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  Paramount Revises WBD Offer As Netflix Bid War Goes On

  By Al Barbarino

  Paramount Skydance said Tuesday it has submitted a revised proposal to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery following...(read more)

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  Supreme Court Sends Baby Food Case Back To Texas

  By Emily Field

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday found that a suit against Hain Celestial Group and Whole Foods over allegedly ...(read more)

• Patterson Belknap Adds Ex-SDNY Prosecutor Maurene Comey

  By Alison Knezevich

  Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, who handled some of the nation's highest-profile cases before she was fired by the Trump administration, has joined Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, the firm announced Wednesday.

• BREAKING: Justices Set New Limits On Recess Testimony Talks

  By Cara Salvatore

  A unanimous Supreme Court set limits Wednesday on the right to counsel during overnight breaks in a defendant's testimony under the Sixth Amendment, ruling that prohibiting talk about "testimony for its own sake" strikes an appropriate constitutional balance.

• Google Wins Second Shot To Trim £14B Ad Tech Class Action

  By William Janes

  Google won a second shot on Wednesday at trimming a £13.6 billion ($18.4 billion) U.K. class action on behalf of website and application publishers who alleged that the U.S. tech giant abused its dominance in the advertising market.

• BREAKING: High Court Says GEO Group Can't Appeal Immunity Ruling

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that GEO Group Inc. cannot immediately appeal a district court decision that found it does not derive sovereign immunity from the federal government in a forced labor class action brought by immigrant detainees.

• Trump Declares 'War On Fraud,' Led By VP Vance

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump declared at his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that Vice President JD Vance will lead the "war on fraud."

• DC Circ. Weighs Power To Keep CFPB Job Cuts On Hold

  By Jon Hill

  D.C. Circuit judges wrestled Tuesday with the Trump administration's push to lift an injunction blocking mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, signaling doubts about the government's position that the lower court order was wholly ill-founded and overbroad.

• 9th Circ. Grants Atty Fee Appeal In Eye Drop Pricing Suit

  By Rae Ann Varona

  District courts cannot reduce fee awards to attorneys based on a firm's size, the Ninth Circuit ruled in a published opinion Tuesday, sending a case back to a California federal court to recalculate attorney fees awarded to a "small" firm that represented wholesalers in a Robinson-Patman Act suit against eye drop manufacturers.

• PR Firms Must Face Trimmed World Cup Forced Labor Fight

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A New York federal judge Tuesday trimmed Filipino construction workers' lawsuit accusing U.S. public relations firms of knowingly covering up abusive working conditions during the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, tossing state and federal claims stemming from human trafficking but allowing other federal claims premised in forced labor to proceed.

• YouTube-Watching Plaintiff Saw 17K Ads In 1 Year, Jury Hears

  By Craig Clough

  A YouTube executive testifying in a California bellwether trial over allegations the platform and Instagram harm children confirmed Tuesday that the company's data found the plaintiff viewed over 17,000 advertisements in one year, with her lawyer suggesting the number reflects that she spent an extraordinary amount of time on the platform.

• OpenAI Beats XAI's 'Conclusory' Trade Secrets Suit, For Now

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge dismissed a suit Tuesday from Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI Corp. that accuses OpenAI Inc. of poaching its workers to steal trade secrets, saying "notably absent" from the current suit's "conclusory" claims are allegations showing misconduct by OpenAI and that she would allow xAI to submit a bolstered complaint.

• PowerSchool, Chicago Schools Reach $17M Student Data Deal

  By Hailey Konnath

  PowerSchool and the Chicago Board of Education have reached a $17.25 million settlement resolving a proposed class action accusing them of violating students' privacy by surreptitiously monitoring their communications, according to a motion filed in Illinois federal court.

• 10th, 5th Circ. Stalwarts Step Back From Bench

  By Jared Foretek

  U.S. Circuit Judge Timothy Tymkovich has announced that he'll take senior status from his seat on the Tenth Circuit, just a day after U.S. Circuit Judge James L. Dennis said he'd step down from the Fifth Circuit.