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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A Texas federal district court granted summary judgment to Edwards Aquifer Authority on an age discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of a 62-year-old chief technical officer who alleged that he was demoted due to his age. Schindel v. Edwards Aquifer Auth., 2024 BL 142075, W.D. Tex., SA-22-CV-00960-JKP, 4/23/24

Amendments to Russia’s labor code that require all wages to be used to calculate overtime pay rates were published April 22 and take effect Sept. 1.

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.

Zimmerman Reed LLP won a battle but lost the war in its effort to force L’Occitane Inc. to arbitrate 3,144 individual privacy claims brought by the law firm’s clients over the cosmetics firm’s alleged sharing of their information with Google Inc. and other third parties.

Police, prosecutors, and other law enforcement officers are protected by New Jersey law from publication of their home addresses—even if the address is the center of public misconduct reporting, the state appeals court ruled.

The giant California-based health plan <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/1055831D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1ba8-d583-afbf-dbfc51730000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Kaiser Permanente said its websites and apps may have inappropriately sent members’ private information to tech giants including <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1ba8-d583-afbf-dbfc51730001","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Alphabet Inc., Microsoft Corp. and the social media company X.

The Federal Trade Commission updated its health data breach notification measures to include more apps and technologies not covered by a federal health privacy law.

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 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.

Washington applicants suing businesses for omitting a pay range from their ads must be bona fide job seekers who were harmed by the missing information, a federal judge said in dismissing one of the earliest lawsuits brought under a state law requiring transparency in postings.