Public Policy
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The California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a handful of Golden State counties acted lawfully when they changed the terms of certain employees’ pension plans in response to a change in the law, saying the modifications matched up with lawmakers’ intent… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A federal judge in Manhattan tossed a lawsuit seeking to block New York’s state court administrators from going forward with a recent return to in-person criminal proceedings in New York City, saying it wasn’t the place of the federal judiciary to interfere in a state-level issue… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The internal watchdog arm of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is launching a probe into the Trump administration’s rollback of Obama-era greenhouse gas emissions and fuel economy standards for vehicles made from 2021 to 2026, the unit announced Monday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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State and local authorities in California are looking into the measures that an Amazon grocery warehouse in San Francisco has taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a court order issued Monday in a worker’s case over the facility’s allegedly lax virus precautions… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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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.
Mike LaSusa 