But taken together, the requests formed a pattern — one that, in retrospect, traced a regulatory trail that would later reveal unexpectedly high pacemaker battery failure rates, jeopardizing the lives ...

Several leading news organizations are investigating high-flying prediction markets Kalshi and Polymarket, based on Freedom of Information Act requests submitted to the Commodity and Futures Trading ...

We’re taking a look this week at a frequently used Freedom of Information Act exemption that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the statutory language. It’s known as “Glomar” among the federal agencies that ...

An amended complaint filed in Massachusetts federal court on Monday has accused the United States Department of Defense, the United States Navy, and contractors Raytheon Technologies Corporation and ...

Carson Block is a buccaneering stock trader, reveling in a role that’s long on risk and short on sympathy. He’s an activist short seller, the most reviled guy in any room full of corporate executives.

Amid President Trump’s recent high-profile efforts to punish or extract concessions from major law firms, a second front, much less publicized, has opened, with organizers of Project 2025 using the ...

When most people think about the Freedom of Information Act, they imagine journalists prying loose hidden facts or activists holding officials accountable. But FOIA is also a workhorse tool for ...

Federal courts are increasingly grappling with the legal status of prediction markets, as exchanges offering contracts on political, economic, and social events test the boundaries of federal ...

As the presidential election nears, we’ve been tracking the opposition-research strategies of both major parties. Last week, we examined recent Freedom of Information Act requests from the Democratic ...

Litigation involving the world’s three largest memory-chip manufacturers — Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron Technology — has become a recurring feature of the federal court system in the ...

The Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) is famously known as the “Rocket Docket,” a nickname that dates to the 1950s when Judge Walter E. Hoffman decided to hold court on Saturdays and holidays, fine ...

The United States private health insurance industry covers roughly 60.7% of the total U.S. population, or 203 million individuals. In 2022, it raked in $18 billion in revenue. Unsurprisingly, the ...