The District of Columbia Court of Appeals' Board on Professional Responsibility has recommended a 90-day suspension for two law firm founders who created and offered employment agreements with clauses that restricted lawyers' ability to practice after leaving the firm.
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Los Angeles County, along with the cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre, filed suit against Southern California Edison, alleging that the utility’s equipment caused the deadly Eaton Fire, which killed 17 people and destroyed over 9,400 structures.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against numerous vape distributors, accusing them of illegally marketing and selling flavored e-cigarettes to minors, violating state and federal laws. The lawsuit seeks hundreds of millions in penalties and a permanent ban on flavored vape sales in New York.
Texas proposed new rules that would allow licensed paraprofessionals and court-access assistants to help low-income Texans by providing limited legal services.
A case filed in a federal court in Washington State argues that Amazon pushed consumers to enroll in Amazon Prime without their consent and made it unreasonably difficult to cancel a Prime membership.
On Monday, April 10, 2023, Judge Edward Davila ruled that Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes must serve time in jail while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals hears her case. Holmes was previously sentenced to 135 months of imprisonment after being found guilty of three counts of wire fraud and one…
On Friday, January 13, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court granted review in Groff v. DeJoy, a lawsuit alleging violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The case will likely be argued in April, with a decision to arrive in the summer.
The Supreme Court refused to review a decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that California flight attendants are entitled to the protections of state labor laws on intrastate flights.
On Saturday, November 6, 2021, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit temporarily stayed President Biden's vaccine mandate requiring U.S. companies with 100 or more employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
On Monday, April 27, 2020, in Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc., the United States Supreme Court ruled that annotations accompanying the Official Code of Georgia Annotated were not protected under copyright law. In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Public.Resource.Org, a nonprofit company devoted to public access…