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  Capital One's Discover Deal Gets Bank Regulators' Approval

  By Jon Hill

  Capital One on Friday received the last regulatory sign-offs needed for its $35 billion purchase of Discover, pu...(read more)

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  DOJ To Move Ahead In SafeMoon Case Despite Crypto Memo

  By Elliot Weld

  Prosecutors told a federal judge in Brooklyn on Friday that they plan to proceed with an investor fraud case aga...(read more)

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• Florida Federal Judge To Take Senior Status In August

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump is gaining yet another federal judicial vacancy in his adopted state, Florida.

• Solar Co. Oya Gets OK On Ch. 11 Liquidation After Asset Sales

  By Alex Wittenberg

  A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Monday confirmed solar energy producer Oya Renewables' bid to liquidate through Chapter 11 under a plan supported by creditors, months after the company sold most of its assets for $39 million.

• High Court Wants SG's Input On Home Depot ERISA Case

  By Grace Elletson

  The nation's highest court asked the U.S. solicitor general Monday to opine on whether it should hear a retirement plan mismanagement case from Home Depot workers who say the Eleventh Circuit wrongly required them to link financial losses to alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.

• Justices Won't Hear Mall Of America's Sears Lease Dispute

  By Vince Sullivan

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case filed by the owner of Minnesota's Mall of America against Sears Holding Corp. over a transfer of a 100-year lease for an anchor store location, leaving in place a lower court's finding that the mall's lease was not a "true" contract.

• Justices Won't Hear CSX-Norfolk Southern Antitrust Case

  By Matthew Perlman

  The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review whether CSX waited too long to bring its antitrust case against Norfolk Southern over fees charged by a Virginia switching line they jointly own.

• Justices Won't Hear Patent Eligibility Ruling Dispute

  By Theresa Schliep

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided to skip a case brought by a company that had lost a patent case against Amazon, declining the challenge asserting that courts routinely issue summary judgment rulings on patent eligibility, even if there are disputes of fact.

• Justices Pass On Damages Fight In Trading Patent Case

  By Theresa Schliep

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday skipped a case brought by the winner of a $6.6 million patent infringement verdict who has argued that the Federal Circuit wrongly denied its bid to increase those damages after it said it discovered fraud in the proceedings.

• High Court's Pause Of Removals Was 'Premature,' Alito Says

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court's decision early Saturday morning to prohibit the Trump administration from using a 1798 wartime law to remove alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in northern Texas to an El Salvadoran prison was hasty and premature, Justice Samuel Alito wrote in a dissent joined by Justice Clarence Thomas.

• Up Next At High Court: Preventive Healthcare, LGBTQ Books

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in five cases this week, including disputes over the constitutionality of a task force that sets preventive healthcare coverage requirements, a school district's introduction of LGBTQ-themed storybooks and whether parties can establish standing based on harms affecting third parties. 

• Justices Temporarily Block Removals Under Wartime Law

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to halt removals of alleged Venezuelan gang members detained in Texas under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, pending further input from the court.

• Venezuelans Ask High Court And 5th Circ. To Pause Removals

  By Katie Buehler

  A group of Venezuelans detained in northern Texas launched a multipronged effort Friday to prevent the Trump administration from removing them to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act before they can have their day in court, asking the U.S. Supreme Court, the Fifth Circuit and two district courts for emergency relief.

• Trump Moves For More Power To Hire, Fire Federal Workers

  By Lauren Berg

  The Office of Personnel Management on Friday proposed a rule that would give President Donald Trump's administration the power to hire and fire some 50,000 career federal employees, a move that federal worker unions say will allow the president "to replace qualified public servants with political cronies."