The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Thursday held in In re: Apple, Inc. that US District Judge Alan Albright abused his discretion by refusing to transfer a patent infringement lawsuit. In May 2021, BillJCo filed a patent infringement action against Apple for its use of Bluetooth technology. Apple moved to transfer the action from [...]

The US Senate Thursday failed to pass the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021 (HR 350) after receiving a vote of 47 to 47. The bill is meant to address mass shootings in the US and would have established “new requirements to expand the availability of information on domestic terrorism, as well as the relationship [...]

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 [...]

A New York federal judge Wednesday upheld a New York law that allows victims of gun violence to sue the gun industry. The National Shooting Sports Foundation and gun manufacturers, like Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co. brought the case because they claimed the state law violated the US Constitution. They also argue [...]

California Governor Gavin Newsom and other legislators Wednesday pledged to accelerate the process for more than a dozen gun safety bills. California lawmakers are not introducing any new gun safety laws,  but they promised to move forward with the bills that are already in review. State leaders in California said the shooting at the Uvalde, [...]

Swiss multi-national commodity trading and mining firm Glencore agreed to pay over $1.1 billion to the US Tuesday as a part of a series of guilty pleas with the US, UK and Brazil. Glencore International A.G. and Glencore Ltd. both pled guilty to violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), an anti corruption law, [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Monday unanimously ruled in favor of a preliminary injunction against a Florida law regulating how social media companies moderate content on their platforms. Last May Florida enacted Senate Bill 7072, a bill which applies to social media platforms with annual gross revenues over $100 million or [...]

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 [...]