A San Francisco class action attorney representing comedian Sarah Silverman, Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Michael Chabon, and other authors in a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI Inc. was denied his motion to serve at the plaintiffs’ interim lead counsel.

Kirkland & Ellis has hired a four-partner investment funds team from Goodwin Procter, the second time Kirkland has poached such a team in three months.

Elon Musk’s quick visit to China paid immediate dividends, with Tesla Inc. receiving in-principle approval from government officials to deploy its driver-assistance system in the world’s biggest auto market.

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Disbarment is “the only possible sanction” for former Trump administration official Jeffrey Clark, DC Bar officials said in a filing Monday.

A Houston employment agency that performed payroll services for Chevron contractors is liable for about $350,000 in gross receipts tax because the services were “incidental” to the employment of the contractors in New Mexico, an appeals court there said Monday.

Insurance agents can utilize exemptions to collect compensation when dealing with 401(k) plans and will only see their recommendations of certain products become subject to new fiduciary standards when retirement assets are involved, Labor Department leaders said during a press briefing on the agency’s new fiduciary rule.

Clearwater Paper Corp. defeated a Black shipping employee’s claim that his termination for refusing drug testing following a workplace accident was racially discriminatory.

The Golden Pass liquefied natural gas project in Texas, co-owned by QatarEnergy LNG and Exxon Mobil Corp., is at risk of delay due to a shortage of specialized workers and construction issues, according to people familiar with the matter.

A Virginia federal district court denied Virginia State University’s motion to dismiss a sex discrimination claim under the Equal Pay Act of a female assistant professor who alleged that she was paid less than male colleagues in her department. Robertson v. Va. State Univ., 2024 BL 140770, E.D. Va., 3:23cv777 (DJN), 4/24/24

A District of Columbia federal district court granted summary judgment to Functional Pathways, LLC on a failure to accommodate claim under the D.C. Human Rights Act of an occupational therapist who alleged that Functional Pathways denied her request for an extended leave of absence. Campbell v. Functional Pathways, LLC, 2024 BL 143735, D.D.C., 23-1507 (BAH), 4/26/24

CorrectCare LLC would pay $6.49 million to settle allegations it failed to protect the personal information of nearly 650,000 people that was exposed in a January 2022 data breach, under a deal given initial approval by a federal court.

The US push to ban TikTok marks a new phase in its approach to data security that could eventually impact everything from electric vehicles to health care, reshaping trade relations between the world’s biggest economies.

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The top three US wireless providers vowed to fight fines totaling almost $200 million by regulators who said the carriers illegally shared customers’ location information.

A plasma-donation chain’s “woefully inadequate data security measures” exposed the sensitive health data and personal information of hundreds of thousands of patients to hackers, according to a proposed class action filed in a North Carolina federal court.

The Federal Communications Commission on Monday fined T-Mobile US Inc., Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T Inc. a collective $200 million for illegally sharing customers’ location information without consent.

A federal judge in California appeared open to keeping a youth climate lawsuit alive, after an attorney for the plaintiffs argued Monday that EPA policies discriminate against children by placing a lower value on their lives in some cost-benefit analyses.

Former Clayton County, Ga., sheriff Victor Hill lost his Eleventh Circuit appeal to undo convictions for willfully violating detainees’ constitutional rights when the court said he should have known better.

The federal government was ordered to pay the attorneys’ fees for a group of White male business owners who prevailed last month in a constitutional challenge to a Commerce Department agency’s rules favoring minority-owned business owners.

Clearwater Paper Corp. defeated a Black shipping employee’s claim that his termination for refusing drug testing following a workplace accident was racially discriminatory.

A Jewish Columbia University student filed a proposed class action lawsuit against the school Monday, saying it failed to provide “a safe, in-person learning environment.”

West Texas A&M University’s president, who canceled an on-campus charity drag show, had that discretion from a prior US Supreme Court ruling, Judge James Ho of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit said Monday.