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The Texas federal judge who vacated the Affordable Care Act last year tossed an Obama-era regulation banning federally funded health insurance plans from discriminating on the basis of gender identity, saying the rule violated the Administrative Procedure Act and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has accused a Nevada man of running an unlicensed financial operation that bilked victims out of $11 million by purporting to offer trading services for binary options on foreign currencies, the regulator announced on Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Intel Corp. will pay $5 million to resolve claims that the chipmaker’s pay system discriminated against women and workers of color in Arizona, California and Oregon, the U.S. Department of Labor’s federal contracts watchdog has announced… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A number of prominent law professors, as well as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other advocacy groups, told the Ninth Circuit that a California federal court had been right to rule earlier this year that a mashup of Dr. Seuss and Star Trek was protected under fair use… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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Walmart Inc. has agreed to pay $14 million to resolve allegations by pregnant or formerly pregnant workers who claimed the retail giant’s policies on disability accommodations discriminated against them on the basis of their pregnancy… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 