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  2nd Circ. Spurns DOT Bid To Re-Freeze Hudson Tunnel Funds

  By Linda Chiem

  The Second Circuit on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to again freeze federal payments to New ...(read more)

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  $600M IP Award, Quinn Emanuel Contempt Faulted On Appeal

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Wednesday vacated a verdict against the maker of Norton antivirus software for infringing...(read more)

• BREAKING: Split 4th Circ. Likens CACI To Pirates, Affirms $42M Verdict

  By Jared Foretek

  A $42 million judgment against defense contractor CACI for conspiring with the U.S. military to torture Abu Ghraib prison detainees was upheld by a split Fourth Circuit panel Thursday, with the majority holding that the military prison was effectively within U.S. territorial jurisdiction during the war in Iraq.

• Apple Wins Partial Strike-Out Of £853M Battery Class Action

  By William Janes

  Apple Inc. scored a partial victory on Thursday in an £853 million ($1.1 billion) collective action over allegations that it throttled the performance of iPhone batteries as the U.K. competition court threw out part of the case.

• CFTC Proposes Prediction Markets Rule

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation, calling for public feedback on proposed rulemaking while laying out the staff's view on the current rules that the platforms should follow in order to offer betting on sports and other events.

• Bayer AG's Monsanto Pays $1M For Misclassified PCB Docs

  By Rachel Riley

  Bayer AG-owned Monsanto shelled out $1 million in sanctions on Tuesday based on a Washington state court's findings that the agro-chemical giant improperly marked thousands of documents as privileged when battling PCB poisoning claims tied to an Evergreen State school in a series of cases that have since been settled.

• Judge Eyes Halkbank's No-Fine Deal To Nix Sanctions Case

  By Stewart Bishop

  A Manhattan federal judge Wednesday let prosecutors and Turkey's Halkbank move forward with a no-fine deal that will likely resolve criminal charges alleging the state-backed lender conspired to launder billions of dollars in sanctioned Iranian oil proceeds.

• Wisconsin Bell, Feds Settle 17-Year-Old FCA Suit For $55M

  By Nadia Dreid

  Wisconsin Bell will pay $55 million to end long-running False Claims Act whistleblower claims accusing the company of overcharging public schools and libraries for internet services paid for by the government under the federal E-rate program, bringing almost 18 years of litigation to an end.

• Meta, Google Rest In Bellwether Social Media Harm Trial

  By Craig Clough

  Meta Platforms and Google rested their defense Wednesday in a landmark California bellwether trial accusing their social media platforms of harming children, with the cases-in-chief ending in a somewhat anticlimactic manner as jurors were shown videotaped depositions after weeks of dramatic live testimony and attorney theatrics.

• Gov't Workers' Unions Press Judge To Nix 'Loyalty Question'

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  Federal workers' unions told a Massachusetts federal judge Wednesday that President Donald Trump's administration is trying to fill the government workforce with loyalists, urging him to forbid the administration to ask prospective hires how they'd advance the president's priorities.

• Black To Be Deposed In Suit Alleging BofA Enabled Epstein

  By Pete Brush

  U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff said Wednesday that billionaire Leon Black must sit for questioning from both Bank of America and a plaintiff who says the bank facilitated Jeffrey Epstein's sex crimes, but put off the deposition for 10 days.

• Bayer Sees 'Light At The End Of The Tunnel' In Roundup Suits

  By Chris Villani

  After more than a decade and tens of thousands of cases, a recent settlement announcement and a high-stakes high court hearing may finally give the makers of the weedkiller Roundup an off-ramp in seemingly never-ending litigation.

• Fed's Bowman Eyes 'Fine-Tuning' Of Bank Merger Reviews

  By Jon Hill

  Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman said Wednesday that federal regulators are taking a look at the competition metrics used to evaluate bank mergers, signaling potential changes to the thresholds that guide when deals raise antitrust concerns.

• Trump Cybercrime Order Creates New Compliance To-Do List

  By Phillip Bantz

  President Donald Trump's recent executive order calling for a coalition of government agencies to combat cybercrime is far more forceful than efforts under prior administrations, according to white collar lawyers, who tentatively applaud the proposal while warning it could raise new compliance risks.