The employee’s responsibilities concerning documentation, design, and development of the IVR system were the “main” or “most important” part of his job, making them his “primary duty.” Cincinnati Bell met its burden to show that an IT employee’s responsibilities were intimately intertwined with the design, development, and documentation of an IVR system, making him an exempt computer employee, ruled the Sixth Circuit. The employee claimed that the employer failed to pay him overtime wages,…

Kalshi is seeking to block what it says is an imminent Louisiana enforcement action and a Missouri cease-and-desist demand. KalshiEX LLC has filed separate complaints in federal courts in Louisiana and Missouri seeking to stop state gambling and sports-wagering laws from being applied to event contracts traded on its federally regulated exchange ( KalshiEx LLC v. Murrill , No. 1:26-cv-04476 (W.D. La. filed Oct. 23, 2026)) and (Kalshiex LLC v. Hanaway , No. 4:26-cv-1860 (E.D. Mo. filed Oct. 27,…

OpenAI has offered inadequate responses to lawmakers’ questions about the company’s AI (artificial intelligence) models’ misbehavior, according to 20 House Democrats who wrote yesterday to OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman. The letter noted that OpenAI reportedly fired three “whistleblowers” over their outreach to an AI security researcher and has offered incomplete and contradictory responses to previous congressional queries about the company’s AI agents hacking Hugging Face, Inc.,…

The drugmaker’s attempt to rely on a corrected FDA approval letter failed because the original approval triggered the statutory 60-day filing period, leaving its patent term extension applications one day late. A pharmaceutical company lost its bid to extend two patents associated with a cancer drug after a federal district court in New Jersey has upheld the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) rejection of its applications as untimely. The court held that the 60-day filing period under…

The plaintiffs say the amendments disrupt lending and counseling services, divert scarce resources, and reduce their ability to serve underserved borrowers through their organizational networks. The National Urban League and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations have filed a complaint asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to declare unlawful and set aside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Regulation B amendments. The plaintiffs…

The court also weighed in on anti-SLAPP statutes, concluding that the use of logos and trademarks does not transform into good-faith communications related to the public interest simply because the target market is government employees. The federal district court in Nevada has issued an opinion in a case that clarifies both the sufficiency of pleadings in a trademark-infringement claim and application of Nevada's anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation) statute in such a…

The CMA cautioned there are no findings as yet, the point of the investigation is to find out whether Meta abused a dominant position in violation of the UK Competition Act 1998. The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced it is opening an investigation of whether Meta commercial terms and conditions breach competition law. The businesses subject to the investigation are Meta Platforms, Inc.; Facebook UK Limited; and Facebook Ireland Limited, but may include other…

Genuine issues remained concerning a design defect, failure to warn, the employer’s alleged negligence, and contribution, allowing those claims to survive. In an admiralty action arising from a deckhand’s injuries when a lever hoist chain snapped during a dredge-pipe repair, a federal district court in Virginia partly granted the manufacturer’s motion for summary judgment on the employer’s third-party claims. The court granted the manufacturer summary judgment on the manufacturing-defect…

The Secretary may prove the inadequacy of safety procedures by showing the employer did not follow them or properly communicate them to employees. Substantial evidence on the record supported an administrative law judge’s conclusion that a trucking company violated the Occupational Safety Act’s general duty clause after an employee was fatally struck by a truck while moving an oil rig, ruled the Eighth Circuit. The employer argued that its existing safety measures were adequate and that OSHA…