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By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A U.S. labor board whose enforcement powers are being challenged in a series of lawsuits is set to defend itself from attacks by Amazon.com (NASDAQ:) and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a conservative U.S. appeals court, as the agency also braces for a potential overhaul under President-elect…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a $1.68 billion judgment against Iran’s central bank that had been won by family members of troops killed and injured in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine Corps barracks in Beirut. The 2nd U.S.…
With Trump’s victory and upcoming GOP control of the Senate, the Supreme Court looms large.Trump appointed a third of the current Supreme Court in just one term.”If I’m Clarence Thomas, I’m thinking now is a good time to retire,” one expert told Business Insider. During Donald Trump’s first term as…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday said the federal government may prosecute Turkey’s Halkbank on charges it helped Iran evade American sanctions, rejecting the state-owned lender’s argument that it deserved immunity. In a 3-0 decision, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found no…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s X has updated its terms of service to steer any disputes by users of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter to a federal court in Texas whose judges frequently deliver victories to conservative litigants in political cases. New terms of service…
By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Wednesday to put on hold a new federal rule targeting carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants at the request of numerous states and industry groups in another major challenge to President Joe Biden’s efforts to combat climate change.…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court tackled a case on Tuesday involving a New York state man who was fired from his job as a commercial truck driver for failing a drug test after taking cannabidiol, or CBD, that he said was falsely sold as lacking…
Lawyers for Trump on Monday night again sought to move his hush-money case to federal court.An appellate brief reprises arguments from two failed attempts to move the case out of state court.It’s unclear if there will be a decision before the November 5 election. Lawyers for former President Donald Trump…
X mistakenly transferred $5 million in fines to the wrong bank, said Brazil’s Supreme Court.The court demanded a correct payment before X’s ban can be lifted nationwide.The platform was banned and fined for defying Brazil’s content moderation rules. Elon Musk’s X just botched a $5 million payment in Brazil by…
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the authority to license nuclear waste storage facilities following a judicial ruling that upended decades of practice by declaring it does not. The justices took up appeals by President Joe Biden’s…
