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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

Jegara Igbara, who gained more than one million followers under the Instagram account where he went by "Jay Mazini," allegedly defrauded at least $2.5 million from his followers through a Bitcoin scheme. 

The Federal Trade Commission is mailing 146,804 checks and issuing 677 PayPal payments to students who first enrolled in a masters, bachelors, or associates degree program at University of Phoenix between October 15, 2012 and December 31, 2016, and paid more than $5,000 with cash, grants, federal and private student loans, or military benefits.

A coalition of 13 states filed one lawsuit in federal court in Louisiana, while Wyoming filed a its own lawsuit in federal court in that state. The states joining Louisiana’s suit included Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and West Virginia.

Market disruptions caused by the pandemic and near-zero interest rates have made it harder for companies to manage their pension obligations, especially plans sponsored by a single employer.

Masterpiece Cakeshop and Jack Phillips case is latest in series of US cases against merchants' religious objections

McKinsey & Co will pay $45 million to settle an investigation by Nevada of the big consulting firm’s role in fueling the U.S. opioid epidemic.

The iPhone maker has been at loggerheads with Epic Games, the creator of the popular game Fortnite, which last year tried to avoid a 30% fee which Apple charges developers on the App Store by launching its own in-app payment system.

Congressional Democrats are seeking to prevent members of the Sackler family who own OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP from using the drug company’s bankruptcy to get legal releases freeing them from government lawsuits over the opioid painkiller.

On Wednesday, district attorneys in San Francisco and Los Angeles sued Handy.com for reportedly misclassifying its workers as independent contractors instead of employees.