Law
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A onetime FBI agent aided various swindlers in several fraud schemes that swiped some $2.1 million from investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission alleged in a suit filed Friday in Georgia federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The largest chicken processing companies in the U.S., including Tyson Foods Inc. and Perdue Farms Inc., are facing a proposed class action in Maryland federal court accusing them of a decade-long conspiracy to fix the wages of “hundreds of thousands” of workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ohio’s attorney general on Friday urged the Sixth Circuit to halt an upcoming bellwether trial that’s part of multidistrict litigation against drugmakers blamed for the opioid crisis, calling the claims made by two Buckeye State counties in the bellwether case an “intrusion onto sovereign territory”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Trucking company CRST Inc. has urged the California Supreme Court not to honor the Ninth Circuit’s request for the Golden State justices to weigh in on certain meal and rest break policies in the state’s labor laws, according to a letter filed with the appeals court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Republican members of the Senate sent a letter to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday railing against an amicus brief submitted by some of their Democratic colleagues in a case over gun restrictions in New York, accusing the Democrats of threatening to pack the high court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 