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On Monday, Republicans petitioned the Supreme Court to block a Pennsylvania judicial decision that mandates counting provisional ballots cast by voters who made errors on their mail-in ballots. This ruling could influence thousands of votes in the upcoming November 5 presidential election. The Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Pennsylvania requested the justices…
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CrowdStrike, a cybersecurity firm, filed a lawsuit against Delta Air Lines in U.S. District Court in Georgia on Monday. The lawsuit follows a faulty software update that caused a global outage in July. On July 19, the incident resulted in widespread flight cancellations and affected various industries, including banking, healthcare, media, and hospitality. CrowdStrike aims…
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Mike Jeffries, the former longtime CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch, pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges of running an international sex trafficking scheme while leading the clothing retailer. Jeffries, 80, who headed Abercrombie from 1992 to 2014, entered his plea to one count of sex trafficking and 15 counts of prostitution before U.S. Magistrate…
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A U.S. federal judge on Friday blocked Virginia from removing individuals it claimed had not proven their citizenship from its voter rolls. The judge stated that this action violated a federal prohibition on purging large numbers of voters within the final 90 days before an election. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the state…
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New York has joined the growing number of states reporting a higher pass rate on the July 2024 bar exam, with 69% of examinees successfully passing the attorney licensing exam. This figure marks New York’s highest overall pass rate since 2013, showing a 3 percentage point increase from 2023’s 66%, according to the New York…
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A Texas federal judge with a history of supporting conservative causes has introduced uncertainty into Boeing’s agreement to plead guilty over two fatal 737 MAX crashes. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor seized on a single sentence in the deal regarding the U.S. Department of Justice’s (DOJ) diversity policy. Last week, O’Connor unexpectedly asked the parties…
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A federal judge in Las Vegas has preliminarily approved a class action settlement requiring the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) to pay $375 million to fighters who claim they received inadequate compensation for their bouts over the years. U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II’s decision represents a “monumental achievement” that will provide significant relief to hundreds…
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Federal prosecutors in Alaska have moved to vacate Johnny-Lee Preston Burk’s assault conviction, citing undisclosed personal relationships involving the presiding judge and a prosecutor. This motion, filed on Tuesday, marks a significant development as it represents the first time prosecutors have sought to overturn a conviction in one of the 44 cases linked to now-former…
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A Georgia sanitation company will pay $3.1 million to settle an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit alleging that it refused to hire women as truck drivers. Managers allegedly referred to female applicants as “prissy girls” who were “taking a job away from a man.” U.S. District Judge J.P. Boulee in Atlanta approved the settlement…
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A Michigan judge rejected a Republican Party effort to block some Americans living overseas from voting in the battleground state. Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a lawsuit arguing that Michigan’s election laws improperly allowed U.S. citizens living abroad—who had never resided in Michigan but had relatives who had—to vote there. In…
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