A Missouri federal judge Friday refused to toss a Wall Street industry group's legal challenge to the state's anti-ESG rules requiring brokers and advisers to get client signatures before giving financial advice incorporating social objectives, holding the group had sufficiently claimed violations of the First Amendment, federal preemption and unconstitutional vagueness.
In 2024, courts across the U.S. are likely to weigh in on some of the most politically charged legal battles over corporate and regulatory efforts to prioritize environmental, social and governance initiatives, with the future of corporate diversity policies, anti-pollution efforts and corporate greenwashing hanging in the balance.
Love it or hate it, the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools has given society no choice but to grapple with their novel challenges, and in 2024, trailblazing litigation over AI's impact on intellectual property, civil liberties and privacy will be hashed out in courtrooms across the country.
A jury in the Northern District of California in Epic Games, Inc. v. Google LLP found that Google maintained an unlawful monopoly of the Google Play app store and Google Play Billing.
A federal judge has allowed the state to continue investigating North Carolina Supreme Court justice Anita Earls for alleging that the court’s Republican majority rules according to political, racial, and