Public Policy
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Ohio law firm Bevan & Associates LPA Inc. won a challenge to a state law prohibiting solicitation for workers’ compensation claims when the Sixth Circuit said on Monday that the ban “is repugnant to the free speech clause of the First Amendment”… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the owner of the Irvine Spectrum and Fashion Island shopping centers can’t prohibit anti-abortion activists from protesting in the malls with “grisly or gruesome displays,” saying such a restriction violates the Golden State’s constitution… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced two new nominees to fill vacant seats on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors after his previous nominees dropped out in the face of pressure from opponents in Congress… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday refused to dismiss Oberlin, Ohio’s challenge of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s approval of the $2.1 billion Nexus gas pipeline, even though the city has granted permanent pipeline easements to the pipeline’s developer… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A New York federal judge on Monday declined to shut down a union protest that has involved setting up a huge, inflatable rat named “Scabby” outside several Staten Island supermarkets, saying the demonstration hadn’t obviously crossed the line into illegal conduct… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 