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  Senate Panel Delays A Vote On Martin Nomination For US Atty

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday held off for now a vote to call for a hearing on Ed Martin's nominati...(read more)

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  PE-Backed Hometown Food Nabs Chef Boyardee For $600M

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Hometown Food Co., a portfolio company of Holland & Knight LLP-advised private equity shop Brynwood Partners, on...(read more)

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• DOJ Grilled On 'Bottleneck' After Refugee Processing Orders

  By Rachel Riley

  A Washington federal judge expressed frustration with the federal government Thursday for moving "with one hand behind its back" to resume processing of certain refugees after the Ninth Circuit clarified the scope of a partial block on the Trump administration's refugee program shutdown.

• Judge Told Data Would Let Rivals Mimic Google Search

  By Matthew Perlman

  An academic testifying for Google on Thursday told a D.C. federal court that the data sharing provisions being proposed as a fix in the search monopolization case would allow rivals to reverse engineer Google search and if not match the results, at least mimic them.

• 'Fingers Crossed' At FCC As Court's Subsidy Ruling Closes In

  By Christopher Cole

  There's plenty of hand-wringing at the Federal Communications Commission as a U.S. Supreme Court decision draws near over the legality of the revenue-raising scheme used to pay for more than $9 billion in broadband and phone service subsidies.

• CR Bard Owes For Plant Neighbor's Illness, Jury Told

  By Cara Salvatore

  A Georgia jury heard in closing arguments on Thursday that C.R. Bard's medical sterilization plant wantonly polluted the air with ethylene oxide and caused a man's cancer, while the company said the man's exposure was nowhere near danger levels.

• Market Effect Key In Authors' IP Suit Against Meta, Judge Says

  By Ivan Moreno

  Whether it was fair for Meta Platforms to use copyrighted books without permission to train an artificial intelligence platform will come down to how the market for those books is impacted, regardless of how transformative the innovation may be, the California federal judge overseeing a proposed class action from a group of bestselling authors said Thursday.

• Del. Justices OK Mid-Case Appeal In Paramount Doc Suit

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Delaware's Supreme Court on Wednesday approved a mid-case review for a Paramount Global stockholder suit seeking books and records on the company's proposed $8 billion tie-up with Skydance Media.

• Frida Kahlo Co. Tries To Revive Suit Against Kahlo Family

  By Carolina Bolado

  A company that claims to own various Frida Kahlo trademarks urged the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday to revive its lawsuit against Kahlo's family over cease-and-desist letters the family sent to partners in exhibitions of the Mexican artist's work that the company says interfered with its business.

• Wartime Law For Gang Removals Barred In Texas, For Good

  By Britain Eakin

  A Texas federal judge on Thursday permanently blocked the Trump administration from deporting alleged gang members from Venezuela under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, ruling that the gang's activities in the U.S. cannot be regarded as an invasion.

• 4th Circ. Affirms Ex-Crypto COO's Fraud Conviction

  By Ryan Harroff

  The Fourth Circuit found no error in a former cryptocurrency executive's conviction for fraud and conspiracy related to his time working at a foreign currency and cryptocurrency trading investment firm that the panel said was actually just a Ponzi scheme that never made any trades.

• Meta Engineers Call WhatsApp Hack 'Unprecedented' At Trial

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Meta Platforms engineers testified Wednesday during a California federal jury trial over how much Israeli spyware-maker NSO Group owes Meta for hacking 1,400 WhatsApp users' devices that they spent days working around-the-clock to combat NSO's "unprecedented" spyware attack.

• CEO Asked How Rivals Can Possibly Match Google Money

  By Bryan Koenig

  Google CEO Sundar Pichai testified Wednesday that the Justice Department's proposed monopolization fixes amount to a "de facto divestiture" of the company's entire search intellectual property, only for the D.C. federal judge to wonder how rival search engines could hope to match its financial resources.

• Calif. Bar Seeks Credits, Lower Pass Score After Exam Fiasco

  By Craig Clough

  The California Bar has asked the state's supreme court to help it account for rampant technical difficulties on the February 2025 bar exam by approving a lower passing score and allowing the bar to give test-takers credit for some questions they left blank.