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A US judge let Adani's case go, then torched the processJudge Nicholas Garaufis dismissed three of five counts against Gautam Adani but called the Justice Department's handling of it highly unusual and singled out Trent McCotter, a senior political appo…A flight tracker is suing Kalshi over cancellation bettingFlightAware filed suit in the Southern District of New York on August 10, alleging Kalshi used its data and trademark without permission to settle prediction-market contracts on flight cancellation…A DEF CON crowd may have run a fake Wi-Fi hotspot mid-flightDelta Flight 591, carrying 199 passengers from Las Vegas to Atlanta the day after DEF CON 34 ended, had an unauthorised wireless network appear onboard that the airline says it did not provide or o…Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products across 26 statesThe salmonella outbreak behind it has sickened 345 people and hospitalised 36 across 27 states, traced to a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, and lands weeks after Taylor Farms was already fighting a sepa…Daniel Kinahan extradited from Dubai to Ireland after a decade in the UAEThe alleged Kinahan crime group leader was handed over by the UAE on Sunday under a bilateral extradition treaty that only entered force in May 2025, and he now faces the Special Criminal Court on …Airlines are refusing to be ICE's enforcement armCarriers pushing back against immigration enforcement at US airports puts them in an old bind: caught between federal demands and customers who expect a business, not a border checkpoint. Airlines …Gatwick's second runway clears its last legal hurdleCampaigners lost their appeal against Gatwick's expansion, meaning the airport can proceed toward using its existing standby runway for regular departures, effectively adding capacity without build…Jefferies uncovers fresh evidence of fake invoices at troubled fundNew documentation strengthens the fraud case against the fund, raising the odds Jefferies pursues litigation rather than a quiet write-down.Apple sues the Home Office over the backdoor it was ordered to buildApple has moved from quiet resistance to open legal challenge against the UK government's demand for encrypted iCloud access, a demand issued under the Investigatory Powers Act that Apple says it c…Education Department wipes loans for another 170,000 defrauded borrowersThis is the latest tranche under borrower defense to repayment rules, the mechanism that lets defrauded students at collapsed for-profit colleges get federal loans discharged, and 170,000 more appr…Aston Martin creditors threaten legal action over branding rights saleCreditors are pushing back on a plan to sell off Aston Martin branding rights, a sign the carmaker's balance sheet repair is running into resistance from the people it owes money to, not just the m…Musk just paid to make the advertiser boycott lawsuit disappearElon Musk settling with the advertising industry group he sued for orchestrating an X boycott closes one of the messier legal threads from Twitter's collapse in ad revenue after the 2022 takeover. …Fauci pleads the Fifth in front of the SenateAnthony Fauci invoking Fifth Amendment protection at a Senate hearing on Covid origins and policy is a significant escalation from his previous congressional appearances, where he defended the reco…eBay pays $55.7m for sending cockroaches to its criticsThis is the final bill for one of the strangest corporate scandals of the last decade. EBay and several former executives will pay $55.7 million to settle claims they orchestrated a harassment camp…Ex-Goldman banker accused of paying a 'holy rain' of bribesUS prosecutors say a former Goldman Sachs banker funnelled what they've termed a 'holy rain' of bribes, the latest thread pulled from the 1MDB scandal that's already cost Goldman $2.9 billion in fi…Prenups are up, and lawyers say it's about protecting businesses, not romanceFamily lawyers report rising prenup demand from founders and business owners specifically to ring-fence company equity before marriage, not from any particular rise in cynicism. For anyone who's ra…J&J's $5.5bn talc offer is a number chosen to make trials go awayJohnson & Johnson's offer caps out at $5.5 billion, well below the $8.9 billion bankruptcy-channelled settlement plan that federal judges rejected twice in 2023 and 2024. The company has now tried …A missing underscore in a database query put an innocent man in prison for 18 monthsA single formatting error in a search parameter matched the wrong record, and the mistake wasn't caught through three separate stages of judicial review before conviction. The case is now a live ar…Meta dodges the next social media addiction trialThe lawsuit's withdrawal doesn't clear Meta of the broader litigation wave, dozens of similar cases are still queued up against the company.Novo Nordisk sues Eli Lilly over Ozempic marketing claimsNovo Nordisk is accusing Eli Lilly of running materially misleading adverts for its GLP-1 rivals at the exact moment both companies are locked in the most valuable pharmaceutical arms race of the d…A federal judge just handed state AGs leverage they didn't expect to getA temporary restraining order on a $110bn deal is rare enough that Paramount's lawyers are scrambling, and the fact several state attorneys general triggered it suggests antitrust risk on this merg…Nationalisation is starting to look like a habit, and creditors have noticedThames Water's lenders are lining up lawyers before Andy Burnham has even confirmed a takeover, which tells you how little faith bondholders now have in getting fair treatment from a Labour governm…PwC fined £3m again over Babcock audit failuresA second fine on the same audit relationship suggests the Financial Reporting Council doesn't think the first one changed PwC's behaviour. This £3m penalty relates to further failings in PwC's audi…Circle just accused a Tether-linked fund of gaming the marketStablecoin issuers policing each other's trading desks is new territory, and it tells you the post-IPO scrutiny on Circle is forcing disclosures that used to stay in Slack channels. The dispute cen…A Democratic AG coalition just complicated Trump's easiest merger approvalAntitrust enforcement in America now runs on two tracks, federal and state, and they're pointing in opposite directions. A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general, led out of California, fi…Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI is really about who owns the next platformA trade secrets suit between the two companies best placed to control how people interact with AI on their devices is not a minor legal skirmish. Apple has sued OpenAI alleging a former engineer ex…Oncoclinicas' debt rework is a warning on Brazilian healthcare leverageAn out-of-court restructuring is the polite version of a company admitting it overbuilt on borrowed money. Oncoclinicas, Brazil's largest oncology clinic network, is reportedly filing for an out-of…Le Pen is cleared to run for the French presidency. The political risk premium on European assets just changed.A French court has confirmed Marine Le Pen can stand in the 2027 presidential election despite her conviction over misuse of EU funds, removing what many had assumed was a blocking mechanism. The i…23andMe data breach victims will share $47 million. The number is almost insultingly small, and that is the point.A US judge has approved a $47 million settlement for victims of the 23andMe data breach, which exposed genetic and health data for approximately 6.9 million people. That works out to roughly $6.80 …The White House is leaning on major US grocers over beef prices. Retail margins are suddenly political.The White House has summoned or contacted leading US grocery chains to pressure them on beef pricing, framing elevated meat prices as a corporate margin problem rather than a supply-chain or commod…Nigel Farage is resigning his seat to force a by-election. The timing is calculated, not impulsive.Farage's decision to quit as MP for Clacton and force a by-election is a deliberate political manoeuvre rather than an exit from politics: Reform UK will field him again, using the campaign as a na…Harry loses against the Daily Mail publisher. The implications for press freedom and litigation economics run in opposite directions.The High Court has ruled against the Duke of Sussex in his phone-hacking claim against Associated Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mail, ending a case that had been watched closely as a test of w…Tesla's Q2 sales rebound tells investors what they want to hear, but the manslaughter charge tells the harder storyTesla reported a stronger-than-expected Q2 sales figure, with deliveries rebounding sharply from a bruising Q1 and apparently signalling that the Musk-related brand damage has a ceiling. Investors …A £600,000 fine for Forvis Mazars is a number so small it barely functions as a deterrentThe Financial Reporting Council has fined Forvis Mazars £600,000 for what it described as pervasive audit failings, and the word pervasive is doing a lot of work in that sentence. Audit firm fines …Car finance compensation is delayed again, and every month of delay costs claimants real moneyA tribunal has paused the UK's car finance compensation scheme, pushing any payouts into next year and extending what is already the longest-running retail lending scandal since PPI. The Financial …SCOTUS rejects Trump's birthright citizenship order. The executive power question is still live.The Supreme Court has struck down Trump's executive order attempting to restrict birthright citizenship, upholding the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on US soil are citizens regar…Federal judges strike down Trump's changes to public servant loan forgiveness. 43 million borrowers are watching.A federal court has struck down the Trump administration's attempt to roll back the Public Service Loan Forgiveness programme, which affects borrowers who have spent years in government and non-pro…US egg producers settle benchmark price manipulation claimsMajor US egg producers have reached a settlement over allegations they colluded to manipulate benchmark prices, a case that has wound through the courts for years. The settlement figure has not bee…The Supreme Court ringfences the Federal Reserve, for nowThe US Supreme Court has blocked Trump's attempt to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, drawing a specific constitutional line around Fed independence that the same Court's earlier ruling on…Supermicro's Taiwan offices raided in a chip smuggling probeTaiwanese authorities have raided Supermicro's Taiwan operations as part of a chip smuggling investigation, adding fresh legal exposure to a company that spent 2024 and 2025 clawing back credibilit…