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A 71-year-old Chinese real estate developer with heart disease and diabetes will have to stay behind bars while serving time for a bribery conviction after a New York federal judge on Friday ruled against his coronavirus-based release bid… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A handful of Pennsylvania counties, elected officials and businesses mounted a legal challenge Thursday against the Keystone State’s COVID-19 shutdown order, the day after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to press pause on the order in a separate but similar case… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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More than two dozen law firms, including a slew of BigLaw firms, have joined an initiative by Los Angeles city officials and nonprofits that aims to boost the availability of free legal services for local residents and businesses struggling with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Smithfield Foods Inc. won dismissal Tuesday of a federal lawsuit accusing the meat processor of putting workers at a Missouri facility in harm’s way during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a federal judge deciding that the plant workers’ claims would be better handled by regulators… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A Massachusetts federal judge said Thursday that two parents who pled guilty in the “Varsity Blues” college admissions case can delay reporting for their prison sentences due to concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, while denying their requests to serve their sentences at home… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 