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  NY Judge Allows Funding For $16B Tunnel To Continue

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from halting funding for a tunnel connectin...(read more)

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  Ex-MLB Star Puig Convicted Of Lying About Gambling Ring

  By Craig Clough

  A California federal jury on Friday found former Los Angeles Dodgers star Yasiel Puig guilty of obstruction of j...(read more)

• Amazon Inks Multibillion STMicro Deal Amid Massive AI Push

  By Al Barbarino

  Amazon Web Services is committing to buy several billion dollars' worth of STMicroelectronics chips and related services over the life of a new multiyear agreement, the chipmaker announced Monday. 

• Blockchain Co. Archblock Files Ch. 11 With Debt Over $100M

  By Ben Zigterman

  Blockchain financial technology company Archblock LLC filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy relief in Delaware, listing more than $100 million in liabilities and less than $10 million in assets.

• Weil Helps Advent, FedEx Buy Poland's InPost For €7.8B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  A consortium that includes U.S. private equity firm Advent International LP and FedEx Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to buy InPost for €7.8 billion ($9.2 billion) to back the growth in Europe of the Polish parcel locker company.

• 5th Circ. Backs Trump Admin On Immigrants' Bond Ineligibility

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A split Fifth Circuit on Friday blessed the Trump administration's policy calling for immigrants who entered the U.S. without authorization to remain in detention without a bond hearing, saying the administration is acting within its "full enforcement authority."

• OpenAI Can Keep Atty Comms Secret After All, Judge Says

  By Hailey Konnath

  A New York federal judge Friday set aside a magistrate judge's order requiring OpenAI's in-house attorneys to share their internal communications regarding deleted training datasets with authors suing over alleged copyright infringement, holding that the conclusions underlying that decision were "clearly erroneous or contrary to law."

• HHS Refers Hims & Hers To DOJ Amid Compound Drug Fight

  By Lauren Berg

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services general counsel Mike Stuart announced Friday that his office referred Hims & Hers Health Inc. to the U.S. Department of Justice for investigation, a day after Novo Nordisk A/S threatened litigation over what it called the telehealth company's "knockoff" version of its popular weight loss drug Wegovy.

• Google, Meta Get A Jury In 1st Social Media Mental Health Trial

  By Craig Clough

  A jury was seated Friday in the first California bellwether trial over claims that Google's YouTube and Meta's Facebook and Instagram platforms harm young users' mental health, with the trial to begin Monday in Los Angeles and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg expected to be one of the first witnesses.

• 'I Can't Get Out, Please Help Me': Tesla Sued Over Fatal Crash

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Tesla has been hit with another wrongful death lawsuit over its electric doors, after a 20-year-old was recorded on a 911 call begging for help and telling dispatchers "I am going to die" as he burned alive trapped in a 2021 Model Y that had hit a tree.

• 'Very Bizarre': Trump's Funding Freeze Appeal Vexes DC Circ.

  By Jeff Overley

  D.C. Circuit judges struggled Friday with whether to unblock a federal funding freeze carrying multitrillion-dollar implications, as a Trump administration lawyer disclaimed interest in a vast spending halt but also dodged opportunities to rule it out unequivocally.

• Skating, Twirling And Juggling IP Risk At The Winter Olympics

  By Theresa Schliep

  Snowboarders, figure skaters, curlers and other competitive athletes have been training for years to be ready for the unexpected at the Winter Olympics, but intellectual property issues arising from taking part in the global sporting event are probably not high on their priority list.

• Kroger And Albertsons Win Dismissal In Antitrust Labor Case

  By Zach Dupont

  A Colorado federal judge on Friday dismissed a grocery store employee's proposed class action against Kroger and Albertsons alleging the pair violated antitrust law through a no-poach agreement to not hire competitor employees during a strike.

• Arizona Abortion Restrictions Found Unconstitutional

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  An Arizona state court permanently struck down a slew of restrictions on abortion care in the state, including an ultrasound mandate and a ban on the mailing of abortion pills, finding the restrictions violate the right to abortion enshrined in the state's constitution.