch. 11 Filing

  By Vince Sullivan

  Household furnishing retail chain At Home Group Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection Monday with just shy of $2 ...(read more)

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  Trump Clears US Steel Merger With Japan's Nippon

  By Al Barbarino

  President Donald Trump has approved the long-delayed deal between U.S. Steel and Japan's Nippon Steel, the compa...(read more)

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• High Court Will Hear Chevron, Exxon Pollution Liability Case

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to determine whether federal or state courts are the proper venue for Louisiana's bid to hold Chevron, Exxon Mobil and other major oil companies liable for damages to the state's coastal lands that were allegedly caused by World War II-era oil production activities.

• BREAKING: Mass. Judge Blocks NIH Grant Cuts, Points To 'Discrimination'

  By Mark Payne

  A Massachusetts federal judge on Monday blocked the National Institutes of Health from cutting hundreds of grant programs to universities, hospitals and other organizations, saying that in his 40 years on the bench he had never seen such "palpable" racial and LGBTQ discrimination from the government.

• Covington-Led Eaton Nabs Ultra PCS In $1.55B Deal

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Covington & Burling LLP-advised power management company Eaton on Monday unveiled plans to buy Ultra PCS Ltd. from the Cobham Ultra Group in a $1.55 billion deal.

• Latham Guides Hunter Point's £1.3B Deal For Equitix Stake

  By Najiyya Budaly

  U.S. investment firm Hunter Point Capital will buy a 16.1% stake in London-based investor Equitix in a deal that values it at £1.3 billion ($1.8 billion), majority owner Tetragon Financial Group Ltd. said Monday.

• High Court Skips Laches Question In Trademark Disputes

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal that asked if it is proper for courts to adopt state statutes of limitations in trademark disputes to determine whether a party took too long to sue.

• Justices Deny Challenge To Copyright's 'Discovery Rule'

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it will not revisit the so-called discovery rule, rejecting an appeal from a shoe designer who argued the justices needed to clarify whether it's appropriate to bring copyright claims outside the three-year statute of limitations.

• Justices Won't Review Ed Sheeran's 'Thinking Out Loud' Win

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a petition to review a ruling finding that Ed Sheeran's hit song "Thinking Out Loud" did not rip off Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."

• Justices Take Up NJ Anti-Abortion Group's Subpoena Fight

  By Carla Baranauckas

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Third Circuit's dismissal of an anti-abortion pregnancy center's federal lawsuit challenging a subpoena from the New Jersey attorney general demanding information about its donors.

• Vought's CFPB Finds Industry Fans In Rule Repeal Effort

  By Jon Hill

  Financial industry groups are lining up behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's push to scrap a trio of Biden-era policies that they say overexpanded its supervisory and enforcement toolkit, urging on the agency's newfound deregulatory zeal.

• Social Media Addiction MDL Judge Picks Bellwether Trial Pool

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge on Friday narrowed the pool of cases set for the first bellwether trials in sprawling multidistrict litigation by school districts and personal injury plaintiffs over claims social media is addictive, choosing six bellwether school districts in Maryland, Georgia, Kentucky, New Jersey, South Carolina and Arizona.

• 23andMe Founder's $305M Bid Buys Back Co. In Ch. 11 Sale

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  With a winning bid of $305 million, a nonprofit controlled by 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki beat out Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to purchase the bankrupt company's assets, 23andMe announced Friday.

• Google Defeats $1.3B Contract Case Over Advertising Tech

  By Theresa Schliep

  A California state jury has rejected a company's breach of contract case that accused Google of misappropriating information about its digital advertising technology to build similar products, ending the suit that had sought $1.3 billion in damages.