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Bloomberg Law
2 years
JUST IN: U.S. Senate has enough votes to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.
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The Trump administration is set to begin nationwide distribution of free HIV prevention medication to uninsured patients on Monday to coincide with World AIDS Day.
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BREAKING: Sen. Bernie Sanders' 2020 presidential campaign has been hit with an unfair labor practice complaint alleging illegal employee interrogation and retaliation against staffers.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds a New York grand jury subpoena for Trump’s tax returns and other financial records, rejecting his call to give presidents complete immunity from criminal investigation while in office.
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BREAKING: Justice Department's inspector general wants authority to investigate a decade-old plea deal in which Acosta allegedly helped an accused sex offender skirt harsh punishment for crimes against teens
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The Justice Department is seeking to take over the defense of President Trump in defamation suit brought by advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who claims Trump raped her two decades ago.
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Bloomberg Law
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Investigators probing President Trump’s finances have gotten hold of some of his tax records, allowing them to move ahead even without a Supreme Court order.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: The publisher of The Federalist unlawfully threatened workers when he said via Twitter that he’d send them “back to the salt mine” if they attempted to form a union, the NLRB said Tuesday.
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BREAKING: President Trump announced new policies aimed at: 📉 lowering prescription drug prices under Medicare by linking them to rates paid in other countries 🇨🇦 allowing Americans to buy prescription medication imported from Canada
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Justice Department asks Supreme Court to rule businesses can discriminate against workers based on their sexual orientation, gender identity without violating federal law.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Alex Jones has been ordered to pay an extra $45 million in punitive damages by a Texas Jury.
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Trump formally appealed a federal judge's ruling that declined to block the House's subpoena for his accounting firm. Guess who heads the court Trump appealed to? Judge Merrick Garland.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Supreme Court rules for cursing cheerleader in speech case. Full opinion:
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Bloomberg Law
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Tesla was denied new trial in a suit by a Black former contractor who was awarded $137 million by a jury that found he was subject to racist abuse at the electric vehicle maker’s northern California factory.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act. Justice Breyer delivers the opinion in California v. Texas:
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Bloomberg Law
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A grocery store cashier who’s guaranteed $15 per hour in California can legally be paid $7.25 in Texas and 19 other states. This gap in state minimum wages is set to widen further in the year ahead.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court unanimously rules the city of Philadelphia can't force Catholic group to certify same-sex couples as foster parents without running afoul of the First Amendment. Opinion in Fulton v. Philadelphia:
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Bloomberg Law
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NEW: The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said it will suspend contributions to lawmakers who voted against certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral win.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down New York gun-carrying restrictions. The Second Amendment applies outside of the home, court says. Full opinion:
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Bloomberg Law
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"The Court appoints itself—instead of Congress or the expert agency—the decisionmaker on climate policy. I cannot think of many things more frightening," Justice Kagan wrote.
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Bloomberg Law
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Asked by his lawyer if it was irresponsible to broadcast to his audience that the shooting never happened, Jones replied, “It was,” he said pausing for a breath, “especially since I’ve met the parents. It’s 100% real.”
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The defamation case was brought by the parents of six-year old Jesse Lewis who died in the school shooting. The parents are seeking a $150 million award in damages for defamation, and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
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Bloomberg Law
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Start your free trial to Bloomberg Law. Legal & Business Intelligence w/ time-saving tools & proprietary content http://t.co/WK6dsT50Yy
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Bloomberg Law
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Photo: President Biden hugs Ketanji Brown Jackson as the moment the Senate had the votes to confirm her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett rejected the latest bid to block President Biden's student loan-relief plan.
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Bloomberg Law
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Chuck E. Cheese asked a bankruptcy court to allow them to destroy 7 billion paper Prize Tickets that have built up in the company’s supply chain as a result of the pandemic.
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Bloomberg Law
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Former President Trump plans to sue Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, raising the stakes in his battle against social media giants who have blocked him. Read the full complaint:
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Bloomberg Law
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As a result of the alleged bribery schemes, “unqualified students found their way into the admissions rolls of highly selective universities, while those students who played by the rules and did not have college-bribing parents were denied admission.”
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Bloomberg Law
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The Trump administration’s top environmental lawyer faces severe career repercussions over allegations he disputes that he worked to try to cast doubt on the 2020 election results.
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Bloomberg Law
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Stanford University students Erica Olson and Kalea Woods say they were denied a fair opportunity to apply for admission at Yale University, the University of Southern California.
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Bloomberg Law
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“Voters, not lawyers, choose the president,” the appeals court said. “Ballots, not briefs, decide elections. The ballots here are governed by Pennsylvania election law."
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Bloomberg Law
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Why did you become a lawyer? Wrong answers only.
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Lawyers for Donald Trump are trying to prevent prosecutors from getting the president's tax filings and other financial documents, but judges are skeptical.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell is no longer a partner at Foley & Lardner partner, days after she joined a phone call where Trump pressured Georgia’s secretary of state to overturn election results.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Federal appeals court rejects President Trump’s attempt to revive a lawsuit in which his campaign was seeking to undo Pennsylvania’s certification of President-elect Biden’s victory in the state.
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Bloomberg Law
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Mobile-phone location data from people who attended President Trump’s Oklahoma rally show most came from outside Tulsa, hailing from at least 44 counties spread across 12 states. Covid-19 is on the rise in 33 of them.
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Bloomberg Law
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“I am asking you to take the bullhorn away from Alex Jones and all others who believe they can profit off fear and misinformation,” plaintiffs’ lawyer Wesley Ball said during closing arguments.
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Bloomberg Law
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A federal proposal to ensure workers have voting leave nationwide has stalled in Congress. The bill hasn’t moved from the House committee where it was referred since it was introduced in April.
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Bloomberg Law
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Here’s what the AP map data currently shows: ☑️ Arizona: Biden leads by 68,390 votes, with 88% of the vote ☑️ Georgia: Trump leads Biden by 14,250 votes, with 99% of the vote ☑️ Michigan: Biden leads by 149,388 votes, with 99% of the votes
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Bloomberg Law
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As tech firms depart Hong Kong because of China's new security law, those staying there for now are asking lawyers how to protect privacy as they prepare to address any government information requests.
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Bloomberg Law
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The confirmation vote is something of a vindication for Garland, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama only to have Republicans who then controlled the Senate refuse to take up the nomination.
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Bloomberg Law
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🎉 Happy birthday to Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who turns 66 today.
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Bloomberg Law
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Senate Judiciary Committee members from both parties denounced a protest targeting the Maryland home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, saying the families and homes of government officials are not fair game.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: Elizabeth Lederer cites publicity over Netflix series as reason she won't renew Columbia Law post. Students had demanded her firing.
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BREAKING: Sealed documents related to the controversial teen sex trafficking case against hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein will be opened, following a federal appeals court decision.
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Bloomberg Law
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Supreme Court said a public high school violated the Constitution when it punished a 14-year-old cheerleader for a profane Snapchat rant.
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Bloomberg Law
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The four Wednesdays of January.
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Bloomberg Law
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Stefan Passantino has taken a leave of absence from law firm Michael Best & Friedrich following an allegation that he advised a Trump White House staffer to mislead the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack.
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Bloomberg Law
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Using Bloomberg Law, we analyzed how 5 federal judges have ruled in employment and ERISA cases over the past 5 years
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Bloomberg Law
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The decision potentially tees the case up for the Supreme Court, and Trump has openly mused that the 6-3 conservative majority could deliver the election to him. But most legal experts doubt SCOTUS will take up a case where the evidence is lacking and won’t change the race.
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Bloomberg Law
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BREAKING: A Texas law barring abortion after the sixth week of pregnancy took effect at least temporarily on Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court deliberated over a bid by clinics and doctors to block the measure while a legal challenge goes forward.
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Bloomberg Law
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A historic moment: Kamala Harris, the first woman and person of color to be vice president of the U.S., is sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first and only woman of color on the Supreme Court.
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Bloomberg Law
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A federal judge in Michigan grilled former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell and other GOP lawyers over whether they should be sanctioned for filing a lawsuit to overturn the 2020 election result.
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Bloomberg Law
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The late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will get her own postal stamp in the 2023 collection, joining iconic figures like Toni Morrison.
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Bloomberg Law
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JUST IN: Johnson & Johnson will have to pay a $2.1 billion award to women who claimed its baby powder was contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, after the Supreme Court left intact the largest verdict in the almost decade-long litigation.
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Bloomberg Law
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Who’s protected by DACA? As many as 1.3 million people were immediately eligible. Applicants must 👇 ▶️ have been less than 16 years old when they arrived ▶️ be younger than 31 when DACA began ▶️ have no significant criminal record ▶️ be enrolled in high school or an equivalent
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Twenty-nine states plus the District of Columbia require employers to ensure workers have time off to vote on Election Day, and all but seven of those require that it be paid.
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More: The 6-3 ruling could mean more guns in public places in some of the most populous US cities. New York was one of at least six states with laws that prevented most people from legally carrying a handgun in public.
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Yesterday, he was ordered to pay $4.1 million in actual damages for claiming that the school shooting was a hoax. The two awards total nearly $50 million, well below the $150 million that the parents sought for the InfoWars host’s Sandy Hook assertions.
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Bloomberg Law
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Justice Stephen Breyer is headed back to his alma mater, Harvard Law School, to teach once again.
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Bloomberg Law
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The casket of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg lies in repose outside the Supreme Court. The public can pay respects in front of the building from now until 10 p.m. today, and from 9 a.m. until 10 p.m. on Thursday. 📸: Getty Images
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The DOJ is “actively considering” whether to seek a new law that would let prosecutors bring specific charges for plotting and carrying out acts of domestic terrorism.
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Meghan Markle won an appeal that a British tabloid breached her privacy by publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father after her marriage to Prince Harry.
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Tell us you're a lawyer without actually telling us you're a lawyer.
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Trump said he may issue an executive order to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 census after the Supreme Court put the matter on hold.
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BREAKING: Trump is in striking range of flipping another federal appeals court to a majority of GOP-appointed judges, this one based in his home state of New York.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court strikes down Louisiana law that required abortion-clinic doctors to get privileges at a local hospital, defying expectations by reinforcing reproductive rights in a case that had threatened to begin a rollback.
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NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court refused to schedule fast-track review of a new Republican bid to bar mail-in ballots from being counted in Pennsylvania if they arrive after Election Day.
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JUST IN: Divided Supreme Court upholds two Arizona voting restrictions, rejecting claims that they discriminate against racial minorities in a ruling that puts new limits on the reach of the Voting Rights Act.
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The would-be class action was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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Justice Sotomayor suggests burden here isn’t as onerous as other subpoenas the court has upheld: these papers don’t belong to the president, but to the financial institutions. Follow our live blog of Trump v. Mazars at the Supreme Court this morning 👇
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Bloomberg Law
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With a new interface, legal professionals can uncover resources/information on Bloomberg Law faster than ever before
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President-elect Joe Biden will be sworn in today at noon by Chief Justice John Roberts.
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BREAKING: Supreme Court refuses to take up new test of qualified immunity, rejecting appeals challenging the legal doctrine that has become a broad liability shield for police officers accused of civil rights violations.
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But a new standard could be emerging among Democratic state policymakers at $18 per hour or higher. Hawaii would raise its wage floor to $18 by 2028 under legislation awaiting Gov. David Ige’s (D) signature.
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Bloomberg Law
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Here are the possible nominees to replace Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. ⬇️
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Bloomberg Law
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Who will present the case for the House? The House managers who function as prosecutors will be led by Rep. Jamie Raskin. Other managers: Diana DeGette, David Cicilline, Joaquin Castro, Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu, Stacey Plaskett, & Madeleine Dean.
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Bloomberg Law has made it simple for attorneys to quickly compare how judges and jurisdictions stack up based on case type with Litigation Analytics. See Bloomberg Law's full jurisdiction comparison by downloading this special report.
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In new hot spots like Arizona, Texas and Florida, where Covid-19 is rapidly spreading, lines for testing extend outside urgent-care offices and other sites. For example, two high school football stadiums in Houston regularly hit capacity by mid-morning.
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☑️ Nevada: Biden leads Trump by 11,791 votes, with 75% of the vote ☑️ North Carolina: Trump leads Biden by 76,701 votes, with 94% of the vote ☑️ Pennsylvania: Trump leads Biden by 115,164 votes, 50.32% to 48.53% with 88% of the vote in
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BREAKING: Jury says Ed Sheeran didn't copy Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On."
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Tiffany P. Cunningham is the first Black judge on the Federal Circuit, the only federal appeals court never to have a Black member.
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Whole Foods allegedly disguises sugar in its 365 Everyday Value instant oats and flax oatmeal by calling it “dehydrated cane juice solids," suit says.
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It’s been roughly a decade since the “Fight for $15” movement took off. Ten states plus D.C. have enacted $15 wage laws—although most of those are still phasing in the $15 minimum over several years.
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Starbucks illegally forbid workers from marking and calling food and beverage orders with “union strong” or other advocacy phrases requested by customers, a NLRB judge ruled.
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