U.S. Labor Department leadership is moving to reassign its top West Coast litigator, Janet Herold, who spearheaded a series of employment discrimination lawsuits against Silicon Valley tech giants, including a pending case against Oracle Corp., Bloomberg Law has learned.

California electronics manufacturer Sanmina Corp. impliedly waived work-product immunity over confidential internal memos when it used a report citing those memos to support a tax deduction during an Internal Revenue Service audit, the Ninth Circuit said.

Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. were ordered to convert their California drivers from independent contractors to employees with benefits, an early loss in a court battle the gig industry can’t afford to lose.

The White House and Pentagon presented plans Monday to help U.S. telecom companies build out new ultrafast 5G networks by allowing commercial use of airwaves previously reserved for military radar.

The U.S. government lost its bid for an early exit from a patent case over a computer language companies allegedly used to file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission, after the U.S. Court of Federal Claims refused to toss the case.

A federal judge in Texas said a trial to determine damages in a long-running dispute between Apple and VirnetX will be held in October, pushing back one that was supposed to begin next week.