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With some notable exceptions (including – but not only – the Daily Mail’s reporting, which generally pixelates or shields the children’s faces), much mainstream media coverage has failed to do so. [read post]

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Assessing the Intelligence Community’s Policy Framework for Commercially Available Information

24 May 2024, 6:05 am by Emile Ayoub

For instance, in 2018, the Supreme Court held in Carpenter v. [read post]

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Holding that substantial evidence supported the New York City Teacher Retirement System's Medical Board's determination that Petitioner's injury "was not caused by an 'accident' within the meaning of the statutory scheme", the Court of Appeals noted that was declining to adopt a rule that "purposeful conduct by coworkers" can never be the basis for an award of Accidental Disability Retirement

24 May 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Stated differently, an accident is "a sudden, unexpected event that was not a risk inherent in the work performed" (Matter of Kowal v DiNapoli, 30 NY3d 1124, 1125 [2018]; Matter of Kelly v DiNapoli, 30 NY3d 674, 678, 682, 684-685 [2018]). [read post]

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Holding that substantial evidence supported the New York City Teacher Retirement System's Medical Board's determination that Petitioner's injury "was not caused by an 'accident' within the meaning of the statutory scheme", the Court of Appeals noted that was declining to adopt a rule that "purposeful conduct by coworkers" can never be the basis for an award of Accidental Disability Retirement

24 May 2024, 6:00 am by Public Employment Law Press

Stated differently, an accident is "a sudden, unexpected event that was not a risk inherent in the work performed" (Matter of Kowal v DiNapoli, 30 NY3d 1124, 1125 [2018]; Matter of Kelly v DiNapoli, 30 NY3d 674, 678, 682, 684-685 [2018]). [read post]

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Recent Litigation Offers Guidance for Employers Amid Ongoing DEI Backlash

24 May 2024, 2:01 am by H. Juanita Beecher, FortneyScott

In Duvall v. [read post]

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Recent Litigation Offers Guidance for Employers Amid Ongoing DEI Backlash

24 May 2024, 2:01 am by H. Juanita Beecher, FortneyScott

In Duvall v. [read post]

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This Country’s Legal and Political Institutions Are in Trouble, and Trump Likes It That Way

23 May 2024, 9:01 pm by Austin Sarat

”It is hard to counter that view when Justices like Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito flaunt their political sympathies or when the Court trashed its own precedents on the way to overturning Roe v. [read post]

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Third District Reverses Order Prematurely Discharging CEQA Writ for Failure to Address Objections That Certified Revised EIR Was Still Noncompliant, Holds Project Opponents Could Properly Opt to Raise Challenge Through Objections to Return Without Filing Separate Action

23 May 2024, 4:54 pm by Arthur F. Coon

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Lost-Premium Damages under Merger Agreement – Proposed Amendment to the DGCL in Light of Crispo vs. Musk

23 May 2024, 2:52 pm by John Hempill and Karl Buhler

This is an issue that actually dates back to the seminal 2005 ruling of the United States Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit in Consolidated Edison, Inc. v. [read post]

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Court rules for South Carolina Republicans in dispute over congressional map

23 May 2024, 1:23 pm by Amy Howe

But it ultimately didn’t matter, Thomas continued, because the lower court made legal errors – for example, failing to look at evidence regarding the correlation between race and politics “with the necessary presumption of legislative good faith” and failing to take [read post]

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Case Summaries: N.C. Court of Appeals (May 21, 2024)

23 May 2024, 7:01 am by Alex Phipps

State v. [read post]

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All Roads Lead to Dallas: FTC Non-Compete Rule Set to Face Its First Legal Test in the Northern District of Texas

23 May 2024, 5:39 am by Amir C. Tayrani

In Ryan, LLC v. [read post]

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[Eugene Volokh] Libel Case Against Internet Sleuth / "True Crime" Podcaster, Related to Kiely Rodni Case, Can Go Forward

23 May 2024, 5:28 am by Eugene Volokh

From Tuesday's decision in Robertson v. [read post]

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Honestly! Since When Can’t You Fire Somebody for Failing a Drug Test?

23 May 2024, 3:01 am by Grace A. Kuntz, Frost Brown Todd LLP, Richard L. Moore, Frost Brown Todd LLP

” Issue 2 plainly states that an employer can discipline and even terminate an employee for failing a drug test. [read post]

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Skadden Discusses Court’s Broad View of Copyright Preemption in Data Scraping Case

22 May 2024, 9:01 pm by renholding

’s Access Claims Fail To State a Claim The court also dismissed X Corp. [read post]

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SpaceX Leaves Delaware; Should Others Follow?

22 May 2024, 2:50 pm by Dillon Reid

Finding that Tesla failed to prove the compensation grant was entirely fair due both to conflicts in its negotiation and that the package was inappropriate for achieving its stated goal, the court ordered its rescission. [read post]

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