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  Anthropic Blocks Pentagon's 'Orwellian' Security Risk Label

  By Hailey Konnath

  A California federal judge Thursday issued a preliminary injunction barring the Trump administration from labeli...(read more)

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  2nd Circ. Reopens Mortgage-Backed Securities ERISA Suit

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The Second Circuit on Thursday revived a federal benefits lawsuit against Wells Fargo and Ocwen accusing the com...(read more)

• House GOP Faces Hurdles Passing Senate DHS Funding Deal

  By Courtney Bublé

  After the Senate passed by voice vote in the early hours of Friday morning a bill to fund most of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security except the immigration components, the challenge could be getting it through the House.

• Live Nation Kicks Off Defense Case In Antitrust Trial

  By Stewart Bishop

  A coalition of state attorneys general on Thursday mostly concluded their antitrust case against Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary, following weeks of a trial that was nearly derailed after the U.S. Department of Justice dropped out, and Live Nation kicked off its defense case with a company executive who pushed back against claims of anticompetitive conduct.

• Elon Musk Slams Twitter Stock Verdict Over Jury's $4.20 'Joke'

  By Lauren Berg

  Elon Musk did not get a fair trial over claims he defrauded Twitter investors before acquiring the social media platform, the tech billionaire's lawyer told a California federal judge Thursday, saying the jury rolled a marijuana "joke" into the verdict form to mock Musk and the trial process.

• ITC Domestic Industry Rules Keep Opening Up In Apple Case

  By Ryan Davis

  A Federal Circuit decision upholding a U.S. International Trade Commission exclusion order on the Apple Watch in a patent dispute with Masimo has again eased hurdles for patent owners aiming to make the ITC's required showing that they have domestic industry, attorneys say.

• X Corp.'s Lack Of Antitrust Injury Dooms Ad Boycott Suit

  By Rae Ann Varona

  A Texas federal judge Thursday dismissed X Corp.'s sprawling antitrust suit that accused several advertisers of unlawfully boycotting the Elon Musk-owned social media company by substantially cutting back on or stopping ad purchases, saying X didn't suffer any antitrust injury.

• White & Case Staffer Sues Firm Over Nude Photo Ridicule

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A White & Case LLP staffer sued the law firm in New York state court Wednesday, alleging the firm's purported "hostile work environment" shielded his colleagues after they allegedly shared nude photos of him, which he claims were taken by his supervisor while he was unconscious at a firm-sponsored party.

• States Will Fill DOJ, FTC's Antitrust Void, Ill. AG Atty Says

  By Bryan Koenig

  The top antitrust attorney at the Illinois attorney general's office predicted Thursday that state enforcers will continue to pick up the pace as the Federal Trade Commission and especially the U.S. Department of Justice's Antitrust Division "become less transparent and less active."

• Fed. Circ. Rejects Pharma Co. Refiling Suit To Reset Deadline

  By Dani Kass

  Ascendis Pharma missed its window to invoke a mandatory stay in California federal court based on parallel U.S. International Trade Commission proceedings, and its attempt to reset the patent litigation doesn't change that, the Federal Circuit said Thursday.

• FTC Antitrust Head Cites Acquihire 'Tension' With Deal Rule

  By Bryan Koenig

  The Federal Trade Commission's top antitrust official said Thursday that so-called reverse acquihires appear designed solely to avoid merger reporting requirements, while noting that competition enforcers continue to scrutinize the deals that are newly popular in Silicon Valley, especially in the artificial intelligence space.

• Akin Must Explain Client's 'Self-Indulgent' 9th Circ. Appeal

  By Lauren Berg

  Upholding a foreign arbitration award against a wine importer, the Ninth Circuit on Thursday ordered its attorneys at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP to explain why they and their client shouldn't pay their opponent's attorney fees for bringing a "frivolous" and "self-indulgent" appeal.

• Ketamine, WilmerHale Probe Off Limits In Musk-OpenAI Trial

  By Dorothy Atkins

  A California federal judge has placed evidentiary guardrails on an April jury trial over Elon Musk's claims OpenAI duped him, excluding evidence on Musk's ketamine use and WilmerHale's investigation into Sam Altman's dismissal, but allowing evidence on Musk's rival startup, his romance with an ex-OpenAI boardmember and his Burning Man trip.

• 4 Key Questions On Tariff Investigations

  By Dylan Moroses

  The U.S. announced a bevy of new trade investigations this month to underpin a tariff regime intended to replace duties struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court, but questions remain about the fate of deals struck with trading partners and whether importers will face higher tariffs. Here, Law360 examines four questions on the implications of those investigations.