Supreme Court Today, Vol. 92 No. 40, pages 3275-3286, dated April 25, 2024, is now available. A link to the PDF version can be found in the Related Documents field.

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s investments into artificial intelligence startups will get deeper scrutiny from the UK’s antitrust watchdog, the latest example of how global regulators are grappling with how the world’s largest technology firms are influencing the booming market.

Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai’s recent memo to workers, sent amid the latest round of discontent at the company — this time over the company’s $1.2 billion contract (shared with Amazon.com Inc.) to provide cloud services to Israel. By Tuesday, at least 50 employees had been fired for involvement in several protests at Google’s offices.

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Tougher federal limits on miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust are creating a slew of compliance challenges for mine operators, from new air sampling and notice requirements to medical monitoring mandates.

After a warning last month that Gucci sales had slumped, investors knew that Kering SA’s first-quarter performance wasn’t going to be pretty.

Ornua Foods North America Inc. failed to convince a federal court that a class action alleging that its Kerrygold Butter products contain PFAS should be dismissed on the pleadings.

Solar manufacturers are asking the US government to slap duties on $12.5 billion of imported equipment from Southeast Asia, setting the stage for a sweeping trade probe that threatens to make power projects more expensive.

The Biden administration is laying out more of its vision for decarbonizing the nation’s freight industry, including plans for standardizing charging infrastructure for electric trucks and accelerating the adoption of emission-free big rigs.

Child labor is a sensitive and hard-to-measure risk that typically stays hidden in the far reaches of corporate supply chains—and climate change is only making it worse.

The Biden administration is taking steps to jump-start the fledgling offshore wind sector, outlining a five-year leasing plan that would include turbines in the far reaches of the Pacific.

Columnist David Lat explains the controversy behind universal injunctions and their impact on public policy and judicial power.

<-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1048-d583-afbf-d2dca80c0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">B. Riley Financial Inc.soared as much as 59% in premarket trading after its auditors signed off on its annual report and the firm said a new internal review found no connection with a controversial former business partner.

UBS Group AG Chairman <-bsp-person state="{"_id":"0000018f-0fe4-d583-afbf-cffc395a0001","_type":"00000160-6f41-dae1-adf0-6ff519590003"}">Colm Kelleher said that the Swiss government’s proposal to require the bank to hold substantially more capital is the “wrong remedy” to the failings that brought down Credit Suisse over a year ago.

Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai’s recent memo to workers, sent amid the latest round of discontent at the company — this time over the company’s $1.2 billion contract (shared with Amazon.com Inc.) to provide cloud services to Israel. By Tuesday, at least 50 employees had been fired for involvement in several protests at Google’s offices.

Child labor is a sensitive and hard-to-measure risk that typically stays hidden in the far reaches of corporate supply chains—and climate change is only making it worse.

The World Bank is advising South Africa’s National Treasury on a climate risk strategy after floods in recent years caused billions of dollars of damage.

Despite the smiles and backslapping that accompanied the completion of New York’s state budget, it includes a truly disgraceful provision that weakens a law crucial to New York City’s future: mayoral control of the school system. Making matters worse, the new law hands more control to the group that has long pulled the state legislature’s strings, the United Federation of Teachers.

Supreme Court Today, Vol. 92 No. 40, pages 3275-3286, dated April 25, 2024, is now available. A link to the PDF version can be found in the Related Documents field.

Early figures show that the CARE Court system, which has received about $200 million in state funding since 2022, has seen only a tiny fraction of the people it expected.

Baker McKenzie is picking up a 17-lawyer corporate group from Munger, Tolles & Olson in Los Angeles, the latest move to expand its deals roster.

The US Supreme Court will consider just how far states can go in prohibiting abortion Wednesday as it weighs whether emergency room doctors nationwide can perform the procedure when a pregnant woman’s health is at serious risk.

The US Supreme Court is poised to reckon with what constitutes an official presidential act in weighing former President Donald Trump’s claim that he’s immune from being criminally prosecuted for trying to overturn the 2020 election.

Norton Rose Fulbright’s Alesha Dominique and Ani Galoyan discuss AI in fashion and how recent lawsuits should push lawmakers to adapt legal frameworks around tech.