On December 7, 2020, the Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract and Compliance Program (OFCCP) released a finalized rule that allows federal contractors to cite "religious freedom" as their reasoning behind not hiring certain applicants. The rule expands the definition of religious organizations to now include for-profit organizations, which... Read More »
In a staggering lawsuit brought against Facebook, the US Federal Trade Commission along with 46 states accused the tech company of being a monopoly with a "buy or bury" edict to disrupt competition. The only states and US territories not to participate in the lawsuit are Washington, D.C., Guam, Alabama,... Read More »
While the world remains focused on the coronavirus pandemic, the American Bar Association (ABA) is generously reminding everyone that another virus, HIV/AIDS, is still negatively impacting the lives of millions of people who still need legal help. On World AIDS Day, December 1, members of the ABA’s HIV/AIDS Impact Project... Read More »
On December 1, 2020, Judge Beryl Howell of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the partial unsealing of a memorandum opinion and order dated August 28 of this year. The result, redacted to omit the names of all parties concerned and all of the case’s... Read More »
In 2015, a police sergeant from Cumming, GA, accepted money from a widower he’d previously arrested and who was apparently known for frequenting prostitutes. The money was a loan, given on condition that Sergeant Nathan Van Buren use the license plate database to find out if a girl the widower had... Read More »
As part of the COVID-19 vaccination procedures, the CDC will require states to sign an agreement that allows the CDC to collect information from those who receive the vaccine. The CDC states that the information collected will include names, birthdates, ethnicities, and the address of where a vaccine recipient lives.... Read More »
When Bayer purchased Monsanto in 2018, they could not have predicted the legal hurricanes that would follow. Just weeks after the purchase, a jury in California awarded Dewayne Johnson, a groundskeeper at a school where he used Roundup, $289 million. They found that glyphosate in the product caused his non-Hodgkin’s... Read More »
November was a busy month for litigation against Johnson & Johnson (J&J); lawsuits are coming in all shapes and sizes, and so are the settlements and jury verdicts. Among the results are staggering million-dollar and billion-dollar awards, including individual cases and class-action lawsuits. According to a ruling last month, J&J... Read More »
Timothy Dalton Vaughn, A 22-year-old from North Carolina, has been sentenced with almost eight years of jail time for conspiring to make death threats, computer hacking, and possession of child pornography. The 22-year old is a member of a worldwide hacking group known as the “Apophis Squad.” Vaughn went by... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal that challenged an Oregon school district's policy regarding bathroom use and transgender student accommodations. The lawsuit, which was brought to the U.S. Supreme Court for review by a parent group, Parents for Privacy, was denied the request for appeal, automatically allowing the... Read More »
President Donald Trump, backed by 17 US states, sought to intervene in the Texas lawsuit seeking the overturning of the US Presidential election by asking the US Supreme Court to throw out millions of voting results in four key states on Tuesday. The president is asking to intervene in the US... Read More »
Charges against General Michael Flynn have formally been dismissed after a pardon from Trump was granted in late November. General Flynn served as the Trump Administration’s National Security Advisor up until February 2017. During his time with the administration, Flynn came under scrutiny during Robert Mueller’s investigation, which looked into... Read More »
Five Canadians targeting elderly Southern Californians in a marketing scheme were indicted by federal prosecutors on Tuesday in California. The investigation was conducted in a joint effort by the United States Secret Service and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. US Assistant United States Attorney Monica E. Tait of the Major... Read More »
Goldman Sachs, Inc, a primary dealer in the United States Treasury security market and one of the largest investment banking enterprises in the world, is alleged to have covered up numerous allegations of workplace sexual misconduct, according to a lawsuit recently filed in a New York trial court. The female... Read More »
An antitrust report has just been released by top Democratic congressional lawmakers. The report was compiled by several Democratic members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust. The main mission of the report was to investigate whether or not the four biggest tech companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple broke... Read More »
