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The agent, Brian Visalli, has denied any intent to cheat the government. He contends his punishment is retaliation for his whistleblower complaints about mismanagement and inefficiency within the agency.

The California Supreme Court has been short a justice for more than six months since Martin J. Jenkins’ retirement, making it one of the longest high court vacancies in the Golden State’s history.

Public sector labor unions are using increasingly negative public sentiment about AI to advance legislation to protect bargaining unit work and inhibit, if not prohibit, public agency adoption and implementation of AI technology and tools, writes Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s Alexander Volberding and Gabriella Kamran.

Online prediction markets have exponentially increased the risks of government insider trading and corruption, leaving states and the federal government scrambling to stop it. The danger to public trust and national security could be devastating, and yet there are limited mechanisms to prevent insider trading on prediction markets, write Holtzman Vogel’s Mark Pinkert, Akiva Shapiro, and Brandon Smith.

A comparison of the US’ and Germany’s legal processes shows that German courts may be the better forum for defamation claims between the two countries, say Alston & Bird’s Steven Penaro and Schalast’s Diana Grün.

US industrial production rose in April by the most in over a year, pointing to nascent momentum in the sector.

Current and former Sevita Health employees filed a proposed class action accusing the residential healthcare services company of mismanaging a program that charges extra fees to tobacco-using workers on its health plan.

Illinois would require employers using AI decision-making tools to give workers notice that includes how they’re using the technology and the kinds of data factored into decisions, under newly proposed amendments to civil rights regulations.

When I walk out of my condo every day, I say good morning to a concierge who works for a contracting company and not my building. If my car hits a pothole and the impact sends me to the emergency room, I may be cared for by a travel nurse employed by a third-party staffing firm. If I decide to sue the city, the law office may do document discovery using a part-time staff attorney. And if I hire someone to edit a video about the dangers of potholes, that person is likely to be a freelancer.

A potential strike among Long Island Rail Road workers and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority leaves federal and local leaders with few legal options to combat a potentially crippling work stoppage in the nation’s largest city.

Public sector labor unions are using increasingly negative public sentiment about AI to advance legislation to protect bargaining unit work and inhibit, if not prohibit, public agency adoption and implementation of AI technology and tools, writes Liebert Cassidy Whitmore’s Alexander Volberding and Gabriella Kamran.

The OECD will release guidance on Monday providing relief for companies that are concerned about late-filing penalties because the countries are experiencing a lag in implementation and technical issues.

US industrial production rose in April by the most in over a year, pointing to nascent momentum in the sector.

Emma Harris joined Ashfords as a partner in its trusts and estates practice in London, the firm announced Friday.

US President Donald Trump said he did not discuss a possible extension of his tariff truce when he met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during a summit in China.

US President Donald Trump says he did not discuss tariffs with Chinese President Xi Jinping, in comments to reporters.

US industrial production rose in April by the most in over a year, pointing to nascent momentum in the sector.

Kimmeridge Energy Management Co. approved the construction of a $13 billion liquefied natural gas export plant on the US Gulf Coast after securing investment from an Abu Dhabi sovereign fund.

One of the several environmental lawsuits challenging the restart of the Sable Offshore Corp. oil operation was dismissed after a federal judge ruled the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management didn’t need to issue a new development platform.

Donald Trump got the pageantry he craved during his trip to China. But the US president concluded the summit largely where he began, receiving little help from his self-described “friend” Xi Jinping in dealing with a messy war in Iran and a challenging political climate at home.

Before Donald Trump had even wrapped his two days of summitry and sightseeing in Beijing, Xi Jinping declared the visit a “historic” landmark in US-China ties despite the absence of any major deals or obvious breakthroughs.

In the months after Elon Musk closed on his $44 billion purchase of Twitter Inc., there was a broad consensus that not only had he overpaid, but that he’d dragged some of the world’s best-known investors into a bad deal.