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  Gorsuch Exits Utah NEPA Suit Amid Flak Over Billionaire Ties

  By Thy Vo

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch recused himself from a case involving a controversial railway project We...(read more)

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  Trump Changes Course On Pick For WH Counsel

  By Alison Knezevich

  President-elect Donald Trump announced on Wednesday he was naming a Dhillon Law Group Inc. partner who has repre...(read more)

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• Senate Confirms New Mexico Prosecutor To Federal Bench

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate voted 52-45 on Thursday to confirm Sarah Davenport, an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of New Mexico, as district judge.

• DEI Provision Dooms Boeing's 737 Max Plea Deal

  By Linda Chiem

  A Texas federal judge on Thursday rejected Boeing's plea agreement in its 737 Max criminal conspiracy case, finding flaws in how the U.S. Department of Justice intended to use race and diversity to select an independent compliance monitor to oversee Boeing, and cutting off the court's role in the process.

• French Antitrust Regulator Fines Airlines €14.6M For Collusion

  By William Janes

  France's competition authority has hit two airlines with fines totaling €14.6 million ($15.3 million) after it concluded that they had colluded to inflate ticket prices while reducing services for "captive customers" on French Caribbean islands.

• 'Twice The Pace': 2024 Was A Busy Year For Law Firms

  By Aebra Coe

  Even as mergers and acquisitions activity has remained relatively "soft," large and midsize law firms have experienced a substantial increase in demand over the last year at twice the historic average rate of increase, according to the co-author of a Thursday report on U.S. law firm financial results.

• Trump Taps Ex-Sen. Loeffler For SBA, Fiserv CEO For SSA

  By Hailey Konnath

  President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican from Georgia, to lead the Small Business Administration and Fiserv Inc. CEO Frank Bisignano to serve as Social Security Administration commissioner, according to announcements made Wednesday.

• Meta Genocide Defense Spurs 'Yeah Right' From 9th Circ.

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Ninth Circuit judges doubted Wednesday whether women fleeing genocide of the Rohingya people in Myanmar could have realistically investigated Facebook's role in spreading disinformation and called a lawyer, with one judge calling the defense argument "silly" and another judge responding, "yeah right."

• Rep. Hill Vows To Tackle Crypto 'De-Banking' In Next Congress

  By Aislinn Keely

  Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle plan to investigate alleged government efforts to cut off cryptocurrency businesses from the traditional banking system, Rep. French Hill, R-Ark., said Wednesday during a House Financial Services Committee hearing that also saw its retiring chair feted with a celebration of bow ties.

• Intel, VLSI Agree To Pause Del. IP Fight Ahead Of Texas Trial

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Prodded by a federal judge in Delaware, Intel Corp. and VLSI Technology LLC agreed Wednesday to stay motions to dismiss or transfer an Intel Corp. suit over claims that it already holds licenses to patents that VLSI asserts it controls, as a similar patent battle moves forward in Texas.

• Trump Picks Ex-Congressman For IRS Commissioner

  By Asha Glover

  President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he has tapped a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives to lead the Internal Revenue Service during his coming second term.

• Mich. Justices Doubt Shareholder Agreement Bars Debt

  By Danielle Ferguson

  A chorus of Michigan Supreme Court justices on Wednesday appeared skeptical that a sister could claim her brother's ski resort company breached an agreement for shareholder redemption by taking out debt that altered her share redemption price, pressing her attorney as to how the contract prevented the company from doing so.

• Senate Confirms Judges To NY's Central, Northern Districts

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate confirmed two judges on Wednesday for the Northern District of New York, one of whom is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

• Jackson's 'Quite Worried' About Equal Protection Precedent

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court's Republican-appointed justices' apparent willingness Wednesday to rule that a Tennessee law banning gender-affirming healthcare for transgender minors didn't rely on sex-based classifications worried Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who warned that such a decision would undermine decades of the court's equal protection clause precedent.