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Seventh Cir. Appears to Back Infosys in US Citizen Bias Case (1)
Boies Schiller Flexner and Dentons US prevailed Tuesday at a US appeals court against allegations that the two law firms schemed to shake down a client for legal fees.
A Texas federal judge ordered Rhode Island Hospital to submit voluminous transgender youth medical records for the court to hold pending the outcome of multi-district appeals, even as another district court judge rejected the same DOJ request.
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The EEOC’s plan to stop collecting employers’ race and gender data will cut off a decades-old tool that’s allowed the commission to focus antidiscrimination enforcement strategies and individual investigations.
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Shuttered chain Francesca’s has run its bankruptcy case to benefit secured lenders at the expense of junior creditors and should be restricted from further tapping available cash until tightening up its budget, a committee of unsecured creditors said.
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The Second Circuit affirmed a lower court’s denial of a former soccer league’s request for a new trial against US Soccer, concluding that it failed to prove a “relevant market” outlining the bounds of competition.
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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche wouldn’t rule out the possibility that rioters who attacked police at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, could receive payments from a new $1.8 billion taxpayer fund being created by the Justice Department.
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New York’s highest court is being forced to reconcile the state’s constitutional requirement that judges stop serving by age 76 with a more recent anti-discrimination amendment.
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Home care workers failed to show that a company acting as an intermediary between them and Medicaid recipients functioned as their joint employer, dooming their overtime claims, the Third Circuit ruled.
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After President Trump endorses Ken Paxton for Senate, attention shifts to if he'll get involved in Texas AG race.
AG's office has been a partner of the Trump DOJ and, when Biden was in his office, it took charge among Republican states by suing him more than 100 times.
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Acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling defended the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to his agency to Senate appropriators skeptical of suggested changes to workforce training programs.
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A coalition of Democratic-controlled states sued the Trump administration’s Education Department Tuesday over new caps on graduate student loans imposed in the GOP’s tax-and-spending law.
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ICE agents are barred from conducting civil arrests on immigration courthouse grounds in New York City, pending the outcome of a federal lawsuit over Homeland Security’s policy of arresting noncitizens at their scheduled hearings.
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Court battles by workers with long Covid are a new test of the nation's private insurance system, which lawyers and academics say is stacked against them.
Latham & Watkins added a fifth partner from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, continuing an exodus of early-tenured partners.
Disbarred South Carolina attorney Richard Alexander Murdaugh filed constitutional claims in an attempt to get damages for alleged jury tampering by a court clerk after receiving two life sentences in 2023 for the murders of his wife and son.
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ChatGPT shouldn’t be treated as a lawyer despite its popular use by pro se litigants to draft legal filings, OpenAI Foundation told a federal court.
Opinion: The Elon Musk-OpenAI trial won’t determine the future of AI, but it offered an early and uncensored view of the forces that will.
Children’s Hospital Colorado must resume providing medical gender-affirming care to trans children, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled.
Businesses already navigating tougher scrutiny of foreign workers are bracing for dramatically higher financial penalties for paperwork violations identified by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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