President Joe Biden signed into law a bill this week that requires Chinese ByteDance Ltd., TikTok Inc.‘s parent company, to sell the app in less than a year or face a ban in the US. The action sets up a likely legal battle between the app—which has vowed to fight the policy in court—and the US government.

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.

The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/3218309Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1f4a-d583-afbf-dfde58fd0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">United Auto Workers said it reached a tentative agreement with <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1f4a-d583-afbf-dfde58fd0001","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Daimler Truck Holding AG ahead of a contract expiring midnight on April 26 and following a strike threat.

Genuine issues of material fact preclude summary judgment to America’s Auto Body, Inc. on the disparate treatment and retaliation claims under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and state law of a pregnant receptionist, an Illinois federal court ruled. Altwasser v. America’s Auto Body, Inc., 2024 BL 142336, N.D. Ill., 21-cv-2524, 4/25/24

A Black ex-driver presented enough evidence that an oil company treated White employees differently when infractions arose in order to demonstrate a factual dispute as to pretext regarding his firing, a federal appeals court said Friday.

A federal district court found a fired director for Magee-Womens Research Institute & Foundation stated False Claims Act violations against her employer and the University of Pittsburgh, and also alleged FCA retaliation. United States ex rel. Ruggeri v. Magee-Womens Rsch. Inst. & Found., 2024 BL 140335, W.D. Pa., 2:19-CV-862-NR, 4/24/24

An Ohio federal district court denied Northern Ohio Medical Specialists’ motion to dismiss the claims of a financial controller alleging his discharge was in retaliation for whistleblowing about NOMS’s potentially fraudulent tax reporting practices in violation of the Taxpayer First Act. Biggins v. N. Ohio Med. Specialists, LLC, 2024 BL 141720, N.D. Ohio, 3:23-cv-01917-JGC, 4/25/24

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.

President Joe Biden signed into law a bill this week that requires Chinese ByteDance Ltd., TikTok Inc.‘s parent company, to sell the app in less than a year or face a ban in the US. The action sets up a likely legal battle between the app—which has vowed to fight the policy in court—and the US government.

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.

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.

A Black ex-driver presented enough evidence that an oil company treated White employees differently when infractions arose in order to demonstrate a factual dispute as to pretext regarding his firing, a federal appeals court said Friday.

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.