Brian Quintenz, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, faced conflict-of-interest scrutiny from Democratic senators over his roles in the crypto industry and prediction markets — two prominent areas in this administration.

Strategy’s Michael Saylor dismissed short-seller Jim Chanos’s recommendation to short the shares of the Bitcoin treasury company and buy the cryptocurrency because of the large premium the company’s common stock commands over the value of its token holdings.

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On this week’s episode of our podcast, On The Merits, Bloomberg Law reporters Tatyana Monnay and Sam Skolnik talk about the push to make bar associations great again.

Shaquille O’Neal has agreed to pay victims of the FTX collapse $1.8 million to settle claims that he promoted the now-collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, according to a federal court filing.

Wall Street’s ETF machine kicked into high gear just hours after Circle Internet Group Inc. went public, riding the frenzied initial public offering of the stablecoin giant as crypto technologies enter mainstream finance.

GrafTech International Ltd. directors and executives boasted about the graphite electrode maker’s environmental compliance while it polluted neighborhoods near its Mexican manufacturing facility, a shareholder alleges.

PwC plans to reorganize its US advisory business, adding separate divisions focused on areas including supply chain to support client needs.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon said that Harvard and other universities could get some of the federal funding cut by the Trump administration restored if they change their policies.

Former star real estate brokers Tal and Oren Alexander and their brother Alon Alexander pleaded not guilty in New York to a string of fresh charges filed in their criminal sex-trafficking case as they continued to fight for release from custody.

Ryan Tharp joined Frost Brown Todd as a partner in its private equity and venture practice in Denver, the firm announced Tuesday.

One of Victoria’s Secret & Co.’s biggest investors called for a board overhaul after accusing the company of “continued mismanagement” and “disastrous board-level decisions.”

WilmerHale said it’s representing the law professor tapped to make privacy-related recommendations about the sale of 23andMe’s customers’ genetic data while separately working for a major bidder for the assets, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc., on unrelated matters.

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) said he’s been in touch with the bill’s bipartisan champions and negotiations are kicking off.

Amazon.com Inc.’s chief security officer joined officials at other major tech companies in calling for fewer regulations in artificial intelligence, warning that government involvement in this rapidly emerging area risks narrowing the scope of the company’s work.

Minnesota-based Municipal Parking Services Inc. accused a rival and one of its lot-owner customers of infringing patents covering automated parking-monitoring systems.

A 2024 federal rule precluding the use and disclosure of reproductive health care information creates an unlawful roadblock to states’ investigatory and enforcement capabilities and should be vacated, Texas told a federal court.

Tenet Healthcare Corp. convinced a federal court to dismiss some claims in a proposed class action from California patients who alleged that the healthcare provider improperly used tracking pixels from Meta Platforms and Google.

A cloud storage company and its subsidiary prevailed against a third round of proposed class action claims alleging the companies committed fraud in advertising consumer access to a free “lifetime cloud license” and “automatic firmware updates.”

California’s bid to limit military involvement in the Los Angeles immigration protests will be taken up by a judge Thursday, meaning that a pullback by the Trump administration before then is unlikely.

A man who raised about $12 million from investors for a merchant cash advance scheme known as Par Funding failed to dislodge judgment for the SEC Tuesday in his appeal to the Eleventh Circuit.

Days after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was brought back to the US to face human smuggling charges, the Trump administration asked a federal court to halt a lawsuit seeking answers over why the US hadn’t facilitated his return following his wrongful deportation to El Salvador.

One of seven rules adopted by Georgia’s state board of elections in 2024 and backed by the Republican Party survived scrutiny by the state’s high court after it found four of the rules are unconstitutional under the non-delegation doctrine.

A Milwaukee area hospital is stuck with a nearly $123,000 property tax bill because its partially constructed tower building was denied an exemption on Tuesday by a Wisconsin appeals court for not being complete.