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  Skadden, Latham Guide $1.6B Paramount Real Estate Deal

  By Al Barbarino

  Real estate investment trust Paramount Group will be sold to asset manager Rithm Capital Corp. for about $1.6 bi...(read more)

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  'It's Confidential': Judiciary Chair Mum On Court System Strife

  By Jeff Overley

  The federal judiciary's leaders heard sharp criticism at a private meeting Tuesday regarding the U.S. Supreme Co...(read more)

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• Del. Judge's US Atty Application Plan Draws Blanche's Ire

  By Lauren Berg

  Delaware's chief district judge, a Trump appointee, is seeking applications for the state's U.S. attorney position to prepare for an upcoming vacancy in the interim position, a move that drew the ire of Deputy U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche on Wednesday.

• Tribal Members Tell 9th Circ. Tariff Suit Belongs In Fed. Court

  By Dylan Moroses

  Counsel for members of the Blackfeet Nation tribe told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday their suit challenging President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs should stay in federal district courts, where constitutional and congressional claims over tribal commerce must be heard.

• 8th Circ. Backs Dismissal Of FDIC Fee Guidance Challenge

  By Jon Hill

  The Eighth Circuit on Wednesday rejected a banking industry challenge to Biden-era Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. guidance that cautioned banks about charging recurring fees on declined transactions, ruling the matter not ripe for court review.

• Missouri AG Can Seek Unredacted Trans Care Records

  By Yeji Jesse Lee

  The Missouri attorney general can demand that a hospital turn over unredacted records on patients getting transgender care as part of a probe of a whistleblower complaint, a state appeals court held Tuesday.

• House Votes To End DC Judicial Nominations Commission

  By Courtney Bubl茅

  The U.S. House of Representatives voted 218-211 along party lines on Wednesday to eliminate the commission that vets and picks potential judicial nominees for Washington, D.C.'s local courts.

• Posting Standards Violates Copyright, ASTM Tells 3rd Circ.

  By P.J. D'Annunzio

  The American Society for Testing and Materials told a Third Circuit panel in Philadelphia on Wednesday that a Pennsylvania federal judge was wrong to find that another company's posting of its copyrighted technical standards online was a noninfringing fair use of the material.

• Chancery Approves $30M Match.com Spinoff Suit Settlement

  By Jeff Montgomery

  A Delaware vice chancellor approved a $30 million mediated settlement Wednesday to resolve a five-year dispute over the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive, with stockholder attorneys taking home $6.9 million.

• Ex-Calif. Judge Gets 35 Years For Shooting Wife To Death

  By Gina Kim

  Former California state court judge Jeffrey M. Ferguson lost his bid for a new trial Wednesday and was sentenced to 35 years to life in prison for shooting his wife to death at home in a drunken rage, with the presiding judge expressing sympathy for his "extraordinary" son who tried to save his mother's life.

• 11th Circ. Seems Open To Reviving Mortality Table Suit

  By Kellie Mejdrich

  The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday seemed open to reviving a proposed class action from married energy company retirees who claim outdated life expectancy data caused them to lose out on benefits, with judges questioning the lower court's holding that actuarial assumptions don't have to be reasonable.

• 3rd Circ. Panel Puzzled By Economics Of NCAA Eligibility

  By Matthew Santoni

  The introduction of compensation for college athletes may have changed the economic effects of the NCAA's eligibility rules, but a Third Circuit panel wondered Wednesday whether enough analysis on the specific effects had been done to justify suspending one of those rules for a Rutgers University football player.

• Giuliani Must Pay Attys $1.4M After Missing Bills Claim Fails

  By Adrian Cruz

  A New York state judge has awarded nearly $1.4 million to Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP in its lawsuit accusing former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani of racking up unpaid legal bills for the firm's work in various聽criminal, civil and administrative matters.

• Substitute Expert Testimony Is Hearsay, Mass. Justices Rule

  By Julie Manganis

  Trial prosecutors' use of a state crime lab supervisor to introduce results of drug tests performed by a former subordinate violated the Sixth Amendment's confrontation clause, the Massachusetts high court said Wednesday, in a decision with potentially far-reaching implications for the use of forensic evidence.