The Trump administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to take up Nestle USA Inc.’s fight against claims it aided slavery on Ivory Coast cocoa farms, saying the high court should rule that domestic corporations can’t be held liable under the Alien Tort Statute…
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A coalition of law school student groups published a letter Wednesday calling out Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP for the firm’s use of mandatory arbitration, saying the policy has a disparate impact on LGBTQ employees…
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday issued what critics have dubbed a “gag rule” barring health care providers from giving abortion referrals if they get funding from a federal program meant to boost low-income communities’ access to family planning services…
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The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear oral arguments over evidentiary disputes in a case related to the Trump administration’s inclusion of a question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, according to a Friday docket entry…
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Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday…
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