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  RFK Jr. Can't Avoid Medical Groups' Challenge To Vax Policy

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  A Boston federal judge on Tuesday rebuffed U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid ...(read more)

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  AB InBev To Buy Back 49.9% Stake In Metals Plants For $3B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  The world's largest brewer, AB InBev, said on Tuesday that it will repurchase a minority stake in its U.S. beer-...(read more)

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• Ciminelli Walks As 10-Year Buffalo Billion Fraud Case Ends

  By Stewart Bishop

  The long and contentious corruption case against New York developer Louis Ciminelli and others that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling on fraud came to a close Tuesday, after he pled guilty and was sentenced to no time in prison.

• Bayer Targets Pfizer, Moderna, J&J For Covid Jab Royalties

  By Lauren Berg

  Bayer wants a cut of the profits Johnson & Johnson, Moderna, Pfizer and BioNTech have reaped from sales of their COVID-19 vaccines, which the German biotech company alleges were only made possible through infringement of its intellectual property, according to lawsuits filed Tuesday in New Jersey and Delaware federal courts.

• Halligan Ordered To Explain Why She's Still Listed As US Atty

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Virginia federal judge Tuesday ordered Lindsey Halligan to explain why she was still identifying herself as a U.S. attorney despite another judge's order finding that the former insurance lawyer hadn't been properly appointed and was serving illegally on an interim basis.

• Judiciary Advisers Predict Clashes Over AI, Remote Testimony

  By Jeff Overley

  The federal judiciary's policy advisers appeared divided Tuesday over efforts to align procedural rules with digital age technology and preferences, and they predicted a torrent of impassioned input if they open up their delicate internal debates to the entire public.

• Uber Can't Show Bellwether Jury That Driver Wasn't Charged

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Ahead of next week's first-ever bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation accusing Uber Technologies Inc. of failing to prevent drivers from sexually assaulting passengers, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday that Uber can't introduce evidence that the alleged assailant wasn't criminally charged.

• Section 230 Knocks Down Addiction MDL, Meta Tells 9th Circ.

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Meta Platforms Inc. urged a Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday to find that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act shields it from sprawling social-media-addiction multidistrict litigation, arguing that the claims go to "the heart of what the statute intends to protect."

• US Removal Of Maduro Won't Curb Energy Cos.' Caution

  By Keith Goldberg

  U.S. oil and gas companies will need significant legal and regulatory assurances that any new investment in Venezuela will be shielded from political instability before heeding President Donald Trump's call to fortify the country's floundering oil and gas industry.

• 'Get Over' Yourself, Ho Says To Judges' Independence Worry

  By Lauren Berg

  U.S. Circuit Judge James C. Ho snapped back at colleagues on the bench who have raised the alarm over threats to judicial independence, writing in an article that those complaining judges "need to get over themselves" and stop bowing to the "cultural elites" who oppose the Trump administration.

• 1st Circ. Questions Feds' Mootness Claim In NIH Grant Suits

  By Julie Manganis

  The First Circuit appeared to push back Tuesday on assertions by the government that new guidance for terminating medical research grants over supposed links to issues like DEI, gender identity and vaccines — along with a partial settlement last week — moot a pair of lawsuits challenging the directives.

• Fed. Circ. Asks If Wrong Autel Was Sued In Nixed $6.6M IP Row

  By Theresa Schliep

  A Federal Circuit panel grappled Tuesday with a Texas federal judge's disposing of a $6.6 million infringement verdict against Autel over Orange Electronic Co.'s tire pressure monitoring patent, with one judge questioning Orange's choice of defendant in the case.

• Wyo. High Court Strikes Down 2 Laws Restricting Abortion

  By Mark Payne

  The Wyoming Supreme Court struck down the state's near-total abortion ban and a first-of-its-kind prohibition on abortion pills on Tuesday, saying the laws violated the state constitution.

• 9th Circ. Says Christian Ministry Can Reject Gay Applicants

  By Anne Cullen

  The Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday that a Christian ministry is constitutionally clear to refuse employment to people based on their sexual orientation, explaining that the First Amendment allows religious ministries to prefer candidates who share their beliefs about marriage and sexuality.