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The Supreme Court on Monday will revisit a long-simmering tension between legal protections for LGBTQ people and the rights of business owners who oppose same-sex marriage. via
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A federal appeals court panel on Thursday halted an outside review of thousands of documents seized from former president Donald Trump’s Florida residence. via
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The Supreme Court agreed Thursday to take up a legal battle between red states and President Joe Biden over debt forgiveness for student loan borrowers. via
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The Senate has approved a measure meant to avert a railroad strike in eight days — without the paid sick days rail workers have been asking for. via
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AG Merrick B. Garland announced that the FBI and the Bureau of Indian Affairs signed an agreement to establish guidelines to provide for the effective and efficient administration of criminal investigations in Indian Country. via
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Consumers won class-action status on Monday in a lawsuit against Google alleging anticompetitive pricing in its Google Play Store. #JustiaLegalNews #JustiaForAll
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On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced officials will begin hospitalizing more homeless people by involuntarily providing care to those deemed to be in "psychiatric crisis." via
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A recent proposal would allow San Francisco police to use robots for killing “when risk of loss of life to members of the public or officers is imminent and outweighs any other force option available to SFPD.” Last night, that proposal passed.
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A soccer player who lost her college scholarship won a reversal Wednesday, with the Second Circuit finding that Noriana Radwan's sex discrimination claims should have survived summary judgment. via
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The European Union has issued a warning to Twitter owner Elon Musk saying the platform will be banned unless it tightens its moderation policies and eliminates its "arbitrary" approach to reinstating banned users. via
A plan which would see a corporate entity trademark the term “Web5” has been put to rest after much backlash. via
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The Senate on Tuesday passed legislation to protect same-sex and interracial marriage, called the Respect for Marriage Act, in a landmark bipartisan vote. via
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Per the agreement, a draft of which was obtained by CNN, Kardashian will receive $200,000 per month in child support from West and share joint custody of their four children. via
Google and iHeartMedia—the US's biggest radio station operator—are being hit with a false advertising lawsuit for ads they ran about the Pixel 4. via
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A federal jury in Washington on Tuesday found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and Kelly Meggs, another member of the far-right organization, guilty of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. via
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"Effective November 23, 2022, Twitter is no longer enforcing the COVID-19 misleading information policy," the company noted in various places on its website. via
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The NCAA has faced numerous lawsuits in recent years over its alleged failure to protect football players from repeated head trauma while playing the sport. Last week, one of these cases reached a jury verdict for the first time. #JustiaLegalNews
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A Florida woman is accusing Kraft Heinz of misleading advertising, based on the time it takes to prepare a single-serving cup of microwavable mac and cheese.
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A French court has ruled that companies can't fire their workers for failing to be sufficiently "fun." via
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A programmer is suing Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI over artificial intelligence technology that generates its own computer code. via
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Prosecutors investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to disrupt the transfer of power to Joe Biden after the election are seeking testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence, according to a person familiar with the matter. via
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#SCOTUS has granted a petition for a writ of certiorari in Jack Daniel’s Properties, Inc. v. VIP Products LLC. The lawsuit seeks to clarify whether VIP’s Jack Daniel’s themed dog-toys are protected from trademark infringement claims. #JustiaLegalNews
Alex Jones has lost a bid to water down the nearly $50 million damages award handed down by a jury earlier this year over the Infowars host’s false claims about the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. via
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A Los Angeles jury on Tuesday rejected a lawsuit seeking $55 million by the widow of a former USC football player who said the NCAA failed to protect him from repeated head trauma that led to his death. via
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied former President Donald Trump's request to block an appeals court order that he surrender his tax returns and other financial records to the House Ways and Means Committee. via
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The country’s largest whiskey maker will finally get its day before the US Supreme Court in a dog-toy trademark case that could shape the contours of brand enforcement, artistic expression, and the First Amendment. via
Reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were sentenced Monday to lengthy prison terms after being convicted earlier this year on charges including bank fraud and tax evasion. via
Genesis, a digital assets financial services firm, may be in hot water as it looks to raise fresh capital for its lending unit or potentially face bankruptcy if it can’t, according to a report. via
Meta announced today that it’s introducing new privacy updates for teens on Instagram and Facebook. via
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Donald Trump has not tweeted since Elon Musk reinstated his Twitter account on Saturday. In interviews, Trump has suggested he no longer needs Twitter, planning to promote his next presidential run on his own social network, Truth Social. via
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Tesla’s recalling over 321,000 vehicles over a software glitch causing the taillights on some cars to illuminate improperly. via
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Amazon has made voluntary changes to its app for Flex delivery drivers in accordance with a Washington state law designed to provide a more level playing field for job applicants with criminal records, a new court filing shows. via
Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison on Friday following her conviction in January for defrauding investors while running the failed blood testing startup Theranos. via
The DOJ has appointed a special counsel to oversee the criminal investigations into the retention of national defense information at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and the January 6th, 2021, insurrection. via
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