When Congress passed a new law targeted towards retirement accounts in 2019, we hoped that it would make saving for retirement easier. But 2022 proposed regulations and recent guidance from IRS have muddied the waters for some, raising new questions.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit last month said a Texas judge can lawfully open his court proceedings with a prayer. It was a decision that seemed to stretch Supreme Court precedent in a way Justice Samuel Alito in 2014 said would be “far astray” from what the court intended.

Democrats and Republicans are far apart on overhauling federal permitting, leaving little common ground if and when lawmakers take another stab at moving Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) stalled bill, observers say.

False Claims Act whistleblowers that target defense contractors and health-care companies may have a better idea of which courts will be friendlier to their fraud allegations now that the US Supreme Court has decided not to weigh in on what makes a complaint adequate.

Workplace retirement savers who fall victim to cyber crimes are finding they don’t always have an easy way to get their money back as employers and service providers grapple over who’s responsible.

VLSI Technology LLC and Intel Corp. were called this week to appear at an upcoming federal district court hearing to probe whether VLSI was sufficiently forthcoming with its financial disclosures—the latest judicial response to the growing prevalence of third-party funding in patent disputes.