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  Starbucks Ordered To Pay $50M In Burn Injury Case

  By Cara Salvatore

  A California state jury in Los Angeles awarded $50 million Friday to a delivery driver burned by hot water at a ...(read more)

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  Judge Refuses Bid For Injunction In CFPB Defunding Suit

  By Jon Hill

  A Maryland federal judge on Friday denied the city of Baltimore's bid for a preliminary injunction barring the T...(read more)

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• Ex-De Blasio Admin Official Admits To Arranging ICE Arrest

  By Elliot Weld

  A former director in ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration pled guilty Friday to leveraging his law enforcement connections to arrange for a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent to make an arrest.

• Dr. Oz Pledges 'Upcoding' Crackdown If Confirmed At CMS

  By Dan McKay

  Dr. Mehmet Oz told lawmakers he would combat rising healthcare costs by showing there's a "new sheriff in town" opposed to so-called upcoding by Medicare Advantage plans, as he sought support Friday for his nomination to lead the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

• Atty Gets 8.5 Years For Attempted Embassy Attack

  By Jared Foretek

  A Florida attorney who pled guilty to damaging a San Antonio, Texas, sculpture and unsuccessfully trying to detonate explosives outside the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C., was sentenced to eight-and-a-half years Friday, after the judge overseeing the case said the defendant's own statements at the hearing likely got him more time.

• Colo. Jury Rejects Claims Sterilization Co. Caused Cancer

  By Thy Vo

  A Colorado jury Friday morning rejected four women's claims that emissions from a Terumo BCT Inc. medical sterilization plant caused their cancer, finding after a six-week bellwether trial that the company was not negligent in how it handled emissions of a toxic sterilization chemical.

• Mass. Justices Say Transit Agency Not Immune In Assault Suit

  By Brian Dowling

  Massachusetts' highest court said Friday that the public transit agency in Greater Boston is not immune from claims that it negligently hired and retained a bus driver with an alleged known history of anger management issues who later beat up a customer and left him with a traumatic brain injury.

• Jessica Alba's Honest Co. Inks $28M Deal In IPO Class Action

  By Lauren Berg

  Jessica Alba's The Honest Co., its executives and others involved in the baby and beauty product company's initial public offering have agreed to pay nearly $28 million to resolve a class action in California federal court alleging they failed to disclose negative trends ahead of the IPO.

• Calif. Kids' Privacy Law Again Fails Constitutional Challenge

  By Allison Grande

  A California federal judge on Thursday again blocked the state from enforcing a landmark law requiring tech giants to bolster privacy protections for children, finding that a second review of the dispute didn't change the conclusion that tech trade group NetChoice was likely to succeed with its First Amendment challenge.聽

• Trump Asks Justices To Limit Pauses Of Birthright Order

  By Katie Buehler

  President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to limit three nationwide court orders prohibiting the implementation of his executive order aimed at limiting birthright citizenship, arguing that the coast-to-coast injunctions upended the judicial process and are trying to micromanage the executive branch.

• HHS Calls Back Terminated Attys Clearing Medicare Appeals

  By Yeji Jesse Lee and Dan McKay

  The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday moved to reinstate about 15 attorneys who were cut loose in recent weeks, restoring staff many in the agency saw as critical to clearing a backlog of Medicare appeals.

• 6 Firms Steer $6.7B Mallinckrodt, Endo Pharma Merger

  By Al Barbarino

  Six law firms are guiding a $6.7 billion merger between Ireland's Mallinckrodt PLC and Pennsylvania-based Endo Inc. on a deal announced Thursday that the companies said will create a global pharmaceutical industry leader with projected 2025 revenues of $3.6 billion.

• 9th Circ. Affirms Ex-Uber Exec's Conviction Over Data Breach

  By Elliot Weld

  The Ninth Circuit on Thursday affirmed a former Uber security executive's conviction for attempting to cover up a data breach from government investigators, rejecting his challenges to the jury instructions and strength of the evidence.

• SEC Drops Dealer-Registration Case Criticized By Hedge Fund

  By Brian Dowling

  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is dropping its claim that a Boston hedge fund should have registered as a broker-dealer, abandoning a case that the defense had argued overstepped the law and would subject more firms to federal oversight.