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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court signaled its willingness to uphold the legality of a 2022 regulation from President Joe Biden’s administration that targets “ghost guns,” largely untraceable firearms that have surged in crime nationwide. The justices heard arguments in the administration’s appeal against a lower court’s ruling, which stated that the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol,…
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The State Department has allegedly overcharged millions of Americans for two decades by imposing a $60 fee for fast-tracking passport applications, according to a new lawsuit filed in federal court in California. An Oakland resident initiated the proposed class action on Friday, claiming that the fee for an expedited two-to-three-week turnaround is unjustified, especially since…
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FTX received court approval for its bankruptcy plan on Monday, enabling it to fully repay customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets recovered since the collapse of the once-leading crypto exchange. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge John Dorsey approved the wind-down plan during a hearing in Wilmington, Delaware, praising FTX’s success as “a model case for…
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McDonald’s has filed a lawsuit against JBS, Tyson Foods, and other leading meat processing and packing companies, accusing them of conspiring for years to limit beef supplies. This alleged conspiracy boosted the meatpackers’ profits while forcing McDonald’s to pay artificially inflated prices. In a lawsuit submitted on Friday in Brooklyn federal court, McDonald’s claims the…
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Indiana is moving toward allowing alternative approaches to delivering legal services, following the lead of other U.S. states. On Thursday, the Indiana Supreme Court directed its innovation committee to develop parameters for a “legal regulatory sandbox,” with the goal of creating more flexible legal service models. The committee must submit its proposals by March 1.…
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A Florida federal judge issued a ruling this week that threatens to dismantle a key part of the federal False Claims Act, a Civil War-era law designed to combat fraud against the U.S. government and reward whistleblowers who expose it. The law’s whistleblower provisions, strengthened by Congress in 1986, have created a lucrative practice for…
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Leading U.S. and international law firms are advising on fewer but larger corporate deals compared to last year, continuing the trend in worldwide mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity. Global M&A deal values during the first nine months of 2024 reached $2.3 trillion, marking a 16% rise from the same period last year. The London Stock…
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Chrysler parent company Stellantis filed a federal lawsuit against the United Auto Workers (UAW), accusing the union of violating its contract by threatening to strike over delays in planned investments. Stellantis submitted the suit to the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California, seeking a ruling that UAW Local 230’s strike authorization vote…
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Federal authorities have charged a 65-year-old Illinois man, Eric James Rennert, with making violent threats against a federal judge in Florida, according to an indictment revealed on Thursday. Rennert faces five federal charges for allegedly making interstate threats and threatening to assault, kidnap, and murder a federal judge. Prosecutors also accuse him of threatening to…
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Judge Jennifer Walker Elrod of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who has delivered major rulings against abortion rights, gun control, and Obamacare, took over as the new chief judge of the New Orleans-based court on Friday. Elrod, appointed by then-President George W. Bush, replaced Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, a fellow Bush-era appointee who…
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