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  Chevron Hit With $745M Verdict Over La. Coast Pollution

  By Lauren Berg

  Chevron must pay nearly $745 million to repair damage done to southeast Louisiana's coastal wetlands, a Plaquemi...(read more)

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  More Than 500 Law Firms Sign Onto Perkins Coie Amicus

  By Aebra Coe

  A group of 507 law firms, including Munger Tolles & Olson LLP and Covington & Burling LLP, have signed onto an a...(read more)

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• Menendez May Be Called As Witness At Wife's Trial

  By Pete Brush

  Nadine Menendez is considering calling her husband, convicted former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez, to testify at her trial on charges that she facilitated bribe payments for him, filings showed as her trial resumed Monday with key prosecution witnesses.

• Justices Won't Hear Lion Air Family's Boeing Jury Trial Bid

  By Linda Chiem

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to a more than century-old law governing fatal accidents on the high seas, curtailing an effort from the estate of a 737 Max crash victim to get Boeing to face a jury trial over the 2018 Lion Air incident.

• Feds Ask High Court To Halt Order In Deportation Case

  By Katie Buehler

  The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to vacate a Maryland federal judge's court order requiring it to bring back a man who was deported and imprisoned in El Salvador due to an "administrative error," arguing the order is "unprecedented and indefensible."

• IPO Plans Appear Iced As Trump's Tariffs Rock Markets

  By Tom Zanki

  The escalating sell-off in equities is halting major initial public offerings for now and more prospects will likely pause plans as deals lawyers and their clients assess the fallout following President Donald Trump's endorsement of across-the-board tariffs, experts say.

• GOP Sens. Attack Calif. Waivers Despite Parliamentarian Ruling

  By Juan-Carlos Rodriguez

  The U.S. Senate parliamentarian on Friday said Republicans may not use a rule-killing legislative maneuver to void Biden-era Clean Air Act waivers that allow California to set its own vehicle emissions standards — but the GOP is plunging ahead anyway.

• OpenAI And Musk Get 2026 Trial Date, Likely Sans Microsoft

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge on Friday nailed down an expedited March 2026 trial schedule for Elon Musk and OpenAI's contract fight over OpenAI's transition into a for-profit enterprise, while staying antitrust claims indefinitely and calling Microsoft's request to participate in the trial if she dismisses Musk's claims against it "not logical."

• Judge Details Preserving IP Claims Against Microsoft, OpenAI

  By Theresa Schliep

  A New York federal judge on Friday explained a decision from March that kept intact news organizations' direct and contributory copyright infringement claims accusing Microsoft and OpenAI of copying their content to train generative artificial intelligence models.

• LA County Inks Historic $4B Juvenile Sex Abuse Settlement

  By Rachel Scharf

  Los Angeles County announced Friday that it's reached a $4 billion tentative settlement to resolve nearly 7,000 claims of sexual abuse at juvenile detention facilities and foster homes, a historic deal described by some as the largest-ever payout of its kind.

• Fed. Circ. Says AMS' $48M Trade Secrets Win Needs More Math

  By Andrew Karpan

  The Federal Circuit ruled Friday that a Texas federal court will need to take yet another look at the prejudgment interest calculation in a $48 million-plus judgment in a trade secrets case between chipmakers AMS and Renesas over stolen light sensor technology that has been in the courts for nearly two decades.

• 6th Circ. Allows Tenn. Gas Plant Pipeline To Proceed

  By Lauren Berg

  The Sixth Circuit on Friday rejected conservation groups' challenges to federal and state Clean Water Act approvals to a Kinder Morgan unit's pipeline that would serve a Tennessee Valley Authority natural gas-fired power plant in Cumberland City.

• Fed's Barr Says Bank Regulators Should 'Explore' Gen AI

  By Jon Hill

  Federal Reserve Gov. Michael Barr called Friday for banking regulators to look into how they themselves might harness generative artificial intelligence, arguing the experience could help them better understand how banks' use of the technology should be overseen.

• GSK Inks $67M Deal To Resolve Zantac Cancer Risk FCA Suit

  By Ryan Harroff

  GlaxoSmithKline PLC cut a $67.5 million deal to resolve allegations that it defrauded federal health insurance programs by hiding that its heartburn drug Zantac can decompose into a carcinogen while still in the bottle, ending a case that began in 2019 and was unsealed last year.