Legal

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.

The Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) has asked a federal court in Texas for a temporary restraining order to prevent the airline from implementing its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees on Nov. 24.

A Colorado event planning company is suing the state's Office of Economic Development and International Trade in order to block racial preferences in the distribution of COVID-19 relief funds to disproportionately impacted businesses.

Johnson & Johnson placed into bankruptcy its liabilities for tens of thousands of claims linking talc-based products to cancer

After Scarlett Johansson settled her grievance with the Walt Disney Co. over the release and distribution of her film “Black Widow,” one leading film and entertainment expert believes the Mouse House likely unintentionally protected other studios and distributors against a “seismic shift” in Hollywood.

Education reform advocates have proposed a ballot initiative in California that could allow them to use the courts to challenge teacher-tenure laws and other policies they believe are harming public school students.

An attorney for Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen said Wednesday there was still “more to come” regarding her revelations about the company’s purported failure to address the harmful effects of its platforms.

The relationship between Theranos’s founder and her top deputy left a trail of text messages that are playing an important role in her criminal fraud trial

A lawyer for Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes tried to undercut a key prosecution witness’s testimony Tuesday, as new clues emerged about her defense strategy of shifting blame to her former top deputy and ex-boyfriend.

Pernell Anthony Jones Jr., 31, and Donmonick Martin, 29, are accused of booking flights under false identities and making false claims to commercial airlines for reimbursement for lost luggage, according to prosecutors.

Activision Blizzard Inc. on Monday said it had agreed to pay $18 million as part of a settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which had been examining allegations of gender-based harassment and retaliation at the embattled videogame-publishing giant.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google started its appeal Monday to overturn a $5 billion antitrust fine imposed by the European Union, contending that its Android operating system for mobile devices has boosted competition rather than foreclosing it.