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  Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump's Emergency Tariffs

  By Dylan Moroses

  The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't authorize President Donald Trump to impose tariffs, the ...(read more)

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  'Hate' For Musk Quickly Narrows Jury Pool In Twitter Deal Trial

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  A California federal judge quickly narrowed a pool of 92 prospective jurors Thursday in a class action brought b...(read more)

• PacifiCorp To Pay Feds $575M Over Calif., Oregon Wildfires

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Electric power company PacifiCorp has agreed to pay $575 million to resolve claims for damages related to wildfires in Oregon and Northern California, the federal government announced Friday in declaring the end to litigation it said was worth more than $900 million.

• Epstein's Advisers Ink $35M Deal With Sex Trafficking Victims

  By Katryna Perera

  A class of victims of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme has asked a New York federal judge to grant the first OK in a settlement reached with Epstein's lawyer and accountant, who allegedly aided him in the scheme.

• 6th Circ. Chief Judge To Take Senior Status

  By Courtney Bublé

  Chief Sixth Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton announced on Friday that he will take senior status on Oct. 1 after more than 20 years on the bench.

• FTC Chair Wants Merger Cases Filed Only In Fed. Court

  By Matthew Perlman

  Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Friday that the agency should bring its merger challenges directly in federal court, rather than the agency's in-house administrative process, as it typically has done.

• Paramount, Netflix Differ On Significance Of HSR Milestone

  By Al Barbarino

  Paramount Skydance Corp. said Friday it has cleared the U.S. antitrust waiting period for its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., prompting competing suitor Netflix to challenge Paramount's characterization of the milestone.

• Up Next At High Court: Cuban Seizures & Removal Deadlines

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its February oral argument session by hearing cases that could expand or limit the availability of damages for U.S. victims of property seized by the Cuban government and a defendant's chance to remove state court cases to federal court.

• Ex-Google Engineers Took Trade Secrets To Iran, DOJ Says

  By Lauren Berg

  Three Silicon Valley engineers exploited their employment at Google and other major tech companies in order to steal trade secrets and send the confidential information to personal devices that they then accessed in Iran, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.

• DOJ Atty Fined $500 A Day Over Withheld ICE Detainee ID

  By Hailey Konnath

  A Minnesota federal judge on Wednesday ordered a U.S. Department of Justice lawyer to pay $500 a day until an immigrant recently released from Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention gets his identification documents returned, according to the case docket.

• 5th Circ. Pauses Order Scrapping FTC Merger Filing Overhaul

  By Rae Ann Varona

  The Fifth Circuit on Thursday granted the Federal Trade Commission's emergency motion to pause a Texas federal judge's ruling that threw out the agency's overhaul of premerger reporting requirements.

• Meta Doesn't Understand Its Own Algorithms, Ex-VP Testifies

  By Craig Clough

  A former vice president at Meta Platforms Inc. told a California jury Thursday in a landmark bellwether trial over claims the company's Instagram and Google LLC's YouTube harm children's mental health that he quit because he was deeply concerned about safety, and that even Meta's own experts don't understand how its algorithms work.

• Texas Suit Says Sanofi Paid Kickbacks For Prescriptions

  By Spencer Brewer

  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Sanofi-Aventis US LLC in state court Thursday, accusing the pharmaceutical company of paying kickbacks to providers so they would prescribe Sanofi's drugs.

• Apple Knowingly Hosts Child Porn On ICloud, W.Va. AG Says

  By Rae Ann Varona

  Apple knowingly allows child sexual abuse material to be stored and distributed on its iCloud platform, West Virginia's attorney general alleged Thursday in what he called a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, saying the tech giant's "privacy" brand provides cover for a defective product that violates state consumer protection law.