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  Trump Nominates Judges for SC, Montana, Virgin Islands

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump on Thursday announced district court nominees for South Carolina, Montana and the Virgin ...(read more)

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  Instagram CEO Denies Users Can Be 'Addicted' To Platform

  By Craig Clough

  Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri testified Wednesday in front of a California state jury considering claims his compan...(read more)

• NY Senators Criticize DOJ Over US Attorney Firing

  By Courtney Bublé

  New York's senators blasted the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday for abruptly firing the newly appointed U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York.

• Judge Boasberg Orders DHS To Return Deported Venezuelans

  By Britain Eakin

  U.S. District Judge James Boasberg instructed the Trump administration Thursday to facilitate the return of Venezuelan nationals it deported in March under the Alien Enemies Act in violation of his earlier order barring their removal so they can pursue their habeas claims.

• 2nd Circ. Seems Wary Of Restarting Norfolk Derailment Suit

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The Second Circuit appeared skeptical Thursday of investors' bid to revive a proposed class action against Norfolk Southern alleging that the company botched disclosures about how an efficiency plan might cause derailments, as judges seemed open to a lower court's interpretation that railroad statements about safety were puffery.

• BREAKING: DOJ Antitrust Chief Slater Stepping Down

  By Matthew Perlman

  Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater, head of the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division, said on Thursday she will be leaving her post just shy of a year after being confirmed by the Senate.

• FTC Chairman Targets Apple News' 'Left-Wing' Favoritism

  By Bryan Koenig

  Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson escalated his campaign against alleged censorship of conservative viewpoints with a "warning letter" sent directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook citing reports that Apple News favors "left-wing news outlets" and suppresses conservative ones.

• 4 Firms Guide Blackstone, EQT's $6.6B Spanish Recycler Deal

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Blackstone and EQT AB said Thursday that they will buy Spanish recycling company Urbaser from Platinum Equity LLC for $6.6 billion as they seek to cash in on the growing industrial waste management sector.

• Deutsche Börse To Buy PE Firm's Data Biz Stake For €1.1B

  By Tom Fish

  Deutsche Börse Group has said it has agreed to buy the remaining 20% minority stake held by global private equity firm General Atlantic in Iss Stoxx, which provides data, analytics and indexes, for €1.1 billion ($1.3 billion).

• Avon Loses Appeal Over $51M Verdict In Mesothelioma Case

  By Hailey Konnath

  A California appellate court on Wednesday refused to wipe out a $51 million jury verdict against Avon for the cancer a woman says she got from using its asbestos-tainted talc, rejecting the cosmetic company's qualms with expert testimony and the trial court's evidentiary rulings.

• Epstein Survivor Can Pursue Claims BofA 'Turned A Blind Eye'

  By Lauren Berg

  A survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sex-trafficking enterprise has adequately alleged Bank of America "turned a blind eye" to a trove of public information that the disgraced financier was a serial sexual abuser while monetarily benefiting from the scheme, a Manhattan federal judge said Wednesday.

• DC Circ. Questions Denial Of CFTC Whistleblower Award

  By Nadia Dreid

  The D.C. Circuit seemed skeptical Wednesday morning about the argument that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission wrongly denied a man a $147 million whistleblower incentive award after he tipped off the agency about foreign exchange market manipulation.

• Goldstein Says He Lost Millions On Poker In 2016

  By Jared Foretek

  SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein told the Maryland federal jury in his tax fraud trial Wednesday that he lost nearly $3 million playing poker in 2016, directly contradicting charges that he underreported his gambling winnings, and pinned the blame for tax filing errors on his own miscalculations and shoddy work from his accountants.

• AbbVie Sues Medicaid, HHS Over Botox Fair Price Controls

  By Hailey Konnath

  AbbVie Inc. on Wednesday asked a D.C. federal court to block the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from controlling the price of Botox under the Inflation Reduction Act, arguing the cosmetic drug and migraine treatment should be excluded from the controls because it's a "plasma-derived" product.