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A federal judge in New York chastised the U.S. Justice Department for seeking an emergency halt to a trial over the Trump administration’s plan to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, saying its efforts were “puzzling, if ...

A U.S. judge presiding over a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s plan to include a question about citizenship on the 2020 census finished hearing from witnesses and told lawyers to make their final arguments on Nov. 27. U.S. District Judge ...

Breaking with the Trump administration, the chief scientist at the U.S. Census Bureau testified that there is “reliable, quantitative evidence” the response to the 2020 survey would decline if the government includes a question about citizenship. “You don’t think that ...

U.S. Supreme Court justices questioned an $8.5 million Google settlement in a case that could make it harder for companies to resolve class-action lawsuits without providing direct compensation to those affected. The court’s conservative members signaled skepticism toward those types ...

President Donald Trump’s privately owned northern Virginia golf club has plenty of water hazards along its two courses, but none as bad — in the eyes of the government — as the nearby Potomac River, which is closed to canoe ...

Visa Inc. and Mastercard Inc. agreed to pay as much as $6.2 billion to end a long-running price-fixing case brought by merchants over card fees, the largest-ever class action settlement of an antitrust case. The total is in line with ...

Wells Fargo & Co. is facing a Department of Justice investigation into whether employees in the company’s wholesale-banking business improperly altered customer data, a person familiar with the matter said. The changes were made to meet a regulatory deadline, the ...

Endo International Plc is seeking to resolve all lawsuits over its Opana painkiller in a deal that would cap its legal exposure and pull it out of talks with other drugmakers and distributors seeking an industrywide settlement of opioid litigation, ...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh once questioned the correctness of the 1974 high court decision that forced then-President Richard Nixon to turn over secret White House tape recordings and led to his resignation. Kavanaugh’s comments came in a lawyer ...

Trump administration officials were putting the finishing touches on a strategy to roll back car pollution standards when they received a boost from an unexpected source: the Supreme Court. The announced retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a swing vote on ...