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TikTok, the wildly popular video app, and its Chinese parent ByteDance could face a damages claim worth billions of dollars in London's High Court over allegations they illegally harvested the private data of millions of European children.

Meng Wanzhou is facing charges in the United States for allegedly misleading HSBC about Huawei's business dealings in Iran, potentially causing the bank to break U.S. sanctions.

Insurer Hartford Financial Services Group said on Friday it had agreed to a settlement with the Boy Scouts of America and would pay $650 million for sexual abuse claims associated with policies issued mostly in the 1970s.

Until Bernie Madoff’s scheme came crashing down and the biggest Ponzi scheme in Wall Street’s history came to light, he appeared as a charming wizard with a Midas touch.

The judge hearing the Texas antitrust lawsuit against AlphabetInc's Google put limits on what the search giant's in-house lawyers can see in an order aimed at ensuring that confidential information used in an upcoming trial remains secure.

Charles Schwab Corp is suing one of its former customers after the retail brokerage allegedly sent more than $1.2 million to an account of the Louisiana woman and then could not get the money back.

Kelyn Spadoni, 33, was taken into custody Wednesday on charges of theft valued over $25,000, bank fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds.

Michael Sanchez, brother of Jeff Bezos' girlfriend Lauren Sanchez, says he is vindicated by the latest revelation in the saga of leaked texts that exposed Bezos' affair.

A federal judge on Friday ruled against Amazon.com Inc as the company defends against New York Attorney General Letitia James' lawsuit claiming it prioritized profit over worker safety during the COVID-19 pandemic at two New York City warehouses.

Boeing Co said Thursday it had filed a suit against and canceled contracts with a Texas-based supplier for Air Force One, the aircraft that carriers the U.S. president, over delays in completing interior work on the two heavily modified 747-8 planes.

During the pandemic, most debt collectors gave borrowers a break, understanding the financial hardships they faced. Despite this, one firm did not take these hardships into account and instead filed more collection lawsuits after the lockdowns began.

Although the nation’s largest utility denied committing "any crime," PG&E did acknowledge that its equipment sparked the blaze.

"McDonald's distribution centers (DCs) may have been victims of the purported conspiracy, unknowingly purchasing broiler chickens from Tyson and Keystone Foods (now owned by Tyson) at alleged wrongfully-inflated prices, which our DCs then resold to McDonald's and franchisees," Marion Gross, McDonald's chief supply chain officer, and Angie Steele, the interim US general counsel wrote in the memo.

The Supreme Court Monday ruled in Google's favor, deciding that the tech giant's use of lines of code that was copyrighted by Oracle was permitted as "fair use."

The massive natural-gas bills incurred during the Texas freeze have kicked off a spate of lawsuits around the country as companies argue over who is responsible for the tab.

Uber strongly rejected the claims and has strongly disagreed with the ruling.

A Florida lawsuit accusing Intel of unlawful interception of electronic communication – aka wiretapping – claims the company used the software to capture mouse movements and clicks, data input into the website, content viewed on the website, dates and times of visits, and how the plaintiffs generally interacted with the tech giant’s site.

A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed litigation accusing 10 large banks of conspiring to suppress competition in the now $21.2 trillion market for U.S. Treasury securities.

The ruling could make it easier to bring state court lawsuits against other car makers and companies that do business nationwide

Uber and Lyft deny that their drivers are misclassified, saying the vast majority enjoy the flexibility that comes with on-demand work