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☆ Colorado Governor Halts Sending Migrants to New York City, Chicago
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Ginger Adams Otis | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An emergency response dormitory for migrants on Randall’s Island in New York City in October. Mayor Eric Adams said shelters are at maximum capacity. Jared Polis said he would halt busing migrants from Denver to New York City and Chicago after the mayors of those cities argued that their shelters were already overrun. New York Mayor Eric Adams and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in a letter on Saturday to Mr. Polis argued that “overburdening other cities” isn’t the solution to the burden of the wave of asylum seekers. Mr. Polis said in a statement Saturday that no more buses were scheduled to Chicago and a final charter to New York was slated to be completed Sunday.

☆ California Braces for More Widespread Flooding, Damaging Winds
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Forecasters expect California to experience more powerful storms with heavy rain, damaging winds and a significant risk of flash flooding, adding to weeks of rainfall and storm surges in the state. The National Weather Service forecast storms in northern and central California caused by what it called a relentless parade of cyclones moving across the Pacific Ocean. The storms are expected to bring rain and wind late Sunday and into Monday morning. Flooding concerns will continue into Tuesday. The National Weather Service has also forecast the potential for mudslides.

☆ Kari Lake’s Claims of Election Misconduct Rejected by Arizona Judge
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Eliza Collins | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Kari Lake previously had submitted other claims related to the election outcome, but those were also dismissed. An Arizona judge rejected the remainder of Republican gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake ‘s claims of election misconduct, saying she failed to prove the allegations that ballots weren’t counted correctly and mishandled in the state’s most populous county. Every witness brought before the court “was asked about any personal knowledge of both intentional misconduct and intentional misconduct directed to impact the 2022 General Election. Every single witness before the Court disclaimed any personal knowledge of such misconduct,” Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson wrote in the ruling. Mr. Thompson was appointed to the bench by former GOP Gov.

☆ Law Firms Trade Corner Offices for Hot Desks and Hybrid Work
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Law firms are famously resistant to change, but they are also grappling with how to best use spaces that cost them top dollar, as well as how to coax people back to the office post-Covid. Shearman & Sterling LLP’s newly renovated headquarters in Midtown Manhattan boasts a slate of amenities such as an on-site wellness center, yoga studio and nap rooms, as well as an expanded cafe space with a bowtie-wearing barista taking free coffee orders. What it doesn’t have are sprawling offices for top partners, long a marker of status at the top of the law-firm ladder. Instead, office sizes now are uniform for firm veterans and junior colleagues alike. Shearman is also exploring a hot-desking option for lawyers who spend part of each week working from home, meaning that attorneys with hybrid work schedules would float between temporary workspaces instead of having a permanently assigned office.

☆ TikTok Is Sued by State of Indiana, Accused of Targeting Young Teens With Adult Content
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Sues Jackson, Miss., for Failing to Provide Safe Drinking Water
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Water was distributed in September at the state fairgrounds in Jackson, Miss., after the the city’s water system collapsed. The Justice Department on Tuesday sued Jackson, Miss., for failing to provide safe drinking water and secured an interim agreement for the appointment of a third-party manager to maintain and oversee the system, after residents were left without reliable water earlier this year. City officials this summer were unable to deliver water to the roughly 160,000 residents in Jackson and the surrounding area. The city had previously issued a boil-water notice in July before floods devastated the city’s already-fragile water system.

☆ Law Firms Prepare for Slowdown After Record Demand
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-25 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brad Karp, chairman of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, said firms are willing to pay top-dollar for high-performing partners in strategically important practice areas. Law firms are bracing for economic uncertainty after record-breaking revenues last year and hiring sprees that saw even some lower-level lawyers netting six-figure signing bonuses. Market volatility, inflation and rising interest rates have put a damper on corporate merger and acquisition activity, which in turn has cut into a key stream of revenue that has fueled recent boom times in the legal industry. The slowdown is putting pressure on law-firm hiring and prompting firm leaders to look for growth opportunities in other practice areas, including in bankruptcy, restructuring, litigation and government regulation work.

☆ Law School Accrediting Panel to Consider Making LSAT Optional
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An American Bar Association accrediting council could vote Friday to eliminate the requirement of a ‘valid and reliable admission test’ for hopeful law students. An American Bar Association panel on Friday will consider whether to allow law schools to drop a requirement that applicants take the LSAT or another standardized admissions test, amid debate about whether the tests help or hurt diversity in admissions. The accrediting council, made up of lawyers, professors and administrators, could vote at its meeting to eliminate the requirement of a “valid and reliable admission test” for hopeful law students. The panel sought public comment on the proposal in May, after an ABA committee recommended the elimination of the testing requirement.

☆ Law School Accrediting Panel Votes to Make LSAT Optional
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-18 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

An American Bar Association accrediting council voted Friday to eliminate the requirement of a ‘valid and reliable admission test’ for hopeful law students. An American Bar Association panel voted Friday to drop a requirement that law school applicants take the LSAT or another standardized admissions test, amid debate about whether the tests help or hurt diversity in admissions. The accrediting council, made up of lawyers, professors and administrators, voted at its meeting to eliminate the requirement of a “valid and reliable admission test” for hopeful law students. The panel sought public comment on the proposal in May, after an ABA committee recommended the elimination of the testing requirement.

☆ Alex Jones Ordered to Pay $473 Million More for Sandy Hook Claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Jonathan Randles | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Connecticut judge ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay an additional $473 million in punitive damages for making defamatory claims that the Sandy Hook school massacre was a hoax, bringing the total judgment against him in the case to $1.4 billion. Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis imposed the penalty Thursday on top of a nearly $1 billion jury verdict last month, which capped a weekslong trial to determine how much Mr. Jones should pay for claiming the 2012 massacre, where a gunman killed 20 children and 6 adults, was a government conspiracy.

☆ Vonage Will Pay $100 Million to Settle FTC Allegations of Trapping Consumers in Subscriptions
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Ericsson AB subsidiary Vonage will pay $100 million to settle Federal Trade Commission allegations that it created a web of obstacles for its customers to cancel the internet-based telephone service and charged unexpected termination fees. The agreement, filed in a federal court Thursday, represents the largest settlement of its kind in the FTC’s enforcement push against companies that allegedly throw up high hurdles to customers seeking to cancel subscriptions or services.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was ordered to pay $965 million in damages by a Connecticut jury for repeatedly claiming on his Infowars platform that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a government hoax. What happened in the Connecticut case against Mr. Jones? Mr. Jones was found liable for defamation in a case brought by eight of the families whose loved ones died in the elementary school shooting, as well as a Federal Bureau of Investigation officer who was a first responder. On Wednesday, a jury rendered a verdict on how much Mr. Jones should pay.

☆ Jury Orders Alex Jones to Pay $965 Million in Damages for Sandy Hook Claims
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Infowars founder Alex Jones arriving with private security guards to speak to the media after appearing at his Sandy Hook defamation trial in Waterbury, Conn., last week. A Connecticut jury ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $965 million in damages for repeatedly claiming on his Infowars platform that the 2012 Sandy Hook school massacre was a government hoax. The verdict follows a nearly monthlong trial on how much Mr. Jones should pay after he was found liable for defamation in a case brought by eight of the families whose loved ones died in the elementary school shooting, as well as a Federal Bureau of Investigation officer who was a first responder.

☆ Airfares in Focus as Antitrust Trial on American-JetBlue Alliance Gets Under Way
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BOSTON—A federal antitrust trial to determine the fate of a partnership between American Airlines Group Inc. and JetBlue Airways Corp. got under way Tuesday with the Justice Department and the airlines clashing over whether the alliance would lead to higher fares. The department told U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin that it would present evidence showing that American and JetBlue each planned to compete vigorously at key hubs in the Northeast before they decided instead to join forces in New York and Boston.

☆ Twitter, Musk Spar Over Legal Preparations as Trial Date Looms
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Alexa Corse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Elon Musk and his team have sought a range of information from Twitter, including employee communications and data related to spam and fake accounts. Twitter and Elon Musk continue to jockey for preliminary legal advantage ahead of a trial on their soured $44 billion marriage, as the presiding judge has signaled she wants to keep the case focused on the contractual agreement between the two sides. With an Oct. 17 trial date in Delaware court approaching, both sides’ legal teams are building their cases through expert reports and sworn testimony. Twitter’s co-founder and former Chief Executive Jack Dorsey and Jared Birchall , head of Mr. Musk’s family office, were scheduled to be interviewed by lawyers last week. Mr. Musk is scheduled to sit for a deposition beginning Monday.

☆ American, JetBlue to Face Off Against Justice Department in Antitrust Trial
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Alison Sider | Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

American and JetBlue say that working together would make them more viable challengers in New York and Boston markets. American Airlines Group and JetBlue Airways Corp. will defend their partnership in a trial starting this week against government allegations that they are squelching competition in New York and Boston and harming consumers throughout the country. The Justice Department, along with six states and the District of Columbia, filed an antitrust lawsuit last year to block a 2020 agreement between the two airlines to sell seats on one another’s flights along certain routes, pool airport slots, coordinate schedules and share revenue from flights within the scope of the partnership in the Northeast.

☆ Twitter, Elon Musk Spar Over Legal Preparations as Trial Date Looms
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | Alexa Corse | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

☆ Alex Jones Avoids Sandy Hook Damages Trial Witness Stand
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A Connecticut trial related to the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ’s statements on the Sandy Hook school massacre took an unexpected turn Friday as the Infowars founder avoided the witness stand and criticized the proceedings—and the presiding judge—outside the courthouse. Mr. Jones had been expected to take the stand for a second day in a case that will determine how much he should pay for making defamatory statements about the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Conn., where a gunman killed 20 children and six adults. For years, he claimed to his audience of listeners that the massacre was a government hoax.

☆ Justice Department Loses Antitrust Bid to Block Sugar Industry Merger
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A federal judge Friday ruled U.S. Sugar can proceed with its planned purchase of rival Imperial Sugar, rejecting a Justice Department antitrust challenge to the deal. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Delaware didn’t immediately release her full opinion, citing a need to protect confidential business information, but she released a one-page public judgment that said the acquisition wouldn’t violate federal antitrust law.

☆ Alex Jones Avoids Sandy Hook Damages Trial Witness Stand, Faults Judge
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Erin Mulvaney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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