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  • July 07, 2026

    Consultant Says FARA Verdict Should Be Erased

    A political consultant convicted of knowingly failing to register as a foreign agent as she helped draft a $50 million contract involving a former congressman and Venezuela's state-owned oil enterprise continues to argue she should be acquitted or given a new trial, saying the verdict was "against the great weight of the evidence."

  • July 07, 2026

    Judge Recommends Netting Sugar Arb. Awards To $3.9M

    A Florida federal magistrate judge recommended rolling an arbitration award and a related counterclaim award over broken sugar contracts into a single judgment, which would set the net amount awarded to an Illinois sugar company at $3.86 million.

  • July 06, 2026

    Trump Can Keep NYT, Penguin Defamation Suit In Florida

    A Florida federal judge on Monday denied a bid by The New York Times, three reporters and Penguin Random House LLC to transfer President Donald Trump's amended defamation suit to New York, finding that the complaint was filed in the proper court. 

  • July 06, 2026

    Taylor Swift Sends Poet's $25M IP Suit To The Dismissed Dept.

    A Florida federal judge dismissed Monday a poet's $25 million copyright infringement lawsuit against Taylor Swift, ruling that the purportedly infringed poetry doesn't qualify as protected expression because it consists of generic ideas and metaphors, and that the plaintiff failed to plausibly plead the pop superstar copied her. 

  • July 06, 2026

    11th Circ. Backs Feds' Use Of Accreditors In Education Funds

    The U.S. Department of Education can rely on private educational accreditors when allocating federal education dollars, the Eleventh Circuit ruled on Monday, rejecting the state of Florida's assertion that the process unconstitutionally gives these accreditors governmental power to determine funding eligibility.

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