An attempt to disqualify New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office from representing the state’s cannabis agency in a lawsuit over its licensing scheme for businesses failed when a federal magistrate judge rejected arguments that the state’s lead lawyer has an advantage in the case.

Rhode Island’s top federal judge is tasking a special counsel with helping the court determine whether to pursue disciplinary action against a federal prosecutor for failing to disclose details about a detained immigrant’s criminal history.

Litigation funder Burford Capital Ltd. said Friday it recorded a $2.4 billion drop in assets last quarter because of its major court loss over the seizure of state-run oil company YPF SA.

An Austin law firm co-founded by former Texas Solicitor General Judd Stone will mediate sexual harassment claims filed by an ex-employee.

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Leaders of litigation boutique Hecker Fink said its years of taking on matters opposite the government, including the Trump administration, have been worth the risk.

The operator of an Alabama nursing facility should have factored in Covid-era hazard pay rates when calculating the overtime pay of its medical staff, a federal appeals court panel found.

United Parcel Service Inc. violated federal labor law when it told employees at a Kentucky airport facility that they would not receive a pay raise during a pending union election, a National Labor Relations Board Judge said.

The Treasury Department is “working diligently to get guidance out” on various provisions of the Republican tax-and-spending bill that was enacted last year, an agency official said at a tax law conference Friday.

Trader Joe’s defeated claims that it mishandled forfeited money in its 401(k) plan, but the ongoing trial over the plan’s fees and investment options will continue, a Boston federal judge ruled Friday.

The Department of Labor’s employee benefits agency will prioritize enforcement actions on plan managers who focus on socially-conscious investing or diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, its top official said Friday.

Isomorphic Labs, an AI-powered drug discovery company spun out of Alphabet Inc.’s Google DeepMind, is in advanced discussions to raise more than $2 billion in a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the plan.

The Trump administration is preparing to order US agencies to partner with artificial intelligence companies to protect networks from AI-enabled cyber attacks, though the directive would stop short of requiring government approval for cutting-edge models, according to people familiar with the matter.

General Motors Co. will pay $12.75 million to resolve claims it illegally sold hundreds of thousands of Californians’ location and driving data to data brokers.

Apollo Global Management Inc. and Blackstone Inc. are among private credit lenders involved in talks with chipmaker Broadcom Inc.over a roughly $35 billion financing, the latest indication that companies are mobilizing all sources of capital to fund the AI build-out.

KKR & Co. and its Instructure Inc. unit are facing several federal class actions after cybercriminal group ShinyHunters allegedly breached their education technology tool Canvas, affecting schools worldwide.

The Trump administration is nearing an agreement with TikTok for a $400 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit over alleged child privacy violations, ABC News reports, citing sources familiar with the discussions.

AcmeSolv LLC is cleared to perform a $38 million pharmacist services task order at the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, the GAO said in a decision released Friday.

High school girls and their parents challenging California’s rules requiring schools to accept the participation of trans athletes will get a chance to beef up their complaint, according to a federal court order.

Democrats were dealt a blow in their efforts to minimize Republican redistricting gains around the US when the Virginia Supreme Court on Friday blocked a voter-approved map that would have flipped as many as four GOP-held US House seats in November’s midterm elections.

A federal judge Friday refused to let the city of Cleveland out of its consent decree to reform its police force, writing that much work remains to be done to comply with the nearly 11-year-old agreement.

A federal appeals court affirmed Alabama State University’s victory over a former athletic department official’s pay discrimination lawsuit, finding no evidence that her male colleagues earned more.

An Arizona federal judge tossed a former state government worker’s claim that his wife’s degenerative bone disease unlawfully prevented him from getting rehired, despite adopting a less-stringent standard for public employees to prove disability discrimination.

The NAACP’s Tennessee chapter and state Democrats filed a pair of lawsuits challenging a hastily passed new congressional map that wipes out the state’s sole left-leaning, majority-Black district.