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Apr 05 2024
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Business lobby sues over California truck rule
An anti-regulatory business lobbying group backed by former Attorney General Bill Barr has sued California over rules aimed at phasing out gas-powered trucks in the state. The American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce filed its lawsuit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. “The ability to move people and products reliably and affordably is foundational
The HillApr 05 2024
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NYC agrees to $17.5M payout for women forced by NYPD to remove hijabs
The city has agreed to a $17.5 million payout to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by two hijab-wearing Muslim women who said the NYPD violated their civil rights by forcing them to remove their religious head coverings for mugshot photos. The women — Jamila Clark, a resident of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and Arwa Aziz, a Brooklyn resident — were arrested within eight months of each other in
GothamistApr 05 2024
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Watchdog sues State Dept. to obtain Biden officials' communications about Tucker Carlson
A nonprofit government watchdog is suing the U.S. State Department to obtain communications between top officials regarding Tucker Carlson after the agency reportedly failed to comply with a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. The Washington, D.C.-based conservative activist organization Judicial Watch announced in a statement Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit on March 22 in the U.S.
The Christian PostJul 21 2023
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New Jersey Challenges NYC Congestion Pricing With Federal Lawsuit
New Jersey officials Friday filed suit in Manhattan federal court challenging the city's plan to toll drivers rolling into Manhattan below 60th Street up to $23 a day. "If the MTA gets its way, trucks will be backed up here in North Jersey, billowing cancer-causing pollution into the lungs of our children," argued U.S. Rep Josh Gottheimer. "I want to thank our Governor for punching back at a
Patch.comApr 06 2024
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Voting rights advocate groups sue to block Alabama's absentee voter restrictions
Apr. 6—A coalition of civil rights, voting rights and disability rights advocacy organizations filed a lawsuit to block Alabama's recently enacted "Anti-Ballot Harvesting Bill" sponsored by Sen. Garlan Gudger (R-Cullman). Enacting Senate Bill 1 into law before November's general election has been a top priority of Alabama's Republican lawmakers and has been since it was prefiled in late 2023.
Yahoo NewsAug 22 2023
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Texas defends border buoys at hearing over Justice Department lawsuit
Judge to consider if Texas can keep border buoys as migrant crisis continues Austin, Texas — Lawyers for the state of Texas on Tuesday defended the state's decision to install a floating barrier in the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico, one day after Gov. Greg Abbott said the state had moved them following a federal government survey found that 80% of them were in Mexico. The Justice
CBS News (Online)Apr 05 2024
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Do Kwon and Terraform Labs Found Liable for Fraud in SEC Trial
Terraform Labs Pte. and co-founder Do Kwon were found liable for fraud in a US government lawsuit over the firm’s 2022 collapse, which wiped out $40 billion in investor assets and shook the cryptocurrency world. After a two-week trial in New York, a jury on Friday found Kwon and Terraform misled investors, handing the US Securities and Exchange Commission a boost in its efforts to assert
BloombergSep 16 2023
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California goes after ‘Big Oil’ companies with lawsuit, citing years of deception
California is suing five big oil companies for “lying about climate change,” the governor’s office announced Saturday. “For more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us – covering up the fact that they’ve long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are for our planet. It has been decades of damage and deception,” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said in a press release Saturday. “Wildfires
The HillSep 15 2023
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Wisconsin Senate votes to remove top election official, lawsuit filed by AG
From CNN: In Wisconsin, the Senate voted Thursday to remove Meagan Wolfe, the state’s top elections administrator, from office following years of criticism from Donald Trump supporters blaming her for the former president’s loss in 2020. ABC News reports that the Wisconsin Attorney General has filed a lawsuit on Wolfe’s behalf. A man was captured in southern Minnesota after shooting an Iowa
Apr 04 2024
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Real estate summit: Experts sort out effects of NAR settlement on real-estate commissions – BizWest
LOVELAND — Brokers for real-estate buyers can still be paid by the listing broker or seller — but not through a multiple listing service or local association. That was the consensus of a real-estate lawyer and a law professor on Thursday at BizWest’s Northern Colorado Real Estate Summit as they dissected the effects of a class-action settlement against the National Association of Realtors.
BizWest