Police officers who removed a protester from a city council meeting in California didn’t use excessive force and so can avoid a lawsuit by a woman who said she was injured in the process, the Ninth Circuit said Monday in reversing a lower court.

California’s civil rights agency asked a judge to pause proceedings in the U.S. government’s case against embattled game maker Activision Blizzard Inc. while the state appeals a ruling blocking it from challenging the federal settlement.

In agreeing Monday to consider abolishing race-conscious university admissions, the U.S. Supreme Court and its 6-3 Republican-appointed majority took another big step toward transforming the nation’s legal landscape.

A new collaboration is intended to help minority-owned and women-owned businesses work with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the agency and Operation HOPE Inc. announced Jan. 24.

Five Hispanic nursing assistants can take to trial their claims that a Scranton, Pa., facility’s new ban on them speaking Spanish on the job resulted in national origin discrimination and harassment, the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruled.

Microsoft Corp.‘s acquisition of Activision Blizzard Inc. is shaking up the fight to unionize workers at the video gaming company and presenting new challenges for labor advocates.