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San Francisco’s elected public defender, Mano Raju, was fined $26,000 after a judge found him in contempt for refusing to accept 26 new felony and misdemeanor cases despite a January court order. Raju argues his office is overwhelmed, handling an average of 60 felony and 135 misdemeanor cases per attorney, far above recommended limits. The dispute pits the public defender’s office against District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who has ramped up prosecutions to 8,000 cases last year amid a citywide safety push. The case unfolds against a $400 million budget deficit and a broader national shortage of public defenders.
Utah lawmakers have passed a bill that taxes "targeted advertising"—digital ads that use individualized data profiles— and earmarks the proceeds for youth sports, literacy, mental‑health and foster‑care programs. Governor Spencer Cox has not yet signed the measure, and the state...
Former Norton Rose Fulbright partner Ethan Sinclair has joined Dentons in Ottawa as a partner in its infrastructure and public‑private partnerships group. Sinclair brings more than 15 years of corporate commercial law experience, primarily in large‑scale infrastructure, energy and property...
Korean Register (KR) has finished assessing the upcoming International Code of the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Liquefied Gases in Bulk (IGC Code) amendments and released technical guidance for the maritime sector. The IMO plans to approve the revisions...
A recent general protections claim resulted in a $382,000 award for race discrimination, illustrating that courts interpret race discrimination statutes broadly. Lily Schafer‑Gardiner of HWLE Lawyers explained that, unlike other protected classes, plaintiffs need only show a connection between unfair...
China’s General Administration of Customs released the final “Catalogue of Foods that Require Official Recommendation Registration Letters” under Decree No. 280, which takes effect on June 1, 2026, replacing the 2021 Decree No. 248. The updated catalogue trims the list to 17 food categories...
A new writ filed in Victoria’s Supreme Court expands the AFL concussion class action to include the league and ten additional clubs, adding eight former players as plaintiffs. The lawsuit, led by former Geelong star Max Rooke and Margalit Injury...
New analysis by Legal for Lettings shows possession court delays are costing landlords heavily. In London, average losses per case have risen to about $34,000, with wait times up to twelve months. Six surrounding courts in the South East report...
Movera reported a 33% year‑on‑year increase in sale‑and‑purchase completions across ONP Solicitors and Cavendish for 2025, while its ONP remortgage team processed 5,000 cases in a single day on two occasions. The group added more than 150 new staff, pushing...
The New Zealand government withdrew a proposal to remove minimum‑size limits for commercial fishers from the Fisheries Amendment Bill after intense backlash. Both NZ First leader Winston Peters and National Party leader Christopher Luxon posted near‑identical statements claiming they persuaded Fisheries Minister Shane Jones...
A Thai court ruled that Akara Resources, operator of the Chatree gold mine, is liable for environmental damage and health harms suffered by more than 300 villagers in Phichit and Phetchabun provinces. The judgment marks Thailand’s first environmental class‑action suit,...
Reddit is urging U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson to remand its lawsuit against Anthropic to San Francisco Superior Court, arguing that breach‑of‑contract and unjust‑enrichment claims fall outside federal copyright jurisdiction. Anthropic counters that its data‑scraping practices are protected under copyright law....
Leaseholders are being held hostage by a "paralysis of policy," warned Linz Darlington, managing director of Homehold, after the Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee reviewed the stalled Commonhold and Leasehold Reform Bill. The 2024 Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act...
The High Court upheld a £204,000 (≈ $260,000) debt owed by former tax manager Andrew Lynch after he failed to refer criminal‑fraud and money‑laundering work to his ex‑law firm Bark & Co. The 2017 Tomlin order required such referrals to offset over‑payments, but the...
A senior solicitor, Victoria Mary Burdett, signed a deed as a witness despite not being present, a breach of deed execution rules. The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal (SDT) classified her act as "spontaneous and momentary" dishonesty and imposed a six‑month suspension...
Half of UK law‑firm clients believe AI could replace a solicitor for routine matters, with 36 % confident AI can handle such tasks and another 14 % thinking it could manage most issues. Yet 46 % maintain that a qualified solicitor must always...
Automation is now entrenched in personal injury law firms, with software reading medical reports to manage high caseloads. The 2021 whiplash tariff reforms shifted evidential weight to medical evidence, assuming static report formats. In 2025, over 60,000 reports were auto‑assessed,...
The Missouri Supreme Court ruled 4‑3 that the state constitution does not restrict the General Assembly from redrawing congressional districts at any time, upholding a 2025 law that replaces the 2022 map with a GOP‑favored configuration ahead of the 2026...
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South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority’s Independent Directorate Against Corruption (Idac) arrested 12 police officers for their role in a R360‑million (≈ $19 million) health‑services contract awarded to Vusimusi “Cat” Matlala’s company Medicare 24. The contract, covering wellness screenings and injury‑on‑duty assessments for the...
Two immigration judges, Megan Jackler and Brandon Jaroch, were terminated by the Justice Department in February 2025 and appealed their dismissals to the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB). The MSPB ruled that the judges are "inferior officers" whose appointments and...
The ABA‑IPT seminar highlighted how state income‑tax rules are increasingly activity‑based, meaning even modest business actions can create nexus and trigger liability. Courts are focusing on where the economic benefit occurs, not where a company is headquartered, reshaping sourcing rules...
The Federal Trade Commission and CVS Caremark have reached a settlement that resolves all claims alleging the pharmacy‑benefit manager inflated insulin prices through anticompetitive rebate practices. Court filings on March 23 indicate the agreement ends the FTC’s lawsuit in its...
A Gosford court ordered Crowne Plaza Terrigal Pacific to pay over $53,000 AUD (≈$35,000 USD) in fines after a Salmonella outbreak linked to a December 2022 conference. Forty of the 76 affected guests were confirmed with Salmonella, and 33 required hospital...
Thailand will tighten controls on nominee shareholders starting April 1, requiring managing partners or authorized directors to certify that all shareholders have genuinely invested their own funds. The new Order 1/2026 expands registration rules, forwarding high‑risk individuals to the Central Investigation Bureau...
The French startup Pleias has expanded its Common Corpus, an open‑source multilingual training dataset, to over 2.267 trillion tokens. The collection now covers more than 30 languages, with eight languages exceeding 10 billion tokens each, and includes government, scientific, cultural, web, and...
San Francisco immigration judges ordered more than 800 individuals for removal in absentia during a single week, a dramatic spike compared with the usual five to ten missed appointments. The court's staff has been slashed from 21 judges at the...
The article poses a quiz based on the 2025 ALM Go‑To Law Schools ranking, revealing that a top‑tier law school sent 71.85% of its 2024 graduates into Biglaw firms. The statistic underscores the school’s exceptional employment pipeline and highlights the...
Pop Mart’s Labubu plush, a viral collectible, has driven sales past $4 billion in 2025, but a China Labor Watch investigation uncovered forced‑labor indicators at Shunjia Toys, the sole factory producing the doll. Workers reported excessive overtime—up to 145 hours a month—extremely...
Texas regulators voted unanimously to bar undocumented immigrants from obtaining or renewing occupational licenses, a rule change that takes effect on May 1. The policy overturns a 2001 provision that allowed licenses without Social Security numbers, affecting roughly 18,000 existing licenses—about...
The U.S. House approved the Muhammad Ali Boxing Revival Act by voice vote, marking the first boxing‑related legislation to clear the chamber in 26 years. The bipartisan bill creates unified boxing organizations, introduces higher minimum fighter pay, and strengthens health‑safety...
Title IX requires colleges to accommodate pregnant, lactating, and postpartum students without discrimination. Institutions must provide standard accommodations—such as lactation spaces, flexible break schedules, and larger workstations—without demanding medical documentation for each request. When students return from pregnancy‑related leave, schools must...
Anthropic is nearing final court approval of a landmark settlement that resolves the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright case. The company will pay $1.5 billion, distributing $3,000 to each qualifying author, after nearly 100,000 claims were filed. The agreement requires Anthropic to...
The Texas Business Court ruled it has subject‑matter jurisdiction over Alamo Title’s claim against WFG National Title, interpreting the statute’s plain language to include actions “relating to” intellectual property. The court also held that future damages count toward the $5 million...
Baltimore filed a municipal lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, accusing the company of violating the city’s Consumer Protection Ordinance by marketing its Grok AI assistant without warning about deep‑fake risks. The suit follows reports that Grok’s image generator produced roughly...
The article clarifies how general‑conditions costs are evaluated in builder’s risk claims, separating truly incremental expenses from fixed or duplicated overhead. It presents three typical claim scenarios—repair‑period costs, delay‑only costs, and combined repair‑and‑delay costs—and explains why only incremental or extended...
The Swiss Federal Supreme Court granted American gymnast Jordan Chiles a review of the Court of Arbitration for Sport award that stripped her 2024 Olympic bronze medal. The court applied Swiss arbitration law and invoked Article 190(a) of the Swiss Private...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has opened consultations on draft guidelines and regulatory technical standards (RTS) for authorising internal initial‑margin models under EMIR 3. The proposals target counterparties whose monthly average non‑centrally cleared OTC derivatives exceed €750 billion (about $818 billion USD), requiring...
Seyfarth Shaw’s Wage and Hour Litigation team released its 2025 FLSA litigation metrics, highlighting a 12% rise in federal wage‑and‑hour cases and a 9% increase in settlements compared with 2024. The report notes a surge in remote‑work overtime disputes and...
Recent attacks on Gulf LNG facilities, including Qatar's Ras Laffan plant, have driven JKM prices above $25 per MMBtu and tightened supply for Asia, which absorbs 86% of Hormuz‑transiting cargoes. In Europe, TTF prices have surged past $64 per MWh,...
The March 31, 2026 deadline closes the window for filing real‑property tax complaints in Ohio for tax year 2025. Nine counties must reappraise their 2025 assessments, while eleven are required to update values. These assessments, dated January 1, 2025, determine the property‑tax bills paid throughout...
On March 18, 2026 the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued an Area Identification Recommendation covering more than 69 million acres offshore the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, effectively doubling the original 35.5‑million‑acre request for information. The recommendation advances Executive...
A wave of early‑2026 decisions reshapes trademark and AI copyright law. A federal judge blocked OpenAI from using the name “Cameo” on its Sora video‑generation feature, underscoring the need for rigorous trademark clearance. The Supreme Court declined to review a...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Nationwide Biweekly Administration’s appeal, leaving a $7.93 million civil penalty and permanent injunction imposed by the Ninth Circuit. The CFPB had accused the former biweekly mortgage‑payment firm of deceptive marketing, claiming it collected about...
The Trump administration is being sued by the creators of the EyesUp app and the Facebook group “ICE Sightings – Chicagoland,” who allege the government coerced Apple and Meta to remove their platforms in October. Apple cited Guideline 1.1.1, while...
Ally Financial will pay a $500,000 civil penalty after the SEC found its robo‑advisor cash‑enhanced accounts concealed a conflict of interest. The accounts allocated 30% of client assets to cash, generating interest rebates that offset the loss of advisory fees,...
The Trump administration issued a 60‑day Jones Act waiver covering 659 product categories, permitting foreign‑flagged vessels to operate on U.S. domestic routes. The waiver’s authority is limited to navigation and vessel‑inspection laws, leaving open whether other U.S. statutes such as...
The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas dismissed Random Chat LLC’s patent infringement case with prejudice, finding the asserted claims ineligible under Section 101. Judge Rodney Gilstrap ruled that the patent merely covers the abstract idea of initiating...
The Turkish Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change clarified temporary registration pathways under KKDIK, allowing companies with pre‑registered substances but no lead registrant to file a temporary individual registration. All substances must have a full or temporary registration by...
The Littler Lounge podcast episode breaks down OSHA’s role, detailing what employers can expect during inspections and why written safety policies matter. Hosts Claire Deason and Nicole LeFave, joined by OSHA practice leader Alka Ramchandani‑Raj, explore emerging issues such as...
Former US Mortgage employee Richard Bernich filed a federal negligence lawsuit after the lender suffered a ransomware attack in May 2025 that compromised Social Security numbers, financial details and limited medical data of consumers and staff. US Mortgage, which originated...
