Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. revealed in an investor filing Tuesday it has reached a tentative deal to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into claims that it ignored fraud on its Cash App, outlining terms that include a deferred prosecution agreement and payment of more than $760 million.
Jack Dorsey's Block Inc. revealed in an investor filing Tuesday it has reached a tentative deal to resolve a U.S. Department of Justice investigation into claims that it ignored fraud on its Cash App, outlining terms that include a deferred prosecution agreement and payment of more than $760 million.
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled an argument on Jan. 11 for Apple's challenge to a contempt order issued for allegedly trying to use high commissions to prevent app developers from steering users to outside payment methods in a case brought by Epic Games.
Before she became a state court judge in Washington, Judge Coreen Wilson worked as a trial attorney litigating hundreds of cases, including the country's first binding virtual civil jury trial during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hourly Apple workers have asked the Ninth Circuit to revive their claims that the tech giant underpaid them for overtime by excluding the value of company stock they received, arguing that a lower court wrongly allowed Apple to exclude the stock awards from overtime calculations.
Former state attorney general and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra's projected win in the California governor's race Tuesday night tees up fresh legal battles with the Trump administration and puts immigration, insurance and artificial intelligence policy at the top of lawyers' watch lists.
California voters on Tuesday handed state Attorney General Rob Bonta a decisive reelection win over an Orange County city administrator who briefly served as a U.S. Department of Justice deputy assistant attorney general during the current Trump administration.
Voters on ballot questions across the country Tuesday broadly opposed building new data center projects, with Ohio voters enacting roadblocks to projects pitched by Amazon, Meta and others, in an electoral test for the buildout of artificial intelligence infrastructure.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday instituted four inter partes reviews in what could be the final petitions for which he reviews the merits.
Voters in Georgia flipped Republican control of the state's Public Service Commission, which regulates investor-owned utilities, in a pair of races that attracted unusually high political spending amid rising electricity prices and a massive data center buildout.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Becca Balint and other Democrats sent a letter to McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski, pressing him on the company's use of artificial intelligence-driven pricing recommendations and how it assesses potential harm to consumers and competition.
The Federal Communications Commission is evaluating a draft plan to update rules for three spectrum bands to make it easier to deploy drones as well as expand broadband connectivity in aviation.
California has told the National Telecommunications and Information Administration that it will accept the $1.8 billion it has been allocated under the federal broadband access program, but it doesn't believe that it has to stop enforcing its state consumer protection laws, including the ones related to net neutrality.
Low-power stations told the Federal Communications Commission they would stand behind a decision by full-power broadcasters to adopt the next-generation TV transmission standard, but urged the agency not to apply a federal sunset of the older standard to LPTV.
A conservative litigation group challenging the Universal Service Fund asked the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday to zero out the fees supporting the fund next quarter.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, on Tuesday announced a confirmation hearing next week for a third Republican nominee to the Federal Communications Commission.
China and Peru have updated their bilateral trade treaty to both update existing provisions and add new ones aimed at addressing changes in commerce and global trade since the deal was first reached in 2009, the two countries said.
The First Circuit refused to reinstate a lawsuit from a data architect who said a health benefits company fired her because she's a woman, saying she hadn't alleged that colleagues responsible for "stray" sexist comments played a role in her termination.
Financial software company SS&C can pursue its suit alleging fintech firm Arcesium misappropriated trade secrets from its software program, Geneva, to build a rival product, Trinity, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
The Second Circuit on Tuesday upheld a New York federal jury's verdict ordering a luxury reseller to pay Chanel Inc. $4 million for selling unauthorized handbags, but vacated as "premature" the trial court's award of more than $560,000 in litigation expenses to Chanel.
The Eleventh Circuit seemed reluctant Tuesday to reinstate a malicious prosecution case from a former Georgia Tech professor who was accused but not convicted of selling off microchips the school paid for, suggesting the auditors he'd gone after weren't the right targets for his suit.
Lockheed Martin Corp. agreed to pay $29.5 million under two settlements announced Monday by the U.S. Department of Justice over allegations that the defense contractor considered race or sex in some pay, hiring and promotion decisions while certifying compliance with federal antidiscrimination requirements
A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday granted Apple Inc.'s bid to transfer a communal streaming app developer's antitrust lawsuit against it to California, saying "court congestion" and "local interest" weigh in favor of moving the case to the Golden State.
Meta Platforms Inc. can't get a sex trafficking case against it dismissed to be refiled in California court, a Texas appeals court ruled on Tuesday, finding the social media company waived its forum-selection clause by taking the case to Texas's highest court.
Rivian Automotive Inc. executives and the company's investors Tuesday filed a notice telling a California federal court they reached a settlement to end derivative claims Rivian hid the true price of manufacturing its electric vehicles ahead of its initial public offering.
Artificial intelligence music service Suno Inc. urged a Massachusetts federal judge to throw out a proposed class action accusing the company of copying musicians' identifying attributes, arguing that U.S. copyright law does not protect a musician's artistic style.
Public Citizen and the Sierra Club urged a Texas federal court to pause the construction of power plants and backup diesel generators for two data center campuses in the state, claiming their members will be harmed if the work continues.
A group of Texas homeowners is pushing back against SpaceX's bid to throw out their noneconomic damages in a suit alleging that its space launches were loud enough to damage their homes, saying the Elon Musk-owned company knew about the dangers but pressed on anyway.
The top brass of Bloom Energy Corp. on Tuesday were hit with another lawsuit claiming they misled shareholders by understating the extent to which the renewable energy company depended on Chinese scandium, a critical raw material used in its fuel cells.
A California federal judge has revoked Boies Schiller Flexner's status as interim class counsel for a group of authors suing Meta with allegations that their works were used without permission to train artificial intelligence, several months after the judge criticized the firm for how long it took to add a contributory infringement claim to the case.
Nearly two dozen photographers have reached a settlement in principle with Uber over claims that the company used their photos on Uber Eats without permission and infringed their copyrights, according to a joint notice the parties filed in Florida federal court Tuesday.
Artificial intelligence company Applied Compute, advised by Latham & Watkins LLP, revealed that it has reached a $3.25 billion valuation after securing $350 million in its latest funding round.
Recent patent disputes involving technologies that support artificial intelligence data centers showcase the growing litigation risks that data center suppliers and operators face, and raise questions about how litigation responsibilities may be allocated between them, say attorneys at Katten.
The OpenAI CEO’s recent call for artificial intelligence laboratories to collectively slow development to allow safety research to catch up invites antitrust scrutiny, but the risks to coordinating competitors can be managed by carefully structuring pacing agreements and layering their approach to compliance, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
For businesses whose deployed artificial intelligence agents could enter other companies' systems and steal protected data, deployers can take several steps before an incident to test the configured agent, such as limiting it to approved systems and destinations and requiring human escalation when tasks stall, says Steven Carlson at von Briesen & Roper.
Recent rulings adopting a heightened, "objectively and readily verifiable" inaccuracy standard may give credit furnishers stronger defenses to identity theft-related Fair Credit Reporting Act claims in the Ninth Circuit, while requiring them to continue documenting thorough dispute investigations, says Brian Kiolbasa at Ballard Spahr.
The 2026 midterm elections included bids for office by several former U.S. Department of Justice officials and nominees for the federal bench, with one race a dead heat and several others decided as of early Wednesday.
Gibson Dunn is set to hire the U.S. and London-based private funds teams from Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP, bringing on 120 attorneys in the largest group move reported since Weil's management committee recommended last week that the firm wind down operations.
From BigLaw attorneys and solo practitioners to university professors, thousands of attorney volunteers turned out for Tuesday's midterm elections to ensure American voters' ballots would be counted.
Litigation funders can rest easy, for now, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will need to rethink its approach after last night's midterm elections saw Democrats rout Republicans, scrambling a yearslong effort for federal regulation of litigation finance that's so far relied on Republicans.
Democrats are poised to oversee a majority of state attorneys general offices around the country after Tuesday's elections saw the party hang on to all of its existing seats and flip control of five offices from the Republicans, according to unofficial election results.
Vedder's New York City staff will move to a new downtown Manhattan office sometime in 2027 after the law firm signed a 49,000-square-foot lease in a 2.6-million-square-foot office tower, according to landlord Rockefeller Group.
A leading in-house employment attorney for Amazon has departed to join Ogletree Deakins' Seattle office, bringing expertise helping Fortune 50 companies navigate workforce challenges to the firm.
Trump advisor Boris Epshteyn will answer for himself why he has allegedly been evading subpoenas in the American Bar Association's legal challenge to the administration's law firm targeting campaign, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Wednesday.
The National Crime Victim Law Institute has accused the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims of unlawfully terminating a $500,000 cooperative agreement aimed at strengthening legal support for disabled crime victims in the wake of an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
Holland & Hart LLP and two of its attorneys were accused of malpractice in Colorado state court Tuesday by a former client who claims the attorneys failed to inform her that a wealth transfer plan with her then-husband left her iced out of the couple's most valuable asset.
Former SCOTUSblog publisher Tom Goldstein was hit with a $1 million forfeiture order Wednesday by a Maryland federal judge in the wake of his tax and mortgage fraud trial, where the appellate advocate was convicted on a dozen charges.
