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The judge finds "a collective debacle"—possibly caused, I think, by two firms working together and the communications problems this can cause—though "conclude[s] that additional financial or disciplinary sanctions against the individual attorneys are not warranted."

Here's Mr. Hommrich's argument, as quoted in the Pennsylvania Record (Nicholas Malfitano) early last year: "Plaintiff Hommrich is a pioneer… The post David Hommrich Wins Case (Now Called Hommrich); Legislator Files Memo About "Closing the Hommrich Loophole"; Hommrich Sues for Defamation appeared first on Reason.com.

Magistrate Judge Bristow Marchant's decision earlier this month in Doe v. Weston & Sampson Engineers, Inc. (D.S.C.) arose in a case where plaintiff sued alleging that a coworker had sexually assaulted her, including by "threatening her with a gun." Many (though not all) courts allow plaintiffs alleging sexual assault to…

The Google sister company appears to be fighting back after a spate of vattacks on its autonomous vehicles

From yesterday's decision by Judge Gregory Woods (S.D.N.Y.) in Cassava Sciences, Inc. v. Bredt: Cassava Sciences, Inc. ("Cassava") is a biotechnology company that is conducting clinical trials for an Alzheimer's drug called simufilam. Following the second phase of the simufilam clinical trials, multiple short sellers, most of them scientists, published…

The administrator, at Texas A & M University Texarkana, alleges he was pushed out because of his race, and because he had declined to discipline a student who "had used the word 'Nigga' in [a classmate's] presence while on a trip to the mall."

given that the University rejected the Chancellor of the Board of Governors' call for the SJP chapter to be deactivated.

From Friday's opinion by Judge Daniel D. Domenico (D. Colo.) in Darren Patterson Christian Academy v. Roy (for more on a different facet of the case and on the possible relevance, or not, of government funding, see this post): "[T]he First Amendment protects an individual's right to speak his mind…

In Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC (2012), the Supreme Court unanimously held that religious institutions have the constitutional right to freedom in selecting their clergy and religious teachers, notwithstanding federal or state antidiscrimination law. In Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrisey-Berru (2020), the Court held (by a 7-2 vote) that this…