Legal

A California appeals court ruled Thursday that tech giant Amazon is legally liable for defective products sold on its site by third parties.

An Emmy-award winning Hollywood producer with longtime ties to the NRA has emerged as a major figure in the New York attorney general's case/

A Miami businessman accused of being the mastermind behind the largest fraud case in Vermont's history pleaded guilty on Friday over a failed plan to build a biotechnology plant using tens of millions of dollars in foreign investors' money.

A battle that would rival any played on an Xbox or Play Station is underway, featuring the maker of one of the world’s most popular video games and tech titans Apple and Google.

A Los Angeles financier who tipped off investigators to the college admissions scandal was sentenced to a year behind bars for a different scheme.

The San Francisco-based home sharing company said Wednesday it is initiating legal proceedings against a guest who held an unauthorized party at a home in Sacramento County, California.

San Francisco’s district attorney on Wednesday filed a preliminary injunction against food delivery firm DoorDash to reclassify its contractors as employees, days after a judge granted a similar request in a case against ride-hailing firms Uber and Lyft.

ValueWise CEO Michael Mann pled guilty Wednesday to orchestrating a years-long fraud that caused more than $100 million in losses to banks, financing companies and other businesses, according to the Justice Department.

Michael Mann admitted in federal court in Albany that from 2013 to September 2019, he engaged in a fraudulent scheme to deceive banks and financing companies into loaning his companies tens of millions of dollars.

McDonald's accused ousted CEO Steve Easterbrook of sending nude photos of employees from his company email account to a personal email, in a lawsuit attempting to recover Easterbrook's multimillion-dollar golden parachute.

Brendan Ross, 47, who once oversaw more than $1 billion of assets at Direct Lending Investments LLC, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 10 counts of wire fraud,

A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog group is the latest to sue Zoom Video Communications over allegedly false privacy protection claims, saying the company misled and deceived users, such as those in the health care industry, who expected that the technology's encryption would protect their personal information, according to a lawsuit announced Tuesday. 

The New York Attorney General’s office filed a lawsuit against egg producer Hillandale Farms, accusing the company of engaging in price gouging during the coronavirus pandemic.

Uber and Lyft drivers in California must now be classified as employees instead of independent contractors, a shift that would guarantee benefits like overtime, sick leave and expense reimbursement for workers who make up much of the freewheeling gig economy.

The family of a Florida man who disappeared in 1997 and who appeared on the hit Netflix series “Tiger King,” has hired a lawyer and is offering $100,000 in exchange for information to help solve the case.

Mikaela Sanford will plead guilty to charges in connection with allegations that she took online classes for students.

The family of a fourth worker who died from the coronavirus during an outbreak at Tyson Foods' largest pork processing plant is suing the company over his death.

The ad agency claims Rudin owes the company $6,331,972.04 as of July 24.

The class-action lawsuit against the search engine giant was brought by former Google Plus users after two software bugs in 2018 exposed the personal information of hundreds of thousands.

The proposed class action was filed by shareholder Andrew Kornecki in the federal court in Newark, New Jersey.