Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Leroy Baca could be headed to prison after a Ninth Circuit appeals panel on Monday shot down his bid to overturn a 2017 conviction on federal charges of giving false statements and obstructing an FBI investigation into inmate abuse…
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A suit alleging mobile advertising company Kiip Inc. spied on users of a smartphone running application is taking a second lap, this time in Illinois state court, after a pair of app users on Friday rebooted a proposed class action that was largely thrown out by a federal judge last year…
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Public interest groups survived a bid to kill their suit against President Donald Trump over an executive order that said for every new regulation, two have to be repealed, but a Friday ruling by a D.C. federal judge said the groups still haven’t shown they have standing to bring the case…
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Roger Stone told a D.C. federal judge on Friday that his First Amendment rights would be violated if the judge imposes a gag order in the case alleging the conservative political operative acted as a middle man between Donald Trump’s election team and WikiLeaks…
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Brazilian mining company Vale SA lied to investors about safety measures at a mining dam in the South American country that collapsed on Jan. 25, in an incident similar to a 2016 disaster, according to a proposed class action filed Friday in New York federal court…
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A Michigan federal judge on Thursday refused to recuse himself from a Canadian woman’s suit over an allegedly botched breast surgery, saying his instruction that the woman’s attorney should file a well-argued brief didn’t amount to bias on the judge’s part…
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Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., CACI International Inc. and Mission Essential Personnel LLC illegally agreed not to hire each others’ employees for intelligence contracting work at a U.S. military installation in England, a former employee alleged Thursday in a proposed class action in Ohio federal court…
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