The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced a policy change to the admission requirements for immigrants coming into the states. Foreign nationals immigrating into America will now have to add the COVID-19 vaccine to their medical history as part of their immigration process. The new policy is set... Read More »
The SHE Beverage Company, a Southern California-based company, is the target of a lawsuit after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleges the company defrauded investors out of millions of dollars. The 2015-founded company gained success for being a “celebrity-driven” beverage company. A factor of its appeal was that the... Read More »
The fall from grace for disgraced South Carolina attorney Alex Murdaugh, 53, continues to be a winding one riddled with unusual circumstances including a trail of death and opioids. After a bizarre twist in events that resulted in an attempted suicide, Murdaugh was arrested last Thursday in connection to an... Read More »
A self-proclaimed 24-year-old math whiz and ex-cryptocurrency fund manager will now spend seven and a half years behind bars after defrauding investors out of millions. Stefan Qin is accused of defrauding over 100 investors out of over $90 million after investors joined in on his cryptocurrency hedge fund that touted... Read More »
Using strictly procedural reasoning, Florida’s First District Court of Appeals thwarted the latest attempt to stop the state’s governor from disallowing mask mandates to protect school children from the deadly, raging coronavirus. This is the latest move in a despicable chess game being played between the governor, parents, school boards,... Read More »
Authorities are confirming that a body matching the description of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito was found in Bridger-Teton National Forest in Wyoming early Sunday. This is the same area where Petitio was last seen after a cross-country adventure with her fiancé Brian Laundrie. The latest development comes amid a massive... Read More »
Three Florida residents have been charged with allegedly breaking Iran sanction rules after they exported scientific equipment to the country and received large sums of money from international wire transfers. Mohammad Faghihi, 52, his wife Farzeneh Modarresi, 53, and his sister Faezeh Faghihi, 50, were the perpetrators in the scheme.... Read More »
The icing on the cake led to a lawsuit when a couple didn’t approve of the design on a special cake they ordered for their seven-year-old son’s birthday. Nasty Instagram postings and podcasts full of foul language by the birthday boy’s father led to a lawsuit by the bakery and... Read More »
After a federal judge threw out an original Federal Trade Commission (F.T.C.) case against Facebook in June, brought by forty states, that accused the platform of being a monopoly, the F.T.C. came out swinging on Thursday. Led by the new F.T.C. chair Lina Khan, the refiled federal suit now contains... Read More »
Formosa Plastics Corp., a Texas-based plastics company, has agreed to pay almost $3 million in civil penalties. The payout comes after the Department of Justice announced that the company violated the Clean Air Act. In addition to the fine, the company has also agreed to revamp its risk management program... Read More »
The Social Security Administration (SSA) defines the term “disability” as the “inability to engage in any substantial gainful activity (SGA) by reason of any medically determinable physical or mental impairment(s) which can be expected to result in death or which has lasted or can be expected to last for a... Read More »
A vague section in the California Penal Code led to the reversal of a man’s conviction for using an electronic device to track the movements of his estranged wife. The Code did not specify whether this kind of sleuthing activity is permissible when both the man and the woman he... Read More »
A Mississippi farm is in the middle of a lawsuit after six Black workers alleged they were paid lower wages than white workers who were hired on through the work visa H-2A program. The lawsuit filed by the Mississippi Center for Justice explains that the farm, Pitts Farm Partnership, violated... Read More »
Plaintiffs allege drugmaker discriminated against older workers with a stated quota to hire more millennials as sales reps. Drugmaker Eli Lilly and Co is at the center of a class-action lawsuit after two one-time job applicants filed a complaint last week that argues the company unfairly discriminated against older workers.... Read More »
The former mayor and city commissioner of Tallahassee, Scott Maddox, along with business partner and longtime girlfriend Paige Carter-Smith, learned their fate last week after their role in a deeply-rooted bribery scheme that plagued the local government. Maddox had been a long-time political figure in the city, and Carter-Smith had... Read More »
