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  'Hate' For Musk Quickly Narrows Jury Pool In Twitter Deal Trial

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge quickly narrowed a pool of 92 prospective jurors Thursday in a class action brought b...(read more)

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  'Think Carefully': Judge Wary Of Notice Plan In Google Deal

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge indicated on Thursday that he will grant preliminary approval to Google's $8.25 milli...(read more)

• Ex-Google Engineers Took Trade Secrets To Iran, DOJ Says

  By Lauren Berg

  Three Silicon Valley engineers exploited their employment at Google and other major tech companies in order to steal trade secrets and send the confidential information to personal devices that they then accessed in Iran, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

• DOJ Atty Fined $500 A Day Over Withheld ICE Detainee ID

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.

• 5th Circ. Pauses Order Scrapping FTC Merger Filing Overhaul

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission's emergency motion to pause a Texas federal judge's ruling that threw out the agency's overhaul of premerger reporting requirements.

• Meta Doesn't Understand Its Own Algorithms, Ex-VP Testifies

  By Craig Clough

  A former vice president at Meta Platforms Inc. told a California jury Thursday in a landmark bellwether trial over claims the company's Instagram and Google LLC's YouTube harm children's mental health that he quit because he was deeply concerned about safety, and that even Meta's own experts don't understand how its algorithms work.

• Texas Suit Says Sanofi Paid Kickbacks For Prescriptions

  By Spencer Brewer

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Sanofi-Aventis US LLC in state court Thursday, accusing the pharmaceutical company of paying kickbacks to providers so they would prescribe Sanofi's drugs.

• Apple Knowingly Hosts Child Porn On ICloud, W.Va. AG Says

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Apple knowingly allows child sexual abuse material to be stored and distributed on its iCloud platform, West Virginia's attorney general alleged Thursday in what he called a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, saying the tech giant's "privacy" brand provides cover for a defective product that violates state consumer protection law. 

• No Verdict Thursday In Goldstein Case

  By Jared Foretek

  The jury in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax evasion trial broke for the weekend on Thursday without reaching a verdict.

• Judge Affirms Literal Infringement In Ravgen's $57M Jury Win

  By Elliot Weld

  A Texas federal judge has upheld a jury's finding that genetic testing company Natera Inc. committed literal infringement of a patent held by Ravgen Inc., but said Ravgen's expert testimony wasn't enough to support the jury's finding of infringement under the doctrine of equivalents.

• Squires Accepts 8 PTAB Cases, Walks Back 7 Merits Referrals

  By Theresa Schliep

  A bulk summary order from U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted eight petitions for America Invents Act patent challenges while denying 14 others, including seven that he had previously accepted for merits-based review.

• Staten Islander Cops To Obstruction In Gogic Juror Bribe Case

  By Frank G. Runyeon

  A man pled guilty Thursday in New York federal court to trying to bribe a juror in heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic's drug trafficking trial as part of a deal with prosecutors, following an alleged conspiracy to sway the verdict with an illicit six-figure payment.

• 8th Circ. Pick Joins List Of Personal Attys Elevated By Trump

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump's latest appellate pick has served as the president's personal attorney and bills himself as "an attorney and strategist who fights for conservative values" on his LinkedIn profile.

• Trump Orders Weedkiller Glyphosate Production Hike

  By Emily Field

  President Donald Trump issued an executive order late Wednesday aimed at ramping up the production of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup that has been accused of causing cancer in scores of lawsuits, including one on appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.