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Steak 'n Shake Inc. sued lender Fortress Investment Group LLC after the burger chain paid off debt coming due to avoid bankruptcy, accusing Fortress of misusing confidential information to mount a takeover bid.

A California woman has sued her husband’s employer because she believes he caught the novel coronavirus at work and brought it home with him – ultimately infecting her, too.

Facebook announced on Thursday that it would ramp up its efforts to counter misinformation about climate change.

Former New York Lieutenant Gov. Betsy McCaughey believes more information about corruption in the Cuomo administration will start coming out now that Democrat colleagues are starting to “break.”

Two longtime Boeing Co. directors are stepping down as the aerospace giant's board undergoes more changes in the wake of the 737 MAX crisis,

Attorneys representing embattled Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes have fired back again in an attempt to prevent prosecutors from detailing the one-time billionaire’s “wealth, spending, and lifestyle” as they try to prove a motive for her alleged fraud.

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed suit against Amazon on Tuesday, accusing the e-commerce giant of failing to adequately protect its frontline employees during the coronavirus pandemic.

Citi, which has blamed the snafu on human error, argued that recipients knew right away they had been paid in error.

Former New York Gov. George Pataki is calling for a bipartisan investigation with subpoena power over the alleged nursing home scandal.

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and Sanofi SA were ordered by a U.S. judge on Monday to pay more than $834 million to the state of Hawaii for failing to properly warn non-white patients of health risks from its blood thinner Plavix.

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer denied an emergency request by lawyers for U.S. Army special forces veteran Michael Taylor and his son, Peter Taylor.

The judge’s decision is likely to escalate the clash between members of Arizona’s San Carlos Apache Tribe, who consider the land home to deities, and Rio and minority partner BHP Group Plc, who have spent more than $1 billion on the project without producing any copper, the red metal used to make electric vehicles and other electronics devices.

Together, the roughly 300 civil liberties lawsuits related to Covid-19 represent the most significant test in more than a century of the emergency powers of state governors and the scope of liberty in dire times.

General Motors Co. has agreed to a $5.75 million settlement with California regarding false statements the company made to investors about problems with its deadly ignition switches, state officials announced Friday.

The trial for embattled Theranos executive Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani has been pushed back to January 2022 after his colleague and rumored girlfriend Elizabeth Holmes’ court date was pushed back amid novel coronavirus concerns

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday declined to further delay the extradition to Japan of two men charged with helping former Nissan Motor Co Ltd Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee the country.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen on leading the effort to reverse Biden’s Keystone XL pipeline decision.

In opposing an asset freeze, the executors' lawyers said George had not shown the estate had been "mismanaged"

After reconsidering the issue, the federal government said it now maintains that the Affordable Care Act is constitutional 

Robinhood is facing a class-action lawsuit after restricting trades on several stocks, including GameStop and AMC, two weeks ago.