Top Stories

• 

  Trump Admin Hit With Suit Over $100K H-1B Fees

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Several groups sued Friday in California federal court to block the Trump administration's recent action slappin...(read more)

• 

  Supreme Court Takes Up Cuba Seizure Law Cases

  By Caroline Simson

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider two cases seeking clarity on a federal law enacted in 1996 t...(read more)

ADVERTISEMENT


• Google Ad Tech Judge: 'We Don't Know' Breakup Buyer

  By Bryan Koenig

  A Virginia federal judge questioned Friday whether the breakup of Google's advertising placement technology business sought by the U.S. Department of Justice would benefit website publishers as a government witness asserted.

• Meta Gets Facebook Ad Overcharging Suit Tossed, For Now

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge on Friday dismissed a proposed class action from Iron Tribe Fitness claiming Meta Platforms Inc. secretly overcharged Facebook advertisers $4 billion by using an undisclosed auction system, but gave the fitness company the opportunity to submit a bolstered complaint.

• Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Gets 8 Years In Prison

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Maryland federal judge on Friday handed an eight-year prison sentence plus a lifetime of supervised release to a Californian accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, rejecting prosecutors' request that the defendant spend at least 30 years behind bars.

• Politico Data Tracking Suit Sent Back To Calif. State Court

  By Joyce Hanson

  A California federal court has thrown out a proposed class action against Politico claiming the online news outlet unlawfully installed third-party trackers on users' browsers to collect data and personally identifying information without their consent, sending the case back to state court.

• High Court Broker Negligence Case 'Pivotal' For Trucking

  By Linda Chiem

  The U.S. Supreme Court grabbed an opportunity to smooth out splintered circuit court rulings on whether freight brokers might also be liable for roadway accidents that have killed or injured people, potentially providing long-sought clarity to middlemen in a trucking and logistics sector unnerved by recent supersized verdicts against carriers and drivers.

• Megadeals Spur Jump In Global M&A Deal Values Through Q3

  By Al Barbarino

  A flurry of megadeals in transportation, technology and infrastructure has propelled global mergers and acquisitions to their strongest showing since 2021, even as the number of transactions languishes at levels not seen since the financial crisis.

• Justices Again Clear Trump To Scrap TPS For Venezuelans

  By Tom Lotshaw

  The U.S. Supreme Court for a second time cleared the Trump administration to undo temporary protected status designations for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, despite lower court rulings concluding it acted unlawfully, sparking a fierce dissent by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

• DC Circ. Nixes Enforcement Of $156M India Award

  By Caroline Simson

  The D.C. Circuit on Friday ordered a lower court to reconsider defenses raised by India as it fights efforts by Deutsche Telekom AG to enforce a nearly $156 million arbitral award against the country over a nixed satellite lease and telecommunications deal, including whether the dispute belonged in arbitration.

• Court Limits In Congress' NEPA Reform Push Spark Debate

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  Congressmembers' hopes to facilitate the faster approval of projects that require environmental reviews like pipelines and other energy infrastructure may be an uphill battle despite bipartisan support due to accompanying provisions, such as limited judicial review, that have invited opposition.

• Split 3rd Circ. Backs Fiat Chrysler In Deceptive Sticker Claims

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  A split Third Circuit panel upheld the dismissal of a class action alleging that Fiat Chrysler put deceptive price stickers on its vehicles to hide the fact that it "injected profit" into the cost, with the court holding that car buyers weren't actually harmed.

• 2nd Circ. Says Exxon Must Pay Atty Fees For 'Absurd' Args

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The Second Circuit on Friday said energy giants including Exxon Mobil Corp. must pay attorney fees to New York City, which is suing them for deceptive practices around climate change, for advancing "absurd" arguments in remand proceedings.

• Combs Gets 50 Mos. For Prostitution As Court Cites Violence

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge sentenced Sean "Diddy" Combs to 50 months in prison Friday, after a jury found him guilty of transporting two former girlfriends for prostitution, citing "massive" evidence of violent attacks the hip-hop icon inflicted over a decade.