Law
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An environmental advocacy group sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Washington, D.C., federal court on Wednesday, saying the agency had broken the law by failing to make a determination on a petition to list emperor penguins as a threatened or endangered species… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Capital One Financial Corp. was hit on Tuesday with a bevy of proposed class actions after it revealed it had been the target of a data heist in which 106 million people had their personal information stolen by a hacker who is now facing federal criminal charges… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Two former directors of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office joined a pair of retired Federal Circuit chief judges and other prominent figures in signing on to a letter Tuesday urging Congress to pass a law expanding patent eligibility… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A staffing company and a law firm sued the city of Dallas in federal court on Tuesday over a recently passed ordinance requiring private employers to provide paid sick leave, following several suits challenging similar rules in other major Texas cities… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A former magistrate in Virginia Beach filed a federal lawsuit on Saturday claiming she was fired for speaking out about frequent excessive alcohol consumption and sexual harassment by her colleagues that she says culminated in a drunken, physical attack on her by one of her co-workers… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 