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New York’s highest court ruled on Tuesday that employers’ health insurance plans must cover medically necessary abortions. The court rejected a lawsuit by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, which argued that the law’s exemption for religious employers was too narrow. The New York Court of Appeals found that the 2017 rule, implemented by the…
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Vince Gilmer, a former doctor from a small town in North Carolina, who has been serving a life sentence for murder, might soon be released from prison after a conditional pardon granted over two years ago. Despite being formally pardoned in January 2022, Gilmer has remained incarcerated in a southwest Virginia prison due to what…
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Canadian e-commerce platform Shopify (SHOP.TO) convinced a Delaware federal court to overturn a jury’s decision that required the company to pay $40 million in damages for infringing patents related to website-building technology. U.S. District Judge Richard Andrews announced on Friday that there was insufficient evidence to support the jury’s findings that Shopify infringed the patents,…
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The family of Alexander McClay Williams, the youngest person ever executed in Pennsylvania, is suing Delaware County for his wrongful conviction and execution in 1931. Williams, a 16-year-old Black teenager, was exonerated by the governor in 2022. Williams was convicted of the October 1930 murder of Vida Robare, a white woman found stabbed 47 times…
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Law schools may soon have more information about the educational and economic challenges applicants face on their path to a law degree. The Law School Admission Council (LSAC) is developing a new “environmental context” metric for colleges and universities. This metric considers factors such as institutional student spending, graduation rates, and the percentage of undergraduates…
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Rui-Siang Lin, known as “Pharoah,” was arrested for running “Incognito Market,” one of the largest dark web narcotics marketplaces. The platform facilitated over $100 million in illegal drug sales worldwide. Lin was apprehended at John F. Kennedy Airport on May 18 and will appear before a federal judge in Manhattan. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland…
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A Howard University scientist sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday for failing to act on his six-year-old petition seeking a warning label for two classes of common antidepressant drugs about the potential for persistent sexual side effects. In a complaint filed in Washington, D.C. federal court, Antonei Csoka accused the FDA of…
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange won a key battle on Monday in his decade-and-a-half-long attempt to avoid extradition to the United States on espionage charges. Two judges at London’s High Court ruled that Assange can appeal against his extradition order. Assange, 52, faces charges related to his organization’s publication of a huge trove of classified documents.…
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On May 16, the United States Supreme Court delivered a significant 7-2 ruling, affirming that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding mechanism does not contravene the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution. The decision addresses a longstanding legal dispute surrounding the CFPB’s financial independence under the Dodd-Frank Act, which established a unique funding structure…
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As Donald Trump’s hush money trial approaches its final stages, former Trump attorney Michael Cohen faced rigorous questioning on Monday, May, 20, 2024. This will mark the prosecution’s last attempt to solidify their case before the defense takes the floor. The highly publicized trial, unfolding in Manhattan, has centered on Cohen’s pivotal testimony, which directly…
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