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  Red States Challenge DOT's Tighter Fuel Economy Standards

  By Morgan Conley

  A group of Republican-led states say in a new lawsuit that the U.S. Department of Transportation stepped outside...(read more)

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  Jury Hands Endo Win In Opana Pay-For-Delay Case

  By Lauraann Wood

  An Illinois jury sided with Endo Pharmaceuticals on Friday over allegations that it struck an unlawful settlemen...(read more)

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• Insurance Coverage Questions Abound After Dobbs Decision

  By Daniel Tay

  Abortion's status as a medical procedure in some states and a crime in others will pose a challenge to insurers and policyholders as policies often exclude coverage for criminal acts, meaning significant policy language changes may be needed in the wake of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.

• Justices Empower Biden To Undo AGs' Immigration Wins

  By Alyssa Aquino

  The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling allowing the Biden administration to unwind the so-called Remain in Mexico program offers the White House a path to ditch other court orders tying up its immigration agenda, such as plans to lift pandemic restrictions.

• SEC Can't Play Judge And Jury Of Its Cases, Justices Told

  By Sarah Jarvis

  A Texas accountant who asserts that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's administrative law judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal has told the U.S. Supreme Court that federal district courts are the proper forum for the type of enforcement action she faces.

• 7th Circ. Won't Stop Obama Presidential Center Construction

  By Clark Mindock

  Work on former President Barack Obama's presidential center in Chicago can continue after the Seventh Circuit said Friday the federal government had no duty to consider the environmental impacts for other potential locations, as it doesn't have that power.

• The Sharpest Dissents From The Supreme Court Term

  By Cara Bayles

  Most of this term's U.S. Supreme Court dissents came from its left-leaning justices, who accused the conservative majority of voting politically, flouting decades of precedent and harming the legitimacy of the court itself.

• Judge Says Stock Loan Antitrust Class Should Be Certified

  By Katryna Perera

  A federal magistrate judge has called for the partial certification of a proposed class of investors who accused major banks including JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs of colluding to kill competition in the stock loan market, saying that the class meets all the necessary requirements, but the class period should not be expanded.

• Ky. Trial Judge Vacancy Tees Up Likely Biden-McConnell Deal

  By Khorri Atkinson

  A Kentucky district judge's plan to take senior status has teed up what could be a bitter showdown over President Joe Biden's potential lifetime appointment of an anti-abortion, conservative Squire Patton Boggs attorney, who is reportedly being backed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

• FDA Flexes Muscle On Juul and Nicotine, But At What Cost?

  By Emily Field

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's moves at the end of June to limit nicotine in cigarettes and order Juul's e-cigarettes off the market won immediate applause from public health advocates, but some experts say the strategy may backfire by creating black markets.

• Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

  By Leslie A. Pappas

  A rising star who once shined in the First State's court of equity was nominated for a spot on the Third Circuit last week, as her former colleagues in Delaware Chancery Court pounded the gavel on a local abortion-related law and dismissed suits involving El Pollo Loco and the Pittsburgh Penguins.

• BlockFi Nabs $400M Credit Line Amid Crypto Turmoil

  By Elise Hansen

  Cryptocurrency platform BlockFi said Friday it's reached a deal for a $400 million revolving credit facility and a potential acquisition by cryptocurrency exchange FTX US, as the digital-asset industry continues to feel the effects of the market downturn.

• Ohio Supreme Court Declines To Block 6-Week Abortion Ban

  By Eric Heisig

  Ohio's high court on Friday declined to immediately stop the state from enforcing a Republican-passed law essentially banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, rebuffing an initial attempt from clinics to try their arguments in state court following last week's major U.S. Supreme Court ruling.

• Ex-Coach Gets 30 Months In Longest 'Varsity Blues' Term

  By Chris Villani

  Former Georgetown University tennis coach Gordon Ernst received the longest sentence in the "Varsity Blues" college admissions case Friday, as a federal judge handed down a two-and-a-half-year term for the "egregious" conduct of reeling in at least $3.5 million in bribes.