Law
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A pair of white students were denied admission to the University of Texas at Austin because of the school’s “odious” practice of discriminating among applicants based on race, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Texas federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ghirardelli Chocolate Co. dodged a second attempt at a lawsuit in California federal court alleging the sweets maker tricked consumers into thinking its cocoa-free white baking chips actually contained chocolate, with the judge saying the candy buyers undercut their own case by introducing a new consumer survey… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A group of Deutsche Bank AG investors filed a suit in New Jersey federal court Wednesday that blames the German financial giant for a stock price slide spurred by recent revelations about the bank’s failure to appropriately manage its dealings with alleged bad actors such as millionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein… Read this piece in…
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After being ousted from his job as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York last month following a showdown with U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Geoffrey Berman will join Stanford Law School to teach a legal ethics course and work as a fellow at a corporate governance think tank, the school announced Wednesday……
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Technology industry behemoths including Amazon, Google and Microsoft are engaged in an “arms race” to develop facial recognition products that has involved stepping on the privacy rights of Illinois residents, according to a handful of lawsuits in California and Washington federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 