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At a rally and march for the Equal Rights Amendment on Thursday, protesters demanded it be made part of the Constitution.Credit... Allison Bailey/NURPHOTO via Associated Press Even if you are a political junkie, there’s a good chance you didn’t realize that the United States Constitution grew 58 words longer this week. Those words, which begin, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be d...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska legislative committee is hiring a law firm to investigate the firing of the former head of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. Angela Rodell was fired by the corporation board last month. Rodell, who had been the corporation's CEO since late 2015, has said she believes her firing was “political retribution” for advocating against exceeding draw limits set on the ea...

Jean Baptiste Lacroix/Getty Images; Will Hart/NBC ADA Dominick “Sonny” Carisi (Peter Scanavino) is heading home in an upcoming Law & Order: SVU episode, and that means some family time — including someone we have yet to meet. Beverly D’Angelo will be appearing in a March episode as Carisi’s mother, Serafina, TVLine reports. The only details that have been released reveal that there wil...

Stockton is home to an inland port — a hub of jobs and industries responsible for about a quarter of diesel exhaust in the community. Photo by Fred Greaves for CalMatters. In summary California’s environmental justice law is supposed to clean the air for 15 hot spot communities, home to almost 4 million people. But after more than 4 years and $1 billion, it’s still impossible to say whether i...

2021 saw changes in Canadian patent legislation, and a variety of court decisions addressing rarely interpreted provisions of the Patent Act, early consideration of recently enacted provisions, and new takes on central tenets of patent law. In this article, we highlight statutory changes and a selection of the most interesting patent cases reported in the 2021 calendar year. We also recently ...

President Joe Biden visits the site where the Fern Hollow Bridge bridge collapsed Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Pittsburgh’s East End. PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Arriving just hours after a serious bridge collapse, President Joe Biden stared into the cratered muddy earth where the aging span fell early Friday, striking evidence supporting the $1 trillion infrastructure law he already had planned to tout o...

NEW YORK, Jan. 28, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Jakubowitz Law announces that a securities fraud class action lawsuit has commenced on behalf of shareholders of Oak Street Health, Inc. (NYSE: OSH). To receive updates on the lawsuit, fill out the form: https://claimyourloss.com/securities/oak-street-health-inc-loss-submission-form/?id=22661&from=4 The lawsuit seeks to recover losses for shareholde...

Fee was $1,556 per hour of court time Represented expertise, knowledge of case A law firm that specializes in social security cases is entitled to the entire $40,107 it requested as a contingency fee in a successful case, even though the district court called the $1,556 hourly rate a windfall, the Second Circuit said Friday. When Jim Fields hired the Law Office of Charles E. Binder and Harr...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Clarivate Plc (NYSE: CLVT) resulting from allegations that Clarivate may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public. “should no longer be relied upon because of an error in such financial ...

Suppose Ivan and Dmitri are litigating a contract dispute in a Russian court. Fred, a US resident, has a relevant email. 28 USC Section 1782(a) exposes him to discovery in aid of the Russian proceeding. A federal court may grant the application of Ivan (or Dmitri or the Russian court) to seek discovery of Fred’s email from Fred. Now suppose that instead of Fred, Biglaw LLP has the memorandum....