Legal

The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday sued to block U.S. chip supplier Nvidia Corp.’s proposed landmark takeover of semiconductor-design specialist Arm Holdings, arguing the chip-industry deal is anticompetitive.

Australia will introduce legislation to make social media giants provide details of users who post defamatory comments, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday.

Biotechnology entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes, a former billionaire accused of engineering a massive medical scam, expressed some remorse while on the witness stand Tuesday, but denied trying to conceal that her company's blood-testing methods weren't working as she had promised.

Juul Labs will pay Arizona $14.5 million to settle a consumer fraud lawsuit.

Elizabeth Holmes took jurors into the Theranos Inc. lab Monday during her continued testimony at her criminal-fraud trial, describing ways the startup sought to reduce errors in lab testing and miniaturize traditionally bulky blood-testing machines.

Over 11 weeks of testimony, prosecutors in Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes' trial presented a narrative of a CEO who repeatedly fabricated the successes of her technology as she built a blood-testing startup that ultimately failed. They now have to hope they convinced jurors her behavior rose to the level of criminal fraud.

California's highest court rejected on Wednesday a challenge by Monsanto Co.'s to $86.2 million in damages to a couple who developed cancer after spraying the company's Roundup weed-killer in their yards for three decades.

Los Angeles officials will look to respond to climate change with big changes in a little package by banning the distribution of ketchup packets at restaurants - unless customers first ask for one.

A longtime pilot is reportedly suing United Airlines for being placed on unpaid leave as a result of not following the company’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

Donald Trump’s company won’t have to pay hefty legal bills incurred by his former personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen.

A federal appeals court reaffirmed its decision Friday to enact a stay on President Biden’s workplace vaccination mandate following a legal challenge from Texas and several other states.

Due to an ongoing strike over contract negotiations, the cereal maker said Thursday it's resorted to "tapping our global manufacturing network and expertise" in addition to "currently hiring to fill roles" at the four plants in Battle Creek, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee.

A retired Texas-based money manager recounted his experience as an investor in failed medical startup Theranos during founder Elizabeth Holmes ongoing fraud trial on Wednesday, telling jurors his initial excitement turned to frustration as the company cut off contact about its operations.

U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth, Texas, rejected arguments by employees that the airline was improperly putting them in an "impossible position" by forcing them to choose a vaccine or unpaid leave.

The lawsuit, filed by 25,000 Disneyland cast members in 2019, accused the company of failing to comply with Anaheim's "Measure L", which requires any private business who receives city subsidies to increase their minimum wage to $18 per hour by 2022.

The Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Tuesday in the first major antitrust action by the Biden administration, saying the deal would let Penguin Random House "exert outsized influence over which books are published in the United States and how much authors are paid for their work."

Two former Apple workers have lodged lawsuits against the company, alleging patterns of discrimination, ageism and sexism in the company.

Under the DOJ settlement, Facebook will pay $4.75 million in civil penalties and set up a fund to make up to $9.5 million available to "eligible victims", the largest fine and monetary award ever recovered in the 35-year history of the Immigration and Nationality Act’s anti-discrimination provision. 

A federal judge has ruled that North Carolina’s flagship public university can continue to consider race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions, rebuffing a conservative group's argument that affirmative action disadvantages White and Asian students.

A company owned by Attorney General Merrick Garland's son-in-law racked up at least $27 million from school boards and supported 1,500 U.S. school systems, raising questions about potential conflicts of interest posed by the AG's attempt to probe school board protests.