Public Policy
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PNC Financial Services Group Inc. is profiteering off the COVID-19 pandemic by illegally prioritizing higher-dollar applications for virus-related government aid to reap larger processing fees, according to a proposed class action filed Thursday in California federal court… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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California’s utility regulator is seeking to force PG&E Corp. to make changes to its plans to emerge from Chapter 11 in addition to proposing a record-setting penalty of nearly $2 billion for PG&E’s role in contributing to deadly wildfires in recent years in the Golden State… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Former New York lawmaker Dean Skelos contracted COVID-19 and will likely be released soon from the prison where he’s serving time for a corruption conviction, attorneys from the U.S. Department of Justice said in a Wednesday letter to a Manhattan federal judge… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior, joined by oil company Slawson Exploration Co. Inc., urged a North Dakota federal court to grant it a victory in a suit claiming it wrongly opened the door to drilling on tribal land in the face of objections from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation… Read this piece in…
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The U.S. Department of Labor released a pair of memos Friday clarifying rules for employers reporting cases of COVID-19 and sketching out guidelines for a program meant to supplement unemployment benefits as the economy reels from the effects of the pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 