Italy Fines Chips Producers €23M Over Snack Cartel

By Eddie Beaver

An Italian competition authority said Tuesday that it had handed out fines totaling more than €23 million ($27 million) to three savory food producers over their agreement to divide the supply of snacks produced for large-scale retail trade.

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Peeps Maker Hits Rival With TM Suit Over Bunny Design

By Elliot Weld

The company behind the Peeps brand of animal-shaped marshmallows has sued two companies that it said are making "virtually identical" marshmallows in the shape of Peeps' "bunny design."

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Yale University Wants Meal Plan Class Suit Chewed Up

By Brian Steele

A proposed class action alleging Yale University students are forced to buy meal plans at artificially inflated prices is aimed at common practices and fails to support its claims of wrongdoing, the school told a Connecticut judge in seeking to have each count either dismissed or struck.

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Analysis

UAE's Exit From OPEC Could Hurt Smaller US Oil Producers

By Gautama Mehta

The United Arab Emirates' forthcoming exit, announced Tuesday, from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to have limited immediate effects, but it would free the country from the cartel's oil production quotas and could eventually lower global oil prices.

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EU Parliament OKs Trade Rules With Immigration Measure

By Jack McLoone

The European Parliament approved updated qualification guidelines Tuesday for developing countries looking to take advantage of an instrument that allows them to import goods to the European Union with little to no tariffs, including a controversial immigration-related measure.

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Brief

USTR Seeks Input On Modernizing African Trade Agreement

By Jack McLoone

The U.S. government is accepting comments related to plans to modernize a trade agreement between the U.S. and African countries, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Tuesday.

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Union Urges Toss Of Tobacco Co.'s Retiree Health Fight

By Emily Brill

A North Carolina federal judge should let a tobacco workers' union keep its win in a retiree healthcare fight with the company that makes Winston and Salem cigarettes, the union argued, saying the company's challenge to a November arbitration award can't proceed because it wasn't properly filed.

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Conn. Mom Drops Wine Tasting Crash Suit After $375K Offer

By Brian Steele

The mother of a Connecticut restaurant worker who died in a drunken driving crash after an allegedly mandatory wine tasting event has dropped a lawsuit against an alcohol distributor and its employee, weeks after offering to settle for $375,000.

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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures

By Adrian Cruz

GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.

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Judge Publicly Scolds 'Disgraced' Ex-Prosecutor For AI Errors

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge has eviscerated a former federal prosecutor in a public reprimand for his use of artificial intelligence to draft a response brief that was riddled with hallucinations, calling out the prosecutor's "lack of candor" and saying he "disgraced not only himself, but also the entire office he formerly served."

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Comey Indicted Again As Feds Call Seashell Message 'Threat'

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey was again indicted Tuesday by the Trump administration, this time over a social media post last year of an image of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to form the message "86 47," which prosecutors characterized as a threat of violence against the president.

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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules

By Phillip Bantz

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case

By Gina Kim

ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict. 

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Nadine Menendez Says Feds Need To 'Look Into The Mirror'

By George Woolston

Nadine Menendez dug into her bid for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-politician husband, telling a New York federal court that prosecutors refuse to own up to their handling of the "forced withdrawal" of her counsel.

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Teleflex Settles Catheter Patent Case Against Medtronic

By Elliot Weld

Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.

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