Legal

Calls for increased regulation of Big Tech have been amplified following the Justice Department's filing of a landmark antitrust suit against Google this week. 

A man in Virginia lied to obtain $2.5 million in loans that were meant to help keep people employed during the coronavirus pandemic he later used to purchase a luxury car and his own airplane, according to prosecutors.

OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma has agreed to plead guilty to three federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion, Justice Department officials announced Wednesday.

A former waitress for a North Carolina-based restaurant chain is suing the company after enduring months of alleged sexual assault and harassment including one instance when she received an anonymous threat after reporting that her private sex tape had been circulated among coworkers.

Google previously paid the state of Washington $217,000 in 2018 after King County Superior Court ruled that the company did not provide access to documents filed with the state's Public Disclosure Commission in which Washington candidates and political committees reported about $1.5 million in payments to Google related to political advertising on its platform since 2013.

The U.S. Department of Justice is reportedly likely to file its highly-anticipated antitrust suit against Google early next week with without the support of any Democratic state attorneys general.

The 39-count indictment unsealed Thursday charges Brockman, the chief executive officer of Ohio-based software company Reynolds and Reynolds Co., with tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, and other offenses.

Amazon brought back a suspended productivity tracking policy, employees at a Staten Island warehouse claim.

A Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed that the department's antitrust division has entered into a plea agreement with Pilgrim's.

A group of Lower Manhattan residents and businesses sued the city Wednesday morning to prevent Mayor Bill de Blasio from moving about 240 homeless men from the Lucerne Hotel on the Upper West Side to a former Radisson Hotel in their neighborhood.

Twitter must pay $100,000 to Washington state for violating campaign finance laws between 2012 and 2019.

Democrats, since Amy Coney Barrett was announced as the Supreme Court nominee, have hammered the message that if she is confirmed Barrett could be the deciding vote in California v. Texas, a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being pushed by red states who say the individual mandate in the law is unconstitutional.

With the presidential election now just 23 days away, Americans are increasingly looking for answers.

A Harvard University professor charged with hiding his ties to a Chinese-run recruitment program sued the Ivy League school on Friday over its refusal to pay his legal defense costs, accusing it of “turning its back on a dedicated faculty member.”

According to court documents, the editor and publisher of the newsletter were first targeted after they published an article about litigation involving eBay in August 2019. 

A transgender man from New Jersey is suing Amazon for pregnancy discrimination, failure to accommodate, workplace retaliation harassment based on gender identity, alleging he was harassed by employees after informing his supervisor about his pregnancy.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Yale University, alleging the school violated federal civil-rights law by discriminating against Asian-American and white applicants in undergraduate admissions.

Prosecutors and attorneys are at odds over the ousted Theranos founder and CEO's efforts to have some of the charges against her dismissed

A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit overturned that decision in 2018, finding that Google's inclusion of Oracle's software code in Android was not permissible under U.S. copyright law.

President Trump announced Tuesday evening that he has “fully authorized the total Declassification of any & all documents" related to the Russia investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the investigation into former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.