Legal

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. 

Goldman is appealing a decision allowing a class action accusing the bank of hiding conflicts of interest when creating risky subprime securities before the 2008 financial crisis.

Officials have accused Facebook of using its wealth to squelch competition by buying rival social media platforms.

Google has broadly denied wrongdoing in response to the government’s lawsuit and other probes.

Following the payouts, the government will have sent close to $3.2 billion to nearly 37,000 victims from a $4.05 billion fund set up in 2013.

Mark Zuckerberg’s giant social network — which on Wednesday got sued by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly using its deals to buy Instagram and WhatsApp to sidestep competition — has tapped some of the nation’s top litigators for the battle, The Post has learned.

Companies that rely on customer data to anchor their products and services are driving demand for much of the legal talent, with some startups paying privacy lawyers as much as general counsels.

The Senate has narrowly approved President Donald Trump’s lame-duck nominee to become a member of the Federal Communications Commission, setting up the agency for a stretch of partisan gridlock likely to stymie President-elect Joe Biden’s policies.

Federal regulators say the company operators have defrauded consumers out of more than $137 million over the past three years.

The notification occurred after the Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions discovered a scoring error that resulted in incorrect result information for 18 applicants.