Big-name law firms, religious organizations and companies connected to President Donald Trump and other politicians were among the thousands of loan recipients that took part in the federal government’s largest coronavirus relief program, the $669 billion Paycheck Protection Program.

A black female former WeWork Companies Inc. executive asked a New York federal judge to fast-track for appeal her contention that state law blocks her from being forced to pursue her race and sex bias claims in arbitration rather than court.

The founders of three CarePoint hospitals in northern New Jersey can move forward with their claim that the facilities’ co-owner violated their first refusal rights by trying to sell one of the hospitals, and the land two of them sit on, to nursing home chain Alaris Health LLC, a Delaware judge ruled.

Sonic Corp. can’t dodge a lawsuit from banks over a 2017 hack of consumers’ payment cards from more than 300 of the burger chain’s drive-ins.

California craft brewery Stone Brewing Co. successfully maneuvered a proposed class action challenging its employment applications and background checks into individual arbitration, after a ruling by a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

From nursing homes in New York and a landfill in Utah to Disney World and the Las Vegas Strip, employers are wrestling with workplace safety in the age of Covid-19 and making fraught calculations about how to safeguard both their businesses and their employees.

Longtime law department leaders for WR Grace & Co. and the Bank of Hawaii Corp. are poised to step down at year’s end, ushering in new in-house eras at those companies.

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Elon Musk provoked the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in the course of taking a victory lap on Twitter over Tesla Inc.’s surging share price.