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Facebook sued for giving preference to visa workers

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Plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit in a California US District Court against Meta Platforms Inc., million to eligible victims of Facebook’s alleged discrimination and train its employees on the anti-discrimination requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). million to the US, $9.5

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Justices asked to review Arizona’s life-without-parole sentencing scheme for youths

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Share The Petitions of the Week column highlights a selection of cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A trial court in Arizona agreed that Bassett was entitled to a hearing. On appeal, however, the Arizona Supreme Court denied Bassett’s request for a hearing and dismissed his petition for post-conviction relief.

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Supreme Court to address private employee whistleblower protections and public entity damages for covering up childhood sexual assault

At the Lectern

Actions of note at yesterday’s Supreme Court conference included: Supreme Court might open Girardi’s State Bar disciplinary files. The court agreed to hear People ex rel. ” The court also granted review in Los Angeles Unified School District v. .” Superior Court (2004) 123 Cal.App.4th

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. As we noted last week , the Supreme Court relisted 18 new cases from its “long conference” that marked its return to business after the summer recess. Garland is an immigration case.

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Municipalities of Puerto Rico v. Exxon: a unique class action against fossil fuel companies presses for climate accountability in the United States

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On November 22, 2022, sixteen municipalities of Puerto Rico filed a lawsuit in the federal district court in Puerto Rico seeking to hold coal, oil, and gas companies liable for losses resulting from storms during the 2017 hurricane season and ongoing economic losses since that time. . By Korey Silverman-Roati and Maria Antonia Tigre.

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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Share The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. But I’ll be even more summary than usual today because of the press of business We finally may have gotten an explanation why the court rescheduled Dignity Health, Inc. In addition, the court relisted: Boardman v.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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Supreme Court seeking review of the D.C. The states argued that the Supreme Court’s stay of the Clean Power Plan while it was under review by the D.C. The states contended that further delay in the Court’s resolution of these “weighty issues” would have “serious and far-reaching costs.” FEATURED CASE. 20-1530 (U.S.

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