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Rhode Island settles Teva and Allergan opioid case for over $100M

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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha announced Monday settlements with the drug manufacturers Teva Pharmaceutical Industries and Allergan for their contribution to the state’s opioid epidemic. ” Rhode Island settled a case against McKinsey & Co. The trial would have begun Monday.

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Trump Org Finance Officer Sentenced to 5 Months in Jail

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Weisselberg, who spent decades working for Donald Trump, was sentenced to five months at Rikers Island for his role in the tax fraud scheme after he testified against the company and attempts at a shorter sentence were denied, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Rashbaum report for the New York Times. Bromwich and William K.

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US Supreme Court declines to hear oil company petitions to move climate change cases to federal court

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The US Supreme Court Monday declined to hear five appeals from fossil fuel companies requesting to have their cases moved from state to federal courts. The fossil fuel companies argued that because greenhouse gases travel between states, rather than remain within state boundaries, their emission falls under the purview of federal law.

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Amazon employees at New York warehouse become first in the country to unionize

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Amazon employees at a warehouse facility in Staten Island, New York, voted Friday to form the first Amazon union in the United States by joining the Amazon Labor Union (ALU). Amazon has expressed its disappointment with the Staten Island election’s outcome. In April 2021, a federal judge ruled in favor of the OAG.

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Are You in an Anti-Free Speech State? We Now Have The Definitive List

JonathanTurley

Biden that administration officials “likely violated” the First Amendment and issued a preliminary injunction banning the government from communicating with social media companies to limit speech. Biden–New York et al. Amicus Br.

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JPMorgan Says Virgin Islands Can't Beef Up Epstein Suit

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JPMorgan Chase urged a New York federal court on Tuesday to deny the U.S. Virgin Islands' bid to bolster its suit accusing the bank of aiding financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking scheme, saying the request "comes far too late," and the proposed obstruction claim doesn't show the company impeded any trafficking investigation.

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“Nothing Succeeds Like Excess”: New York’s Perverse Incentive in Pricing Trump Out of an Appeal

JonathanTurley

Below is my column in the New York Post on the confiscatory fines imposed on former president Donald Trump and his family and corporation. It succeeded wonderfully with New Yorkers, who celebrated the verdict like a popular public execution. New York Gov. It also worked wonderfully to make it difficult to appeal.