Legal

A Long Island jewelry wholesaler has pleaded guilty to charges in connection with allegations he defrauded at least 80 investors, including police officers and firefighters, as part of a $200 million Ponzi scheme.

Distilleries that made hand sanitizer amid a shortage earlier this year were shocked to learn this week that the FDA was slapping them with a $14,060 fee, but in a reversal Thursday night, the Department of Health and Human Services directed the FDA to cease enforcement of the fees.

The incoming Biden administration has faced criticism from both sides of the political aisle regarding its appointment of former Big Tech employees.

North Carolina's small businesses and restaurants ravaged by the coronavirus pandemic's economic devastation are standing up to Congress. 

In addition to his trial in Japan, the 66-year-old businessman is facing a number of legal challenges in France, including tax evasion and alleged money laundering, fraud and misuse of company assets while at the helm of the Renault-Nissan alliance.

A California federal court judge overseeing the case against disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has announced the trial date will be pushed back by several months as the state, and the country, continues to grapple with the novel coronavirus pandemic. 

A legal dispute between two wealthy California neighbors was resolved Wednesday, with a judge deciding that billionaire bond king Bill Gross was harassing his neighbor by repeatedly blasting the theme song from TV sitcom “Gilligan’s Island” in the direction of the neighbor’s home.

Kellogg's Diner owner Irene Siderakis slammed coronavirus restrictions and is taking action against "the people who took our right to earn a living."

With antitrust challenges intensifying, longtime executive Kent Walker is now big man on company campus.

An Amazon warehouse worker's complaint that he was illegally disciplined for organizing fellow employees during the coronavirus pandemic was upheld in a National Labor Relations Board investigation.

Attorneys for Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes are asking a judge to keep prosecutors from sharing email correspondences between the one-time billionaire and a law firm that had been hired to represent the healthcare tech startup.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice announced they have entered into a $20 million settlement with Home Depot over lead paint violations across the country.

Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther’s legal battles over fighting the coronavirus lockdown continue.

Facebook said it would assist Epic, which is suing Apple for booting its shooting game off the App Store after it tried to circumvent the company’s 30 percent fees, by providing information on how Apple’s policies hurt the businesses that have apps on its store.

The lawsuit, filed on Wednesday with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, seeks to "remove the veil of Google’s secret practices and end Google’s abuse of its monopoly power in online advertising markets," to "restore free and fair competition," and to "secure structural, behavioral, and monetary relief to prevent Google from ever again engaging in deceptive trade practices and abusing its monopoly power to foreclose competition and harm consumers."

WASHINGTON - Amazon.com urged a U.S. judge to toss out the Pentagon's $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract award after the Defense Department said in September a court-ordered re-evaluation had determined Microsoft Corp's proposal still represented the best value for the government.

The King County Council included $7.7 million in its 2021 budget for the so-called restorative justice program.

The company has been publicly accused of other instances of gender bias and racial discrimination. In June, two former female employees, Ifeoma Ozoma and Aerica Shimizu Banks, who are Black, said they were paid less than male counterparts and were retaliated against for speaking up about it.

Under the terms of the proposed settlement, an independent monitor would be appointed that would have the authority to investigate possible fraud and corruption within the UAW and to seek discipline against the union's officers and its roughly 400,000 members before an independent ethics officer or the UAW Trial Committee.

The petition alleges that Amazon has failed to adequately comply with lawful requests from the state regarding information and documents related to the company's coronavirus protocols, including examination of its sick leave policy and cleaning procedures, as well as raw data on the number of COVID-19 infections and deaths at Amazon facilities across California.