<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-219c-d583-afbf-e3dcacb50000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Erich Andersen, the US-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., is stepping down from that role, the social media app said.

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill this week that requires Chinese ByteDance Ltd., TikTok Inc.‘s parent company, to sell the app in less than a year or face a ban in the US. The action sets up a likely legal battle between the app—which has vowed to fight the policy in court—and the US government.

A federal law expanding background checks for 18-to-20-year-olds who buy firearms is likely constitutional, the Fifth Circuit said Friday, affirming a lower court decision declining to preliminarily enjoin the statute.

Kirkland & Ellis LLP said it doesn’t have a conflict of interest that would prevent it from representing genetic testing company Invitae Corp. in the company’s Chapter 11 case—pushing back against objections from the US Trustee and creditors.

The opening week of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial offered plenty of insights into how his 2016 presidential campaign teamed up with a tabloid publisher to silence embarrassing stories from women who said they’d had extramarital affairs with him.

The Utah State Bar defeated a member’s lawsuit alleging the USB unconstitutionally used mandatory member fees to fund political activities irrelevant to the legal profession.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-219c-d583-afbf-e3dcacb50000","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Erich Andersen, the US-based general counsel for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., is stepping down from that role, the social media app said.

Bondholders of struggling <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/56938Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1d28-d583-afbf-dffcd4e70000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Dish Network Corp. sued the satellite-TV provider, demanding it unwind transfers that they said put valuable assets out of the hands of creditors and violated lending terms.

A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1cc8-d583-afbf-dedcb3700000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Paramount Global’s board is considering removing Chief Executive Officer <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1cc8-d583-afbf-dedcb3700001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Bob Bakish and putting the film and TV company under a committee of top executives while it evaluates a possible sale, according to a person familiar with the matter.

General Motors LLC, OnStar LLC, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. collected and shared data about the driving behavior of consumers with insurance companies without their consent in violation of federal and state privacy laws, a proposed federal class action said Friday.

<-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/NYCB%20US%20Equity/ERN","_id":"0000018f-1c43-d583-afbf-dedf955f0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">New York Community Bancorp Inc. has had one of the most tumultuous quarters in recent banking history. Its first-quarter earnings will probably reveal more about impacts from the drama — and management’s plan to move forward.

A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest.

A Black ex-driver presented enough evidence that an oil company treated White employees differently when infractions arose in order to demonstrate a factual dispute as to pretext regarding his firing, a federal appeals court said Friday.

A former RBC Capital Markets branch manager failed to provide sufficient and timely evidence that the investment bank racially discriminated against him, engaged in retaliatory firing, or willfully denied him medical benefits, a federal judge said.

The Biden administration is bolstering civil rights protections for transgender and other LGBTQ people in a federal rule that could quickly face legal challenges.

Federal Express Corp. prevailed in a former ramp transport driver’s lawsuit alleging he was fired because of his race and age.

A White woman lost her class lawsuit challenging an Amazon.com Inc. program under which only certain minority business owners are eligible for $10,000 grants to cover start-up costs related to becoming Amazon delivery service partners.

A former president does not have absolute immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed in office. On that much, the justices of the Supreme Court seemed to agree while hearing oral argument about the Jan. 6 criminal charges against Donald Trump.

A Black ex-driver presented enough evidence that an oil company treated White employees differently when infractions arose in order to demonstrate a factual dispute as to pretext regarding his firing, a federal appeals court said Friday.

A federal law expanding background checks for 18-to-20-year-olds who buy firearms is likely constitutional, the Fifth Circuit said Friday, affirming a lower court decision declining to preliminarily enjoin the statute.

A Texas federal trial court judge kept alive a legal challenge to Texas’s use of floating barriers to stem immigration, handing the Biden Administration a partial win in a battle at the Mexican border that’s far from over.

The opening week of Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial offered plenty of insights into how his 2016 presidential campaign teamed up with a tabloid publisher to silence embarrassing stories from women who said they’d had extramarital affairs with him.

Donald Trump’s longtime personal assistant, who worked for his real estate empire for decades, told a jury that she has a “vague recollection” of seeing <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1c1f-d583-afbf-dedf56de0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Stormy Daniels at Trump Tower sometime before 2015.