Legal

Apple Inc. AAPL 0.52% has agreed to a $113 million settlement with more than 30 states that accused the iPhone maker of concealing issues with batteries by throttling phone performance with a software update in 2016.

Aircraft components manufacturer Rolls-Royce has agreed to pay $135,000 to 26 women who were not selected for machine operating roles at its factory in Virginia.

The National Rifle Association reached an agreement with the New York Department of Financial Services to resolve a case where they faced allegations of violating state insurance law.

Groups including the International Franchise Association, Dunkin Donuts Independent Franchise Owners Association and Supercuts Franchisee Association filed suit Tuesday night against the state of California over Assembly Bill 5, a recent state law restricting gig work like rideshare driving and freelance writing.

Apple announced on Wednesday that it is slicing its App Store commission fee from 30% to 15% for small developers as the tech giant faces a new lawsuit from Fortnite video-game maker Epic Games.

Federal prosecutors argue that former United Auto Workers vice president Joe Ashton should serve nearly three years in prison.

Honchos at online gambling sites around the world, which take wagers on election outcomes, are also refusing to call Biden president-elect, despite the final tallies in his favor in what’s been called a historically secure election.

Smalls alleges Amazon subjected a group of African American and Hispanic workers to inferior working conditions compared to its mostly white managers. 

A Boston federal appeals court ruled Thursday that Harvard University's admissions process does not intentionally discriminate against prospective Asian American students. 

Texas county commissioners have unanimously agreed to drop their lawsuit against a local sheriff over his alleged refusal to discontinue a partnership with hit A&E crime show “Live PD."

Kodak Finance Chief David Bullwinkle said on an earnings call Tuesday that the company had discovered deficiencies in its controls that had failed to prevent the “unauthorized issuance” of the company’s stock.

The commission said it takes issue with Amazon's systematic use of non-public business data to avoid “the normal risks of competition and to leverage its dominance" for e-commerce services in France and Germany, the company's two biggest markets in the EU.

The case involves $27 million worth of purchases of pieces by such artists as painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and sculptor Anish Kapoor

A long-awaited Vatican report into disgraced ex-U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is expected to be released this month to coincide with an annual meeting of American bishops, Vatican sources said on Thursday.

Apple Inc. has been ordered to face a proposed class-action lawsuit by shareholders who accused chief executive Tim Cook of concealing falling demand for iPhones in China, resulting in billions of dollars of investor losses.

Californians have reportedly voted yes on a ballot measure to exempt gig workers from state labor laws.

J&J said it will set aside a $2.1 billion reserve for the verdict, to be reflected in its year-end financial results

A group representing U.S. pension funds says the head of an Apollo Global Management Inc committee overseeing the investigation of CEO Leon Black’s ties to late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is not independent.

Two former eBay Inc employees pleaded guilty on Thursday to participating in a cyber stalking campaign against a Massachusetts couple whose online newsletter was viewed by top executives as critical of the e-commerce company.

More than 20 women have come forward to describe the culture of sexual harassment and abuse they suffered at the hands of master sommeliers and other prestigious members of the wine industry in an explosive new report.