A federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the Federal Trade Commission’s attempt to delay Microsoft’s $70 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, setting the stage for the tech giant and the […]
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Back to news homeFederal Judge Limits Biden Officials’ Contacts With Social Media Sites
A federal judge in Louisiana on Tuesday restricted the Biden administration from communicating with social media platforms about broad swaths of content online, a ruling that could curtail efforts to […]
Affirmative Action Ruling May Upend Diversity Hiring Policies, Too
As a legal matter, the Supreme Court’s rejection of race-conscious admissions in higher education does not in itself impede employers from pursuing diversity in the workplace.That, at least, is the […]
Daniel Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Source, Had Uneasy Relationship With The Times
The relationship between The New York Times and its most famous source, Daniel Ellsberg, reads like a thriller, replete with clandestine meetings, top secret documents and a war raging in […]
Supreme Court Backs Employer in Suit Over Strike Losses
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that federal labor law did not protect a union from liability for damage that arose during a strike, and that a state court should […]
Gilead Wins Key Patent Rights Suit Over PrEP Drugs for Preventing HIV
A federal jury in Delaware on Tuesday found that the federal government did not have an ownership claim to lucrative drugs to prevent H.I.V. that are sold by the pharmaceutical […]
Fox News Sanctioned by Judge for Withholding Evidence in Dominion Case
WILMINGTON, Del. — The judge overseeing Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News said on Wednesday that he was imposing a sanction on the network and would very likely start […]
Judge Limits Fox’s Options for Defense in Dominion Trial
WILMINGTON, Del. — A judge ruled on Tuesday that Fox News could not argue that it broadcast false information about Dominion Voting Systems on the basis that the allegations were […]
Fox News Suffers Major Setback in Dominion Case
In Friday’s decision, Judge Davis said damages, if they were awarded to Dominion, would be calculated by the jury. Lawyers for Fox pushed back on Dominion’s claim for $1.6 billion […]
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015 when she was among the 130 people killed in a coordinated series of terrorist attacks […]