An American Bar Association council on Friday watered down DEI requirements for law school accreditation, as the Trump administration and Republican-led states challenge the group’s role in certifying legal education.

New York University Law School graduate Gideon Rapaport failed to cite any examples before Second Circuit judges Friday showing that leniency granted to self-represented litigants should apply to him, as a law student that passed the bar.

A long-serving West Virginia federal trial court judge appointed by President Gerald Ford has died at the age of 100.

Major law firm counsel are encouraging a federal judge to probe whether Justice Department lawyers representing the IRS are sufficiently insulated from President Donald Trump’s control in his ongoing suit against the federal tax agency.

In nearly an hour of speeches Friday at the New Jersey State Bar Association’s annual meeting the name “Trump” wasn’t uttered, but his criticism and threats against the judiciary and law firms hung over the proceedings.

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The Department of Health and Human Services is letting go of more employees as part of previously scheduled reductions in force, a spokesperson confirmed, as the Trump administration continues to overhaul the federal workforce.

The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday permitting low-premium, high-deductible plans on the Obamacare exchanges to last up to 10 years, in addition to certifying plans with no traditional doctor network.

The Federal Reserve on Friday named Jerome Powell the temporary chair of the Board of Governors until his successor Kevin Warsh is officially sworn in, the central bank said in a statement.

The US Federal Aviation Administration is cutting its overall staffing target for air traffic controllers by about 2,000 people, saying it can make do with fewer personnel through technology and scheduling improvements over the coming years.

A group of Black and Hispanic test takers failed to show a nonprofit that designs social work licensing evaluations broke civil rights laws by creating an exam that allegedly favored White candidates, a panel of federal appeals judges ruled.

Immigration detention centers in California have become alarmingly overcrowded, unsanitary, and inhumane, state Attorney General Rob Bonta said Friday at a news conference regarding a new report on the facilities.

US officials have discussed creating a $1.7 billion federal fund to pay victims of so-called government weaponization to resolve President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service. Million-dollar payouts the administration has already made to some of his supporters provide a roadmap for where the money might go.

A federal district court’s decision to allow FedEx an $84 million foreign tax credit tied to “offset earnings” paid on its foreign subsidiaries should be reversed because a disallowance rule applies, the US government told the Sixth Circuit.

The OECD’s global plan for digital taxation is “dead,” and the US is in no hurry to determine what should replace it, a senior Treasury Department official said Friday.

The Trump administration finalized a rule Friday permitting low-premium, high-deductible plans on the Obamacare exchanges to last up to 10 years, in addition to certifying plans with no traditional doctor network.

Some of SAP America Inc.'s software that customers download or remotely access is a service subject to Tennessee’s business tax, a state appeals court ruled.

The IRS and Justice Department are appealing a judgment to avoid potentially paying out billions of dollars in refunds to Americans who filed late or paid interest to the IRS during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Several key allies of former Food and Drug Administration commissioner Marty Makary are departing their posts, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Trump administration attempts to create a clean slate at the agency.

Federal prosecutors are scrutinizing valuation practices at a BlackRock Inc. private credit fund, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

Wells Fargo & Co. received final court approval of a $110 million settlement to resolve a shareholder derivative lawsuit accusing the bank of corporate mismanagement through discriminatory hiring and lending.

The Federal Reserve on Friday named Jerome Powell the temporary chair of the Board of Governors until his successor Kevin Warsh is officially sworn in, the central bank said in a statement.

The Trump administration and consumer groups agreed to dismiss a lawsuit over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s failure to enforce a Biden-era small business demographic data collection rule after the agency finished overhauling the policy.

Asset managers, insurers, and other nonbank financial companies applauded the Trump administration for a proposal that would make it all but impossible for the Federal Reserve to bring them under its supervision.