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May 21, 2026
Imported Russian unwrought palladium is facing a nearly 110% countervailing duty rate following a final determination issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce on Thursday.
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May 21, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Thursday granted preliminary approval to another deal between Agri Stats Inc. and purchasers to resolve their claims that the company's benchmarking reports helped enable a price-fixing conspiracy among major turkey producers.
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May 21, 2026
Zillow has answered a complaint in Virginia federal court from federal authorities over a deal to pay Redfin $100 million to stop competing on multifamily listings, arguing that the syndication deal came as the smaller competitor faced no other path to increase its apartment listings and dig itself out of debt.
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May 20, 2026
A former Johnson & Johnson toxicologist could not find evidence his employer turned over a report to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that "unmistakably" found asbestos in the company's talc, according to a video deposition shown Wednesday to a California jury considering bellwether claims over three women's deadly ovarian cancer.
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May 20, 2026
Bayer CropScience has agreed to back off, for the next seven years, from implementing requirements in its loyalty program where it was accused of tying discounts to sales targets that independent seed companies had to meet, according to the U.S. Department of Justice's announcement made Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
The high-profile trial over Elon Musk's challenge to OpenAI's for-profit conversion wrapped Monday with a quick jury verdict in favor of OpenAI and its executives, but the three-week trial drew some surprising moments for those in the courtroom who had front row seats to the fight between billionaires.
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May 20, 2026
Federal regulators have unveiled a proposal to revamp a key ratings system used for grading the condition of banks, outlining changes that could make it harder to penalize banks on exams for governance and compliance issues unless they pose a clear financial threat.
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May 20, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. faces calls to coordinate with fellow federal agencies and include state banking regulators in its coming application process for stablecoin issuers under its supervision.
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May 20, 2026
Amazon called on a Washington federal judge Tuesday to deny two consumers' bid for sanctions against it in a proposed class action over alleged price-gouging on the e-commerce platform during the COVID-19 pandemic, saying the plaintiffs are trying to dodge major legal hurdles by leveling baseless claims of failure to preserve evidence.
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May 20, 2026
A statistics expert for Meta sought Wednesday to undermine the claim that social media has driven a rise in mental health conditions among teens, saying the New Mexico attorney general's key witness on the topic didn't consider alternative factors like widening access to mental health care.
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May 20, 2026
Dow Jones urged a New York federal judge to toss a defamation suit brought by Binance over a Wall Street Journal article saying the cryptocurrency exchange fired internal investigators who uncovered transactions that purportedly went to sanctioned Iranian-backed entities, arguing that Binance hadn't shown the article was published with actual malice.
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May 20, 2026
A Maryland federal judge on Wednesday refused an eleventh-hour request from the Dali cargo ship's owner and manager to delay a trial that's starting in less than two weeks to determine the scope of liability and damages over Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge disaster, according to an attorney for certain claimants.
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May 20, 2026
An Illinois couple who sued Stellantis North America over the carmaker's allegedly lax data security practices that caused a cyberattack on Christmas Day 2025 have decided to voluntarily drop their lawsuit, according to a Wednesday notice in Michigan federal court.
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May 20, 2026
A Fourth Circuit panel refused to order Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Co. LLC to halt construction on an interstate pipeline, saying in an order Monday that environmental groups failed to persuade the judges that a recently issued discharge permit was arbitrary and capricious.
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May 20, 2026
Furniture chain Ikea and snack giant Mondelez are the latest companies to get hit with Illinois lawsuits seeking refunds of tariffs customers say they ultimately paid through inflated product prices before the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately found the tariffs illegal.
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May 20, 2026
A Washington state judge denied Live Nation's effort to split an upcoming trial over a 2023 music festival shooting into separate liability and damages phases, siding with victims' family members who argue they would be unfairly prejudiced by bifurcating the case.
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May 20, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday sent to arbitration a suit accusing Roblox Corp., Epic Games Inc. and Microsoft Corp. of causing a minor's video game addiction, saying the claims fall within broad arbitration provisions in the companies' user agreements.
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May 20, 2026
The U.S. subsidiary of Chinese electronics giant Anker Innovations Ltd. has urged a Washington federal court to preserve the company's ability to sell robotic vacuum cleaners on Amazon.com, claiming another Chinese seller is using baseless patent infringement allegations in a bid to scrub its products from the online marketplace.
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May 20, 2026
Exxon Mobil Corp. this week accused a Massachusetts government lawyer of trying to mislead a deposition witness with an altered photograph, and sought to sanction the state in its ongoing climate change suit against the energy giant, but drew a skeptical reply from a state judge during a hearing Wednesday.
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May 20, 2026
Two advocacy groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the online gaming platform Roblox, claiming its design features, virtual currency system and chat functions have harmed millions of children through grooming, abuse, unexpected charges totaling thousands of dollars and exposure to sexual references and racial slurs, an announcement Wednesday said.
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May 20, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sent warning letters to a dozen companies that offer artificial intelligence tools that allow people to "nudify" images, marking some of its first regulatory actions under a revenge porn law that went into force the day prior.
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May 20, 2026
Automaker General Motors Co. and drivers seeking class certification over alleged air conditioning problems were sharply questioned by a Michigan federal judge Wednesday who pressed both sides on whether the claims can truly generate "common answers" across proposed statewide classes covering thousands of truck and SUV owners.
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May 20, 2026
Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced the arrest of two men on charges that they used artificial intelligence software to create pornographic images depicting real people without their consent, in violation of a recently enacted federal law.
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May 20, 2026
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Wednesday that last-minute settlement proposals in merger cases put enforcers in a tough spot and ultimately hurt the merger review process, as the agency considers ways to avoid litigating the offers in court.
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May 20, 2026
The D.C. Circuit ordered the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday to respond to a call from several former agency leaders for court action that would compel the FCC into rethinking its controversial policy against "news distortion."