The administration says companies will be barred from the permanent visa program pending review of alleged H-1B abuses. The Trump administration has suspended Microsoft Corp., Adobe Inc., and other employers from participation in the permanent visa program based on allegations of H-1B fraud, according to statements by Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling on social media and comments by Vice President JD Vance during an October 8 press conference on visa fraud. The action appears to be one of the…

Former Sen. Dodd and former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler argued that the Dodd-Frank Act did not create a secret pathway to exclusive federal oversight of gaming. Former U.S. Senator Christopher J. Dodd and former SEC and CFTC Chair Gary Gensler filed separate amicus briefs in the pending appeal of a Third Circuit opinion by New Jersey regulators over whether states can regulate prediction markets. The central issue is whether federal law preempts prediction market regulations by state and tribal…

Google LLC’s proposed $10 million purchase of the assets of bankrupt Spirit Airlines—mainly to obtain data to train AI (artificial intelligence)—has prompted warnings from lawmakers and labor unions about the threat to former Spirit employees’ privacy. “This sale presents uncharted territory. According to publicly available court findings, the proposed sale would involve an extraordinary volume of Spirit’s internal records, including approximately 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft…

A federal court found the officials serve functions analogous to a judge and prosecutor, dismissing a federal claim. A federal judge dismissed Allegiance Behavioral Health LLC’s claim alleging due process violations in an administrative hearing, finding an Idaho administrative law judge and Medicaid program integrity unity manager served functions analogous to a judge and prosecutor and thus are entitled to absolute immunity. The judge also declined to exercise supplemental jurisdiction over…

The agency says the complaint fails to identify any national bank that has stopped—or imminently plans to stop—paying state-required escrow interest because of the challenged actions. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon to dismiss a lawsuit by Oregon and nine other states challenging the agency’s mortgage-escrow Powers Rule and related preemption determination, or alternatively transfer the case to the District of Columbia. In…

The publications alleged that OpenAI copied their journalism for AI training, generated outputs that substitute for their reporting, and removed identifying copyright information. USA TODAY Co. and 18 affiliated national and local news publications have sued OpenAI, alleging that it copied hundreds of thousands of protected articles and other journalistic works without permission to develop, train, and operate its generative AI products. The publications seek more than $250 million in damages,…

Proprietary manufacturer had proffered a reasonable alternative to the district court's interpretation of a settlement agreement to patent litigation which contained ambiguous terms as to its coverage and exclusions. A Third Circuit panel has mostly reversed and remanded a district court ruling in a lawsuit brought by generic drug manufacturer Sandoz against proprietary drug manufacturer United Therapeutics Corp (UTC). The litigation concerned vasodilator drug treprostinil, which in the form…

The consumer sufficiently pleaded that the recalled chocolates she consumed were defective and caused her hospitalization and subsequent aneurysm. In an action brought against a chocolate’s manufacturer and its distributor by a consumer who was allegedly hospitalized due to consumption of contaminated chocolate bars, a federal district court in New York denied the suppliers’ motion to dismiss. The consumer plausibly alleged showed that the product was unfit for human consumption and alleged a…

“Though the claims raise distinct issues, his counsel conceded at oral argument that one issue, constructive discharge, holds the ‘keys to the kingdom.’” A former fire department manager who retired after he was demoted, following complaints from his subordinates, failed to establish age discrimination, a procedural due process violation, or civil conspiracy, the Eighth Circuit affirmed. He could not prove that he experienced objectively intolerable working conditions, as required to show that…