Welcome to Bloomberg Law’s Wake Up Call, a daily rundown of the top news for lawyers, law firms, and in-house counsel.

A record ruling against Johnson & Johnson this month removed a major land mine from the deferred-payment M&A deals behind a surge of high-stakes litigation, but it left dealmakers plenty to fight about.

The Supreme Court is siding overwhelmingly with President Donald Trump when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.

The House speaker expressed support recently for efforts to impeach two judges whose rulings have angered the Trump administration. Should this occur, it would dramatically lower the bar to impeaching a judge, which legislators urging this action may come to regret.

Advocates engaged in litigation involving complex science must be prepared to navigate technical evidence, expert testimony, and opposing arguments to effectively advance their client’s position.

With every development in white collar enforcement, multinational companies aim to interpret how the government’s evolving policy priorities might alter their risk exposure.

General Motors Co. expects profits to grow as much as $2 billion this year and plans to return more of that to shareholders with a higher dividend and buybacks, fueled by demand for its highest-margin vehicles.

Anthropic PBC is finally having its own ChatGPT moment. A powerful new version of its Claude chatbot can now take actions on a computer, and the broad repercussions of that advance are impossible to predict. But they may well be painful for some white-collar workers.

A record ruling against Johnson & Johnson this month removed a major land mine from the deferred-payment M&A deals behind a surge of high-stakes litigation, but it left dealmakers plenty to fight about.

New CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is deepening his small agency’s reliance on crypto, prediction market, and trading exchange executives by forming a panel of industry bigwigs, even as the Trump administration slashes advisory committees across the federal government.

French lawmakers passed a bill banning children aged under 15 from accessing social media, the latest government to push forward rules to shield minors from toxic content following the passage of Australia’s landmark legislation last year.

Amazon.com Inc. reached a settlement valued at more than $1 billion to end claims that it fails to properly refund customers for their returns.

A Louisiana parish is getting a second shot on Wednesday to argue for dismissal of a lawsuit centered around the petrochemical corridor known as Cancer Alley, a case that could bring novel environmental discrimination claims to trial.

President Donald Trump is heading back to America’s heartland in an attempt to refocus an economic message that’s been upstaged by outcries over his deportation policies and the killing of two protesters by federal officers.

The House speaker expressed support recently for efforts to impeach two judges whose rulings have angered the Trump administration. Should this occur, it would dramatically lower the bar to impeaching a judge, which legislators urging this action may come to regret.

The Trump administration won an appeals court order blocking a judge’s restrictions on Immigration and Customs Enforcement tactics for dealing with protesters in Minnesota.

A jury could reject Waste Management of Louisiana LLC’s explanation that it terminated a container technician because his new pacemaker left him unable to perform the key job duty of welding, a federal judge ruled.

President Donald Trump and Senate Democrats are hurtling toward another government shutdown and a defining election-year clash after federal agents killed a US citizen in Minneapolis this weekend.

Greg Bovino, the US Border Patrol commander who became the face of President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, is leaving the city following a mounting public outcry over the killing of two US citizens by federal agents in recent weeks.

A Louisiana parish is getting a second shot on Wednesday to argue for dismissal of a lawsuit centered around the petrochemical corridor known as Cancer Alley, a case that could bring novel environmental discrimination claims to trial.

If ICE agents can shoot civiliansat point-blank range and never be held accountable, then we aren’t living under the rule of law. We’re living in a police state.

A record ruling against Johnson & Johnson this month removed a major land mine from the deferred-payment M&A deals behind a surge of high-stakes litigation, but it left dealmakers plenty to fight about.

The Supreme Court is siding overwhelmingly with President Donald Trump when challenges arrive via the emergency docket, a Bloomberg Law analysis found.

The House speaker expressed support recently for efforts to impeach two judges whose rulings have angered the Trump administration. Should this occur, it would dramatically lower the bar to impeaching a judge, which legislators urging this action may come to regret.