Law
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The corporation behind Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut hit Grubhub with a lawsuit Thursday in New York state court accusing the food delivery company of breaking a deal to provide special services to the fast food joints, a day after Grubhub announced its $7.3 billion sale to a Dutch peer company… Read this piece…
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Two attorneys charged with an alleged Molotov cocktail attack on a police vehicle in New York City should have to stay behind bars while they’re prosecuted, federal prosecutors told the Second Circuit, arguing detention without bail is the default in such cases… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit asked New York’s highest court on Thursday to weigh in on whether a certain set of litigation funding agreements constitutes a loan under Empire State usury laws, saying the answer to the question is key to resolving a California lawyer’s suit against a legal funder… Read this piece in its entirety at…
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A split Seventh Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld an Illinois federal judge’s order temporarily blocking the Trump administration from enforcing its public charge immigration rule in the Prairie State, though a U.S. Supreme Court ruling means the rule is still in effect nationwide… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Fourth Circuit panel on Tuesday upended a West Virginia federal court’s decision to cite the doctrine of qualified immunity in granting a quick victory to the city of Martinsburg in a case over an allegedly wrongful police killing, with the appellate judges declaring, “This has to stop”… Read this piece in its entirety at…
Mike LaSusa 