Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and the state’s Oil and Gas Commission are barred for now from enforcing restrictions on ownership in foreign crypto companies and regulations on digital asset mining facilities, a federal judge said.

Predictions market firm Polymarket hired former Commodity Futures Trading Commission attorney Neal Kumar to be chief legal officer.

Cassandra Borchers joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner in its global financial services practice group in Cincinnati, the firm announced Wednesday.

A former 1st Million executive accused of defrauding more than 1,000 investors between 2017 and 2019 lost his appeal to undo convictions for conspiracy, wire fraud, and securities fraud.

Super Micro Computer Inc. tumbled Wednesday after giving preliminary results that fell well short of analysts’ estimates, a sign its comeback plan has been slow to gain traction.

PayPal Holdings Inc. said the US Securities and Exchange Commission has closed its inquiry into the company’s stablecoin without an enforcement action, according to the company’s latest quarterly filing.

Predictions market firm Polymarket hired former Commodity Futures Trading Commission attorney Neal Kumar to be chief legal officer.

US commodity producers will likely avoid strict checks under the European Union’s rules to curb deforestation after months of lobbying, providing relief for the sector against the backdrop of a tariff war.

Merck & Co. Inc. managers escaped allegations that they hurt the pharmaceutical giant by misleading investors over traction for its HPV vaccine in China.

Renewable energy and climate technology companies that flocked to the US to profit from the subsidies provided by the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act are reassessing whether the US remains the optimal place to run a low-carbon business, according to a senior Citigroup Inc. banker.

The US accounting standard-setter moved to finalize a project that aims to simplify and improve loan loss financial reporting rules.

There’s a course-correction underway among financial firms that went all out on ESG hiring just a few years back, according to recruiters advising banks and money managers.

Business-services provider Conduent Inc. faces a proposed class action over a 2024 data breach that exposed the information of more than 4.3 million people who had health-savings accounts and other employee benefits HealthEquity Inc. managed.

The Associated Press and other news outlets in Idaho are entitled to be in the room where doctors prepare and administer lethal injections during executions, a federal court said.

Health-information-technology provider Cerner Corp. disclosed patients’ health information to Google Inc. without their consent in violation of state and federal privacy laws, a proposed federal class action said.

An Israeli private investigator, alleged to have worked for a Washington lobbying firm and hacked climate activists, failed to block his extradition to face criminal charges in the US.

Meta Platforms Inc. isn’t the only company developing an AI chatbot. But it is the one best placed to direct billions of people, and their intimate personal data, toward AI in an instant, which is what it is doing: Meta’s bots now appear prominently within Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The rollout has been lightning fast.

Lawyers choose their clients. Federal prosecutors need independence. And judges expect their orders to be followed.

A Columbia University student detained by immigration officials was released by a federal judge as he fights the Trump administration’s attempts to remove him from the country.

The Federal Circuit affirmed a Texas federal judge’s ruling that four mobile payment patents Fintiv Inc. accused PayPal Holdings Inc. of infringing are invalid due to their indefinite wording.

Counsel for Sig Sauer Inc. tried to convince a federal appeals court panel Wednesday that expert testimony is required to prove that a gun defect caused an unintentional firing and subsequent injury.

US Supreme Court justices signaled a deep divide over a bid to create the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school in a case that could lift longstanding constitutional limits on governmental support for faith.

The Federal Circuit backed a district court’s invalidation of four patents, asserted against Google LLC, that purport to improve image-correction processes in computers, finding them to be directed at an abstract idea.

The Trump administration asked the US trade court to reject a lawsuit by small businesses challenging the president’s global tariffs, arguing that judges don’t have the authority to review the national emergency he invoked to justify the sweeping levies.