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The Biden administration may proceed with a lawsuit alleging that Republican-led Texas violated a U.S. environmental law by installing a 1,000-foot-long floating barrier in the Rio Grande river to deter illegal border crossings from Mexico, a federal judge ruled on Friday. U.S. District Judge David Ezra in Austin said that the U.S. Department of Justice’s…
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The Supreme Court’s conservative justices signaled their support on Thursday for granting U.S. presidents some level of protection from criminal charges for certain acts performed in office as they tackled Donald Trump’s claim of immunity from prosecution in his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. During approximately 2-1/2 hours of arguments in the case,…
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The American Bar Association’s new data reveals that the University of Chicago Law School has regained its top position as the law school sending the highest percentage of graduates into federal clerkships. In 2023, 25.35% of its juris doctor graduates secured federal judicial clerkships, marking a significant achievement in a competitive field. Previously, the Chicago…
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Experts suggest that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s ban on “noncompete” agreements, often signed by workers, could face legal challenges due to courts’ increasing skepticism towards federal agencies’ authority to enact broad rules. The commission, in announcing the rule on Tuesday, stated that agreements restricting workers from joining competitors or starting rival businesses suppress wages…
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Three U.S. law firms, spearheading a browser data privacy class action against Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google and reaching a settlement earlier this month, have requested a judge to award them $217.6 million in attorney fees. Boies Schiller Flexner, Morgan & Morgan, and Susman Godfrey estimated the settlement’s value to be up to $7.8 billion. Google isn’t…
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The University of Virginia School of Law sent the highest percentage of graduates into full-time law jobs in 2023, marking the second consecutive year that the school snagged the top spot. A full 97.18% of Virginia’s 2023 juris doctor graduates went on to full-time, permanent jobs that require bar passage—the highest of all 195 American…
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Supreme Court justices, diving back into the battle over abortion access, seemed divided on Wednesday in a case pitting Idaho’s strict Republican-backed abortion ban against a federal law ensuring that patients can receive emergency care. The justices listened to arguments in an appeal by Idaho officials of a lower court’s ruling that found the 1986…
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In the criminal hush money trial of Donald Trump, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker took the stand on Tuesday. He testified that he utilized the supermarket tabloid to suppress stories that could have damaged Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. Pecker, aged 72, testified in a New York court, revealing that the Enquirer engaged in “catch…
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On Tuesday, two crypto industry trade associations took legal action against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), aiming to halt the implementation of a new rule expanding the regulator’s definition of a “dealer” of securities. Filed in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, by the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Freedom Alliance of Texas,…
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On Tuesday, a federal judge in Missouri preliminarily approved an antitrust class-action settlement, mandating the National Association of Realtors to pay $418 million and implement changes to the process of buying and selling homes in America. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough’s approval marks a crucial initial phase in the ongoing process, leading up to a…
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