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  • January 17, 2026

    Up Next At High Court: Fed Firing & Gun 'Vampire Rules'

    The Supreme Court will begin a short argument week Tuesday, during which the justices will consider President Donald Trump's authority to fire a Democratic Federal Reserve governor over allegations of mortgage fraud, as well as the ability for states to presumptively bar gun owners from carrying firearms onto private property open to the public unless the property owner explicitly allows it. 

  • January 17, 2026

    5th Circ. OKs Self-Employment Tax Break For Limited Partners

    Business partners with limited liability under state law are excluded from the federal self-employment tax, a Fifth Circuit panel ruled, siding with a management consulting firm in its long-running controversy over the levy's limited-partner exception.

  • January 16, 2026

    Amazon Fights Class Claims That Clunky HR App Broke ADA

    Amazon urged a Washington federal judge on Thursday to pull the plug for good on a lawsuit from workers who claim the company violated state and federal disability law by dragging its heels on accommodations requests filed through its A to Z human resources app, saying the workers again failed to adequately plead their case.

  • January 16, 2026

    Stolen Google AI Info Valuable To Rivals And China, Jury Told

    Federal prosecutors questioned a foreign policy expert and an MIT computer science professor Friday in the trial of an ex-Google engineer accused of stealing AI trade secrets to help China, seeking to show that artificial intelligence is a major priority for the Chinese government and that Google's technology was nonpublic and extremely valuable.

  • January 16, 2026

    Immigrant Visa Pause Could Test Limits Of Executive Power

    The Trump administration's indefinite pause on immigrant visas for applicants from 75 countries may test the outer bounds of executive control over visa issuance and prompt court battles in a rarely litigated area of immigration law.

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