Pennsylvania State University’s extension school twice refused to promote a wine teacher because she failed to show “sufficient ideological commitment” to its DEI program, a complaint alleges.

A federal appeals court in Manhattan rejected a nursing home operator’s attempt to freeze a long-running National Labor Relations Board case based on alleged constitutional defects with the agency’s in-house judges.

An FDA program that seeks to expedite drug reviews for companies in line with the Trump administration’s priorities should focus on efficiency in evaluations, not speed, the agency’s former drug head said.

Staffing reductions at the Labor Department’s benefits regulator have put the agency at a “breaking point” as it attempts to oversee the nation’s vast retirement and health care benefits system, a former senior official said.

SIM IP Inc., a company started by patent monetization executive Erich Spangenberg, announced it purchased research platform Garden Intel for $150 million.

The moratorium on mass layoffs of federal workers will continue into mid-February after Congress passed a stop-gap measure funding the Department of Homeland Security, the office of Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) confirmed.

The EEOC’s new requirement for commissioner approval to bring most lawsuits puts more power in the Republican-controlled commission’s hands, even as the shift threatens to slow the pace and number of cases brought.

A prominent civil rights attorney in Texas must explain why he shouldn’t be sanctioned for improper use of artificial intelligence after a federal court found he cited a non-existent case and mischaracterized the findings of others.

A strategic shift in safety culture, a decline in Covid-19-related respiratory illnesses, and OSHA’s focus on high-hazard sectors led to a more-than-two-decade low in workplace injury and illnesses, attorneys say.

A former DLA Piper partner seeking to dismiss a subordinate’s claim he raped her in 2022 said his accuser contradicted her case testifying to a state judge that he wasn’t abusive until the following year.

Biotech billionaire Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, ImmunityBio Inc., and its leaders have defeated a shareholder challenge to a financing arrangement amid pending regulatory approval for a novel bladder cancer drug, according to a Delaware Chancery Court ruling.

When President Donald Trump dropped word bombs into a major M&A deal, Kim Hicks of Kirkland & Ellis didn’t flinch. She thrives in tense situations, including test drives of a BMW M4 at roughly 200 miles per hour at a racetrack just outside Austin, Texas.

A federal judge said Friday that attorneys could publicly release a wide range of evidence related to Border Patrol’s shooting of a Chicago woman last fall.

A Burger King franchise owner faces allegations that it violated Wisconsin’s child labor laws more than 1,600 times, including requirements for work permits and hour restrictions.

Litigation firm Beasley Allen must stop representing plaintiffs suing Johnson & Johnson over exposure to talc products, a New Jersey state court ruled Friday in a landmark ethics decision.

Bill Barr’s litigation boutique is continuing its furious growth, as it adds two former Republican Virginia attorneys general, Jason Miyares and Richard Cullen, and four other top lawyers to its ranks.

Some of the United States’ largest medical and adult-use marijuana growers and sellers schemed with each other to prevent smaller companies from gaining a foothold in Ohio dispensaries and keep prices high, the state’s attorney general said.

Opinion: Potential exposure under Illinois' Generic Privacy Act can be immense, so companies should carefully assess whether they may be targets and mitigate risk accordingly.

Nestlé USA Inc. was unable to convince a federal judge that a human rights organization’s lawsuit alleging the food company misrepresented labor practices in its cocoa supply chain should stay in federal court.

StubHub Inc. ticket buyers can’t seek a “corrective advertising campaign” because they didn’t receive refunds over events canceled during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Six US attorneys warned a “flood” of litigation by migrants challenging their detention has created a “substantial drain on the resources” of their offices in declarations filed in December with the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Connecticut law requires Amazon and other employers to pay workers for time spent going through security screenings, and there’s no exception for short bits of worker time, the state’s highest court said.

Thinking Machines Lab Inc., an artificial intelligence startup created by former top OpenAI executive Mira Murati, has hired Scale AI Inc.’s former general counsel as its first legal leader.

The Labor Department set the minimum wage for some federal contractors to $13.65 per hour, after President Donald Trump canceled a Biden-era executive order that had set it at $15 per hour.

The Trump administration has the power to to detain noncitizens arrested in the interior of the country without giving them a chance to argue for their release in immigration court, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled Friday.

Arizona laws requiring people seeking abortions to wait 24 hours after an ultrasound examination, banning the use of telemedicine for pill-induced abortions, and forcing doctors to turn away patients based on their reasons for ending a pregnancy are unconstitutional, a state court said.

A Black man’s evidence his workplace, a Florida truck selling business, was rife with hostility against him and “all minorities” could support a harassment verdict in his favor, a divided Eleventh Circuit ruled Friday.

Chinese media aggregator Qutoutiao Inc. beat investor allegations that paperwork for its initial and secondary public offerings misled shareholders about screening and placing illegal advertisements.

Hexagon Health Inc. dropped its federal lawsuit that accused Medtronic Plc of copying patented hernia-mesh designs from its founder, who had disclosed them to the medical-device maker before a potential business collaboration crumbled.

OpenAI Inc. convinced a federal judge to overturn an order requiring the company to disclose confidential messages with its attorneys to authors and newspapers accusing it of violating copyrights by training AI models on their works.

Strong Structural Steel Ltd. is barred from seeking over $11 million in damages from the Biden administration’s termination of a US-Mexico border wall project, because the company failed to adequately allege an unlawful government taking.

Amazon.com Inc. plans to stop investors from considering a shareholder proposal for details on whether the company’s business with Israel’s military and the US Department of Homeland Security comply with its standards for responsible AI use.

Cadwalader litigation practice leaders Nicholas Gravante and Phil Iovieno resigned on Friday due to conflicts of interest with clients of the firm’s partner in a planned merger, Hogan Lovells.

Missouri’s attorney general failed to provide evidence that Starbucks Corp. violated federal and state anti-bias laws by showing race- and sex-based preferences in hiring, training, promotions, and the selection of board members, a federal judge ruled.

Gemini Tech Services LLC demonstrated that the US Army failed to comply with a May 2025 court order requiring reconsideration of initial offers in a procurement for logistics support services at the Redstone Arsenal, the US Court of Federal Claims said.

Walmart Inc. has appointed a pair of in-house lawyers relatively new to the retail giant to temporarily fill the vacancy left by the exit of its chief global governance and legal officer Rachel Brand.

A Washington federal appeals court appeared likely to revive a bid by religious organizations to block the Trump administration’s policy greenlighting immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship.

SoundCloud failed to properly secure and safeguard user data in a December 2025 breach that allegedly exposed the sensitive information of about 20% of its user base, according to a new complaint.

A former Boston police officer got a second chance to sue an internet gun market that facilitated the sale of a gun used to shoot him, after a federal appeals court found evidence showing it deliberately directed its activities at the forum state.

Teen pop group OMG Girlz will argue this spring for punitive damages in a fourth jury trial over toymaker MGA Entertainment Inc.'s use of the members’ likenesses for its L.O.L. Surprise! O.M.G. dolls barring another twist in the long-running dispute.

A $50 million antitrust settlement between Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. and Sysco Corp. was overturned after a federal appeals court found several material terms were unresolved when the parties agreed to settle.

All four Big Law firms fighting President Donald Trump’s executive orders will make their arguments against the directives on the same day, an appeals court ruled Friday.

Paul Weiss is getting a new chairman for the first time in nearly two decades, but this transition is definitely not happening in a planned, orderly fashion.

Ricoh USA Inc. agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve a pair of lawsuits challenging how the office equipment maker managed its employees’ 401(k) plan.

Cambridge Health Alliance signed a $595,000 class settlement with former workers who accused the Massachusetts-based teaching hospital of failing to rein in excessive fees in their retirement plan.

Reynolds American Inc. is gaming the legal system by keeping more than $100 million after a court fight with ITG Brands LLC that should go to Philip Morris USA Inc., the tobacco titan said in a lawsuit.

Trump administration officials are exploring opening an antitrust investigation into US homebuilders as the White House sharpens its focus on tackling the country’s housing affordability crisis.

Snap Inc. awarded almost $40 million in total compensation to two top lawyers last year, while a pair of Big Law firms were paid nearly $58 million by the owner of the Snapchat app, according to a securities filing.

The US Patent and Trademark Office closed its headquarters Friday and told its staff to work remotely as it updates safety measures in response to the release of a former employee from police custody.

President Trump has assumed essentially unlimited discretion to choose how many government employees lose their job security, under a rule that critics say threatens to upend the nonpartisan professional nature of the federal civilian workforce.