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  DLA Piper Offered Pregnant Atty 'Dignified' Exit, Jury Told

  By Pete Brush

  A former DLA Piper associate who claims she was unlawfully fired after announcing her pregnancy was offered a ch...(read more)

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  Musk Wants Altman Out, Not To Boost 'Himself Personally'

  By Hailey Konnath

  Elon Musk said Tuesday he wants OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stripped of his title and "all equity and other personal f...(read more)

• Trump Asks NY's Top Court To Toss AG's 'Flawed' Fraud Case

  By Lauren Berg

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday asked New York's highest court to throw out New York Attorney General Letitia James' "deeply flawed" civil fraud judgment entirely after a lower appellate court tossed what it called an "excessive" $489 million penalty against the president, his sons and his real estate companies.

• Full 1st Circ. Hesitant To Undo Cop's Suspension For FB Post

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  The full First Circuit seemed unmoved Wednesday by a police officer's argument that his free speech rights were trampled when he was suspended for making a private Facebook post critical of George Floyd.

• AbbVie Says 340B Program Defines 'Patient' Too Broadly

  By Mark Payne

  Federally funded healthcare providers in the 340B Drug Pricing Program are using an "overly broad" interpretation of the word "patient" based on government guidelines, and it's leading to them abusing 340B discounts, AbbVie claimed in a lawsuit filed against two federal health agencies Wednesday.

• 'Ketamine Queen' Gets 15 Years In Matthew Perry Death Case

  By Craig Clough

  The woman known as the "Ketamine Queen" of North Hollywood was sentenced to 15 years in prison by a California federal judge Wednesday for several drug dealing-related crimes, including her role in providing the ketamine that led to the 2023 death of "Friends" star Matthew Perry.

• ABA Rates Montana Judicial Pick 'Not Qualified'

  By Courtney Bublé

  Katie Lane, senior legal counsel at the Republican National Committee who has been tapped for a federal judgeship in Montana, is the first nominee to receive a majority "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Association in the second Trump administration.

• FedEx Says NY Attys And Medical Providers Staged Crashes

  By Hope Patti

  FedEx accused a network of lawyers, medical providers and clinics of orchestrating an insurance scam in which they staged motor vehicle accidents in order to defraud the delivery giant through sham lawsuits and inflated medical bills, according to a suit filed in New York federal court.

• Appeals Court Wipes Out PacifiCorp Wildfire Liability Verdict

  By Cara Salvatore

  A verdict that made power utility PacifiCorp liable to a class of property owners around Oregon from Labor Day 2020 wildfires must be overturned because of a faulty jury instruction, a state appeals court ruled Wednesday.

• Clifford Chance Drops Australian Mining Co. Over $2.1M Bill

  By Caroline Simson

  Australian mining company Equatorial Resources Ltd. has parted ways with its former counsel at Clifford Chance LLP following a dispute over a roughly $2.1 million unpaid legal bill, as it awaits an arbitral award in its $1.9 billion claim against the Republic of Congo.

• Bondi To Skip Epstein Deposition After DOJ Cites AG Exit

  By Courtney Bublé

  Former Attorney General Pam Bondi will not sit for her scheduled deposition next week on the Epstein files now that she has left the role, and the Justice Department has asked the House Oversight Committee to withdraw its subpoena.

• Rex Heuermann Pleads Guilty To Gilgo Beach Serial Killings

  By Elizabeth Daley and Brandon Lowrey

  Rex Heuermann on Wednesday pled guilty to murdering seven women and admitted to killing an eighth, ending the Gilgo Beach serial killer case months before his trial was set to begin in New York state court and solving a mystery that haunted Long Island for over a decade.

• HHS Must Face States' Suit Over RFK's 'Dramatic Overhaul'

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Rhode Island federal judge rejected Tuesday the government's bid to toss a group of states' lawsuit challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "dramatic overhaul" of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, criticizing the government for rehashing jurisdictional arguments the court already rejected and finding the states' claims are plausible.

• John Deere Inks $99M Deal In Farmers' Right-To-Repair Suit

  By Celeste Bott

  John Deere has agreed to pay $99 million to a putative class of farmers to resolve claims that it limits competition for farm equipment repairs by preventing unaffiliated shops from acquiring the necessary tools, and will also provide injunctive relief that would allow those independent repair providers to be able to diagnose and fix John Deere-brand agricultural equipment.