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  3 Firms Guide NRG, LS Power On $12B Natural Gas Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  NRG Energy Inc. said Monday it has agreed to acquire a portfolio of natural gas-fired power plants and a virtual...(read more)

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  Texas AG Lands $1.4B Data Privacy Settlement With Google

  By Hailey Konnath and Catherine Marfin

  Google has agreed to shell out $1.375 billion to resolve a pair of suits from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ...(read more)

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• CFPB Eyes Reversal Of Biden-Era In-House Proceeding Rules

  By Jon Hill

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday moved to scrap rules from the Biden administration that gave the agency's director more control over in-house enforcement proceedings, a rollback that comes on the heels of President Donald Trump striking two other Biden-era rules on overdraft fees and digital payment supervision.

• Jury Clears Energy Co. Of Interference In Costa Rica Oil Lease

  By Thy Vo

  A Denver jury on Monday found that a South Dakota energy company did not interfere with a subsidiary's alleged promise to turn over ownership of a Costa Rican oil and gas concession, concluding a retrial after a court threw out an earlier $42 million verdict against the company.

• Fla. Pharmacy Beats Novo Nordisk Suit Over Ozempic 'Copies'

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Florida federal judge on Monday granted a compounding pharmacy a win in Novo Nordisk Inc.'s suit claiming it violated a state statute by selling "essentially copies" of Novo Nordisk's blockbuster Ozempic and Wegovy weight loss drugs, ruling that the claims are moot, preempted and nonviable.

• More Than Defaults: Google Judge Mulls AI, Search, Browsers

  By Bryan Koenig

  A D.C. federal judge has three weeks to figure out the last questions he'll ask the U.S. Department of Justice and Google before laying out search monopolization remedies that could help shape the way consumers search, browse and use artificial intelligence.

• 9th Circ. Questions Vegas Casino Room Rate Claims

  By Matthew Perlman

  A skeptical Ninth Circuit panel had questions Monday for guests accusing Las Vegas casino-hotel operators of using the same software to inflate room rates about what they need to show for their algorithmic pricing claims to survive.

• Judiciary To Face House Members With $9.4B Budget Request

  By Courtney Bublé

  Top judiciary officials will make the case this week that they need $9.4 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal 2026, a 9.3% increase over fiscal 2025, in order to rectify past funding shortfalls and meet increasing challenges with judicial threats, among other things.

• 3 Firms Steer $2.1B Pan American's Canadian Silver Co. Buy

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Silver and gold producer Pan American Silver Corp. has unveiled plans to acquire Canadian mining and exploration company Mag Silver Corp., in a $2.1 billion deal built by three law firms.

• Colo. Justices Give Green Light To Exxon, Suncor Climate Suit

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday affirmed a lower court ruling allowing the city and county of Boulder's climate change tort against Exxon Mobil Corp. and Suncor Energy Inc. to proceed, saying that the claims aren't preempted by federal law.

• Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.

• Chancery Delays $30M Deal In SPAC Suit For Review Of Class

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Citing no-longer-novel aspects of blank check company stock-drop suits, a Delaware vice chancellor on Monday trimmed a $7 million attorney fee proposal in a $29.75 million settlement to $5.5 million, but delayed approval pending clarification on post-closing stock buyer share eligibility.

• AI Training May Need Licensing, Copyright Office Says

  By Ivan Moreno

  Using copyrighted material to train generative artificial intelligence systems may not always be excused by fair use, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a highly anticipated report addressing the issue, suggesting that licensing may be required in some instances.

• Copyright Office Director Latest To Get Axed By Trump

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Trump administration has fired the director of the U.S. Copyright Office, shortly after the office issued a report raising questions about the legality of using copyrighted material to train generative artificial-intelligence models and two days after the White House ousted the leader of the Library of Congress.