Gabe Newell, the co-founder and president of the gaming company Valve Corp., spent a morning in November 2023 with a handful of lawyers at the Arctic Club Hotel in downtown Seattle, talking in circles. Newell’s company runs Steam, the dominant online store for PC games, and was facing a lawsuit filed by a set of independent game developers who claimed that Steam operated an illegal monopoly in the $40 billion industry. Because developers relied so heavily on Steam, the suit argued, Valve has been able to stymie competition and charge “supracompetitive” fees.

Three companies agreed to to pay more than $4 million for costs and damages associated with a deadly wildfire that was caused by a gender reveal smoke bomb, the US Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles said Tuesday.

While Sixth Circuit judges Tuesday grilled both sides in a case about Tennessee’s abortion trafficking law, a judge appointed by a Democratic president expressed concern about whether the law would infringe on the sovereignty of other states.

Anti-ICE protesters whose prosecution recently fell apart said Tuesday the government should pay their legal bills in light of “serial and severe” prosecutorial misconduct.

Heron Therapeutics Inc. lost two lawsuits over Azurity Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s proposed copy of nausea-prevention drug Cinvanti, as a federal judge’s invalidation of two patents in one case triggered a prior agreement that 10 other patents aren’t infringed.

The Trump administration has formally appealed a judge’s order compelling customs authorities to refund all importers who paid the $166 billion in global tariffs that the US Supreme Court declared unlawful earlier this year.