In a rare showing of bipartisan support, the U.S. Senate passed a $35 billion bill that will reauthorize or create a variety of programs to deliver safe drinking water and address antiquated infrastructure and outdated waste management systems throughout the states. The Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021,... Read More »
Manufacturing retail-ready marijuana is a messy business. Companies use various methods to extract the cannabinoids or psychoactive ingredients such as THC oil from the raw plant material. One company that used ethanol to remove the THC was charged with the illegal disposal of this hazardous waste. After being indicted, the... Read More »
It started when a teenager posted a Snapchat filled with swearwords. She lost her spot on the cheerleading squad, her parents sued, and four years later, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments that could lead to a new test defining the First Amendment rights of public school students who use... Read More »
The old adage, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” needs a few more “tries” added to it in the mind of Ghislaine Maxwell, who has now failed in her fourth attempt to secure bail on charges of recruiting, grooming and sex trafficking. This time, a federal appeals... Read More »
Americans love the Summer Olympics. The long-limbed runners, twisting high divers, beach volleyball spikers, equestrian jumpers, and all the others who perform superhuman feats. The Games are arguably the only event that unites everyone, regardless of where they live, whom they vote for, or which team is playing. Many were... Read More »
As the Eighth Circuit hears oral argument, the country is teeming with court cases and related legislation at all levels of government. While the nation’s death toll has reached over 567,000, another frightening statistic demonstrates that human lives are not COVID-19’s only casualties. Small businesses are also dying at estimated... Read More »
When coronavirus forced most schools across the country to shut down, nearly all of them made rapid plans to convert from in-person learning to virtual. Kids with internet access still missed out on many important schoolroom features, but kids without internet access missed out on everything. A new settlement with... Read More »
In baseball, it’s three strikes and you’re out. A retired catcher, who claimed that some of those strikes were called dishonestly by an umpire in exchange for favors, found himself out as well – out $500,000 in damages stemming from his loss in a defamation suit. Potential Hall of Fame... Read More »
For the fifth time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States Supreme Court has placed religious liberty over California’s right to prioritize public health and safety. In a narrow 5-4 decision, the court rejected the Ninth Circuit’s analysis of California’s regulations that limited in-home worship to three... Read More »
Two years after it failed to get renewed, the House of Representatives voted to restore and slightly expand the Violence Against Woman Act (VAWA) that expired in 2019 under former President Trump and could not get Congressional approval to continue. By a vote of 244-172, which included the votes of... Read More »
How do rich kids get into prestigious universities when they can’t meet highly competitive admissions standards? A few hire “admissions consultants,” who bribe coaches to arrange acceptances through athletic admissions procedures, which are generally less rigorous than the norm. One such soccer coach took the bribes and is now headed... Read More »
Each semester, millions of students fill out millions of forms as they register for university classes. Few, however, consider that these forms are contracts with their universities. And those contracts do not state what would happen if in-person classes are canceled because of a pandemic. Students who filed a class-action... Read More »
Many Americans first learned about COVID-19’s lethal threats by watching news reports about rampant deaths in New York, especially in nursing homes. The tragedy foreshadowed the horror that would soon spread throughout the nation until one-third of all the 536,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths took place in elder care facilities. Now,... Read More »
As the COVID-19-fueled school year comes to a close, one university that failed to honor tuition discrepancies between “campus experiences” and “online experiences” has agreed to a $1.25 million settlement with its on-campus-students who were forced by the pandemic to get their classes online. The complaint by the class-action plaintiffs... Read More »
Did you post a picture of your trip to Paris on Twitter? How about one that shows your whole family smiling at your niece’s first birthday party? Did you put that one on Facebook and tag all your relatives? If so, the faces of those smiling people could be among... Read More »
