The pledge by the Seattle NHL expansion team, Amazon and Oak View Group to change the name of Seattle’s Key Arena to “Climate Pledge Arena” and renovate it to be environmentally green is encouraging, but a true commitment to environmental justice, going beyond the building struct … | Continue reading
Zoox Inc. was sued for records in Delaware by a shareholder looking to probe claims that the self-driving vehicle company’s board and top executives used the Covid-19 pandemic as a pretext to engineer a $1.3 billion proposed sale to Amazon on self-dealing terms. | Continue reading
A story arc about a giant tardigrade in “Star Trek: Discovery” didn’t infringe a copyright in an unreleased video game that also featured a giant tardigrade, the Second Circuit affirmed Monday. | Continue reading
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. failed to persuade a judge to put an extended hold on his order converting their California drivers to employees while they appeal. | Continue reading
Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. were ordered to convert their California drivers from independent contractors to employees with benefits, an early loss in a court battle the gig economy can’t afford to lose. | Continue reading
The U.S. government charges too much for access to an electronic database of federal court records, the Federal Circuit ruled in a decision curbing a revenue stream the court system uses to help fund other programs. | Continue reading
Amazon.com Inc. spent a record $4.38 million on lobbying during the second quarter, according to a spokeswoman, as the e-commerce giant faced increasing antitrust scrutiny in Washington and the challenges of delivering goods to Americans stuck at home during the coronavirus pande … | Continue reading
Quartzy Inc. was sued for records in Delaware by a shareholder alleging “an extortionate pay-to-play offering, hatched in secret by insiders,” to squeeze out minority investors as part of a refinancing deal with billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla. | Continue reading
A generic word combined with ".com” can create a federally protectable trademark, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in an opinion by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | Continue reading
Employees seeking to enhance their 401(k) retirement savings can now invest in private equity firms via professionally managed funds, the Trump administration said. | Continue reading
State attorneys general investigating Alphabet Inc.’s Google may seek a break-up of its digital advertising operations if they sue the internet giant over antitrust violations, according to people familiar with the probe. | Continue reading
The death of George Floyd at the hands of Minnesota law enforcement has put the issue of police violence and accountability in the national spotlight once again—along with a doctrine well-known to the U.S. Supreme Court. | Continue reading
Norway’s privacy regulator said it is investigating Disqus, a U.S.-based blog hosting service, and Tamoco, a location information provider in the U.K., for possible violations of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation. | Continue reading
Three U.S. companies must stop routing scam coronavirus-related robocalls or get kicked off the nation’s phone system, federal regulators said. | Continue reading
Amazon.com Inc. is being asked by several U.S. states to provide information about health and safety measures following the death of a number of workers from coronavirus-related illnesses. | Continue reading
Goodwin Procter attorneys explore the liabilities that “smart cities” face as they and citizens use privately developed technology for their infrastructure and daily life—like regulating traffic, using e-scooters, and remotely monitoring security—and outline lessons for manufactu … | Continue reading
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office said it can only issue patents to humans, confirming that U.S. law bars artificial intelligence from being listed as an inventor. | Continue reading
Georgia lost a close U.S. Supreme Court case over the state’s ability to copyright its annotated legal code, in a ruling that dissenting justices said would shock states with similar arrangements. | Continue reading
Attorneys, kept away from courtrooms nationwide amid the coronavirus outbreak, are learning new tactics and workarounds for remote arguments conducted through phone and video conferencing. | Continue reading
Background report providers Whitepages Inc. and Instant Checkmate LLC must face proposed class actions brought by individuals who said the companies improperly used their personal information in advertisements in violation of the Illinois Right of Publicity Act, an Illinois feder … | Continue reading
Several of the largest U.S. states could delay their summer bar exams because of concerns over the coronavirus outbreak. | Continue reading
Apple Inc. violated California law when it failed to pay employees for time they spend waiting for mandatory bag and iPhone searches at the end of their shifts, the California Supreme Court ruled. | Continue reading
GitLab Inc. earlier this month fired a top lawyer linked to its former compliance chief, who left the company claiming “discriminatory and retaliatory behavior.” | Continue reading
Bloomberg LP was fined 5 million euros ($5.6 million) in France following the publication of information from what turned out to be a fake press release that made Vinci SA shares tumble three years ago. | Continue reading
Corporations and their outside counsel increasingly must decide whether to allow the use of apps that send disappearing messages, because these apps can ensnare companies in e-discovery disputes. | Continue reading
Apple Inc. joined Intel Corp. to fight what the companies call a network of patent trolls that drives up the cost of technological innovation by filing a myriad of meritless lawsuits to protect vast portfolios of “weak” patents. | Continue reading
Few companies have more riding on proposed privacy legislation than Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. To try to steer the bill their way, the giant advertising technology companies spend millions of dollars to lobby each year, a fact confirmed by government filings. | Continue reading
Uber Technologies Inc. owes New Jersey about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state’s labor department said. | Continue reading
Uber Technologies Inc. owes New Jersey about $650 million in unemployment and disability insurance taxes because the rideshare company has been misclassifying drivers as independent contractors, the state’s labor department said. | Continue reading
Democratic lawmakers pushing for a hearing on several proposals to address the backlog of high-skill employment visas doubt they’ll get what they want. | Continue reading
Google is being investigated by 48 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico for alleged antitrust violations surrounding its online advertising practices. The Wilson Center’s Stuart Brotman says U.S. investigators can learn from the German investigation into Facebook inv … | Continue reading
Domino’s Pizza Inc. won’t be able to evade a lawsuit claiming it doesn’t ensure blind people can order food through its website and mobile app. | Continue reading
Employers that get H-1B visa workers through staffing and consulting companies may face new legal risks as their names are being made public by the federal government for the first time, which may open them up to more lawsuits—by both the government and American job applicants—cl … | Continue reading
A Republican congressman is leading a new effort to end a 20-year-old program that allows foreign graduates to work in STEM fields while on their F-1 student visas. | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that consumers can press ahead with a lawsuit that accuses Apple Inc. of using its market dominance to artificially inflate prices at its App Store. | Continue reading
A Google employee alleges in a lawsuit that the data and internet search company makes misrepresentations to induce African-Americans and other minorities into accepting jobs because Google “wants to appear as if it cares about diversity.” | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook Inc.‘s other top executives have been hit with a lawsuit accusing them of insider trading and blaming them for the privacy scandals that have rocked the social media giant and its stock value since 2016. | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court turned away an appeal by Amazon.com Inc.’s Zappos unit, letting a lawsuit proceed over a 2012 hack that exposed the personal information of 24 million customers. | Continue reading
Oracle Corp. shorted women and minority workers $400 million in wages by paying them less than other employees, steering them into jobs at lower-level positions, and imposing an “extreme preference” for immigrant visa holders, the Labor Department said in a new legal filing. | Continue reading
Blue Diamond Growers beat back an appeal of a ruling that threw out a proposed class suit challenging the labeling of almond milk beverages. | Continue reading
Labor Department investigators recently concluded that Cisco Systems Inc. discriminated against U.S. workers by favoring immigrant visa holders for job openings, sources familiar with the probe tell Bloomberg Law. | Continue reading
Patents would be private property that only courts could take away, under a bipartisan bill that seeks to strengthen inventors’ patent rights. | Continue reading
Facebook Inc.'s high-speed data compression technology is the target of a patent infringement lawsuit. | Continue reading
California workers and companies have a new test to determine whether someone should be classified as an employee or independent contractor under state law. | Continue reading