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  DC Judge Blocks Subpoenas Targeting Fed's Powell

  By Jon Hill

  A Washington, D.C., federal judge has blocked a pair of subpoenas tied to the U.S. Department of Justice's crimi...(read more)

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  EPA Aims To Lift Biden-Era Ethylene Oxide Limits

  By Gautama Mehta

  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday proposed rolling back limits on emissions of ethylene oxide, ...(read more)

• CFPB Can't Rely On 'Erroneous' Funding Theory, Court Says

  By Lauren Berg

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau must continue to request needed funding from the Federal Reserve, a California federal judge ruled Friday, saying Trump administration budget chief Russell Vought "acted arbitrarily, capriciously and contrary to law" by refusing to replenish the agency's dwindling funds.

• 4th Circ. Genworth Ruling Raises Bar For ERISA Class Actions

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  A recent Fourth Circuit decision in a suit challenging Genworth Financial Inc.'s inclusion of target-date fund investments as employee retirement plan options will make it tougher to certify similar class actions and could have a ripple effect in a broader range of cases, experts told Law360.

• States Seek To Block Trump's Latest 10% Tariff Order

  By Kat Lucero

  President Donald Trump's order imposing 10% tariffs on countries worldwide is unlawful because it conflicts with the international payments authority he immediately invoked to justify it, two dozen states argued Friday while asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down or block the regime.

• Texas Justices Clear Way For State's Trans Care Probe

  By Mark Payne

  An LGBTQ+ advocacy organization must produce documents as part of an investigation from the Texas attorney general's office into transgender treatments for minors, the Texas Supreme Court ruled on Friday, saying that the state's ban on gender-affirming care for minors is the law and must be followed. 

• Baldoni Atty Avoids Sanctions For Blake Lively Comments

  By Pete Brush

  A lawyer for Justin Baldoni will not face sanctions for public comments critical of Blake Lively because they came long enough ago that they are unlikely to influence the feuding Hollywood stars' upcoming trial, a Manhattan federal judge held Friday.

• Wachtell Atty's Inside Look At $110B Paramount-WBD Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  The agreement behind Warner Bros. Discovery's $110 billion planned sale to Paramount Global set new benchmarks for transactions of its size, from record-setting regulatory break fees to unusual merger agreement provisions.

• Musk Banker Tells Jury Twitter Held Up Takeover Deal

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  An ex-Morgan Stanley banker who advised Elon Musk on his $44 billion Twitter acquisition testified Thursday in a trial seeking billions for investors claiming Musk tanked the social media company's stock to disrupt the takeover, saying Twitter was the one that obstructed the deal.

• 9th Circ. Partially Lifts Block On Calif. Kids' Privacy Law

  By Allison Grande

  The Ninth Circuit on Thursday scrapped part of an injunction halting a groundbreaking California law requiring social media platforms to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that the tech trade group behind the lawsuit wasn't likely to succeed on its First Amendment challenge to the statute's coverage definition and age estimation mandate.

• SeaWorld Broke Sesame Street License Agreement, Suit Says

  By Rae Ann Varona

  SeaWorld is flouting its obligations under a licensing agreement for the Sesame Street brand, the nonprofit behind the children's television series alleged Thursday in New York federal court, accusing the theme park giant of carrying out a "retaliation campaign" after losing an arbitration over unpaid royalties.

• Social Media 'Lions' Hunted Plaintiff Like Gazelle, Jury Told

  By Craig Clough

  The plaintiff's attorney in a bellwether trial accusing Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC of harming children's mental health encouraged a California jury during closing arguments Thursday not to buy the defendants' focus on his client's difficult childhood, saying it only weakened her to their social media "addiction machine" like a vulnerable gazelle being hunted by lions.

• Ex-Dealer's Retaliation Suit Against Harrah's NC Revived

  By Gina Kim

  The Fourth Circuit on Thursday revived employment retaliation claims against Harrah's and Caesars Entertainment by a former table games dealer, finding the lower court abused its discretion by making "speculative assertions" about the need to add as a defendant a related tribal gaming enterprise.

• DC Circ. Spends Hours Debating 'Same' Generic Label Reqs

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. Circuit spent more than three hours Thursday going round with Vanda Pharmaceuticals and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about whether the label for a generic sleep-wake disorder medication is "the same" as the branded one because it doesn't include Braille.