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  CFTC Takes 1st Steps Toward Prediction Market Regulations

  By Jessica Corso

  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission opened the door Thursday to promised prediction market regulation,...(read more)

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  Feds Sue To Stop California's 'Illegal' EV Regulations

  By Linda Chiem

  The Trump administration sued California on Thursday alleging the Golden State over a decade ago adopted "illega...(read more)

• Ex-Dealer's Retaliation Suit Against Harrah's NC Revived

  By Gina Kim

  The Fourth Circuit on Thursday revived employment retaliation claims against Harrah's and Caesars Entertainment by a former table games dealer, finding the lower court abused its discretion by making "speculative assertions" about the need to add as a defendant a related tribal gaming enterprise.

• DC Circ. Spends Hours Debating 'Same' Generic Label Reqs

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. Circuit spent more than three hours Thursday going round with Vanda Pharmaceuticals and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about whether the label for a generic sleep-wake disorder medication is "the same" as the branded one because it doesn't include Braille.

• Tom's Toothpaste Trims Class Action Over Lead Levels

  By Jonathan Capriel

  Tom's of Maine can't beat back proposed class claims it allowed heavy metals to taint its children's toothpaste, a New York federal judge ruled Wednesday, finding that the parent behind the suit adequately claimed the company falsely marketed the products as "safe" and "healthy."

• IP Notebook: TM Use At High Court, Popeye, Kurt Cobain

  By Ivan Moreno

  This edition of emerging copyright and trademark cases and trends looks at an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court that questions the definition of trademark "use in commerce" under the Lanham Act, and a battle over the use of "Popeye" as a trademark.

• Meta To Face Sanctions Bid Over Addiction MDL Privilege Log

  By Dorothy Atkins

  School district plaintiffs and attorneys general have told a California federal judge they plan to seek sanctions against Meta Platforms Inc. in the social media addiction multidistrict litigation for the tech giant's "extremely belated production" of over 73,841 documents downgraded off privilege logs, months after fact discovery closed.

• UBS Whistleblower Suit Ends In Settlement After Retrial Order

  By Sarah Jarvis

  A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a fired UBS worker's whistleblower retaliation lawsuit after the parties reached a settlement in principle earlier this week, ending a long-running case that was revived by the U.S. Supreme Court and saw the judge order a retrial last month.

• Tariff Refund System Taking Shape, US Customs Tells CIT

  By Kevin Pinner

  U.S. Customs and Border Protection is making progress developing a system for importers to claim refunds for the global tariff regime struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, an official told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Thursday.

• Full 9th Circ. Deeply Divided On Rehearing TPS Vacatur

  By Britain Eakin

  The full Ninth Circuit delivered 51 pages of concurrences and dissents while declining to revisit a unanimous panel decision that found ex-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem lacked the authority to vacate a temporary protected status extension for Venezuela.

• Steep Senate Majority Passes Landmark Housing Bill

  By Grace Dixon

  The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation Thursday aimed at boosting housing supply and cutting housing costs across the country, with steep bipartisan support despite concerns over a provision that stakeholders claim could undermine the "build-to-rent" sector.

• Del. Chancery Rejects Fraud Claims In $313.5M Fertilizer Deal

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that a group of investors failed to prove that executives and a private equity sponsor behind agricultural technology company Verdesian Life Sciences LLC defrauded them into investing in a 2014 acquisition, holding after trial that the claims were both time-barred and unsupported.

• Chancery Dissolves Litigation Funder Amid Partner Deadlock

  By Ryan Boysen

  A hedge fund manager can wind down the litigation funding operation he ran with a Florida-based personal injury attorney, the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled, finding that a falling out between the two partners did not involve any wrongdoing.

• United Airlines Agrees To Pay $27.5M To End ERISA Suit

  By Patrick Hoff

  United Airlines has agreed to shell out $27.5 million to end a proposed class action alleging it locked retired employees out of a generous COVID-era retirement package, a deal that would moot retirees' pending appeal to the Seventh Circuit, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.