Instacart won't be able to block New York City's laws for app-based delivery workers instituting a new minimum wage, tipping options and disclosure requirements while it challenges a federal court's order, a New York federal judge ruled.
Instacart won't be able to block New York City's laws for app-based delivery workers instituting a new minimum wage, tipping options and disclosure requirements while it challenges a federal court's order, a New York federal judge ruled.
Four Massachusetts defendants were charged Tuesday with collecting more than $1 million in fraudulent food and unemployment benefits in what the state's top federal prosecutor called part of a broader U.S. Department of Justice initiative to root out fraud in government benefit programs.
Specialty food product manufacturer The Marzetti Company, advised by King & Spalding LLP, on Tuesday unveiled plans to acquire Japanese Barbecue Sauce brand Bachan's Inc., led by Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, in a $400 million deal.
The Washington State Supreme Court has decided to take up a restaurant's appeal of nearly $1 million in fines that regulators imposed against the eatery for offering indoor dining services during the COVID-19 pandemic, in violation of the governor's emergency proclamation.
The maker of 5-Hour Energy has urged the Ninth Circuit not to revisit a lower court ruling tossing claims from family-owned wholesalers that the energy drink company violated price discrimination law by providing Costco with disproportionate promotional support.
The California Supreme Court has ruled that the mere presence of loose cannabis in a vehicle doesn't trigger the state's "open container" law, but instead it must be in a usable quantity and readily accessible to the driver to create probable cause that justifies a search.
An Illinois federal judge has approved a $3.3 million settlement resolving a lawsuit by current and former supermarket meat, bakery and deli managers who alleged Kroger subsidiary Mariano's falsely claimed they were exempt from overtime pay.
The sentencing of a former executive at rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's liquor brand came to an 11th-hour halt Tuesday following the prosecution's letter suggesting he violated his agreement in which he pled guilty to fraud.
The developer of a purported artificial intelligence-powered bartender robot faces a proposed class action accusing it of misleading investors about Microsoft's involvement in its project, causing the company's share price to sink after the truth was revealed but not before the developer locked in a $38.7 million private placement deal.
Kansas would allow localities to increase their liquor tax rates if approved by voters in order to offset revenue losses from lowering property tax rates in the area under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.
As the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission begins a new chapter under recently confirmed Chairman Michael Selig's leadership, a look back at the agency's actions in agricultural markets over the past six years sheds light on what may lie ahead for enforcement in the area, say attorneys at Latham.
Federal courts have been inundated with a flood of cases stemming from the Trump administration's revised approach to the detention of unauthorized immigrants, with judges routinely ruling against the government as immigration attorneys scramble to keep up.
Several clients asked the leader of Baker McKenzie's Washington, D.C., office to stop handling work for them after he was accused of sexual assault, according to a new filing in a defamation case against the former firm associate who made the allegations.
The top outside accountant handling tax returns for SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein and his law firm said Tuesday that Goldstein wasn't forthcoming about his gambling records and that he firmly believed the former U.S. Supreme Court attorney knew what was in his allegedly false tax returns when they were filed.
After decades on the bench of the Santa Clara County Superior Court, Judge Erica Yew began to regard the future of courtroom evidence with some trepidation, as the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence made it easier to falsify documents, photos and videos.
A Kansas federal judge has issued sanctions against a group of lawyers representing a technology company in a patent dispute and has referred one attorney for disciplinary action over case citations hallucinated by ChatGPT appearing in a legal brief.
The killing of Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old U.S. citizen and lawful gun owner, by federal immigration enforcement agents in Minneapolis last month brought to the fore a long-standing tension between two constitutional rights that the U.S. Supreme Court has never resolved, legal experts say.
The relatives of a Minnesota intensive care nurse killed by ICE agents have secured legal representation from a former federal prosecutor who helped secure the conviction of an ex-police officer in the killing of George Floyd, and a criminal defense attorney coming off a high-profile murder case.
The U.S. government has asked a Texas federal judge to reject a bid for pretrial release from a currently detained attorney charged with cyberstalking other attorneys at BigLaw firms.
The former longtime head of Queens Defenders copped to a count of fraud conspiracy in Brooklyn federal court Tuesday after prosecutors said she diverted over $100,000 intended for indigent residents and used the money for a lavish lifestyle.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has seen sweeping changes under Director John Squires and Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart, ranging from pro-patent owner policies at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to employment shake-ups that have prompted departures from the agency.
