Stephanie Gleason

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Ryan Autullo |Stephanie Gleason |Fawn Johnson

Google will pay the state of Texas $1.375 billion to resolve two privacy lawsuits claiming the tech giant tracks Texans’ personal location and maintains their facial recognition data, both without their consent. Google announced the settlement Friday, ending yearslong battles with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) over the state’s strict laws on user data.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Maia Spoto |Patrick Gregory |Stephanie Gleason

The Menendez brothers will face a judge May 13 and 14 to determine if they should be resentenced for the 1989 killings of their parents, after a judge denied a request to withdraw a former district attorney’s sentencing recommendation despite a new risk assessment report. The green light is the latest chapter in the brothers’ resentencing saga after a series of stops and starts. Several family members are expected to testify next week on Erik and Lyle Menendez’s behalf.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason |Jay-Anne Casuga

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings for government workers, a California federal court ruled Friday. President Donald Trump’s February executive order calling for a radical reorganization of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason |Jay-Anne Casuga

The Trump administration must temporarily cease from engaging in widespread layoffs and firings for government workers, a California federal court ruled Friday. President Donald Trump’s February executive order calling for a radical reorganization of the federal workforce likely violates the Constitution, Judge Susan Illston of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said.

5 days ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Stephanie Gleason |Alex Clearfield

The country’s largest federal appeals court on Friday upheld a federal law banning non-violent felons from owning guns, ruling that it doesn’t infringe the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in an en banc decision, said its decision aligns with four other federal circuit courts that have have reached a similar conclusion about the federal ban.