Lesbian Couple Denied Refugee Child Adoption by Federally Funded Agency
Lesbian Couple Denied Refugee Child Adoption by Federally Funded Agency
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President Trump to Visit California in April, View Border Wall Prototypes
President Donald Trump’s plans to view border wall prototypes in California are likely to be met with resistance from liberal activists and immigration advocates. The commander-in-chief’s visit will be his first official visit to the nation’s third-largest and most populous state – and his timing couldn’t be worse. Earlier in the week, Oakland Mayor Libby
$80K Settlement Reached Between Ebony Magazine and Freelance Contributors
When most people do a job, there’s a certain expectation that they will be compensated in a timely matter. In fact, many jobs today pay weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly. However, for dozens of freelancers working for Chicago-based Ebony magazine, their paychecks never arrived. As a result of not being paid, many of the freelance contributors filed a lawsuit against the publication. Fortunately for them, Ebony magazine “has agreed to pay $80,000” to cover “unpaid work stretching back more than two years.”
Antibiotic Causes Heart Issues in Those with Coronary Heart Disease
Antibiotic Causes Heart Issues in Those with Coronary Heart Disease
Medical Center Fires Employees for Snooping at Patient Records
Medical Center Fires Employees for Snooping at Patient Records
Problems with London’s Inflated Commercial Real Estate Market
Grim warnings have been coming from Bank of England’s top officials on the heels of rising prices in London’s commercial real estate market. While prices as a whole are currently below the peak reached in 2007, property costs in central London and the downtown area are far higher.
EPA Head Scott Pruitt Is No Conservative
Lavish with our money, foolish with our resources, endangering our health, gambling with our future, leading us into chaos: Scott Pruitt is no conservative.
Dam Bar Owner Wants to Settle Copyright Infringement Dispute with ASCAP
Elda Brandt, the owner of Dam Bar, recently made it known that she wants nothing more than to settle her “copyright infringement dispute with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), a nonprofit performance rights organization.” For those who don’t know, the ASCAP filed a lawsuit against her in federal court “for playing unlicensed music.” So far she has been asked to pay “about $4,000 in licensing fees to ASCAP; Broadcast Music Inc., a music rights organization; and the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers, or SEASAC, also a performance rights organization.” To help defend herself against the complaints from ASCAP, Brandt said she plans on “hiring a Seattle lawyer to represent her.”
Democratic Attorneys General Launch Revamped Suit To Restore Net Neutrality
Twenty-two Democratic attorneys general launched a coordinated lawsuit last week with an intent to bring back net neutrality. The litigation came the same day as the Federal Communications published its December vote in the Federal Register. Led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the coalition had filed an earlier suit aimed at the FCC
Judge Dismisses Coal Mogul’s Lawsuit Against Late-Night HBO Host John Oliver
A West Virginia judge scrapped a defamation lawsuit brought against late-night HBO host John Oliver by an irate coal magnate. Oliver, writes the Los Angeles Times, mocked and criticized Murray Energy Chief Executive Robert Murray in a segment which aired last June. During the episode of “Last Week Tonight,” Oliver shared an anecdote told by