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  Gallagher's $13.5B AssuredPartners Deal Faces FTC Inquiry

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. announced Friday that federal regulators requested additional information, for a secon...(read more)

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  How A Showcase Prosecution Collapsed For New Jersey's AG

  By George Woolston

  New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin took a risk that backfired when he used over 100 pages to lay out hi...(read more)

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• As Key Hearing Looms, CFPB Emails Hint At Signs Of Life

  By Jon Hill

  Recent batches of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau internal emails hint at early, fumbling efforts to bring parts of the agency back online, but whether these flickers of life will undercut an employee union's fight to keep the agency intact remains to be seen.

• 9th Circ. Open To Reviving Monsanto Expiration Label Fight

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Friday to reviving a proposed class action over expiration dates on Monsanto's Roundup pesticides, but two judges were skeptical of claims against a distributor, which the distributor's counsel argued could open the floodgates of litigation.

• Charter Defeats Touchstream's $1B Patent Case At Texas Trial

  By Andrew Karpan

  A Texas federal jury cleared cable giant Charter Communications on Friday in a patent case over a New York startup's device that allows videos to be played on a separate, larger screen.

• AGs Say Anti-Trans Admin Puts $367M Hospital Grants At Risk

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  Attorneys general from Washington and three other states told a federal court that the Trump administration has canceled thousands of dollars in grant funding for gender-affirming care — and threatened to strip up to nearly $370 million more — in violation of court injunctions.

• Apple Prevails In Watch Tech Patent Fight At Fed. Circ.

  By Theresa Schliep

  The Federal Circuit handed Apple a significant victory Friday in a dispute that might have led to a ban on imports of its smartwatches, affirming that a competing company's heart monitor patents are invalid and vacating a conflicting U.S. International Trade Commission decision that found the watches infringed those patents.

• 1st Circ. Nixes Order Halting Foxconn Patent Arbitration

  By Caroline Simson

  The First Circuit on Thursday nixed an order barring a subsidiary of Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn from pursuing arbitration in China of a patent dispute with a U.S. power systems manufacturer while related proceedings at the U.S. International Trade Commission are ongoing.

• DOJ Cites SDNY Prosecutors' Texts In Bid To End Adams Case

  By Frank G. Runyeon and Hailey Konnath

  President Donald Trump's Justice Department doubled down Friday on its bid to toss the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, citing newly released internal correspondence showing "troubling conduct" by Southern District of New York prosecutors the agency criticized as "careerist" and insubordinate.

• Tulane Panel Clashes Over Activist Investor Motivations

  By Al Barbarino

  There's no debate that activist investor campaigns have increasingly taken aim at CEOs, but attorneys on a Friday panel at the annual Tulane Corporate Law Institute were sometimes at odds on the activists' motivations.

• How To Tell If A Litigation Funder Is Helping Your IP Opponent

  By Theresa Schliep

  Knowing when a litigation funder is involved in an intellectual property case can help attorneys better understand their adversary's footing in a dispute, and while most courts don't have disclosure requirements, lawyers told Law360 there are several signs attorneys can look out for to determine whether their opponent is receiving funding from an outside party.

• California Bar Orders Investigation Of Flawed Exam

  By Emily Sawicki

  The State Bar of California is bringing on an independent investigator to look into the problem-plagued administration of the February bar exam, which left scores of test-takers feeling cheated.

• DC Judge Declines To Block DOGE From Treasury Systems

  By Ali Sullivan

  A D.C. federal judge on Friday declined to wall off access to the federal government's payment systems from employees of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency during a lawsuit brought by retirees and union groups, determining the alleged privacy risks were not enough to warrant the court's intervention.

• Mich. Justices Kick PFAS Rule Challenge Back To Panel

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  The Michigan Supreme Court on Friday punted 3M Co.'s challenge to state regulations limiting PFAS in tap water to a lower court to address subsequent regulatory developments and answer whether the company should have pursued an administrative appeal before suing.