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  Live Nation CEO Says He Can't Recall 'Market Power' Remark

  By Pete Brush

  Live Nation's longtime CEO sparred Thursday with states that say the $36 billion entertainment giant engages in ...(read more)

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  States Sue To Block $6.2B Tegna Acquisition Despite Feds' OK

  By Matthew Perlman

  A coalition of state enforcers on Thursday sued to block Nexstar Media Group Inc.'s planned $6.2 billion purchas...(read more)

• Ericsson Paid Terrorists At Americans' Expense, Families Say

  By Lauren Berg

  Families of U.S. civilians and service members killed or wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan allege in a lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court that telecommunications giant Ericsson made protection payments to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group, helping to fund the terrorist groups' efforts to kill and kidnap Americans.

• 4th Circ. Leery Of W.Va. Opioid Towns' Abatement Arguments

  By Abigail Harrison

  During a heated hourlong oral argument Thursday, two Fourth Circuit judges interrogated an attorney for West Virginia municipalities stricken by the opioid crisis about whether the public nuisance of overly available drugs had already been abated, leaving only redress of resulting harms.

• HHS Can't Block Trans Care Under Kennedy Edict, Court Says

  By Ben Adlin

  A coalition of 21 states and the District of Columbia prevailed on Thursday in their challenge to a Trump administration move to cut access to gender-affirming care for minors when an Oregon federal judge agreed to void a policy statement from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

• FTC Head Touts Consumer Protection's 'Relative Simplicity'

  By Bryan Koenig

  Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson on Thursday promised to keep increasing the agency's focus on consumer protection, asserting in Washington, D.C., remarks that while antitrust enforcement remains a priority, consumer protection cases can come with faster and more meaningful relief for Americans.

• States Join Push To Revive EPA Climate Danger Finding

  By Julie Manganis

  A coalition of state and local governments on Thursday became the latest group to ask that the D.C. Circuit overrule the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rescission last month of its long-held position on the danger greenhouse gases pose to public health.

• MLB Deals With Polymarket, CFTC For Sports Market 'Integrity'

  By Aislinn Keely

  Major League Baseball said Thursday that it has struck an exclusive licensing deal with Polymarket to bolster the brand and promote the "integrity" of the baseball-focused prediction markets on the platform, and separately reached a first-of-its-kind information-sharing agreement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

• Judge Digs Into Counsel Over 'Astronomically High' Fee Bid

  By Nadia Dreid

  Attorneys who represented classes of people who say they received harassing phone calls from real estate agents in violation of federal telemarketing laws are asking for way too much of the $20 million settlement, according to the California federal judge who tore into them Wednesday.

• Anatomy Of A Citation Hallucination: AI Edit, Associate Review

  By Rachel Riley

  Counsel for consumers in a supplement labeling lawsuit against Amazon responded Wednesday to a Seattle federal judge's order to explain an AI-hallucinated citation, saying the error was introduced by a generative artificial intelligence tool used to "harmonize" drafts of a brief, then missed by a fifth-year Boies Schiller associate tasked with checking the citations.

• Judge Quashes Subpoena Of 5 Firms That Repped Twitter

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A Delaware federal court ruled Thursday that six former Twitter employees cannot subpoena five law firms that represented the social media company in connection with its acquisition by Elon Musk, rejecting the employees' "conclusory allegations" that the company and Musk used the firms to make false promises of severance benefits.

• Apple Watch Redesign Gets Early OK As Patent Loss Upheld

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Thursday affirmed a U.S. International Trade Commission decision that found a previous version of the Apple Watch infringes two Masimo blood oxygen monitor patents, but the ruling came one day after an ITC judge said Apple's redesigned version does not infringe those patents.

• Justice Kagan Denies Apache Bid To Block Ariz. Land Transfer

  By Crystal Owens

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday declined to block a federal government land transfer in Arizona after four Apache women looked to stop the exchange on behalf of their daughters, arguing that the area contains a site used for a coming of age ceremony that will be destroyed.

• Still No Shenanigans: Fed. Circ. Keeps Review Bar High

  By Dani Kass

  The Federal Circuit's rejection of all mandamus petitions asking it to rein in the way U.S. Patent and Trademark Office leadership is ​evaluating patent challenges cements the appeals court's near-impossible standard for reviewing institution decisions, attorneys say.