Jessica Silver-Greenberg

The nation’s primary regulator of workplace discrimination has moved to dismiss cases that may run afoul of President Trump’s executive order on gender.

Uber has spent millions trying to get a proposal on the Nevada ballot that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits against companies.

The move may affect giant social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as smaller ones like Mastodon and Truth Social.

Nursing homes have manipulated the influential star system in ways that have masked deep problems — and left them unprepared for Covid-19.

The lawsuit, filed by the state attorney general and other prosecutors, accuses Brookdale Senior Living of gaming Medicare’s ubiquitous star-rating system.

In U.S. nursing homes, where Covid-19 killed scores, even reports of maggots and rape don’t dock five-star ratings.

Porter Wright withdrew from a federal lawsuit it had filed days earlier. A top Jones Day lawyer said the firm wouldn’t take on new election litigation.

A law firm has stopped representing the Trump campaign in a Pennsylvania suit. (Published 2020)

Some lawyers at Jones Day and Porter Wright, which have filed suits about the 2020 vote, said they were worried about undermining the electoral system.

Kimberly Jackson, a discharge planner at NeuroBehavioral Hospital in Indiana, spoke publicly about nursing homes’ practice of dumping patients in hospitals.

They are finding what families say are pretexts to send patients to hospitals for psychiatric care — and then refusing to let them return.

Dozens of top recipients of government aid have laid off, furloughed or cut the pay of tens of thousands of employees.

Some with private equity owners, focused on making money, were particularly ill equipped and understaffed to handle Covid-19.

A proposal would loosen federal rules meant to control infections, just as the coronavirus rips through nursing homes.

Mr. Wexner, who created the retail empire L Brands, has come under scrutiny for employing the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as a personal adviser.

A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier’s sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?

Technology at the heart of drunken-driving cases across the country has been successfully challenged, with tens of thousands of tests thrown out.

Employers that champion women face accusations of discriminating against their pregnant workers, showing how widespread the problem is in American workplaces.

In his latest salvo in a battle to reform the Swiss conglomerate, Mr. Loeb criticized the board for acting too slowly and urged it to split the company in three.

An alliance of law firms, marketers, finance companies and doctors makes money by coaxing women to have their mesh implants removed.