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The OMB memo to agency and department heads said that the freeze of grants and loans, effective Jan. 28, is designed to review expenditures to ensure they align with the administration’s priorities.
Many business leaders expect a more relaxed regulatory environment in Washington as the Biden administration ends next week. At the same time, plenty of conservatives welcomed the muscular antitrust ...
Lawyers carry an ethical duty of competent representation for clients, an obligation that in some states requires colleagues to report professional lapses they observe to the bar. Many of these ...
There’s an anti-ESG movement in the United States but the larger trend is for more, not less, accountability for companies that try to push growth at the expense of these non-business values, ...
Elon Musk did not receive Tesla compensation as a director but has been involved in a long-running dispute in McCormick’s court – which he has thus far lost – over a $56 billion pay package Tesla ...
The start of any administration in Washington means regulatory change as the incoming team tries to enact the new president’s agenda. But this year will be unusually uncertain as companies leverage ...
The Justice Department is intervening and assuming a whistleblower complaint brought by a former CVS pharmacist, Hillary Estright, who filed a qui tam writ under the False Claims Act in October 2019.
The way the federal government enforces competition laws will likely change in Donald Trump’s second term but it won’t be a cakewalk for companies trying to push the antitrust envelope because the new ...
Last year, a federal judge in South Texas imposed a rule for plaintiffs: They might need to demonstrate a “factual nexus” to why their case belonged in his court. “In any case with no obvious factual ...
Aurelien Portuese is research professor in the Institute of Public Policy at George Washington University. Views are the author’s own. The financial landscape in the United States is rapidly evolving, ...
Americans purchase more than $4 trillion worth of goods and services with debit cards each year, according to the complaint. Visa’s monopoly in the debit card payments market adds billions of dollars ...
Amazon and Google filed separate complaints Monday against a Bangladeshi man and multiple others they said peddled fake reviews starting last year for products sold on Amazon and for local businesses ...