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Bunny v. Smaug Did Annie’s smack down a snack-box slack-fill strike suit? Batten Down the Package! Did the folks at Blue Diamond, Kingsford and Mars Wrigley Confectionary call to congratulate the general counsel over at Annie’s Inc. when the company vanquished a recent slack-fill case? All these companies at some point in the recent past have been under class-action assault by the scourge of ...

(Reuters) - A federal judge in Maryland has blocked the state's first-of-its-kind law that requires publishers to offer public libraries licenses to their electronic works like ebooks and digital audiobooks on reasonable terms. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Baltimore agreed on Wednesday with the Association of American Publishers, the book publishing industry's national trade group,...

City officials and community leaders met to discuss drug overdose deaths in Baton Rouge Thursday, February 17. BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Several local organizations, community partners, and law enforcement members are teaming up with the hopes that a new initiative will encourage members of the community to come forward and turn in known drug dealers, to combat overdose deaths in Baton Rouge....

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) — Lawyers for the city asked for sanctions against the law firm representing the owners of the vacant Chill-Can plant in a lawsuit against the city. In a motion filed Tuesday in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court, lawyers representing the city said that sanctions are required because lawyers representing the plant have failed repeatedly to provide necessary documents t...

Photo by: Storyblocks Storyblocks TROY, Mich. — Around Valentine's Day, people would usually say love is in the air; however, one Michigan law firm has something else in mind. At a time when many couples come together, Goldman & Associates Law Firm is offering to untie the knot — for free. On the surface, it might seem a little strange, but they assured FOX 17 the giveaway is for a good c...

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — Deepfakes are a form of artificial intelligence that manipulate content to create images that are difficult to determine as authentic. While some deepfakes are used for political manipulation on social media, one South Dakota lawmaker says that they can also be used in revenge porn. Senator Jessica Castleberry (R-Rapid City) introduced Senate Bill 120 to the Senate Judic...

Big Law, humanitarian nonprofits, progressive legal organizations, and free-speech groups are all attempting to influence Justice Department plans to revise a foreign lobbyist disclosure law. Responding to the department’s request for input in advance of any proposed rule, they asked DOJ to clarify, streamline, narrow, and in some cases expand the regulatory requirements under the Foreign Age...

Halloran Sage law firm has announced that New London-based attorney Joseph Meaney and colleagues John Murphy and Kyle Pavlick, formerly of Cranmore, Fitzgerald & Meaney, LLC, have joined the law firm, which has offices in New London, Hartford, Danbury, Middletown, and New Haven; Springfield, Mass.; and Washington, D.C. Attorneys Meaney, Murphy and Pavlick have represented the legal needs ...

Gov. Wolf Signs House Bills 232, 764, 2143 into Law February 17, 2022 Bill Signing, Press Release Gov. Tom Wolf today signed into law House Bill 232, House Bill 764, and House Bill 2143. House Bill 232 amends the Public School Code adding language allowing specific school districts to change their name by a two-thirds vote of the local board of school directors. House Bill 764 provides a 45-da...

In this episode of The Proskauer Brief, partner Evandro Gigante and associate Laura Fant discuss a recent New York City law requiring employers to state salary ranges in job postings. Effective May 15, 2022, as an amendment to the New York City Human Rights law, it shall now be an unlawful discriminatory practice for an employer or their agent to advertise a job including promotions or transf...