On February 16, 2021, following what the industry has called “one of the biggest blunders in banking history,” U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled Citibank is not entitled to a return of half a million dollars wired by mistake. In August 2020,... Read More »
One of the executive orders signed by President Biden on his first day in office effectively changed the face of girl’s athletics in the United States. It makes the appealing claim that: Every person should be treated with respect and dignity and should be able to live without fear, no... Read More »
A Conroe family in Houston, Texas, has filed a lawsuit against several Texas energy companies after the family lost their son during last week's deep freeze. The historic freeze crippled thousands of Texans across the state, leaving many cold, hungry, and in the dark. After the Pineda family lost power... Read More »
A Chinese man’s wife was forced to have an abortion because she got pregnant with her second child in violation of her country’s one-child policy. A Central American man was denied legal refugee status after an Immigration Judge (IJ) relied solely on a probation report citing his ex-girlfriend’s 15-year-old account... Read More »
A Utah bill that would ban transgender athletes from competing in girls’ sports in the public school system was voted through the state’s House of Representatives last Wednesday. The House Bill 302, titled Preserving Sports for Female Students, was sponsored by representative Kera Birkeland and passed with a vote of... Read More »
Drive down any street in America and you are likely to be greeted by businesses covered with wooden boards where the glass used to be. But courts cannot close like neighborhood restaurants or cleaners. The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution requires criminal courts to stay open because those accused have... Read More »
The high-end luxury Italian fashion house Valentino is the subject of a $207 million lawsuit brought on by the landlord of the retailer's flagship store in Manhattan. The landlord, named as 693 Fifth Owner LLC in the complaint, is suing the fashion house for unpaid rent and damages after the... Read More »
Earlier this month, a federal grand jury indicted owners of a foreign currency exchange company with fourteen counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The grand jury indicted Michael Shawn Stewart, 57, of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Bryant Edwin Sewall, 54, previously of Little Elm,... Read More »
When he took office on December 7, 2020, newly elected Los Angeles District Attorney George Gascón promised that we can break the intergenerational cycle of violence, trauma, arrest, and recidivism that has led America to incarcerate more people than any other nation. Gascón first appeared on the scene when he... Read More »
A new lawsuit by New York Attorney General Letitia James alleges e-commerce giant Amazon had "flagrant disregard for health and safety requirements" for workers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit claims Amazon workers were put in grave danger in New York from the highly transmissible virus, as demand for shipped... Read More »
Britney Spears has not performed on stage or worked in the music industry since the early days of 2019. Despite her hiatus, she is getting plenty of media attention, especially after The New York Times released a full-length documentary, "Framing Britney," detailing the pop star's life, public breakdown, and her... Read More »
A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of 19-year-old Harry Dunn will proceed. The teen died after he was struck by a vehicle driven by Anne Sacoolas, the wife of a U.S. diplomat. The fatal incident happened on August 27, 2019,... Read More »
The popular fertility tracking app Flo has just settled with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) after allegations that the app, formally known as Flo Health, Inc, violated its privacy policy with its users and overall violated provisions of the FTC. The app has become wildly popular with millions of female... Read More »
President Biden signed two executive orders (EO) this month to rebuild and fix America’s gravely broken immigration system. He hopes to replace images of children in cages and crying refugees with policies that reflect our national values and our place in the world as a “beacon of hope, a promoter... Read More »
Earlier this month the Virginia General Assembly abolished the death penalty, becoming the 23rd state to end capital punishment, but the first of the former Confederacy to do so. Along with Confederate monuments, the death sentence is largely seen as a remaining trace of leftover ideas from states below the... Read More »
