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  Judges Decline Invites To Senate Hearing On Impeachment

  By Courtney Bublé

  Two federal judges, both of whom Republicans are looking to impeach, declined to testify before the U.S. Senate ...(read more)

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  Solar Energy Co. PosiGen Hits Ch. 11 After Loan Breach Suit

  By Emlyn Cameron

  Solar energy company PosiGen has entered into bankruptcy in Texas lugging at least $100 million in debt roughly ...(read more)

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• Kaiser Cleared To Pay $46M For Sharing Data With Tech Cos.

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge granted preliminary approval Tuesday to a settlement of at least $46 million from three Kaiser Permanente entities to resolve claims by 13.1 million patients across the country who say it disclosed their information to Google, Microsoft, Twitter and other third parties without consent.

• 6th Circ. Largely Shoots Down Ohio Derailment Atty Fee Fight

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Sixth Circuit on Tuesday largely refused to revive Morgan & Morgan's bid to halt the allocation of attorney fees from a $600 million class settlement between Norfolk Southern and residents affected by the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment disaster, but remanded it for a look into the firm's individual allocation amount.

• Lowe's To Pay $12.5M To Settle Lead Safety Allegations

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Lowe's will pay $12.5 million as part of a proposed settlement resolving the federal government's claims that its contractors failed to follow certain requirements to minimize lead exposure when renovating older homes, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday.

• Anthropic Judge Warns Firm Against 'Extortion' In Opt-Out Bid

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge doubled down Tuesday on his concerns that Arizona law firm ClaimsHero is misleading authors to opt out of AI company Anthropic's $1.5 billion deal to end copyright infringement claims, saying the firm appears to be seeking "a nuisance settlement" and warning it against a legal strategy he called "extortion."

• 9th Circ. Slams 'Unimpressive Excuses' In L'Oréal Rival's Suit

  By Lauren Berg

  The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday refused to revive a trade secrets case against L'Oréal USA Inc., saying the plaintiff company's "unimpressive excuses" for fabricating evidence and other misconduct do not override the district court's conclusion that the proper sanction was to dismiss the case.

• Judge Gives Conditional OK To American Signature DIP Plan

  By Emlyn Cameron

  A Delaware bankruptcy judge said Tuesday that she will approve home furnishing retailer American Signature Furniture's bid for interim approval of post-petition financing, after giving a mixed response to objections from the Office of the U.S. Trustee.

• $255K In Fees To Google For 'Frivolous' Ramey Case Upheld

  By Ryan Davis

  The Federal Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a California judge's decision that a client of embattled intellectual property firm Ramey LLP must pay nearly $255,000 in fees and sanctions for bringing a "frivolous" patent suit against Google, finding the award to be "entirely proper."

• Chancery Won't Block Sale In 'War Dogs' Figure Loan Dispute

  By Jarek Rutz

  A Delaware Chancery judge declined to allow a real estate investor to lift a disputed second mortgage blocking the sale of a distressed Oklahoma apartment complex in a dispute with a hard-money lender the investor says is run by the convicted fraudster whose story was dramatized in the movie "War Dogs."

• 3rd Circ. Restores NCAA Junior-College Eligibility Rule

  By Matthew Santoni

  An NCAA rule that includes junior colleges when determining a college athlete's eligibility is a "commercial" restriction, but a Rutgers University football player must go back to court and define the market for his labor if he wants to argue the rule violates antitrust law, the Third Circuit said Tuesday.

• Ex-Nikola CEO Milton Can't Decertify Investor Suit

  By Sydney Price

  An Arizona federal judge Tuesday rejected former Nikola CEO Trevor Milton's objections to certifying a class of shareholders accusing him and the electric vehicle startup of exaggerating the viability of its prospects, finding the investors have made reasonable progress toward contacting class members.

• 1st Circ. Revives Constitutional Challenges To RI Pot Scheme

  By Sam Reisman

  The First Circuit on Tuesday said a federal judge erred in dismissing a pair of constitutional challenges to Rhode Island's cannabis licensure program, and ordered the lower court to promptly weigh the merits of the cases before regulators award retail marijuana licenses.

• Legal Challenge To EEOC Disparate Impact Pivot Tossed Out

  By Vin Gurrieri

  A D.C. federal judge on Tuesday threw out a suit from a former Amazon delivery driver who accused the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission of unlawfully refusing to investigate charges premised on a disparate impact theory, finding the worker didn't have standing to bring the case.