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More than a dozen major unions filed a lawsuit seeking to block the administration of President Donald Trump from shutting down a federal agency that mediates labor disputes in the public and private sectors reut.rs/42fE5vf

Law firms that have pledged $940M so far in free legal work and made other concessions to U.S. President Donald Trump are facing a backlash from some of their own lawyers, who say the firms compromised too much to avoid a showdown with the administration @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/42aD6we

A prominent conservative group sued the American Bar Association, alleging that a scholarship program meant to boost the number of racially and ethnically diverse law students is discriminatory reut.rs/4i9kYaF

Idaho's abortion ban does not prevent doctors from performing abortions when a pregnant woman's life is in danger, even if her death is "neither imminent nor assured," a judge has ruled reut.rs/4ihGQRg

Trump administration freezes about $2.3 billion in funding to Harvard reut.rs/4jlghfe

El Salvador's Bukele says he will not return man the US mistakenly deported reut.rs/44mY6Bh

Trump administration moves to scrap Biden-era credit card late fee rule reut.rs/42GKEHf

Perkins Coie government contracts lawyer leaves firm as it battles Trump order @mikescarcella.bsky.social reut.rs/43T25pa

Column: FTC stays the course on antitrust enforcement in defending premerger rule @jgreenejenna.bsky.social reut.rs/42c3EgE

Harvard will fight Trump administration demands over funding reut.rs/3EiKIni

A prominent conservative group sued the American Bar Association on April 12, alleging that a scholarship program meant to boost the number of racially and ethnically diverse law students is discriminatory reut.rs/4i9kYaF

Unions sue to block Trump from eliminating labor mediation agency reut.rs/42fE5vf

Judge orders Bank of America to pay $540 million in FDIC lawsuit reut.rs/4j9Dpxj

Idaho's abortion ban does not prevent doctors from performing abortions when a pregnant woman's life is in danger, even if her death is 'neither imminent nor assured,' a judge ruled reut.rs/4ihGQRg

The suspect in a weekend arson attack on Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro's official residence said he 'harbored hatred' against the Democrat and would have beaten him with a hammer if he had encountered the governor inside the mansion reut.rs/4iaYQg9

The US Government Accountability Office plans to scrutinize changes at the SEC, including any led by the White House or Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, according to a letter sent to Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill reut.rs/3G5ViOZ

Swiss generic drug manufacturer Sandoz said it had filed an antitrust lawsuit in the United States against Amgen over the alleged entrenchment of the market position of its blockbuster medicine, Enbrel (etanercept) reut.rs/42H0SQC

Law firms’ deals with Trump roil their staff, deepen industry rifts reut.rs/42aD6we @mikescarcella.bsky.social

El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said he had no plans to return a man mistakenly deported from the US, suggesting doing so would be like smuggling a terrorist into the country. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4iQvdSd

Good afternoon! Trump officials push immigrant gang message, but sometimes don't back it up in court; Plus, ABA sued over diversity scholarships by conservative group. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: reut.rs/4iQvdSd

US judge asks if 'constitutional crisis' looms in Tufts student's immigration case reut.rs/4jwO70G

BREAKING: Trump administration sued over tariffs in US Court of International Trade reut.rs/42vIadE

US officials said in court filings on April 13 that they were not obligated to help a Maryland resident get out of prison in El Salvador after he was erroneously deported, despite SCOTUS ruling directing the government to ‘facilitate’ his return to the United States reut.rs/3G996bt

US charges man suspected in arson attacks at New Mexico Republican headquarters, Tesla reut.rs/4cACAew

As US President Donald Trump's administration cracks down on immigration, its officials have repeatedly publicly identified detainees as gang leaders or even terrorists, without attempting to back those inflammatory claims up in court reut.rs/4igqit6

Trump wants to deport some US citizens to El Salvador reut.rs/3YwtxFv

Harvard University professors are suing to block the Trump administration's review of nearly $9 billion in federal contracts and grants awarded to the Ivy League school as part of a crackdown on what it says is antisemitism on college campuses reut.rs/4lv5bWA

President Donald Trump's administration could lay off workers at the CFPB, but not abolish the agency, an appeals court ruled on April, 11 reut.rs/42Jp2Kj

Idaho judge relaxes abortion ban in cases where woman's life at risk reut.rs/4ihGQRg

Prospective jurors in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs' trial next month will be asked about their opinions on a range of issues including kidnapping, drug distribution and sex trafficking, according to draft questionnaires filed by the hip-hop mogul's lawyers reut.rs/4jbreAe

New York sues DailyPay and MoneyLion, alleging predatory payday lending reut.rs/4jB6vFR

US District Judge Paula Xinis questioned the Trump administration’s response to her inquiry about what steps, if any, it had taken to return a man to the United States who had been wrongly deported to El Salvador. Read more in The Daily Docket. Subscribe: reut.rs/4bYtR5B

American Bar Association sued over diversity scholarships by conservative group reut.rs/4i9kYaF

The former chief financial officer of disbarred California attorney Tom Girardi's law firm has been sentenced to 121 months in prison for stealing millions of dollars in client funds reut.rs/43M6dat

Jury selected for retrial of Sarah Palin's New York Times defamation suit reut.rs/4icYvJW

Two Democratic commissioners at the FTC sought on April 11 to expedite their lawsuit challenging their firing by President Trump, saying the move was blatantly illegal under 90 years of SCOTUS precedent reut.rs/3G8qVYf

Sean 'Diddy' Combs to face expanded sex trafficking charges as trial looms reut.rs/3E9muvL

UnitedHealth Group is demanding that healthcare providers repay the loans they received from the company after a cyberattack at its tech unit Change Healthcare last year, according to two providers reut.rs/42tWWBG

Former Girardi Keese CFO Christopher Kamon was ordered to pay $8.9 million in restitution, as part of his sentencing in a fraud case. He was sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for stealing millions of dollars in client funds. Subscribe: reut.rs/4bYtR5B

US prosecutors plan to review the case of a former FBI informant who admitted to fabricating bribery claims against former President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to a court filing on April 11 reut.rs/4lp0ygG

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making threats online to murder President Trump and immigration agents, the DOJ said on April 11 reut.rs/4j5FTN8

Two US human rights advocates represented by the American Civil Liberties Union on April 11 filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump's decision to impose sanctions on the chief prosecutor of the ICC reut.rs/3XW1nDT

The Trump administration has terminated temporary deportation protections for thousands of Afghans and Cameroonians in the US, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said on April 11, building on Trump's far-reaching immigration crackdown reut.rs/4lmDvDf

The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that more than 60,000 ballots cast in November by voters in a close race for a seat on the state's high court could be counted, but it left open the possibility of discounting thousands of others. Subscribe: reut.rs/4bYtR5B

Facebook parent Meta Platforms bought up nascent rivals Instagram and WhatsApp after its attempts to compete had failed, an attorney for the FTC said at the beginning of a high-stakes trial in Washington, where US antitrust enforcers seek to unwind the deals reut.rs/42yJxYV

The US Military Academy and the US Air Force Academy will no longer consider race as a factor in admissions as the military schools had long done to boost enrollment of Black, Hispanic and other minorities, President Trump's administration said reut.rs/43VHYXv

Pharmaceutical company Sandoz sued rival Amgen in US court over its rheumatoid arthritis drug Enbrel, accusing it of an illegal scheme to stymie competition from cheaper biosimilar versions of the medication. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/4bYtR5B

President Trump's administration on April 11 moved to cut off all federal education funding for Maine's public schools after state officials said they would not comply with demands that it ban transgender athletes from girls' sports teams reut.rs/4jzeWBv