A measure to prevent the SEC from implementing its March climate disclosure regulation cleared a House panel Wednesday along party lines.

A federal appellate court judge with a stake in Citigroup Inc. doesn’t need to recuse himself from the banking industry’s challenge to an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a federal judiciary oversight committee said.

Loeb & Loeb has added two more corporate and tax partners from Morrison Cohen in New York, bolstering the group of seven it poached from the same firm in March.

Mona Bhalla has joined Alston & Bird as a partner with the litigation and trial practice group and insurance litigation and regulation team in New York, the firm said Wednesday.

Kimberly E. Zirkle has joined Bradley Arant Boult Cummings as a partner in the banking and financial services practice group in the Charlotte, N.C., office, the firm said Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s nominee for a seat on the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit was prodded by Senate Republicans about allegations of ethical misconduct while prosecuting a drug case.

A measure to prevent the SEC from implementing its March climate disclosure regulation cleared a House panel Wednesday along party lines.

Plans to improve corporate governance at The GEO Group Inc., offered by both sides to settle a suit over representations about the prison operator’s financial condition, are sufficient for preliminary approval of the deal, a federal court ruled.

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Climate change may force organizers to rotate the Winter Olympic Games among a small group of host cities, including Salt Lake City, said Gene Sykes, the chair of US Olympic & Paralympic Committee.

The issues with office mortgages that have bedeviled US lenders are going to take longer to work out, a pair of regional-banking giants warned Wednesday.

Elon Musk’s car company on Wednesday proposed to grant him the same $56 billion pay package that its shareholders approved six years ago — and that Delaware’s top business law judge <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbDocId":"S83XOHT1UM0W","_id":"0000018e-ed8f-d583-afbf-efdf2adf0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">shot down in January as excessive.

The North Carolina correctional system needs to provide a transgender inmate the gender-affirming surgery their expert recommends, or re-review their request with at least two medical doctors possessing gender dysphoria expertise, a federal judge said in issuing an injunction.

A Western Union Co. subsidiary resolved a worker’s accommodation-failure claim related to their termination after refusing to take the Covid-19 vaccination due to their religious affiliation.

The city of Newburgh, N.Y., defeated claims by five minority workers who accused it of job bias, but it will face a trial on a sixth worker’s sex discrimination claim.

Forcepoint LLC lost its bid to back out of ongoing arbitration of an employee’s age bias claim over his firing and consolidate that action with his new lawsuit challenging its failure to rehire him.

A panel of Eleventh Circuit judges appeared divided Wednesday on whether the Florida parents who opposed a school policy on student names and pronouns—and inspired the state’s “don’t say gay” law—should have to meet a high legal bar that constitutional claims like theirs almost never survive.

Texas won’t immediately be forced to start paying $100,000 a day in fines for failing to fix its beleaguered foster care system, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.

A Philadelphia area Democratic campaign committee defeated a lawsuit alleging it made telephone calls in support of its candidates during the 2019 general election in violation of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Ikorongo Technology LLC is asking the US Supreme Court to take up its challenge to a Federal Circuit ruling nixing two patents for geotracking methods that the appeals court ruled strayed too far from the text of a predecessor patent.

Aleksandr Pikus has been resentenced to nine years in prison and ordered to pay $39 million in restitution for his role in a health care kickback and tax conspiracy, according to the Justice Department on Wednesday.

A federal appellate court judge with a stake in Citigroup Inc. doesn’t need to recuse himself from the banking industry’s challenge to an $8 cap on credit card late fees, a federal judiciary oversight committee said.

A lower court erroneously excluded a government statement as hearsay, the Ninth Circuit said in vacating a California inmate’s conviction for an alleged assault on correctional officers.

Ball Aerospace Technologies Corp. can move forward with its $553.9 million NASA contract to support a weather prediction satellite program, the US Court of Federal Claims said Wednesday.