A new SEC proposal for investment funds to disclose their portfolio companies’ greenhouse gas emissions is forcing them to think twice about pursuing environmentally friendly strategies.

Donald Trump’s federal lawsuit challenging the authority of New York to investigate his sprawling real estate business was dismissed, the latest setback in efforts by the former president to halt the three-year-old probe.

Commissioner Drew Hirshfeld had the authority to review administrative patent tribunal decisions even while he led the US Patent and Trademark Office in a temporary role, the Federal Circuit ruled, sparing the agency from potentially devastating consequences.

A federal appeals court rejected a lower court’s finding that a Civil War-era law protects Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R) and other politicians accused of insurrection, but deliberately kept alive the question of whether the 14th Amendment bars anyone who commits insurrection from seeking public office.

A federal appeals court in Chicago will hear oral arguments in an Indiana doctor’s bid to block a health-care system from requiring that workers get vaccinated against Covid-19 despite religious objections.

The US Federal Trade Commission’s study of competition questions around the nationwide baby formula shortage highlights the severity and reach of the crisis.

Recent shootings at a Texas elementary school and New York grocery store have put a spotlight on Washington’s inaction on guns.