FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

NEW: A nearly $667 million jury verdict against @Greenpeace tied to an energy company’s lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline protests has been reduced by a North Dakota judge by nearly half. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: 📺 Dr. Phil McGraw deleted the “unflattering” message because he didn’t want the court to see it, the judge said. McGraw previously testified at trial that he didn’t delete the message. “I don’t believe that testimony,” Everett said Tuesday. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Texas has become the nation’s hottest forum for large corporate bankruptcies, with Dallas and Houston together wrangling more cases than even Delaware, the longstanding champion of bankruptcy venues. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: The appointment of a court receiver over Alex Jones’ Infowars media company offers a glimmer of hope for Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims’ families owed more than $1 billion after collection efforts sputtered for years in bankruptcy court. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group Inc. sued bankrupt subsidiary Genesis Global Capital LLC to zero out a $1.1 billion note it issued to the fallen crypto lender. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

SCOOP: Actor James Franco struck a deal with a bankruptcy trustee to buy the uncut footage of a never-aired documentary about him for a “significant” sum. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

SCOOP from me and @RyanAutullo: A Texas court appointed a receiver to administer Alex Jones’ Infowars media empire, which owes roughly $1.3B in judgments tied to his false claims that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Anti-government activist and former Idaho gubernatorial candidate Ammon Bundy can’t use his bankruptcy to eliminate a $52 million judgment stemming from a court finding that he defamed a local hospital system. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

President Donald Trump and his allies are pursuing an alternative strategy to defend against mounting court orders blocking his policies: Raise the financial stakes for those suing the administration.

NEW: "The nature of genetic data means that a database of multiple millions of people makes hundreds of millions, if not billions, of people indirectly identifiable," the report said. news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-...

NEW: Hooters of America LLC’s unsecured creditors objected to a reorganization proposal they say offers them no recoveries and no chance to vote on the plan. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: The founder of Nikola Corp. agreed to exchange discovery with creditors of the bankrupt electric-vehicle maker over questions of whether he can pay a $97 million arbitration award he owes the company. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Homebuilder Meritage Homes Corp. asked a bankruptcy court to force SunPower Corp. to stop telling its customers that it will remotely deactivate their solar equipment next week because of a fight over who can collect on customer accounts. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: @RealAlexJones' long running bankruptcy case must come to a conclusion, a Houston bankruptcy judge told lawyers for the right-wing conspiracy theorist, the trustee of his estate, and families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Creditors of bankrupt electric-vehicle maker Nikola Corp. have asked for court help to determine if the company’s founder who was recently pardoned by Pres. Donald Trump can pay a $97 million arbitration award he owes the firm. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: A cyber attack on law firm @StinsonLLP resulted in information being stolen about an alleged sex abuse victim involved in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse bankruptcy. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: A Connecticut bankruptcy judge sealed a woman’s abuse allegations against rapper 50 Cent, finding documents that make “scandalous or defamatory” claims must be kept from public view under bankruptcy law. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

The Trump administration has asked the US Supreme Court to halt a judge’s order that would force it to answer questions and turn over documents about Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in a fight over public access to the office’s records.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to halt a lower court ruling that forces it to answer questions and turn over documents about Elon Musk's DOGE. Solicitor General John Sauer argues DOGE is a "presidential advisory body" that's not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

A Texas federal judge’s interpretation of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling in his decision to vacate EEOC guidance on transgender workers will compound conservative backlash to LGBTQ+ discrimination protections.

NEW: @50cent urged a federal judge to seal a recent $20 million New York state court suit alleging abuse, saying the claims were subject to a discharge in his decade-old bankruptcy. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

A group of over 150 former federal and state judges are speaking out against the Trump administration’s arrest of a Wisconsin judge, calling it an “attempt to intimidate the judiciary," @jacqthomsen.bsky.social reports news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

NEW: Jackson Walker LLP pushed back on a crisis public relations firm’s advice to tout its ethical standards following allegations that one of its lawyers was in a secret relationship with a top bankruptcy judge, according to an updated complaint. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

President Trump was once a loud skeptic of cryptocurrency. But over the past few months, he’s emerged as the industry’s biggest cheerleader. A New York Times investigation shows how much the president and his family have profited from that transformation. Listen to "The Daily."

NEW: A ransomware attack on global consulting firm Berkeley Research Group LLC’s systems infiltrated and stole data from several bankrupt Catholic groups from across the country. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: Distressed Chinese real estate developer Yuzhou Group Holdings Co. won tentative US bankruptcy court recognition to enforce its Hong Kong restructuring. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

News: Lawyers are lining up for the open federal judgeships in Texas. Folks interviewed include a new SCOTX member, a former Cruz counsel, a Paxton whistleblower and current magistrate judges. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Several of the World Liberty partners, like Justin Sun and his company, had recently been targeted in Securities and Exchange Commission investigations. After Sun invested $75 million in World Liberty, SEC agreed to freeze its prosecution of charges against Sun. nyti.ms/4cXez1l

President Trump is at once appoints the nation's top financial regulators & profits from one of the world's fastest growing crytpo companies. It's one of the most explict financial conflicts of interest in presidential history. A NYT investigation published today digs into this nyti.ms/44KUVn8

The FDA doesn’t plan to execute a reorganization of the agency but will consolidate offices that handle travel, technology, and other departments, an HHS spokesperson confirmed with Bloomberg Law.

NEW: Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones asked a bankruptcy court to reconsider its decision ending efforts to hold an auction for the assets of his Infowars media group. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

President Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department on Monday to launch a program including free legal assistance from law firms to police officers accused of wrongdoing.

NEW: Bankrupt electric-vehicle maker Nikola Corp. has lined up PACCAR Inc. to start the bidding for its environmental credits, and is gearing up to sell its 103 of its hydrogen-electric trucks that it’s valued at nearly $47 million. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/h...

SCOOP: The Office of Personnel Management intervened in a push by the fired head of the DOJ’s bankruptcy watchdog to be reinstated, signaling the merits of her appeal is important to the powerful agency at the center of mass federal terminations. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: The Dolphin Company’s former CEO, aided by armed men, took control of the Mexican headquarters in the middle of the night earlier this month, restructuring advisers battling for control of the company alleged in court filings www.bloomberg.com/news/article... via @business and Jonathan Randles

NEW: A judge rejected a call to reconsider his dismissal of a @JNJNews (Johnson & Johnson) unit’s bankruptcy that aimed to settle for $9 billion thousands of lawsuits alleging the company’s talc products caused cancer. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

Regardless of whether the letter was sent erroneously, it has set off a chain of events leading to a remarkable battle between the administration and the oldest and richest US university

How New Washington works: Companies have been bilking the govts out of billions for "skin bandages" that don't do much Biden moved to crack down Then a company donated $2M to Trump super-PAC After that, Trump publicly praised the product, and froze the crackdown www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

If you want to understand the problem of "waste, fraud, and abuse" in federal health programs, you should read this great piece by Sarah Kliff and @bykatiethomas.bsky.social on scammy skin substitute companies. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/h...

BREAKING: A federal judge has removed from bankruptcy court a slew of disputes over whether Texas law firm Jackson Walker LLP must return millions in fees for failing to disclose an onetime partner’s romance with a prominent judge. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

"New York mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo worked as a paid adviser to an offshore cryptocurrency exchange as it dealt with a federal investigation before it pleaded guilty to operating illegally in the US, according to two people familiar with the matter." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

BREAKING: A Houston bankruptcy court has dismissed the case of Johnson & Johnson unit Red River Talc LLC, which was formed to handle talc-related cancer litigation. This is the third time J&J's efforts have been thrown out of bankruptcy court.

SCOOP: The fired head of the Justice Department’s bankruptcy watchdog program is seeking reinstatement, arguing her termination violated her constitutional and statutory due process rights, according to an administrative complaint. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

NEW: The firing of the director of the Justice Department’s US Trustee Program, Tara Twomey, casts a partisan shadow onto the bankruptcy watchdog—an otherwise inconspicuous role within the federal government. news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-l...

President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a new rule that could force Canadians planning to stay in the country for more than 30 days to register their information with the US and submit to fingerprinting

Instead of speaking out on the hot-button issues, more schools are making it a policy to stay silent as political pressure mounts against higher education. More than one hundred colleges adopted “institutional neutrality” policies by the end of 2024, according to a new report.

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NEW: How Elon Musk Muscled His Way Into the FAA FAA employees are on edge. They were told that anyone who impeded progress of the new FAA-SpaceX partnership would be reported to Musk and risked losing their jobs. A ton of scoopy news in this new report. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...