Katya Schwenk

The United States Supreme Court will soon decide a case that could decimate consumer protections against abusive banking practices — potentially allowing banks to disregard state laws meant to prevent the kind of predatory lending that led to the 2008 financial crisis.

The Republican county recorder battled his party's election deniers. MAGA-backed Justin Heap just beat him in the primary.

Airlines turned a new chapter in their ongoing battle against automatic refunds.

The airline industry's top lobbying group, Airlines for America, is pushing back against the Biden administration's rule requiring that consumers get automatically refunded for flights that are delayed or canceled.

Lawyers with deep connections to the Supreme Court dark-money operative are attacking voting rights in battleground states in the lead-up to the 2024 election.

A cadre of lawyers tied to conservative activist Leonard Leo is spearheading a series of legal attacks on voting rights in critical swing states. The operation aims to suppress voters, with the potential to tip the scales during the election this fall.

Texas is about to open its business courts, a new legal system backed by Big Oil that is expected to have immediate impacts on environmental cases in the state. The courts' judges were hand-picked by Gov. Greg Abbott, a major recipient of oil industry cash.

On September 1, Texas will open new business courts, heavily influenced by Big Oil, with judges handpicked by Governor Greg Abbott, many of whom have deep ties to the fossil fuel industry.

“We have authority to sue,” one Department of Justice attorney said Thursday, “and we’ve used it.”

As students head back to school, one of the world’s largest payment processors is fighting accusations of upcharging parents for school meals.