One of the nation's largest student loan servicers has settled a lawsuit that was filed by Massachusetts' attorney general Maura Healey. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 against Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency (PHEAA). This semi-federal agency services roughly $355 billion in federal student loans. However, the servicer has been... Read More »
The H-1B visa program, used by highly-skilled foreign workers, was the recipient of a temporary ban proposed by the Trump administration last October. On January 8, 2021, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would have eliminated the H-1B visa lottery altogether for the coming season, replacing the lottery with... Read More »
Popular trading app Robinhood is under scrutiny yet again after the family of a 20-year-old who committed suicide last June filed a lawsuit against the trading platform. Alexander Kearns was a college student who used money he had saved from his lifeguarding job to trade on the stock market by... Read More »
Settlement Washington Football Team employees produced secret lewd videos from outtakes of the 2008 and 2010 swimsuit calendar shoots. The former cheerleaders involved filed suit. Now they’ve reached confidential settlements with the team. Cindy Minniti, an attorney representing the team and its owner, Daniel Snyder, said “The matter has been... Read More »
Shutdowns because of the COVID-19 pandemic have caused many people to lose their jobs, which could cause a large number of people to file for bankruptcy in 2021. As of September 2020, the number of bankruptcy filings has been lower than in 2019. According to Forbes.com, this could have to... Read More »
Americans are fascinated by the lives of the rich and famous. But few people actually know what they are really like. And those “lucky ones” usually have to sign non-disclosure agreements (NDA) that carry heavy consequences for telling all. Melania Trump’s ex-aide is one of them. She wrote a book... Read More »
The Justice Department dropped its legal challenge of California’s net neutrality law in the Eastern District Court of California on Monday. This move could represent a shift back to the Obama-era policy of equal access to the internet. The FCC’s interim leader Jessica Rosenworcel said, “When the FCC, over my... Read More »
Fani Willis, the District Attorney of Georgia’s Fulton County, has opened a criminal investigation into allegations of election fraud in the state. Willis has shared a letter with state officials that explains the investigation will probe into the details of attempts made to influence the 2020 Georgia elections. Although the... Read More »
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo became the national face of specific information when COVID-19 hit, offering daily briefings that were fluid as the pandemic data kept shifting. As the deaths of nursing home patients across the US and in New York quickly became the most prominent fatality statistic, Cuomo’s administration... Read More »
On October 21, 2020, Trevor Till – class president, drum major, lead in the Seneca Illinois High School production of The Music Man, and a gifted pole vaulter, committed suicide, for reasons his mother, Lisa Mara Moore, termed “COVID isolation.” Cut off from school for the last months of his... Read More »
Request to Delay On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, the Supreme Court postponed oral arguments and legal filings in cases regarding an asylum policy and Trump’s border wall at the request of Biden’s Justice Department. The asylum case was to be heard on March 1 and the wall case on February... Read More »
On April 28, 2020, 70-year-old Gerardo Gutierrez died of complications caused by COVID-19. According to court documents, in late March, Gutierrez worked side-by-side at the Publix deli counter with another employee who exhibited symptoms of the virus. The two employees were not wearing masks, which Publix banned its employees from... Read More »
The latest church v. state battle to come before the U.S. Supreme Court has resulted in a draw. No, California can’t totally shut down places of worship in an effort to protect its citizens from a pandemic. Yes, churches may stay open, but only if proper health and safety precautions... Read More »
Republican lawmakers in Georgia are looking to change how votes are cast in the state by introducing a collection of bills that would essentially roll back voter access. The GOP insists that the voter access rollbacks are an effort to combat voter fraud, a widely held belief by conservatives both... Read More »
Employees of a Whole Foods grocery store in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who filed a class-action lawsuit against the company have been hit with a blow as a federal judge has dismissed nearly every claim made in the lawsuit against the grocery store chain. The conflict surrounding Whole Foods started soon after... Read More »
