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• March 26, 2026

  Venezuelan Leader Says Ex-Fla. Rep Couldn't Get US Meetings

  A Venezuelan political opposition leader told jurors Thursday that he connected with former Florida congressman David Rivera to try to secure meetings with high-level U.S. officials in the first Trump administration, but Rivera — who is on trial for allegedly failing to register as a foreign agent — failed to deliver.

• March 26, 2026

  'I Don't Know': 9th Circ. Presses Verrilli On Boeing Venue Issue

  A Ninth Circuit judge rehearing an appeal involving a $72 million trade secret verdict against Boeing on Thursday pressed the company's counsel Donald B. Verrilli Jr. of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP to explain why the aerospace giant never previously argued the case belongs in the Federal Circuit, and Verrilli conceded he didn't know the reason.

• March 26, 2026

  Ga. Utility Board Sued Over $15B Power Capacity Deal

  A group of environmental and faith-based organizations have sued Georgia's elected utility regulators challenging a more than $15 billion deal with Georgia Power approved last year to increase the capacity of the state's largest electricity provider by nearly 50%.

• March 26, 2026

  Texas Jury Awards $1.1B To Child Abused By Oil Scion

  A Texas jury on Thursday slapped a descendant of an original Humble Oil investor with a $1.1 billion verdict — thought to be one of the largest individual-child abuse verdicts in U.S. history — in a suit over abuse of his 2-year-old stepson that caused severe brain injuries.

• March 26, 2026

  Economists Applaud Colombia's Exit From Investor Treaties

  American think tank the Center for Economic and Policy Research on Thursday congratulated President Gustavo Petro of Colombia for his decision to break ties with the investor-state dispute settlement system that lets corporations sue governments over lost future profits.

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