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ABC News Agrees to $15 Million Settlement with Donald Trump ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library as part of a settlement to resolve a lawsuit over comments made by anchor George Stephanopoulos. The lawsuit stemmed from remarks Stephanopoulos made during a March 10 interview, where he referenced…
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Boston police arrested two men, Robert Duffy, 42, and Jeremy Folcik, 32, on Saturday night after they allegedly conducted a dangerous drone operation near Logan International Airport. The arrests occurred on Long Island, part of the Boston Harbor Islands, following a tip-off about a drone flying perilously close to the airport’s airspace. Authorities charged the…
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday that it will hear a case involving the Catholic Charities Bureau of Superior, Wisconsin, which seeks a religious exemption from the state’s unemployment insurance tax. The decision could significantly impact how states nationwide balance unemployment tax programs with constitutional protections for religious organizations. Catholic Charities Challenges Wisconsin’s Tax…
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TikTok must act swiftly to bring its case before the U.S. Supreme Court after an appeals court rejected its request for additional time on Friday. The decision leaves TikTok and its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, with less than a month to comply with a new law requiring ByteDance to divest from the popular short-video app…
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A Delaware judge gave Elon Musk and Tesla the green light on Friday to begin appealing a decision that could determine the fate of Musk’s massive $56 billion compensation package. This move by Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick of the Court of Chancery starts a 30-day window for Tesla and Musk to take their case to the…
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton took legal action on Friday against a New York doctor, accusing her of prescribing abortion pills to a Texas woman via telemedicine. This lawsuit, the first of its kind, challenges the limits of conservative states’ authority to prevent the distribution of abortion pills across state lines. The Conflict Between State…
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Judge Rules Baker & Hostetler Must Face Key Racketeering Claims in Fraud Lawsuit In a major development, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Marvin Isgur in Houston ruled that Baker & Hostetler must confront civil racketeering claims tied to its former client, Alliance Health. On Wednesday, Judge Isgur rejected the Cleveland-founded law firm’s attempt to dismiss these claims,…
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House of Representatives Approves Federal Judiciary Expansion Bill Historic Bill Introduces 66 New Judges Nationwide The House of Representatives approved a bill on Thursday to appoint 66 additional judges to federal courts across the country. President Joe Biden, the outgoing Democratic leader, has openly declared his intention to veto the legislation. Lawmakers expedited this measure…
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President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing him of making defamatory statements during his campaign about five Black and Hispanic men wrongly convicted and imprisoned for the 1989 rape of a white jogger in New York’s Central Park. Trump’s lawyers argued that his comments about the Central Park…
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Match Group Users Must Pursue Claims in Arbitration A judge ruled that users of Tinder and other Match Group-owned dating apps, who accused the companies of deceptively hooking consumers, must pursue their claims through individual arbitrations instead of a federal court class action. U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler in San Francisco granted Match’s request to…
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