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Snack food maker Mondelez International is suing the Aldi supermarket chain, alleging the packaging for Aldi’s store-brand cookies and crackers “blatantly copies” Mondelez products such as Chips Ahoy, Wheat Thins and Oreos. In a federal lawsuit filed last week in Illinois, Chicago-based Mondelez said Aldi’s packaging was “likely to deceive and confuse customers” and threatened [...]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — CVS and Express Scripts asked a federal judge last week to block a law prohibiting pharmacy benefit managers from owning or operating pharmacies in Arkansas, challenging the first such restriction enacted by a state. The lawsuits come a little more than a month after Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The justices left in place lower court decisions allowing the transfer of the Tonto National Forest land, known as Oak Flat, to Resolution Copper, which [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge last week struck down regulations requiring most U.S. employers to provide workers with time off and other accommodations for abortions. The ruling by U.S. District Judge David Joseph of the Western District of Louisiana was a victory for conservative lawmakers and religious groups who decried the Equal Employment [...]
A western Ohio lawmaker has proposed legislation in the Ohio House of Representatives to repeal a section of state law that clashes with the Parents Bill of Rights, which went into effect in April. Rep. Johnathan Newman, R-Troy, told members of the Health Committee last week that R.C. 5122.04, which states mental health services may [...]
The Ohio Supreme Court this week reversed an Eighth District Court of Appeals ruling that affirmed a lower court decision that failed to appropriately sentence a defendant who committed a felony offense while in possession of a firearm. The majority reasoned that R.C. 2929.13(F)(8) requires a trial court to impose a prison sentence on an [...]
The Justice Department may drop its criminal prosecution of Boeing for allegedly misleading federal regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to a weekend court filing. The department said in a Saturday status report that two representatives had met with the families of some crash [...]
PARIS (AP) — The government of French President Emmanuel Macron covered up decisions over the illegal treatment of mineral water by food industry giant Nestle, including the world-famous Perrier brand, a Senate inquiry commission says. The report focused on Nestle’s years of use of treatments to avoid bacterial or chemical contamination of water labeled as [...]
Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange based in the United States, said that criminals improperly had obtained personal data on the exchange’s customers for use in crypto-stealing scams and were demanding a $20 million payment not to publicly release the info. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said in a social media post last week that criminals had [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal safety regulators have asked Elon Musk’s car company to explain how its driverless taxis will avoid causing accidents when they hit the road in Texas next month before a national “robotaxi” launch that is key to keeping its stock price aloft. Tesla has been told to provide information on how [...]