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.

<-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1c76-d583-afbf-defe4e4a0000","_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.

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.

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.

Former BP PLC senior manager Kevin Crotty has agreed to settle SEC claims that he purchased TravelCenters of America stock shortly before BP’s purchase of the truck stop company became public.

An Ohio medical services provider must face the lawsuit of former employee who says he was wrongfully terminated after internally reporting the company’s suspected tax fraud, a federal court said.

A Chevron Corp. subsidiary argued before a panel of California appeals judges Friday that a $120 million verdict against the company should be tossed because one of the jurors failed to disclose a prior conviction for child molestation.

Oil and gas leases in Alaska’s arctic refuge revoked by the Biden administration would be reinstated under H.R. 6285, which also would block a rule limiting leases in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve.

Long-awaited rules governing carbon emissions from power plants are in the crosshairs of widespread industry opposition, but some court observers see the rule on good footing as it faces inevitable judicial review.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service will submit its endangered species determination for the imperiled longfin smelt by July 22, according to a judgment involving the agency and San Francisco Baykeeper.

<-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-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-1c76-d583-afbf-defe4e4a0000","_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.

<-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.

The US’s top auto-safety regulator extended its years-long investigation of <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/TSLA%20US%20Equity/BICO","_id":"0000018f-1bec-d583-afbf-dbfcfba30000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot to determine whether a fix the carmaker made months ago does enough to keep people from misusing the system.

The former general counsel for Moody’s Corp. pleaded guilty to willfully failing to file federal income tax returns over four years, during which he earned more than $54 million, federal prosecutors 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.

Restaurant groups will get a second chance to present to a federal appeals court their case against a US Labor Department rule limiting when employers can use the tip-credit, or pay tipped-employees less than minimum wage.

Players of “Games of Thrones: Conquest,” a mobile game made by Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., suffered a blow to their proposed class action alleging false advertising after a federal appeals court on Friday reversed the denial of Warner Bros.’ motion to compel arbitration.