The Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, First Judicial Department Thursday ruled that former US President Donald Trump and his children must testify regarding the state’s investigation into the Trump Organization. The New York Attorney General’s Office launched an inquiry in 2019 to investigate whether the organization committed fraud in financial [...]

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) launched an investigation Tuesday into the US’s ongoing infant formula shortage. The FTC’s inquiry includes soliciting public comments regarding “factors that may have contributed to the infant formula shortage during the recall of certain Abbott formula products beginning in February 2022 as well as its impact on families and [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Monday ruled the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) can keep its revised regulations on how stock market data is collected, consolidated, and disseminated. In 2020 the SEC introduced the new Market Data Infrastructure Rule. The rule “modernize the national market system for the collection, [...]

Oklahoma’s Governor Kevin Stitt Wednesday signed the United States’ strictest abortion ban into law. The ban, HB 4327 makes Oklahoma the first state to ban abortion from fertilization until birth. Under the law, abortion is prohibited at “any stage of pregnancy.” The law includes an exception for medical emergencies and rape or incest. However, rape [...]

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey Wednesday announced a $161.5 million settlement with drug manufacturers Teva Pharmaceutical Industries (Teva) and Allergan over their involvement in the state’s opioid epidemic. The cash value of this settlement alone is “the highest per capita settlement in the nation” according to the announcement. A civil trial between the Attorney Generals office [...]

Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller Tuesday announced a $19.2 million settlement with Ford Motor Co. over false advertising claims. The settlement resolves allegations that Ford falsely advertised the real-world fuel economy of model year 2013–2014 C-Max hybrids and the payload capacity of model year 2011–2014 Super Duty pickup trucks. Miller claimed Ford misrepresented the distance [...]

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Monday denied ExxonMobil Corp.’s (ExxonMobil) motion to dismiss a climate deception lawsuit on “anti-SLAPP” grounds. The Office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey released a statement following the SJC’s decision affirming the rejection of ExxonMobil’s “anti-SLAPP” motion to dismiss by the Suffolk Superior Court. Strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPP) [...]

A California court Monday allowed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Tesla to move forward instead of being sent to private arbitration. Judge Stephen Kraus of the Alameda County Superior Court denied Tesla, Inc.’s (Tesla) motion to compel arbitration in a brief one-sentence order without providing explanation. Judge Kraus allowed the lawsuit to move forward in [...]

The campaign of David McCormick Monday asked a Pennsylvania court “to count absentee and mail-in ballots that were returned on time but that lack a handwritten date on the exterior mailing envelope.” McCormick and Dr. Mehmet Oz are close candidates in the Republican primary contest for Pennsylvania’s open seat in the US Senate. McCormick filed [...]

District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine Monday announced a lawsuit against Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for violating the district’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA) in relation to the Cambridge Analytica data breach. According to the complaint, the Cambridge Analytica Facebook data breach was the “largest consumer privacy scandal” in US history. The District of Columbia [...]