The employee’s responsibilities concerning documentation, design, and development of the IVR system were the “main” or “most important” part of his job, making them his “primary duty.” Cincinnati Bell met its burden to show that an IT employee’s responsibilities were intimately intertwined with the design, development, and documentation of an IVR system, making him an exempt computer employee, ruled the Sixth Circuit. The employee claimed that the employer failed to pay him overtime wages,…

Kalshi is seeking to block what it says is an imminent Louisiana enforcement action and a Missouri cease-and-desist demand. KalshiEX LLC has filed separate complaints in federal courts in Louisiana and Missouri seeking to stop state gambling and sports-wagering laws from being applied to event contracts traded on its federally regulated exchange ( KalshiEx LLC v. Murrill , No. 1:26-cv-04476 (W.D. La. filed Oct. 23, 2026)) and (Kalshiex LLC v. Hanaway , No. 4:26-cv-1860 (E.D. Mo. filed Oct. 27,…

Meta Platforms, Inc.’s smart glasses are invading the privacy of individuals by recording people in “private situations,” which is compounded by Meta’s use of images collected by the glasses for AI (artificial intelligence) training, according to Sens. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) and Ed Markey (D., Mass.). “Meta’s smart glasses have increasingly been implicated in disturbing invasions of users’ and bystanders’ privacy,” the senators said in a letter sent yesterday to Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark…

CMS misinterpreted the Inflation Reduction Act’s exclusion for plasma-derived products when it failed to exclude BOTOX from its published list of selected drugs for drug pricing negotiations. A federal district court for the District of Columbia has granted in part the motion for summary judgment filed by AbbVie Inc. in a lawsuit brought by the drug manufacturer challenging CMS’s selection of BOTOX in its list of selected drugs for drug pricing negotiations. AbbVie contended that the agency…

The plaintiffs say the amendments disrupt lending and counseling services, divert scarce resources, and reduce their ability to serve underserved borrowers through their organizational networks. The National Urban League and the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporations have filed a complaint asking the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to declare unlawful and set aside the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Regulation B amendments. The plaintiffs…

The writer of an unproduced screenplay alleges that “The Holdovers” copied the protected story structure, sequence of events, scenes, and dialogue patterns of his earlier script after the director received it twice. Simon Stephenson has sued multiple defendants, including credited “The Holdovers” screenwriter David Hemingson, and the production and distribution companies behind the film, alleging that the acclaimed 2023 movie was an unauthorized adaptation of his 2013 screenplay, “Frisco.” The…

The CMA cautioned there are no findings as yet, the point of the investigation is to find out whether Meta abused a dominant position in violation of the UK Competition Act 1998. The United Kingdom's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced it is opening an investigation of whether Meta commercial terms and conditions breach competition law. The businesses subject to the investigation are Meta Platforms, Inc.; Facebook UK Limited; and Facebook Ireland Limited, but may include other…

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell foreclosed state-law claims seeking a cancer warning which the herbicide’s EPA-approved label did not contain. In an action brought against an herbicide manufacturer for allegedly failing to warn consumers that its product could cause cancer, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit granted the parties’ joint motion for summary adjudication and reversed a district court judgment in favor of the consumer. On remand from the…

The Secretary may prove the inadequacy of safety procedures by showing the employer did not follow them or properly communicate them to employees. Substantial evidence on the record supported an administrative law judge’s conclusion that a trucking company violated the Occupational Safety Act’s general duty clause after an employee was fatally struck by a truck while moving an oil rig, ruled the Eighth Circuit. The employer argued that its existing safety measures were adequate and that OSHA…