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  FDA Panel Clears J&J COVID-19 Vaccine For Emergency Use

  By Britain Eakin

  A U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel approved Johnson & Johnson's request for emergency use authorization o...(read more)

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  IPOs Still A Hot Ticket As Post-Pandemic 'Normalcy' Beckons

  By Tom Zanki

  Businesses that have prospered from stay-at-home mandates are flocking toward initial public offerings hoping th...(read more)

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• House Approves Biden's $1.9T Pandemic Relief Package

  By Stephen Cooper

  House lawmakers approved a $1.9 trillion package of economic incentives designed to combat the coronavirus pandemic early Saturday, but its fate is uncertain in the Senate, where bipartisan objections to raising the minimum wage could derail the legislation.

• Wells Fargo Inks $95M Deal To End Consultants' Wage Claims

  By Lauren Berg

  Wells Fargo has agreed to pay an additional $70 million to resolve claims from thousands of mortgage consultants alleging the bank stiffed them by clawing back hourly wages and vacation time from their earned sales commissions, adding to the $25 million it has already paid, the workers told a California federal judge Friday.

• Fidelity Nabs Bench Trial Win Over $100M Stock Sale

  By Hannah Albarazi

  A philanthropist couple did "not come close" to proving that a Fidelity-affiliated donor-advised fund sponsor violated a standard of care in the liquidation of their $100 million stock donation, a California federal magistrate judge ruled Friday, roughly four months after presiding over a liability bench trial on the matter.

• Chancery Strikes Down Williams Cos. Poison Pill Measure

  By Jeff Montgomery

  An "extreme" poison pill anti-takeover measure adopted by pipeline giant The Williams Cos. last year was struck down by Delaware's Chancery Court on Friday, with a vice chancellor finding that directors failed to show the measure was a reasonable response to a specific concern.

• 1st Circ. Upholds 3 Ex-NECC Workers' Drug Fraud Convictions

  By Rachel O'Brien

  The First Circuit on Friday affirmed the convictions of three former employees of a defunct Massachusetts pharmacy that created and shipped contaminated steroids that led to a deadly nationwide meningitis outbreak in 2012.

• 9th Circ. Revives Claims In Ore. Bar Membership Fee Row

  By Melissa Angell

  The Ninth Circuit on Friday partially revived lawsuits brought by attorneys challenging the Oregon State Bar's membership fee requirements, finding that neither the U.S. Supreme Court nor the circuit itself has yet addressed if the First Amendment tolerates mandatory bar memberships.

• 2nd Circ. Won't Bar Festival Co. From Selling 'Woodstock' Pot

  By Diana Novak Jones

  The Second Circuit ruled Friday it won't block the company behind the iconic Woodstock music festival from selling marijuana products, shutting down a challenge from a rival company that claimed it owned the rights to Woodstock-branded pot.

• WDTX Judge Albright Touts Revamped Courtroom Tech

  By Katie Buehler

  Western District of Texas Judge Alan D. Albright says he made huge upgrades to technology in his Waco courtroom ahead of the trial he's currently presiding over, a computer chip patent dispute between patent holder VLSI Technology LLC and Intel Corp.

• Robinhood In Settlement Talks With FINRA Over 2020 Outages

  By Dean Seal

  Robinhood disclosed Friday that it may face at least $26.6 million in costs to settle investigations from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority into service outages the trading platform experienced last year and its management of options trading.

• 3 Takeaways From 9th Circ. Virgin Flight Attendants Ruling

  By Linda Chiem

  Airlines will face stiffer headwinds navigating various state rules on flight crew hours now that the Ninth Circuit has upheld California's meal and rest break regulations, finding they don't interfere with federal aviation safety regulations and therefore still apply to flight attendants, even those mostly working out-of-state.

• $650M Facebook Privacy Deal OK'd, $110M Atty Fees Trimmed

  By Lauren Berg

  A California federal judge on Friday praised a $650 million settlement resolving claims that Facebook's facial recognition technology violated Illinois users' biometric privacy rights, calling it a "landmark result," but he trimmed the $110 million requested attorney fees to $97.5 million.

• Up Next At High Court: PTAB's Legality, Voting Rights Act

  By Jimmy Hoover

  The U.S. Supreme Court is set to tackle legal questions with major consequences for the patent world and voting rights this week as it heads into the final action-packed months of its term.