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  23 States Sue HHS To Stop $11B In Health Grant Funding Cuts

  By Dan McKay

  Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday accused the Trump administration of illegally termin...(read more)

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  OpenAI Raising Up To $40B In SoftBank-Led Funding Round

  By Al Barbarino

  Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz-led OpenAI has secured an agreement for up to $40 billion in funding led by Japan's...(read more)

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• Trump Admin Layoffs 'Probably Broke Laws,' Judge Says

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Maryland federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration "probably broke the laws that regulate en masse terminations of government employees," ordering the federal government to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were abruptly fired from their jobs in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

• Schiff Says He'll Hold On Trump's Pick For DC US Attorney

  By Lauren Berg

  Senate Judiciary Committee member Adam Schiff announced Tuesday he will hold on President Donald Trump's nomination of Ed Martin to be the top prosecutor in Washington, D.C., calling Martin a "one-man wrecking ball" demolishing the wall between the White House and the U.S. Department of Justice.

• PacifiCorp Owes Another $36M After Latest Wildfire Trial

  By Cara Salvatore

  An Oregon jury awarded over $36 million Monday to seven property owners affected by fires that started during a 2020 windstorm in which PacifiCorp chose not to de-energize its power lines, bringing the reported total in such trials to over $300 million.

• Bigelow Waved The Flag While Selling Foreign Tea, Jury Told

  By Rachel Scharf

  R.C. Bigelow Inc. falsely advertised its foreign-grown teas as "manufactured in the USA" in a deceitful effort to play on customers' patriotic sentiments, counsel for a certified class of Golden State tea buyers told jurors as a damages trial opened in California federal court Tuesday.

• Ark. Law Limiting Kids' Social Media Use Struck Down

  By Lauren Berg

  Arkansas' law limiting minors' social media access is a "content-based restriction on speech" that violates platform users' First Amendment rights and is unconstitutionally vague, a federal judge ruled Monday, striking down the law that requires parental permission and age checks to access certain online platforms.

• Pork Price-Fixing Fight Over Sales Data Swap Heads To Trial

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A Minnesota federal court mostly denied Monday a slew of summary judgment motions from Tyson and other pork producers seeking wins in an antitrust suit alleging they conspired with data firm Agri Stats to fix pork prices and reduce supply, teeing up the high-stakes multidistrict litigation for a June trial.

• Acting USPTO Leader Says New Policies Will Bolster Patents

  By Ryan Davis

  Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart said at a conference Tuesday that new policies including having her take an active role in determining whether patent challenges should be denied are part of an effort to "reinvigorate our IP system."

• Fox News Contributor Says Simon & Schuster Stole Book Idea

  By Elliot Weld

  Fox News contributor and writer Gregg Jarrett is suing publisher Simon & Schuster LLC and his former literary agency Vigliano Associates Ltd., alleging they stole the idea for a book he was planning to write about legal cases against President Donald Trump and had another writer develop it.

• Willkie Becomes 3rd Firm To Reach Deal With Trump

  By Alison Knezevich

  After issuing a string of executive orders in recent weeks targeting BigLaw firms, President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP had agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono legal services for certain causes and to refrain from what Trump has called discriminatory diversity hiring practices.

• Ex-Biotech CEO Wrongly Sentenced To 7 Years, DC Circ. Told

  By Ali Sullivan

  A former biotech executive who pled guilty to misleading investors about a blood-based COVID-19 test urged the D.C. Circuit to order a redo of his seven-year prison sentence on Tuesday, telling an appeals panel that the trial court miscalculated the sentencing guidelines.

• Fight Over AI Training Pushes Copying Question To Forefront

  By Ivan Moreno

  When courts weigh fair use in copyright disputes, how much a defendant takes from a particular work is usually overridden by other factors. But with artificial intelligence requiring immense amounts of training material, a legal tech company is trying to change that as it battles infringement claims by Thomson Reuters over the media company's Westlaw platform.

• NYT Demands OpenAI President Testify As Long As Staff

  By Ivan Moreno

  The New York Times has asked a federal judge to order that OpenAI president Greg Brockman sit for a standard deposition this month in copyright lawsuits over material used to train large language models, saying he should not be considered an "apex" witness who can testify for less time than his employees.