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CIVIL APPEALS Mick Mulvaney's CFPB Drops Case Against Mortgage Lender PHH Corp. By C. Ryan Barber The dismissal comes fives months after a Washington federal appeals court upheld the CFPB's power structure as constitutional...  Read More EMPLOYMENT COMPLIANCE   |   COMMENTARY As SCOTUS Abandons Workers, States, Cities Must Fill Void By Joanna Pearl Now more than ever, states and cities must play a role in fighting for the rights of workers and ensuring the most vulnerable...  Read More CIVIL APPEALS   |   NEWS DOJ Civil Chief, 3 Former SCOTUS Clerks Among Latest Trump Court Picks By Ellis Kim The president's 15th round of judicial nominations also included a slate of Big Law lawyers.  Read More CONTRACTS CVS, Best Buy End Job-Applicant Personality Tests Amid EEOC Probe By Erin Mulvaney The use of personality tests ballooned over the last decade, as companies tried to f...

TODAY'S TOP STORIES Rachel Brand, DOJ's No. 3, Is Leaving for Walmart's Top Legal Post Rachel Brand, the third-in-command at the U.S. Justice Department, is leaving the agency to become head of global corporate...  READ MORE » Atlanta Fires Back at Morgan Lewis With New Lawsuit in Pension Fight The lawsuit focuses on payments to Morgan Lewis from two pension funds the firm represents in litigation against the...  READ MORE » Crowell & Moring Profits Fall Sharply Despite 'Strong' Finish Profits per partner fell 23 percent last year after an uncommonly profitable 2016. The firm says the trend lines are...  READ MORE » Mulvaney's CFPB Doesn't Want to Keep Arguing Over the Agency's Structure The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is moving to stop at least two companies from continuing to argue that enforcement...  READ MORE » 2nd Circuit Vacates Arab Bank's $100M Liability in Hamas Terrorist Attacks The Second Circu...

02/09/2018 07:22 AM EDT By Lauren Dezenski  ( ldezenski@politico.com ; @LaurenDezenski) with Brent D. Griffiths ( bgriffiths@politico.com ; @BrentGriffiths) GOOD MORNING MASSACHUSETTS.  Welcome to Friday. The federal government is  no longer shut down . Among the Massachusetts delegation, Stephen Lynch, Bill Keating, and Niki Tsongas all  voted to end the shutdown . BAKER'S PLANNED PARENTHOOD BOOST -  Gov.  Charlie Baker  got a hit of good news from an unlikely ally yesterday.  Planned Parenthood Massachusetts  lauded the Baker administration for locking down $1.6 million in the state's supplemental budget that allocated for family planning services for low-income and uninsured residents in case the Trump administration doesn't extend federal grants to do just that. The move isn't a surprise - Baker, last spring, promised to  maintain funding  for Planned Parenthood even if the Trump administration made cuts. What is su...