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  Repeat Fraudster Guilty Of Scamming Ex-NBA Players

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal jury on Friday convicted a Georgia businessman and recidivist fraudster of conning former NB...(read more)

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  Justices Take Up Straight Worker's Demotion Bias Suit

  By Ryan Harroff

  The U.S. Supreme Court said Friday it will review a discrimination lawsuit by a former Ohio Department of Youth ...(read more)

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• Mondelez, BCLP Ink $750K Deal To End Data Breach Suits

  By Lauren Berg

  Mondelez Global LLC workers on Friday asked an Illinois federal judge to greenlight a $750,000 settlement that would resolve proposed data privacy class actions against their employer and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP stemming from a 2023 data breach.

• Milbank LLP Lands Departing SEC Enforcement Chief Grewal

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Departing U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission enforcement director Gurbir Grewal will land at Milbank LLP in New York after he leaves the agency later this month, joining the law firm's litigation and arbitration group, according to a person familiar with the matter.

• Jury Finds Cognizant Biased Against Non-Indian Workers

  By Craig Clough

  A California federal jury found Friday that Cognizant Technologies engaged in a "pattern or practice" of intentional discrimination against a class of non-South Asian and non-Indian employees who were terminated, setting the stage for a second phase that will determine damages against the IT giant.

• Stellantis' Fiat Chrysler Sues UAW Over Strike Threats

  By Linda Chiem

  Fiat Chrysler has sued the United Auto Workers in California federal court alleging the union has violated the current collective bargaining agreement by threatening to strike over what the union perceives as the company's delays in investing in and reopening certain manufacturing facilities.

• High Court Agrees To Hear Hamas Banking Case

  By Sarah Jarvis

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to take up a Lebanese bank's bid to end a suit brought by victims of Hamas terrorist attacks, which the bank argued is settled because the victims waited too long to move to vacate a lower court's judgment in the bank's favor.

• Fed. Circ. Topples Verdict In Tire Design IP Litigation

  By Andrew Karpan

  The Federal Circuit on Friday determined that a federal court in Chicago had it wrong about what kind of conduct in litigation is granted "absolute litigation privilege," upending a multimillion-dollar jury verdict on liability over language in settlement agreements in a dispute over tire designs.

• Election Litigation Looms Over New Supreme Court Term

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court justices return to the bench Monday for a new term, even as the dust continues to settle from the seismic shifts in administrative law and foundational changes to presidential immunity that headlined their last sitting. But experts say any hope that this term may be calmer is wishful thinking, in large part due to all-but-certain litigation over the presidential election.

• Trump Media SPAC Dropped From $20M Insider-Trading Suit

  By David Minsky

  A Florida federal judge dismissed a special purpose acquisition company from a shareholder complaint alleging a board member and investor made nearly $20 million from insider trading following news of a merger with Donald Trump's social media website, saying the SPAC isn't a necessary party to the lawsuit.

• Couple Harassed By EBay May Not Get Maximum Damages

  By Julie Manganis

  A federal judge said Friday she will have to decide count by count whether she can allow a Massachusetts couple suing eBay over a harassment campaign against them to seek punitive damages under California law while pursuing compensatory damages for the same claims under the laws of the pair's home state.

• High Court Nuclear Case Could Be Admin Law Blockbuster

  By Keith Goldberg

  By agreeing to consider the federal government's authority to license temporary nuclear waste storage facilities, the U.S. Supreme Court can ease the uncertainty facing a resurgent U.S. nuclear industry as well as clarify limits it's recently placed on federal agency power, experts say.

• MLB's Storied History Runs Through The Bankruptcy Court

  By Vince Sullivan

  With the value of professional sports teams skyrocketing over the last decade, it's hard to imagine a Major League Baseball club having to file for bankruptcy. But it's happened at least five times since 1970 for a variety of reasons, and the teams that have taken advantage of the bankruptcy courts have charted much different paths post-insolvency.

• Tempur Sealy, Mattress Firm Sue To Block FTC Merger Case

  By Matthew Perlman

  Tempur Sealy International Inc. and Mattress Firm Group Inc. told a Texas federal court on Friday that the Federal Trade Commission's in-house process violates the Constitution, so the agency's case challenging their planned $4 billion merger should be blocked.