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  Kirkland, White & Case Lead Defense Firm's $1.25B SPAC Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  REDLattice and blank check company Bold Eagle Acquisition Corp. said Monday they have agreed to merge in a deal ...(read more)

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  Apple Hit With Historic $5.7B Patent Verdict

  By Adam Lidgett

  A California federal jury said Friday that Apple owes a staggering $5.7 billion to headphone-maker Taction Techn...(read more)

• Fla. AG Seeks To Put Guardrails On OpenAI's Models

  By Carolina Bolado

  Florida's attorney general on Monday asked a court to block OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman from developing artificial intelligence models without third-party guardrails and from offering ChatGPT to minors, in a suit accusing the AI company of spurring young people to commit crimes and acts of violence.

• Boston Sues Over DOT Grant Cut Tied To EV Chargers

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  The city of Boston brought a lawsuit in federal court Monday alleging the Trump administration canceled a $20 million road improvement grant because of electric vehicle infrastructure that was only "a fraction of 1%" of the project.

• White Worker Gets 2nd Chance In Race Training Bias Suit

  By Grace Elletson

  The Ninth Circuit reinstated Monday a white worker's claims that the City of Seattle subjected him to harassment by pushing race bias trainings that caused his colleagues to villainize white people, ruling that negative comments he received about his race were enough to keep the case in court.

• FTC Touts 'Dismantling' Of Corteva's Pesticide Rebates

  By Bryan Koenig

  The Federal Trade Commission on Monday touted its new settlement with Corteva Inc. for severely constricting the pesticide company's ability to pay distributors a loyalty rebate in exchange for limiting sales of cheaper generics, the latest in a string of agreements Trump-era antitrust enforcers have struck ending existing claims.

• Trump Asks Justices To Restore Fed. Prison Trans Care Ban

  By Gianna Ferrarin

  The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to halt a district court order barring the Bureau of Prisons from enforcing a ban on gender dysphoria care for transgender people incarcerated in BOP facilities, arguing the lower court stepped beyond its proper role. 

• Seed Patent Fight Settles 3 Days Into Trial

  By Elliot Weld

  Corteva Agriscience and Inari Agriculture Inc. have settled a seed intellectual property dispute three days into a Delaware federal trial over whether the latter infringed three patents and misappropriated seed samples.

• Brixmor, Everview Team Up On $2.34B Grocery REIT Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  Brixmor Property Group and private investment firm Everview Partners have agreed to acquire Canadian-listed Slate Grocery REIT in a transaction valued at about $2.34 billion, the companies said Monday, with at least seven law firms advising on the deal.

• Judge's Senior Status To Open Another 5th Circ. Vacancy

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump will be getting another vacancy to fill on the Fifth Circuit, as Judge Leslie Southwick told him on Monday he will be taking semiretired status.

• Norway's DNO Won't Raise $396M Bid For Scottish Energy Biz

  By Irene Madongo

  Norwegian oil and gas firm DNO ASA said Monday it will not increase its $396 million bid for Scottish firm Capricorn, paving the way for rival bidder Genel Energy PLC to forge ahead with its $436 million deal.

• CVC Ends Bodycote Pursuit As Veritas' £1.85B Offer Agreed

  By Irene Madongo

  CVC said Monday that it will not go ahead with its proposed takeover of Bodycote after the thermal-processing company's board backed a rival £1.85 billion ($2.5 billion) offer from Veritas.

• TikTok To Pay At Least $100M, Curb Teen Use In Alabama Deal

  By Lauren Berg

  TikTok agreed to pay at least $100 million and implement usage limits, age verification and other safety measures in a landmark settlement to resolve Alabama's claims the social media platform harmed children and misled users about its safety, the state's attorney general announced Friday.

• McDonald's Beats Most Of Black Franchisees' Bias Claims

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An Illinois federal judge on Friday tossed all but a single claim in litigation by former McDonald's franchisees who allege the fast-food giant systematically discriminated against Black operators, while warning plaintiffs that they "pushed — if not crossed" — boundaries by filing a complaint containing "more paragraphs than the Gettysburg Address contained words."