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  Anthropic Sues Over Trump Admin's 'Campaign Of Retaliation'

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  Anthropic sued the Trump administration on Monday, challenging the Pentagon's designation of the artificial inte...(read more)

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  DOJ Deal With Live Nation Throws Antitrust Trial Into Disarray

  By Pete Brush

  U.S. Department of Justice lawyers told a Manhattan federal judge Monday that the government is settling its cla...(read more)

• Musk's Team Warned 'WWIII' Over Twitter Deal, Atty Testifies

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  After Twitter sued Elon Musk for terminating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform, Musk's legal team said their client would launch "World War III" against the company's board if forced to go through with the transaction, a Wilson Sonsini lawyer who led the deal for Twitter told a California federal jury Monday.

• 9th Circ. Doubts Trial Judge Properly Nixed $4.7B NFL Verdict

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Ninth Circuit panel appeared open Monday to reversing at least portions of a lower court's ruling that scrapped a $4.7 billion class action antitrust jury verdict against the National Football League, with one judge saying the "fundamental problem" is the trial court took the verdict away from the jury.

• Kavanaugh, Jackson Debate High Court Emergency Orders

  By Katie Buehler

  U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh pushed back Monday against critiques that the high court is ruling in favor of President Donald Trump in emergency appeals more often than it did for prior presidents, saying people who believe those allegations have "short" memories. 

• Fed. Circ. Punts On Ligado's $40B Spectrum Takings Claim

  By Christopher Cole

  Federal Circuit judges declined to rule for now on whether to dismiss network company Ligado's nearly $40 billion claim alleging the government has trampled its property rights by using airwaves Ligado bought for exclusive use.

• Abbott Formula Linked To 'Horrible' Gut Disease, Ill. Jury Told

  By Celeste Bott

  Abbott Laboratories' preterm baby formula was a contributing factor that caused four premature infants born in Illinois to develop a "devastating and painful intestinal disease," and the company has failed to warn parents and physicians that the cow's milk-based formula is a risk factor for the condition, a Cook County jury heard Monday.

• DOJ Official Calls Live Nation Deal Win-Win As AGs Press On

  By Bryan Koenig

  The Justice Department's midtrial settlement with Live Nation on Monday created an instant rift with more than two dozen state attorneys general who vowed to press forward instead of accepting a deal that requires online ticketing technology to be open-sourced and forces the company to divest control over at least 13 amphitheaters.

• Novo, Hims & Hers Make Up, Agree To Sell GLP-1s Together

  By Theresa Schliep

  Novo Nordisk A/S will start selling its GLP-1 medications on Hims & Hers Health Inc.'s platform as part of a deal that resolves the pharmaceutical company's patent infringement lawsuit against the telehealth provider, the companies announced Monday.

• Shell Sells Jiffy Lube To Monomoy Capital For $1.3B

  By Spencer Brewer

  A Shell USA Inc. subsidiary announced Monday that it will sell Jiffy Lube International Inc. to Kirkland & Ellis LLP-led Monomoy Capital Partners in a $1.3 billion deal.

• NJ US Atty Trio Booted In 2nd Leadership Ouster

  By George Woolston

  A federal judge on Monday disqualified the three assistant attorneys overseeing the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey, finding the "byzantine" leadership structure is unconstitutional.

• DC Circ. Skeptical That Review Of $100K H-1B Fee Is Foreclosed

  By Britain Eakin

  Two members of a D.C. Circuit panel appeared uneasy Monday with the Trump administration's argument that the president's proclamation imposing a $100,000 payment for new H-1B petitions and accompanying agency actions implementing it are beyond judicial review.

• Gorsuch Urges Jury Right Consideration In Release Violations

  By Elizabeth Daley

  The U.S. Supreme Court should have reviewed the case of a man whose sentence for sex trafficking was eventually extended beyond the congressional maximum for violating the terms of his release, Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote Monday.

• JPMorgan Trims But Can't Escape ERISA Drug Costs Suit

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  A New York federal judge pared claims Monday against JPMorgan Chase & Co. in a suit from workers who alleged they paid too much for prescription drugs, but opened discovery on allegations that the bank's contract with its pharmacy benefit manager caused transactions prohibited by federal benefits law.