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  Jury Says Musk Defrauded Twitter Investors In $44B Buyout

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal jury found on Friday that Elon Musk committed securities fraud in a civil trial over claims...(read more)

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  White House Pushes Congress To Override State AI Laws

  By Courtney Bublé

  The White House directed Congress to preempt "burdensome" state laws on artificial intelligence in a legislative...(read more)

• Justices Won't Review Lab Owner's Kickback Conviction

  By Mark Payne

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to review the conviction of a former California biotech president sentenced to eight years in prison for lying about the efficacy of his company's COVID-19 and allergy testing and conducting a $70 million Medicare fraud scheme. 

• Fiat Chrysler Agrees To Pay $3.8M In OT Math Case

  By Irene Spezzamonte

  Fiat Chrysler has agreed to pay approximately $3.8 million to about 68,000 workers to settle a suit in Michigan federal court accusing it of not including shift differentials and nondiscretionary bonuses in production employees' pay.

• Berkshire Buying $1.8B Stake In Japan's Tokio Marine

  By Al Barbarino

  Berkshire Hathaway plans to acquire a roughly 2.5% stake in Tokio Marine for more than $1.8 billion as part of a new strategic partnership, in a move that could expand their access to global deals, the Japanese insurance giant announced Monday.

• Sotomayor Rips Cert Denial In Texas Journalist's Arrest Suit

  By José Luis Martínez and Spencer Brewer

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a citizen journalist's suit alleging Laredo, Texas, police violated her free speech rights by arresting her for asking for undisclosed details of a suicide and vehicle crash, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor's dissent of the denial calling the decision a "grave error."

• Justices Reject Case Alleging Google-Apple Search Pact

  By Bryan Koenig

  The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to review rulings from a California federal judge and the Ninth Circuit dismissing a lawsuit accusing Google of anticompetitively paying Apple not to produce its own search engine.

• Justices Decline To Review Scope Of Wetlands Permit Waiver

  By Gautama Mehta

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a petition from environmental groups seeking to revive a lawsuit accusing a Georgia resort of deceiving the Army Corps of Engineers to obtain a permit and illegally filling a protected wetland.

• High Court Won't Hear Calif. Border Hospital Medicaid Fight

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would not consider a case challenging California's exclusions of hospitals in neighboring states from supplemental federal payments going to providers that serve beneficiaries of Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

• Justices Won't Review Antitrust Counterclaims Against CoStar

  By Matthew Perlman

  The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review a ruling that revived antitrust counterclaims lodged against the commercial real estate platform CoStar in its case accusing a rival platform of large-scale copyright infringement.

• 5th Circ. Wipes Out FTC's TurboTax 'Deceptive' Ad Ruling

  By Lauren Berg

  The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated the Federal Trade Commission's cease-and-desist order imposed on Intuit Inc. for its TurboTax advertising that regulators say duped customers into thinking they could file their tax returns for free, saying the agency's in-house decision is unconstitutional, and the dispute must go to federal court.

• Chance The Rapper Beats Ex-Manager's Pay Claim

  By Lauraann Wood

  Illinois jurors sided with Chance the Rapper on Friday over his ex-manager's claim that the rapper improperly abandoned a handshake deal to pay the manager certain commissions during and for three years after their relationship, awarding the rapper $35 and recommending the return of a website he had long used to promote and market his music. 

• Supermicro Co-Founder Exported AI Tech To China, Feds Say

  By Lauren Berg

  A founder of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others associated with the information technology company were charged Thursday with conspiring to divert $2.5 billion worth of servers that use Nvidia's artificial intelligence technology to China, in violation of U.S. export controls, New York federal prosecutors said.

• Social Media Jury Signals Potential Trouble For Meta, Google

  By Craig Clough

  After six full days deliberating in a California bellwether trial over allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC harm children's mental health through their social media platforms, the jury submitted a question to the judge potentially indicating it may be leaning in favor of finding one or both defendants liable.