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  Bondi Out As Attorney General After Contentious Time At DOJ

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump announced on Thursday Attorney General Pam Bondi will be leaving her post. (read more)

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  Trump Announces Texas, Ohio, Florida Judicial Picks

  By Courtney Bublé

  President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced four judicial nominees for Texas, Ohio and Florida. (read more)

• Feds Say Rapper Rescinded Gucci Mane Contract At Gunpoint

  By Lauren Berg

  Dallas federal prosecutors announced Thursday that they have charged Memphis rapper Pooh Shiesty and eight others with holding three music industry executives at gunpoint — reportedly including Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane — to steal valuables and force Pooh Shiesty's release from his contract with Gucci Mane's record label.

• Judicial Scrutiny Of Counterfeit Suits Forces Brands To Adapt

  By Ivan Moreno

  Federal judges are placing new restrictions on so-called Schedule A lawsuits that brand owners initiate to sue dozens and sometimes hundreds of online sellers allegedly peddling counterfeit products at once, demanding more than shopping-cart screenshots to establish jurisdiction and pressing plaintiffs to justify mass joinder and damages claims.

• Blake Lively's Sex Harassment Claim Tossed As Suit Proceeds

  By Lauren Berg

  Blake Lively's lawsuit against her "It Ends With Us" co-star Justin Baldoni and his production company will soon head to trial on her claims of retaliation but not on her other allegations, including sexual harassment, a Manhattan federal judge ruled Thursday.

• CFTC Sues Ill., Conn., Ariz. Over Event Contract Enforcement

  By Aislinn Keely

  The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission continued its bid to assert "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets on Thursday with a trio of suits against Arizona, Connecticut and Illinois regulators over the states' attempts to shut down certain event contract trading as unregistered gambling.

• Goldstein Allowed To Move Out After Marriage Falls Apart

  By Jared Foretek

  A Maryland federal judge on Thursday allowed SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein to relocate for the duration of his home confinement, after Goldstein's attorneys said his marriage had fallen apart and it no longer "makes sense" for Goldstein and his wife to share a residence.

• BofA $72.5M Deal With Up To 75 Epstein Victims Clears Hurdle

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge gave preliminary approval Thursday to a settlement in which Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to as many as 75 women to settle allegations that it facilitated what the court called Jeffrey Epstein's "monstrous" sex trafficking and abuse.

• Khalil Seeks Bove's 3rd Circ. Recusal Over Ex-DOJ Roles

  By Lauren Berg

  Mahmoud Khalil, a lawful permanent resident targeted for deportation, asked a Third Circuit judge, U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove, to recuse himself from en banc review of a decision allowing for Khalil's detention, saying Wednesday the judge was likely involved in decisions related to the case while at the U.S. Department of Justice.

• 7th Circ. Says Ill. BIPA Amendment Applies Retroactively

  By Hailey Konnath

  The Seventh Circuit held Wednesday that a liability-limiting amendment to Illinois' biometric privacy law applies to every lawsuit pending at the time the amendment took effect, ruling that the amendment is only a procedural change to the law and, therefore, must be applied retroactively.

• Google Users Seek $147M In Atty Fees After $425M Trial Win

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  Counsel for Google users who won a $425 million class action trial over claims the company unlawfully collected their information have urged a California federal judge to give them nearly $147 million in legal fees, even as both sides filed motions seeking to unwind aspects of the verdict.

• Harvard Researcher Can Get Docs On Prosecution Motives

  By Julie Manganis

  A Massachusetts federal judge ruled Wednesday that a Harvard Medical School researcher and Russian national charged with smuggling frog embryo specimens can see emails and other documents regarding the government's decision to prosecute her, citing evidence the case was "vindictive."

• Judiciary Seeks More Security Funding Amid Threat Surge

  By Courtney Bublé

  Court security is a top concern for the federal judiciary in its recently released budget request for fiscal 2027.

• Trump Seeks June 1 Bill To Fund ICE, Border Patrol

  By Courtney Bublé

  Republican leadership in the House and Senate are on board with President Donald Trump's request Wednesday to send him a bill by June 1 to fund the entire U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.