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  Justices Vacate TM Award That Put Co.'s Affiliates On Hook

  By Ivan Moreno

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday vacated an award that reached nearly $47 million in a trademark dispute that...(read more)

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  Federal Judiciary Repeats Request For More Judges

  By Courtney Bublé

  A federal circuit judge, speaking on behalf of the federal judiciary, repeated on Tuesday the need for more fede...(read more)

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• 7-Eleven Owner Says $58B Bid Is Off Due To Financing Hitch

  By Al Barbarino

  Seven & i Holdings Co. said Thursday that a buyout offer from an executive and one of his companies, said to be worth about $58 billion, has fallen through after the bidding party was unable to secure necessary financing, putting a prior bid from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. back into focus. 

• Apple Comms Director's Texts Reveal Criticisms Of Judge

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An Apple communications director's text messages came to light Wednesday on the last day of a high-stakes hearing into whether Apple complied with a 2021 antitrust injunction, revealing the director had criticized the judge extensively when the hearing began in May.

• Tesla Wins Punitive Damages Appeal In Fla. Fatal Crash Suit

  By Jonathan Capriel

  Tesla Inc. won't face punitive damage claims in a lawsuit accusing it of causing a 2019 crash that killed a Model 3 driver, a Florida appeals court ruled Wednesday, saying the driver's widow failed to prove that the company likely knew its self-driving feature would cause death or great bodily injury.

• Trump's CFPB Pick Says Agency's 'Past Excesses' Must End

  By Jon Hill

  President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will tell senators on Thursday that a "crisis of legitimacy" plagues the beleaguered agency, casting it as an out-of-control regulator that needs to be brought to heel.

• Holocaust Case Ruling Puts Similar Claimants In Tough Spot

  By Caroline Simson

  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision on Friday rejecting an expansive view of a sovereign immunity exception appears to have put even longer odds on lawsuits filed by claimants suing over Nazi-looted property.

• LG Ad Co. Tells Del. Justices It Didn't Breach Deal With Firings

  By Jeff Montgomery

  An attorney for TV data company Alphonso Inc. told Delaware's top court Wednesday that the Court of Chancery wrongly ruled last year that the company and its LG Electronics Inc.-controlled board lacked authority to fire five Alphonso co-founder executive officers and two pre-deal employees in a post-deal purge.

• Disney Pilfered Animator's 'Life Work' For 'Moana,' Jury Told

  By Rachel Scharf

  Counsel for an animation artist told jurors on the first day of a California federal court trial Wednesday that The Walt Disney Co. stole his magnum opus to develop the blockbuster movie "Moana" without a penny of compensation.

• King & Spalding Alum Confirmed As Trade Rep, 56-43

  By Lauren Berg

  The U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved President Donald Trump's pick to be U.S. trade representative in a vote almost entirely across party lines.

• Enviro Group Says Chemours Is Dumping PFAS In Ohio River

  By Emily Field

  A nonprofit has asked a West Virginia federal court to stop Chemours from releasing a "forever chemical" into public drinking water sources along the Ohio River.

• Joann To Wind Down Operations After Judge Approves Plan

  By Yun Park

  A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Wednesday approved renowned fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc. to wind down its operations after a "global consensus" was reached among the debtor, lender and creditors committee, allowing the 80-year-old chain to hold going-out-of-business sales.

• Fed. Circ. Won't Let Micron Out Of Sharing Source Code

  By Andrea Keckley

  The Federal Circuit held Wednesday that Micron Technology Inc. can't get out of handing over what the company deemed "highly confidential" source code to Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. Ltd. in an ongoing dispute over flash memory chip patents.

• Solicitor General Pick Says Trump Won't Skirt Court Orders

  By Courtney Bublé and Katie Buehler

  President Donald Trump's pick for U.S. Solicitor General told senators Wednesday that he saw no "plausible scenario" in which the president would defy a court order despite contrary suggestions from members of his administration, frustrating Democrats during a committee hearing on three U.S. Department of Justice nominees.