The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled an argument on Jan. 11 for Apple's challenge to a contempt order issued for allegedly trying to use high commissions to prevent app developers from steering users to outside payment methods in a case brought by Epic Games.
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Justices To Hear Apple App Store Contempt Case In January

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled an argument on Jan. 11 for Apple's challenge to a contempt order issued for allegedly trying to use high commissions to prevent app developers from steering users to outside payment methods in a case brought by Epic Games.

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David Protein Escapes Ingredient Antitrust Suit For Good

By Matthew Perlman

A New York federal court has tossed a lawsuit accusing protein bar-maker David Protein of refusing to sell a key fat replacement ingredient to low-calorie food producers after finding a lack of harm in any specific market.

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10M Walmart, EBay Users Included In Certified Amazon Class

By Bryan Koenig

An order unsealed Monday gives a number and lays out criteria for the class of millions of consumers certified last month in a Washington federal court lawsuit accusing Amazon of creating an artificial, anticompetitive pricing floor for goods sold on other platforms and not just on its own.

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PBM Says Fla. Collusion Suit Belongs In Federal Court

By Carolina Bolado

A pharmacy benefit manager accused by Florida's attorney general of colluding with a competitor to fix prescription drug reimbursement rates for pharmacies removed the state's suit to federal court, citing its work for federal and military employees.

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Democrat Nathan Johnson Wins Race For Texas AG

By Spencer Brewer

Democratic candidate Nathan Johnson beat his Republican opponent in the race for Texas attorney general on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. 

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Calif. AG Rob Bonta Wins 2nd Term Over Michael Gates

By Bonnie Eslinger

California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general during the current Trump administration.

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Mich. Voters Approve Limits On Utility Campaign Donations

By Melanie Dorsey

Michigan voters approved a statewide ballot proposal Tuesday restricting campaign contributions from certain regulated utilities and government contractors,while Ann Arbor voters opposed a separate measure establishing a municipal electric utility that could eventually replace DTE Energy as the city's electricity provider.

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Dems Interrogate McDonald's CEO On AI-Driven Pricing

By Hailey Konnath

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Becca Balint and other Democrats sent a letter to McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski, pressing him on the company's use of artificial intelligence-driven pricing recommendations and how it assesses potential harm to consumers and competition.

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LITIGATION

Mallinckrodt Loses $9.5M Award, Wins Delay In Airgas Drug

By Adam Lidgett

A Delaware federal judge on Tuesday threw out Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals' $9.5 million jury award it won in an infringement case and instead blocked a competitor's inhaled nitric oxide treatment patent until after a pair of Mallinckrodt's patents expire.

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Apple Gets Sync Streaming App's Antitrust Suit Sent To Calif.

By Rae Ann Varona

A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday granted Apple Inc.'s bid to transfer a communal streaming app developer's antitrust lawsuit against it to California, saying "court congestion" and "local interest" weigh in favor of moving the case to the Golden State.

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Chancery Ends Icahn Suit Over Illumina's $8B Grail Deal

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court has approved the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by affiliates of activist investor Carl Icahn against Illumina Inc.'s former directors over the biotechnology company's $8 billion acquisition of Grail Inc., ending the case under a settlement that does not bind other stockholders.

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2nd Circ. Revives SS&C Trade Secret Suit Against Arcesium

By Adam Lidgett

Financial software company SS&C can pursue its suit alleging fintech firm Arcesium misappropriated trade secrets from its software program, Geneva, to build a rival product, Trinity, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

10 Ways AI Labs Can Limit Antitrust Risks Of Safety Pacts

The OpenAI CEO’s recent call for artificial intelligence laboratories to collectively slow development to allow safety research to catch up invites antitrust scrutiny, but the risks to coordinating competitors can be managed by carefully structuring pacing agreements and layering their approach to compliance, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Former DOJ Officials See Mixed Results In Midterm Races

By Chris Villani

The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.

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Gibson Dunn Set To Bring On 120 Lawyers From Weil

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson and Marialuisa Taddia

Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.

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Analysis

Attys Ensure Voters' 'Right To Be Heard' In Midterm Elections

By James Boyle and Lynn LaRowe

From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.

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Analysis

Midterm Dem Wins To Scramble Lit Funding Legislative Efforts

By Ryan Boysen

Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.

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State AG Race Wins Set To Give Dems Control Of Most Offices

By Madison Arnold

Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.

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Vedder Will Move NYC Staff To New Manhattan Office

By Isaac Monterose

Vedder's New York City staff will move to a new downtown Manhattan office sometime in 2027 after the law firm signed a 49,000-square-foot lease in a 2.6-million-square-foot office tower, according to landlord Rockefeller Group.

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Ogletree Adds Ex-Amazon Employment Atty To Seattle Office

By Rachel Riley

A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.

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DOJ Says Epshteyn Will Answer ABA Service Motion

By Jared Foretek

Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.

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Holland & Hart Cost Ex-Client $23M Stake In Co., Suit Says

By Zach Dupont

Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.

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Goldstein Ordered To Pay Trimmed $1M Forfeiture

By Nadia Dreid

Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

A&O Shearman

Abrams & Bayliss

Andrews & Springer

Ashurst Perkins

Axinn

Blank Rome

Buchanan Ingersoll

Christensen Law LLC

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Covington & Burling

Cravath Swaine

Davis Wright Tremaine

Debevoise & Plimpton

Dunn Isaacson Rhee

Faegre Drinker

Foley & Lardner

Fried Frank

Friedman Oster

Gibson Dunn

Goldstein & Russell

Goodwin Procter

Grant & Eisenhofer

Hagens Berman

Hill Ward Henderson

Holland & Hart

Holland & Knight

Holtzman Vogel

Jackson Lewis PC

Keller Postman

Kessler Topaz

Kirkland & Ellis

Labaton Keller

Latham & Watkins

Morgan Lewis

Ogletree Deakins

Phillips McLaughlin

Potter Anderson

Quinn Emanuel

Reed Smith

Richards Layton

Saiber LLC

Scott&Scott

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Springer & Steinberg

Sterne Kessler

Susman Godfrey

Troutman

Wachtell Lipton

Walsh Pizzi

Weil Gotshal

Young Conaway

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Airgas Inc.

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Arcesium LLC

Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc.

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

DTE Energy Co.

Epic Games Inc.

Express Scripts Holding Co.

GRAIL Inc.

Google LLC

Illumina Inc.

International Legal Finance Association

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

LinkedIn Corp.

Mallinckrodt PLC

McDonald's Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

New York Daily News Co.

Omni Bridgeway Ltd.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Panda Restaurant Group Inc.

Prime Therapeutics LLC

Rockefeller Group International Inc.

SS&C Advent

SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc.

Skydance Media LLC

Space Exploration Technologies Corp.

The Associated Press

The Cigna Group

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

United Farm Workers

Walmart Inc.

Warner Bros. Discovery Inc.

Washington Legal Foundation

eBay Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Secretary of State

California legislature

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

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Executive Office of the President

Federal Trade Commission

Food and Drug Administration

New York Attorney General's Office

Tennessee Department of Health

Texas House of Representatives

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Defense

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U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

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U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration

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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Montana