President Donald Trump has nominated two children of judges on the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit who would sit on courts within their jurisdiction, a rarity for the federal judiciary.

State-law limited partners can qualify for an exemption from self-employment taxes on their distributive shares of income without the Tax Court analyzing case-by-case whether they operate as passive investors, the Fifth Circuit ruled Friday.

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has recommended a former assistant US attorney and longtime congressional aide to be the first Black woman nominated for a federal judgeship in President Donald Trump’s second term.

OpenAI Inc.'s confidential messages with attorneys about deleting pirated data may be protected by attorney-client privilege, a federal judge said, but “it’s not a good look” that the company waffled on its stance.

Womble Bond Dickinson has added a 36-member consumer financial team from McGlinchey Stafford to expand its ability to advise clients on state and federal regulations, the firm announced Friday.

A former Chesapeake Energy Corp. bondholder sued an ex-judge and a former Jackson Walker LLP partner for failing to disclose their romance, alleging “mass corruption” aided by major law firms in the Houston bankruptcy court.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion Monday excoriating governmental diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in his state as unconstitutional and said private sector efforts may violate federal and state anti-discrimination and securities laws.

Hackensack Meridian Health Inc. was hit with a proposed class action challenging its practice of imposing a health-plan surcharge on covered employees who smoke.

A former Lockheed Martin Corp. mechanical engineer convinced a federal judge to award her additional long-term disability benefits her insurer denied her after she suffered adverse symptoms from the Covid-19 vaccine.

A pair of ex-Amazon employees failed to convince a federal judge that the company unlawfully used tens of millions of dollars annually in retirement fund contributions from employees who left the company to offset Amazon’s own 401(k) obligations.

Donald Trump linked his claims on Greenland to not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in a letter the US president sent to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store.

WSP USA Inc.‘s health plan defeated a lawsuit by a transgender woman who says she was wrongly denied coverage for facial feminization surgery because its language bars her from seeking relief, a federal judge ruled.

For the past several weeks, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, Grok, has been routinely and repeatedly used to digitally undress people on X. Despite a mounting outcry from global regulators, the tool has continued operating in the US with limited government intervention.

GoodRx Holdings Inc.'s proposed $32 million settlement of a lawsuit alleging it illegally shared users’ data with Google LLC, Meta Platforms Inc., and Criteo Corp. failed to win approval from a federal court.

The House’s Homeland Security Committee Chair Andrew Garbarino requests briefing from Verizon and the FCC seeking information on a service outage earlier this week.

Google LLC fended off a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee Friday, after a federal appeals court ruled that Google can’t be held liable for allegations that Gmail sent fundraising emails to recipients’ spam folders in the lead up to midterm elections in 2022.

The US Federal Trade Commission is taking a closer look at moves by major tech companies to hire away the employees of a startup instead of buying the venture outright, the agency’s Chairman Andrew Ferguson said, addressing a growing practice seen as a way to avoid antitrust review.

The US Supreme Court agreed Friday to review the constitutionality of court orders that compel tech companies such as Google to provide anonymized user location data to law enforcement.

The Trump administration urged a judge to reject Minnesota’s request for an immediate order halting the recent escalation of federal immigration enforcement in the state, accusing local authorities of wrongly trying to exercise a “veto” over the US government.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued an opinion Monday excoriating governmental diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in his state as unconstitutional and said private sector efforts may violate federal and state anti-discrimination and securities laws.

The US Department of Agriculture was temporarily blocked from attempting to force a rapid recertification of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program beneficiaries in four Minnesota counties.

WSP USA Inc.‘s health plan defeated a lawsuit by a transgender woman who says she was wrongly denied coverage for facial feminization surgery because its language bars her from seeking relief, a federal judge ruled.

A Black disabled former truck driver for Cemex S.A.B DE C.V. can continue with part of his employment lawsuit against the company and several of its workers, according to a federal judge in California.

When the Indiana Hoosiers and Miami Hurricanes take the field and battle for the college football national championship on Monday, the most important investment made by either team will be standing on the sidelines.