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  Albertsons Sues Kroger In Chancery After Blocked Megadeal

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Grocery giant Albertsons, in a Wednesday lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery, said Kroger did not put fort...(read more)

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  Trump Taps Ferguson As FTC Chief, Kressin Atty To GOP Seat

  By Bryan Koenig

  President-elect Donald Trump named current Federal Trade Commission member Andrew N. Ferguson to be its next cha...(read more)

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• Calif. Judge Approval Puts Biden One Shy Of Trump's Record

  By Courtney Buble

  The Senate voted 50-47 on Wednesday evening to confirm Judge Noël Wise for the Northern District of California, making her the 233rd lifetime federal judge confirmed under President Joe Biden and putting him one shy of former President Donald Trump's total and making him likely to surpass it with additional confirmations in coming days.

• Justices Won't Block EPA Coal Ash Rule During Court Case

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Kentucky electric utility's effort to halt implementation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rule strengthening federal regulations for the safe management of coal ash.

• Justices Question Affiliates' Liability In $47M TM Judgment

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned why lower courts ordered affiliates of a real estate company to pay a $47 million trademark infringement judgment against it when they were not defendants, with Justice Clarence Thomas asking counsel for the prevailing party why they did not include the affiliates in the case.

• Mixed 5th Circ. Backs $14M Exxon Texas Air Pollution Fine

  By Catherine Marfin

  A mixed Fifth Circuit on Wednesday backed a $14 million fine against ExxonMobil Corp. over air pollution in southeast Texas, with a per curiam opinion stating the court wouldn't have reheard the case if it had known it would take more than 18 months to issue an opinion.

• EPA Gives States, Tribes Clearer Path To Water Permit Power

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  States and Native American tribes have a clearer path to gaining the authority to set water pollution standards that may be even stronger than federal ones under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule finalized Wednesday.

• Nippon Offers $5K Bonuses To Ease US Steel Deal Concerns

  By Elaine Briseño

  Nippon Steel Corp. has committed to providing $5,000 closing bonuses to employees of U.S. Steel in hopes of easing concerns about the controversial $14.9 billion merger between the two companies, which both the sitting and incoming president have said they oppose.

• Quick Party Shift Coming To NLRB As McFerran Vote Fails

  By Braden Campbell

  President-elect Donald Trump appears poised to have an immediate opening to seat a Republican majority at the National Labor Relations Board after the U.S. Senate narrowly voted down a push to give outgoing Democratic Chairman Lauren McFerran another term Wednesday.

• Alabama Judge To Retire Jan. 2, Opening New Seat For Trump

  By Courtney Bublé

  An Alabama federal judge informed President Joe Biden on Tuesday that he would be retiring Jan. 2, making him the second judge appointed by a Republican president to announce his retirement after Donald Trump won the presidential election this year.

• Del. Bar Urged To Push Back On Musk's Chancery Criticism

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Nearly 100 legal professionals, mainly plaintiffs bar attorneys and law professors, have called on the Delaware State Bar Association to defend the state's chancellor against attacks that tech and social media billionaire Elon Musk launched after a stinging defeat of his nearly $56 billion, multiyear Tesla Inc. package in January.

• DC Circ. Lets Pipeline Safety Rule Remain Amid Agency Fix

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The D.C. Circuit has agreed to leave in place one of four new safety standards for gas transmission pipelines while the U.S. Department of Transportation works to amend them, after an industry group said not doing so could cause unnecessary repair costs.

• Kirkland-Led Patient Square Pays $4.1B For Animal Health Co.

  By Jade Martinez-Pogue

  Healthcare-focused private equity firm Patient Square Capital on Wednesday unveiled plans to acquire and take private dental and animal health distributor Patterson Companies Inc. in a $4.1 billion deal built by several law firms.

• Bills, Dolphins Are First NFL Teams To Add PE Firm Investors

  By David Steele

  The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins, represented by Proskauer Rose LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, on Wednesday became the first two NFL teams to sell minority ownership shares to private equity firms, three and a half months after the football league agreed to allow such investment.