President Joe Biden on May 8 moved to elevate a Florida magistrate judge to a seat on a federal appeals court as part of a new slate of four judicial nominees unveiled by the White House reut.rs/3yhQGl6

An oil trading company that was sanctioned earlier this year for allegedly skirting sanctions on Russia has sued its former US law firm BakerHostetler, claiming to be the victim of a plot involving the firm and a phony US intelligence agent reut.rs/3UD2i9y

Bankrupt Steward Health Care has put all of its 31 US hospitals up for sale, hoping to finalize transactions by the end of the summer to address its $9 billion in total liabilities, its attorneys said at a May 7 court hearing in Houston reut.rs/3UTP9ua

Florida's top prosecutor and a Catholic medical group on May 7 sued the Biden administration in an effort to block a rule that they say will force doctors to provide gender transition care against their judgment or face heavy penalties reut.rs/3wqEyO1

Thirteen federal judges, who are Trump appointees, called Columbia’s Manhattan campus an ‘incubator of bigotry,’ and said they will not hire its law grads. More in this week’s audiogram by Shruthi Krishnamurthy. Read the report by Nate Raymond and Karen Sloan reut.rs/3JSZq3r

Japanese baseball great Shohei Ohtani's former interpreter has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he fraudulently wired nearly $17 million stolen from the athlete's bank account to pay off his own gambling debts, court records showed on May 8 reut.rs/3UyFjg4

NYC sued for denying gay employees in vitro fertilization coverage reut.rs/4dvPZEL

US Supreme Court reinforces police power in seized vehicle ruling reut.rs/3UBRM2p

Texas' lawsuit claiming US helped censor conservative news can proceed reut.rs/44CWSQp

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Locke Lord is set to pay $12.5 million to settle claims that it allowed one of its former energy industry clients to engage in a Ponzi scheme. A US judge signed off on the settlement between the firm and Heartland Group Ventures' court-appointed receiver reut.rs/3ypTSLa

Oakland denied deceiving fliers with new 'San Francisco Bay' airport name. Oakland argued that San Francisco's own airport name, San Francisco International Airport, is misleading because the airport is located in San Mateo County reut.rs/3UV5bE3

A Florida county sheriff on May 9 released body-camera video of a deputy fatally shooting Robert Fortson, a Black airman, in his apartment on May 3, after civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who represents the family, urged officials to release it reut.rs/3WE8TmO

The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a mother in El Paso, Texas, who alleged her doctor negligently failed to perform a sterilization procedure known as a tubal ligation was not entitled to recover any damages from him reut.rs/4ad0D0d

California Treasurer Fiona Ma, a board member of the state's two big pension systems, urged both to cast votes against two Exxon directors over the company's lawsuit seeking to block a shareholder climate resolution. Read more: reut.rs/4ahfiHZ

Pratt & Whitney is now the last defendant in a potentially high-stakes lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to restrict hiring and recruitment. Attorneys leading the proposed class action case disclosed the settlement with Belcan Engineering in a filing reut.rs/3JUQQ47

US District Judge William Alsup dismissed a case in which Musk's X accused Israeli data-scraping firm Bright Data of illegally copying and selling content, saying X failed to plausibly allege that Bright violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping reut.rs/3JS8ohw

Oklahoma's Attorney General Gentner Drummond in a statement said he was firing counsel at the Plaxico Law Firm, which he said was handpicked by state Treasurer Todd Russ to defend an anti-ESG law reut.rs/3Wy7o9F

A former owner of a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy whose mold-tainted drugs sparked a deadly US fungal meningitis outbreak in 2012 was sentenced to at least 10 years in prison for his role in the deaths of 11 Michigan residents reut.rs/44GNhIr

A federal judge in Texas blocked the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new rule capping late fees on credit cards at $8, in a victory for business and banking groups which argued the agency exceeded its authority reut.rs/4bzVqAW

Florida police on May 9 released a body-camera video of a deputy fatally shooting Robert Fortson, a Black airman, in his apartment on May 3 reut.rs/3WE8TmO

Meta Platforms has resolved a trademark lawsuit filed by investment firm Metacapital Management over the tech giant's name change from Facebook, the companies told a New York federal court reut.rs/3QHfk4S Blake Brittain