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146 entries in 'Legal Interview' |
2024/12/19
Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
2024/12/08
US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
2024/12/04
Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
2024/11/11
North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is elected as the state’s governor
2024/10/15
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
2024/09/21
Mexican cartel leader’s son convicted of violent role in drug trafficking plot
2024/09/11
Google faces new antitrust trial after ruling declaring search engine a monopoly
2024/07/28
Biden unveils a proposal to establish term limits for the Supreme Court
2024/06/07
Three Americans in alleged coup attempt appear in Congo military court
2024/05/10
Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction
2024/05/06
Chad holds presidential election after years of military rule
2024/05/03
Trump faces prospect of additional sanctions for violating gag order
2024/05/01
Retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy has memoir coming
2024/04/22
Supreme Court will weigh banning homeless people from sleeping outside
2024/03/08
China’s top court, prosecutors report surging cyberscams
2024/03/01
Supreme Court casts doubt on GOP-led states’ efforts to regulate social media
2024/02/19
Ken Paxton petitions to stop Dallas woman from getting an abortion
2024/02/15
Attorney Jenna Ellis pleads guilty in Georgia election interference case
2024/01/04
Trump asks US Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling
2023/12/07
Mexico’s Supreme Court lifts 2022 ban on bullfighting
2023/11/02
Donald Trump Jr. takes the witness stand in fraud trial
2023/10/15
Court upholds judge’s finding that Tesla acquisition of Solar City was fair
2023/08/07
Russian court imposes 3- to 6-year sentences for distributing tainted drinks
2023/07/17
Diversify or die: San Francisco’s downtown is a wake-up call for other cities
2023/06/24
Yale student who reported rape can be sued for defamation
2023/04/07
Court rules documents in Sanford case must be unsealed
2023/01/05
South Carolina Supreme Court strikes down state abortion ban
2022/11/15
Man granted new trial in 2006 triple murder freed after plea
2022/11/07
Jackson, in dissent, issues first Supreme Court opinion
2022/10/20
Ohio governor’s race split by pandemic, abortion, gun rights
2022/10/06
W.Va. Supreme Court hears arguments in school voucher case
2022/09/19
Iran faces US in international court over asset seizure
2022/08/14
Appeals court puts Georgia PSC elections back on ballot
2022/08/02
Family loses Supreme Court bid to extend boy’s life support
2022/04/04
Mexico high court OKs preference for state power plants
2021/06/11
Court: Local Wisconsin heath departments can’t close schools
2021/05/19
Brazil police probe environment minister over timber exports
2021/04/23
COVID-19 concerns raised at St. Louis death penalty trial
2021/03/15
Man gets 5 years in prison for arson at Savannah city office
2020/12/08
Raimondo makes historic nomination to state Supreme Court
2020/11/21
Court: Tennessee can enforce Down syndrome abortion ban
2020/11/10
GOP tries again to get high court to ax health care law
2020/10/29
Supreme Court leaves NC absentee ballot deadline at Nov. 12
2020/10/27
High court won’t extend Wisconsin’s absentee ballot deadline
2020/10/11
Supreme Court pick Barrett draws on faith, family for Senate
2020/10/05
High Court Won't Take up Ex-Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis' Case
2020/09/26
Court allows public nuisance suits against 3 Alabama casinos
2020/09/23
Senate GOP plans vote on Trump’s court pick before election
2020/09/17
Flowers, homemade signs by high court in Ginsburg tribute
2020/09/16
'Hotel Rwanda' hero charged with terrorism in Rwanda court
2020/09/14
Court: Trump can end temporary legal status for 4 countries
2020/08/27
Thai court issues new arrest warrant for Red Bull scion
2020/08/15
Arizona landlords ask high court to invalidate eviction ban
2020/06/27
Appeals court orders dismissal of Michael Flynn prosecution
2020/06/15
Court rejects Trump bid to end young immigrants’ protections
2020/06/02
Court to hear arguments on Dayton gunman's school records
2020/05/11
Catholic schools, ex-teachers clash in Supreme Court case
2020/05/09
Blind justice: No visual cues in high court phone cases
2020/03/19
Court affirms conviction in hot-grease injuries to wife
2020/03/16
Court approves PG&E’s $23B bankruptcy financing package
2020/02/14
UK parents lose court appeal to keep baby on life support
2020/01/14
Court reverses $35M verdict against Jehovah’s Witnesses
2020/01/01
Cyprus court finds 19 year-old British woman guilty
2019/11/05
Supreme Court considering whether Trump must open tax returns
2019/09/23
Bulgarian court to eye revoking parole for Australian man
2019/07/20
High court rejects appeal of killer of 4 people in Omaha
2019/07/11
Court to Trump: Blocking Twitter critics is unconstitutional
2019/07/08
Fines, jail, probation, debt: Court policies punish the poor
2019/07/05
Court reviews judge who told woman to 'close your legs'
2019/04/27
Kansas court bolsters abortion rights, blocks ban
2019/04/01
Loughlin, Huffman due in court in college admissions scam
2019/03/13
Detained Saudi women's rights activists brought to court
2019/03/11
Governor says 'no executions' without court-backed drugs
2019/02/06
High court upholds texting suicide manslaughter conviction
2019/02/04
Appellate judge announces run for Supreme Court seat
2019/02/01
Federal court supports man's innocence claim in 1976 death
2019/01/12
California fight on Trump birth control rules goes to court
2019/01/08
Russian court says bobsledder can keep Olympic titles
2018/12/22
A Colorado man of missing Colorado woman in court
2018/12/16
Human rights court rules against Greece in Sharia law case
2018/12/09
Defamation lawsuit against activist continues in state court
2018/12/07
Man accused of killing tourist appears in New Zealand court
2018/12/01
Sri Lanka court orders prime minister to refrain from duties
2018/11/24
Russian court challenges International Olympic Committee
2018/11/21
Court: Reds exempt from tax on promotional bobbleheads
2018/11/16
Lawyer for WikiLeaks’ Assange says he would fight charges
2018/11/14
European court: Russia's arrests of Navalny were political
2018/11/07
Ginsburg, 85, hospitalized after fracturing 3 ribs in fall
2018/11/02
Supreme Court agrees to hear Maryland cross memorial case
2018/10/23
Virginia top court to hear 'unrestorably incompetent' case
2018/10/13
New campaign seeks support for expanded Supreme Court
2018/09/17
Sotomayor tells kids: Reading helped me reach Supreme Court
2018/09/13
EU backs ICC after US questions court's legitimacy
2018/08/26
Cities vying for 2020 convention court Democrats in Chicago
2018/07/14
Suspect in 1988 killing of Indiana girl, 8, appears in court
2018/06/18
Court makes no ruling in resolving partisan redistricting cases
2018/06/07
Detroit-area couple in court over control of frozen embryos
2018/04/14
Supreme Court again refuses to hear Blagojevich appeal
2018/04/07
Ohio court to decide if ex-player can sue over concussions
2018/04/02
Court: Government can't block immigrant teens from abortion
2018/03/23
Arkansas wants court to dissolve stay for death row prisoner
2018/01/21
Supreme Court: Water rule suits should begin in trial courts
2017/12/28
Ohio court indefinitely suspends law license of ex-judge
2017/12/21
Court convicts British woman of smuggling powerful painkillers
2017/11/16
German Court: Kuwait Airways Can Refuse Israeli Passengers
2017/11/15
Free Speech Is Starting to Dominate the US Supreme Court's Agenda
2017/11/12
Feds head to court to seek dismissal of Twin Metals lawsuit
2017/06/28
Case of gay couple's wedding cake heads to Supreme Court
2017/06/25
Supreme Court limits ability to strip citizenship
2017/06/19
Court: 'JudgeCutie' nickname doesn't ruffle judicial dignity
2017/06/04
Court sides with towns over utilities in tax dispute
2017/06/02
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to restore travel ban
2017/05/17
Court likely to question if Trump's travel ban discriminates
2017/05/08
Trump tabs Minnesota Justice Stras for federal appeals court
2017/03/05
Oklahoma tribe sues oil companies in tribal court over quake
2017/02/23
Court: Florida Docs Allowed to Ask Patients About Guns
2016/11/18
Supreme Court stays execution of Alabama inmate
2016/11/01
Supreme Court won't hear challenge to FBI fitness test
2016/10/16
Court hearing on potential Ontario ban of Indians name, logo
2016/10/14
Rights group criticizes Polish law of weakening top court
2016/10/12
Iraq's federal court rules against prime minister's reforms
2016/10/02
Appeals court rules against Kansas in voting rights case
2016/09/12
Court rejects challenge to Michigan's emergency manager law
2016/07/06
Court orders release of Chicago police disciplinary records
2016/07/05
Obama rebukes Poland over paralysis of constitutional court
2016/06/14
Court upholds net neutrality rules on equal internet access
2016/05/04
High court seems poised to overturn McDonnell conviction
2016/02/06
NY court agrees to rehear Ex-Goldman board member's appeal
2015/12/22
ACLU to appeal court ruling in Missouri drug testing case
2015/09/01
Burkina Faso court rejects candidate of former ruling party
2015/08/07
Court: Lawsuit over Arkansas killing by cop may proceed
2015/07/18
Court Halts Execution Of Tyler Woman's Killer
2015/07/09
Appeals court upholds parts of Arizona ethnic studies ban
2015/07/03
Oklahoma court to look at blocking Tulsa grand jury probe
2013/03/24
Court considers Calif. prison mental health care
2012/12/20
Bernard Madoff brother to face victims in NY court
2012/08/31
Ohio man pleads not guilty to Pitt threat charges
2012/01/08
Justices criticize EPA's dealings with homeowners
2011/11/04
Court tosses $43M award against Ford in crash case
2011/10/24
Scott+Scott LLP Announces Securities Class Action Lawsuit
2011/05/25
"The Death and Life of American Journalism" by Robert Mc Chesney
2010/09/22
Penny Stock Risks – Caveat Emptor
2008/12/17
Ill. gov's legal woes worsen as fundraisers defect
2008/10/29
DA: Criminal charges possible in boy's Uzi death
2008/03/06
High Profile Local Law Firms Merge
2008/03/05
Civil Rights & the Hawthorne Police Dept & The LAPD
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Amazon workers strike at multiple facilities as Teamsters seek labor contract
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2024/12/19 06:47
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Workers at seven Amazon facilities went on strike Thursday, an effort by the Teamsters to pressure the e-commerce company for a labor agreement during a key shopping period.
The Teamsters say the workers, who authorized strikes in the past few days, are joining the picket line after Amazon ignored a Sunday deadline the union set for contract negotiations. Amazon says it doesn’t expect an impact on its operations during what the union calls the largest strike against the company in U.S. history.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters say they represent nearly 10,000 workers at 10 Amazon facilities, a small portion of the 1.5 million people Amazon employs in its warehouses and corporate offices.
At one warehouse, located in New York City’s Staten Island borough, thousands of workers who voted for the Amazon Labor Union in 2022 and have since affiliated with the Teamsters. At the other facilities, employees - including many delivery drivers - have unionized with them by demonstrating majority support but without holding government-administered elections.
The strikes happening Thursday are taking place at one Amazon warehouse in San Francisco, California, and six delivery stations in southern California, New York City; Atlanta, Georgia, and Skokie, Illinois, according to the union’s announcement. Amazon workers at the other facilities are “prepared to join,” the union said.
“Amazon is pushing its workers closer to the picket line by failing to show them the respect they have earned,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien said in a statement.
The Seattle-based online retailer has been seeking to re-do the election that led to the union victory at the warehouse on Staten Island, which the Teamsters now represent. In the process, the company has filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the National Labor Relations Board. |
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US inflation ticked up last month as some price pressures remain persistent
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2024/12/08 09:52
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Fueled by pricier used cars, hotel rooms and groceries, inflation in the United States moved slightly higher last month in the latest sign that some price pressures remain elevated.
Consumer prices rose 2.7% in November from a year earlier, up from a yearly figure of 2.6% in October. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, so-called core prices increased 3.3%, the same as in the previous month. Measured month to month, prices climbed 0.3% from October to November, the biggest such increase since April. Core prices also rose 0.3% for a fourth straight month.
Wednesday’s inflation figures from the Labor Department are the final major piece of data that Federal Reserve officials will consider before they meet next week to decide on interest rates. The relatively mild November increase won’t likely be enough to discourage the officials from cutting their key rate by a quarter-point. The probability of a rate cut next week, as envisioned by Wall Street traders, rose to 98% after Wednesday’s inflation report was released, according to futures pricing tracked by CME FedWatch.
“It’s generally in the ballpark of what the Fed would like to see,” said Jason Pride, chief investment strategist at Glenmede, a wealth management firm. Though sharp increases for such items as groceries and hotel rooms increased overall inflation last month, those categories are often volatile. Pride noted that the cost of services, such as rents, car insurance, and airline fares, cooled in November.
Last week, Fed Chair Jerome Powell suggested that with the economy generally healthy, the Fed could reduce its key rate slowly.
“We’re not quite there on inflation, but we’re making progress,” Powell said. “We can afford to be a little more cautious.”
With the job market cooling, growth in Americans’ paychecks has slowed from a nearly 6% annual pace in 2022 to about 4% now, a rate nearly consistent with inflation at the Fed’s 2% target. Powell has said he doesn’t think the current job market is a driver of higher prices.
Randy Carr, CEO of World Emblem, a maker of patches, labels and badges for companies, universities and law enforcement agencies, said he is providing smaller wage increases, in the 3% to 5% range, than his company did during the height of inflation.
“Things have kind of leveled off,” he said.
Carr’s customers, which include the company that makes emblems for UPS uniforms, generally won’t accept price hikes much more than 2% a year. So World Emblem aims to offset the cost of its higher wages through greater efficiencies in manufacturing.
In September, the Fed slashed its benchmark rate, which affects many consumer and business loans, by a sizable half-point. It followed that move with a quarter-point rate cut in November. Those cuts lowered the central bank’s key rate to 4.6%, down from a four-decade high of 5.3%.
Though inflation is now way below its peak of 9.1% in June 2022, average prices are still about 20% higher than they were three years ago — a major source of public discontent that helped drive President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
Grocery prices jumped last month, an uncomfortable reminder for consumers that food prices remain a big drag on households’ budgets. Beef prices leapt 3.1% just from October to November and are up 5% from a year earlier.
Egg prices, which have been volatile for more than two years, in part because of outbreaks of bird flu, soared 8.2% just last month. They are nearly 38% higher than a year ago.
Gas prices ticked up 0.6% from October to November, ending a string of declines. Still, gas is down more than 8% from a year earlier. Hotel prices leapt 3.2% from October to November and are 3.7% higher than a year ago.
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Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors
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2024/12/04 11:50
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Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, a majority of the Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to block Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
The justices’ decision, not expected for several months, could affect similar laws enacted by another 25 states and a range of other efforts to regulate the lives of transgender people, including which sports competitions they can join and which bathrooms they can use.
The case is coming before a conservative-dominated court after a presidential election in which Donald Trump and his allies promised to roll back protections for transgender people.
In arguments that passed the two-hour mark Wednesday, five conservative justices voiced varying degrees of skepticism of arguments made by the Biden administration and lawyers for Tennessee families challenging the ban.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who voted in the majority in a 2020 case in favor of transgender rights, questioned whether judges, rather than lawmakers, should be weighing in on a question of regulating medical procedures, an area usually left to the states.
”The Constitution leaves that question to the people’s representatives, rather than to nine people, none of whom is a doctor,” Roberts said in an exchange with ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio.
The court’s three liberal justices seem firmly on the side of the challengers. But it’s not clear that any of the court’s six conservatives will go along. Justice Neil Gorsuch, who wrote the majority opinion in 2020, has yet to say anything.
Four years ago, the court ruled in favor of Aimee Stephens, who was fired by a Michigan funeral home after she informed its owner that she was a transgender woman. The court held that transgender people, as well as gay and lesbian people, are protected by a landmark federal civil rights law that prohibits sex discrimination in the workplace.
The Biden administration and the families and health care providers who challenged the Tennessee law are urging the justices to apply the same sort of analysis that the majority, made up of liberal and conservative justices, embraced in the case four years ago when it found that “sex plays an unmistakable role” in employers’ decisions to punish transgender people for traits and behavior they otherwise tolerate.
The issue in the Tennessee case is whether the law violates the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment, which requires the government to treat similarly situated people the same.
Tennessee’s law bans puberty blockers and hormone treatments for transgender minors, but not “across the board,” lawyers for the families wrote in their Supreme Court brief. The lead lawyer, Chase Strangio of the American Civil Liberties Union, is the first openly transgender person to argue in front of the justices. |
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein is elected as the state’s governor
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2024/11/11 06:57
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North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein was elected governor on Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and maintaining Democratic leadership of the chief executive’s office in a state where Republicans have recently controlled the legislature and appeals courts.
Stein, a Harvard-trained lawyer, former state senator and the state’s chief law enforcement officer since 2017, will succeed fellow Democrat Roy Cooper, who was term-limited from seeking reelection. He will be the state’s first Jewish governor. Robinson’s campaign was greatly hampered by a damning report in September that he had posted messages on an online pornography website, including that he was a “black NAZI.”
Democrats have held the governor’s mansion for all but four years since 1993, even as the GOP has held legislative majorities since 2011.
As with Cooper’s time in office, a key task for Stein likely will be to use his veto stamp to block what he considers extreme right-leaning policies. Cooper had mixed success on that front during his eight years as governor.
Otherwise, Stein’s campaign platform largely followed Cooper’s policy goals, including those to increase public school funding, promote clean energy and stop further abortion restrictions by Republicans.
Stein’s campaign dramatically outraised and outspent Robinson, who was seeking to become the state’s first Black governor.
For months Stein and his allies used television ads and social media to remind voters of previous inflammatory comments that Robinson had made about abortion, women and LGBTQ+ people that they said made him too extreme to lead a swing state.
“The people of North Carolina resoundingly embraced a vision that’s optimistic, forward-looking and welcoming, a vision that’s about creating opportunity for every North Carolinian,” Stein told supporters in his victory speech after Cooper introduced him. “We chose hope over hate, competence over chaos, decency over division. That’s who we are as North Carolinians.”
Robinson’s campaign descended into disarray in September when CNN reported that he made explicit racial and sexual posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. In addition to the “black NAZI” comment, Robinson said he enjoyed transgender pornography and slammed the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as “worse than a maggot,” according to the report. Robinson denied writing the messages and sued CNN and an individual for defamation in October.
In the days following the report, most of Robinson’s top campaign staff quit, many fellow GOP elected officials and candidates — including presidential nominee Donald Trump — distanced themselves from his campaign and outside money supporting him on the airwaves dried up. The result: Stein spent millions on ads in the final weeks, while Robinson spent nothing.
Stein had a clear advantage among women, young and older voters, moderates and urban and suburban voters, according to AP VoteCast, an expansive survey of more than 3,600 voters in the state. White voters were about evenly divided between Stein and Robinson, while clear majorities of Black voters and Latino voters supported Stein.
Fifteen percent of those who voted for Trump also backed Stein for governor, while just 2% of those who cast ballots for Democratic presidential nominee and Vice President Kamala Harris backed Robinson.
Patrick Stemple, 33, a shipping coordinator attending a Trump rally last week in Greensboro, said he voted early for Trump but also chose Stein for governor.
Stemple mentioned both Stein’s ads talking about how he has fought illegal drug trafficking and his dislike for Robinson’s rhetoric. Stemple said the graphic language that CNN reported was used in Robinson’s posts reinforced his decision not to back Robinson.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs to stay in jail while appeals court takes up bail fight
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2024/10/15 08:54
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A federal appeals court judge has ruled to keep Sean “Diddy” Combs locked up while he makes a third bid for bail in his sex trafficking case, which is slated to go to trial in May.
In a decision filed Friday, Circuit Judge William J. Nardini denied the hip-hop mogul’s immediate release from jail while a three-judge panel weighs his bail request.
Combs’ lawyers appealed to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Sept. 30 after two judges rejected his release.
Combs, 54, has been held at a federal jail in Brooklyn since his Sept. 16 arrest on charges that he used his “power and prestige” as a music star to induce female victims into drugged-up, elaborately produced sexual performances with male sex workers in events dubbed “Freak Offs.”
Combs has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges alleging he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
At a bail hearing three weeks ago, a judge rejected the defense’s $50 million bail proposal that would’ve allowed the “I’ll Be Missing You” singer to be placed under house arrest at his Florida mansion with GPS monitoring and strict limits on visitors.
Judge Andrew L. Carter Jr., who has since recused himself from the case, said that prosecutors had presented “clear and convincing evidence” that Combs is a danger to the community. He said “no condition or set of conditions” could guard against the risk of Combs obstructing the investigation or threatening or harming witnesses.
In their appeal, Combs’ lawyers argued that the judge had “endorsed the government’s exaggerated rhetoric” and ordered Combs detained for “purely speculative reasons.”
“Indeed, hardly a risk of flight, he is a 54-year-old father of seven, a U.S. citizen, an extraordinarily successful artist, businessman, and philanthropist, and one of the most recognizable people on earth,” the lawyers wrote.
Combs’ lawyers have not asked the new trial judge, Arun Subramanian, to consider releasing him on bail. At a hearing Thursday, as Combs sat alongside his lawyers in a beige jail jumpsuit, Subramanian suggested he would at least be open to taking up the issue.
After setting a May 5 trial date, Subramanian briefly questioned Combs’ lawyers about his treatment at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which has been plagued by violence and dysfunction for years.
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