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  Tesla Driver In Crash Says He Was 'Too Comfortable' With Car

  By Carolina Bolado

  The Tesla driver who killed a woman in a crash in the Florida Keys told jurors Monday that he had been "potentia...(read more)

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  Not So Fast: CFPB Shelves Bid To Scrap State Notice Rules

  By Jon Hill

  The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday withdrew a plan to repeal rules that regulate how state offic...(read more)

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• Habba Out As Interim NJ US Atty Amid Ethics Controversies

  By Jake Maher

  The New Jersey federal district court brought Alina Habba's run as interim U.S. attorney to an end Tuesday by not extending her tenure in the temporary role past 120 days.

• Missouri Solicitor General, State Judge Secure Federal Seats

  By Courtney Bublé

  The Senate confirmed two nominees on Tuesday to serve on Missouri federal courts.

• New Ga. Justice Sees 'No Substitute' For Hard Work, Prep

  By Emily Johnson

  As Georgia Court of Appeals Judge Benjamin A. Land prepares to join the Georgia Supreme Court in the coming weeks, he said he will be bringing a philosophy rooted in the values of working hard and being prepared.

• 4 Firms Advise On $2.5B Insignia Financial Take-Private Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Private investment firm CC Capital and global alternative asset manager One Investment Management have agreed to acquire Australia's Insignia Financial Ltd. at a 3.9 billion Australian dollar ($2.5 billion) enterprise value, in a deal steered by four law firms.

• Trump Asks DC Circ. To Block FTC Dem's Reinstatement

  By Lauren Berg

  The Trump administration on Monday asked the D.C. Circuit to pause a Thursday order restoring a fired Federal Trade Commission Democrat's job, arguing that the ruling defies recent U.S. Supreme Court orders staying similar reinstatements at other independent agencies.

• The Biggest Telecom Developments Of 2025: Midyear Report

  By Christopher Cole

  It's been a headline-grabbing year in communications law so far, with the U.S. Supreme Court handing down a major win for federal programs that help pay for broadband deployment and a new Republican chief at the nation's telecom agency ushering in a rule-slashing agenda.

• Ex-Judges Call SAP Hypocritical In 'Self-Serving' Fintiv Appeal

  By Dani Kass

  Retired Federal Circuit Judges Randall Rader and Kathleen O'Malley are urging their former court to reject SAP America Inc.'s challenge to how the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is implementing new policies, saying the agency is acting within its limits and that SAP is selfishly contradicting arguments it previously made at the U.S. Supreme Court.

• Energy Litigation To Watch In The 2nd Half Of 2025

  By Keith Goldberg

  Courtroom showdowns between the Trump administration and blue states over U.S. energy and climate change policy will dominate the energy litigation landscape for the rest of 2025. Here is what the energy industry will be watching closely in the second half of the year.

• Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

  By Sydney Price and Jeff Montgomery

  Last week at the Delaware Court of Chancery, a major settlement between Meta Platforms Inc. and its investors reached on the proverbial courthouse steps during day two of a trial ended an $8 billion-plus suit accusing the company's directors and officers of breaching privacy regulations and corporate fiduciary duties tied to allegations dating to the Cambridge Analytica scandal more than a decade ago.

• Tax-Lien Biz Atty Tells Jury He Didn't Seek To Dupe Lender

  By Pete Brush

  Counsel for a former compliance lawyer accused of pilfering from a $20 million line of credit extended to his tax-lien investment firm told a Manhattan federal jury Monday that the defendant was "sloppy," but never intended fraud.

• States Say Noncitizen Benefit Restrictions Are Creating Chaos

  By Julie Manganis

  A coalition of 20 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday for "upending" noncitizens' access to publicly funded programs like Head Start and food banks.

• Ex-ComEd CEO Gets 2 Years For Burying Madigan Bribes

  By Celeste Bott

  The former CEO of Commonwealth Edison and later Exelon Utilities was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for a scheme to pay millions to associates of ex-Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan to secure his support for major energy legislation, and for hiding the nature of those payments to circumvent the company's internal accounting controls.