This week, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported two more civil penalties are in process for travelers who interfered with airline crews. The two new cases are just the tip of a growing mountain of fines from the FAA, which launched a zero-tolerance policy against rowdy passengers a few months... Read More »
“What’s in a name?” asked a devastated Juliet when her parents forbade her to love Romeo because his last name belonged to her family’s enemies. Now, that same question forms the basis of a Ninth Circuit decision that invalidated a parole condition prohibiting a transgender woman from using her preferred... Read More »
Former Florida Tax Collector Joel Greenberg pled guilty to six of the 33 federal charges prosecutors brought against him. While a majority of the charges stem from Greenberg's harassing behavior towards a school employee who was also a political opponent, one of the charges at the center of the controversy... Read More »
Bill would expand LGBTQ rights without an exemption for religious groups, overriding the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). As the Equality Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives in February, this proposed amendment to the Civil Rights Act elicited concern from Republicans and religious conservatives. Now, as the bill comes... Read More »
Bank of America has reached a preliminary settlement in the class action lawsuit which accuses the nation's second-largest bank of obtaining overdraft fees from its customers who held savings and checking accounts, fees which it did not earn. The preliminary settlement was filed in the bank's home base of Charlotte,... Read More »
A government agency knows they went viral, perhaps not in a good way, when Saturday Night Live features them to wild hilarity during their cold opening for the iconic TV show. Last Friday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was the focus of the Saturday Night Live opening, featuring a... Read More »
Stormwater contamination and underground storage tank spills are among dozens of environmental violations committed by theme park developers. Three dozen environmental violations resulted in an agreement between Legoland and New York State that Legoland must pay a fine of $346,000. The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) has cited Legoland repeatedly... Read More »
A Maryland woman was sentenced to 13 months behind bars after she pled guilty to defrauding the D.C. Medicaid program of over $370,000. Folashade Adufe Horne, 52, is from Laurel, Maryland, and is accused of illegally obtaining Medicaid payments through falsified timesheets while working with Medicaid beneficiaries. Horne is one... Read More »
Arizona Governor Doug Ducey wasted no time signing into law a controversial voting law passed just moments before in the State Legislature. The bill will remove certain individuals from the Permanent Early Voting List system within the state. Arizona follows Florida, Georgia, Montana, and Iowa in restricting voting access following... Read More »
Colonial Pipeline, which operates the United States’ largest fuel pipeline was shut down for days due to a cyberattack committed by a Russian hacker gang known as DarkSide. There have been gasoline shortages and spikes in the price of gas. The company released a statement on its website: "Colonial Pipeline... Read More »
Facebook is finding itself in the crosshairs of an overwhelming majority of the U.S. Attorneys General after the tech giant shared its plan of creating an Instagram specifically aimed at children 13 and younger. Buzzfeed originally broke the news in which Facebook described its latest project as an effort to... Read More »
Early last week, the Biden Administration withdrew the Independent Contractor Rule, a Trump-era regulation that would have made it difficult for individuals to be classified as employees if they work for app-based companies like Uber, Lyft, and Postmates. The Trump-era rule was finalized under the previous administration on January 6,... Read More »
Earlier this month, notices were sent out to Blue Cross Blue Shield subscribers notifying them of a settlement reached in a class-action suit that dated back to 2014. Although there seems to have been some confusion as to the veracity of the notices, they’re quite real. The settlement brings to... Read More »
The investigation into the bottled water company Real Water and whether or not they may be the reason why several kids and adults have been experiencing health issues is continuing to develop. In March 2020, the FDA recommended that consumers stop using the brand “Real Water” which makes and distributes... Read More »
Defense lawyers have an old saying: “If you don’t have the law, argue the facts. If you don’t have the facts, argue the law. If you don’t have either, pound the table.” An updated version of this adage, currently being used as a defense in one Capitol rioters’ case, would... Read More »
