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  More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus

  By Aebra Coe

  A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an a...(read more)

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  Kirkland-Led Brookfield Buying Colonial Pipeline In $9B Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Brookfield Infrastructure Partners said it will acquire the Colonial Pipeline, the nation's largest refined oil ...(read more)

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• Justices Told To Keep 'Century-Old Status Quo' On Birthright

  By Katie Buehler

  States, immigrant advocacy groups and expectant mothers urged the U.S. Supreme Court Friday to reject President Donald Trump's bid to restrict nationwide court orders prohibiting implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that maintaining the long-held understanding of the right won't cause any harm.

• IPO Plans Appear Iced As Trump's Tariffs Rock Markets

  By Tom Zanki

  The escalating sell-off in equities is halting major initial public offerings for now and more prospects will likely pause plans as deals lawyers and their clients assess the fallout following President Donald Trump's endorsement of across-the-board tariffs, experts say.

• GOP Sens. Attack Calif. Waivers Despite Parliamentarian Ruling

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The U.S. Senate parliamentarian on Friday said Republicans may not use a rule-killing legislative maneuver to void Biden-era Clean Air Act waivers that allow California to set its own vehicle emissions standards — but the GOP is plunging ahead anyway.

• OpenAI And Musk Get 2026 Trial Date, Likely Sans Microsoft

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge on Friday nailed down an expedited March 2026 trial schedule for Elon Musk and OpenAI's contract fight over OpenAI's transition into a for-profit enterprise, while staying antitrust claims indefinitely and calling Microsoft's request to participate in the trial if she dismisses Musk's claims against it "not logical."

• Judge Details Preserving IP Claims Against Microsoft, OpenAI

  By Theresa Schliep

  A New York federal judge on Friday explained a decision from March that kept intact news organizations' direct and contributory copyright infringement claims accusing Microsoft and OpenAI of copying their content to train generative artificial intelligence models.

• DC Judge Wary Of Blocking ICE From Raiding Churches

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. federal judge who is set to decide whether to block the Trump administration from carrying out immigration raids or arrests in places of worship seemed skeptical Friday morning about her ability to do so.

• LA County Inks Historic $4B Juvenile Sex Abuse Settlement

  By Rachel Scharf

  Los Angeles County announced Friday that it's reached a $4 billion tentative settlement to resolve nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse at juvenile detention facilities and foster homes, a historic deal described by some as the largest-ever payout of its kind.

• Fed. Circ. Says AMS' $48M Trade Secrets Win Needs More Math

  By Andrew Karpan

  The Federal Circuit ruled Friday that a Texas federal court will need to take yet another look at the prejudgment interest calculation in a $48 million-plus judgment in a trade secrets case between chipmakers AMS and Renesas over stolen light sensor technology that has been in the courts for nearly two decades.

• 6th Circ. Allows Tenn. Gas Plant Pipeline To Proceed

  By Lauren Berg

  The Sixth Circuit on Friday rejected conservation groups' challenges to federal and state Clean Water Act approvals to a Kinder Morgan unit's pipeline that would serve a Tennessee Valley Authority natural gas-fired power plant in Cumberland City.

• Fed's Barr Says Bank Regulators Should 'Explore' Gen AI

  By Jon Hill

  Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr called Friday for banking regulators to look into how they themselves might harness generative artificial intelligence, arguing the experience could help them better understand how banks' use of the technology should be overseen.

• GSK Inks $67M Deal To Resolve Zantac Cancer Risk FCA Suit

  By Ryan Harroff

  GlaxoSmithKline PLC cut a $67.5 million deal to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal health insurance programs by hiding that its heartburn drug Zantac can decompose into a carcinogen while still in the bottle, ending a case that began in 2019 and was unsealed last year.

• Trump Gets Supreme Court Win In Teacher Grants Case

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday axed a Massachusetts federal judge's order requiring the Trump administration to reinstate $250 million in teacher training grants for eight states, giving President Donald Trump his first high court win amid what he claims is a flood of unlawful court orders restraining the executive branch's power.