An angry ninth-grader who just learned she didn’t make the varsity cheerleading squad posted a message on social media. It included what her public school considered offensive gestures and language. She was removed from the cheerleading squad and sued her school. She won her case in the lower courts, and... Read More »
Tracy Chapman, an American singer-songwriter, filed a lawsuit against Nicki Minaj, an American-Trinidadian rapper, in 2018, claiming Minaj’s song “Sorry” took “both lyrics and vocal melody” from Chapman’s 1988 hit “Baby Can I Hold You.” Earlier this month, Chapman accepted Minaj’s offer to settle the suit by paying Chapman $450,000... Read More »
The Department of Justice Antitrust Division charged Surgical Care Affiliates LLC with two counts of collusion with the labor market on January 7, 2021. The indictment claims the company “enter[ed] into and engag[ed] in two separate bilateral conspiracies with other health care companies to suppress competition between them for the... Read More »
When Congress met on January 6 to certify the election results, there were about a dozen Republican senators who said they would object to the election results for at least one state. However, after pro-Trump protestors broke into the Capitol, they were forced to evacuate their chambers and have an... Read More »
Last week, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) finalized a rule that would make it illegal for any financial institution regulated by the OCC with over $100 billion in assets to reject potential customers for any reason other than financial risk. In essence, the new rule would... Read More »
The Supreme Court has supported a Trump mandate that all women seeking medical abortions must pick up their medications in person. However, many other medicines are now allowed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be mailed to patients due to the dangers of contracting COVID-19. The order, split... Read More »
Jason Joey Berry and Xuan Cahn Nguyen were extradited from Canada to stand first trial and arraignment in North Dakota in early January 2021. The two are alleged to be part of an international fentanyl trafficking organization responsible for moving more than 500 grams of Schedule I and Schedule II... Read More »
In the wake of the blitzkrieg second impeachment of President Trump, Congress is now faced with the question of how to move forward. The Senate is in recess until January 19, meaning that the earliest possible time it could receive the Article of Impeachment from the House would be 1:00... Read More »
Rudy Giuliani, Trump attorney and former Mayor of New York City, is being considered by the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) for expulsion. The organization has received hundreds of complaints due to Giuliani’s numerous efforts leading up to the Capitol riots, including his comments at the now infamous rally... Read More »
Did the EPA exceed its authority by exempting refineries from statutory obligations? The Renewable Fuel Standard requires “refiners, blenders, and importers of transportation fuel to blend increasing amounts of renewable fuels into their products each year.” The requirement is for refiners to blend billions of gallons of corn-based ethanol and... Read More »
The Corporate Transparency Act now requires shell companies to disclose ownership within a Federal database. Going forward, federal agencies will store proprietary information and share it with investors and banks. Democratic Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York first introduced the bill in 2010 as a means to combat money laundering.... Read More »
Minerva Surgical, Inc., filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to clarify questions around the doctrine of assignor estoppel. Their petition asks “Whether a defendant in a patent infringement action who assigned the patent, or is in privity with an assignor of the patent,... Read More »
Several legal non-profit organizations have come together to establish an International Commission of Inquiry on Systemic Racist Police Violence against People of African Descent in the United States. The Commission will take a closer look at police violence against African Americans after a growing number of cases made national headlines... Read More »
New York’s scaffold law is under attack. A coalition of business and industry groups have banded together and are urging Governor Cuomo to ask for a repeal of the law in his budget proposal to the legislature. Meanwhile, bills to overturn the law have already been introduced in the New... Read More »
The possibility of President Trump issuing a self-pardon has been under discussion since the beginning of his presidency. In the wake of the riots at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, that possibility once again flirts with becoming a reality. Any discussion of the president’s power to pardon has to... Read More »
