Mike LaSusa

  • A New York state appeals court on Thursday stripped away the law license of attorney Steven Donziger, who has been tied up in a sprawling, yearslong legal saga stemming from Chevron’s alleged pollution in Ecuador… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The U.S. Department of Justice demanded on Thursday that Yale University end its use of race as a factor in its undergraduate admissions process, saying the school’s policies amount to a “long-standing and ongoing” violation of the civil rights of white and Asian applicants… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Nestle Waters North America Inc. largely failed in its latest attempt to win a quick exit from a proposed class action alleging its Poland Spring branded water is misleadingly labeled as “spring water,” with a Connecticut federal judge keeping nearly all the consumers’ claims in play… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • The author of a book about U.S. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sandra Day O’Connor has accused a Los Angeles-area entertainment attorney of breaking the law by blowing up efforts to sell a film adaptation of the book to a company owned by Alyssa Milano… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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  • Curaleaf Inc., which bills itself as the world’s largest cannabis corporation, has been hit with a lawsuit in New York federal court accusing it of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, making it the latest pot company to face such a claim… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.

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