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Elizabeth Holmes denies deception at her criminal trial

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.

Prosecutors in Elizabeth Holmes trial revealed untruths, but did they prove intent?

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.

Couple's $86M award in Monsanto pesticide case stands

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.

California judge dismisses Disneyland minimum wage lawsuit

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.

DOJ tries to block $2.2B Simon & Schuster, Bertelsmann Penguin Random House deal

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."