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Tampon Tax Sparks Law Student Protests

Law students across the country plan to file tax refund claims in states that levy taxes on menstrual products in order to raise awareness about the issue and pressure state officials and lawmakers to eliminate such taxes.
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The Legal Intelligencer

State Laws Opening Windows for Sex Abuse Claims a Challenge for Plaintiffs in Lawsuits Against Boy Scouts

A key component of the complaint are the allegations that the Boy Scouts maintained files, known as the "Ineligible Volunteer" files, that documented the incidents of abuse dating back to shortly after the group's founding in 1910.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

These Attorneys Beat Trump's Census Citizenship Question in Court. DOJ Agreed to Pay Them Millions

Federal law allows parties in civil lawsuits, under certain circumstances, to recoup their costs from the U.S. government. The California settlements are the final ones in the census litigation against the Trump administration, a Justice Department spokeswoman confirmed.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Trump's Request for Interim Stay Denied by NY Appeals Court in Summer Zervos' Defamation Case

Justice Dianne Renwick of the Manhattan-based New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, also ordered that the Trump's motion for reargument or leave to appeal should be expedited, setting a deadline of Dec. 2.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York State Sues Vaping Company Juul Labs Over Allegedly Unlawful Marketing Practices

The New York Attorney General's Office claimed in the lawsuit that Juul has targeted its products toward children, effectively creating what it called the "teen vaping epidemic."
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Jeffrey Epstein Guards Plead Not Guilty to Faking Records on Night of His Death in US Custody

Guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were accused in a 20-page indictment of preparing records to make it appear as though they were conducting mandatory counts of prisoners in the special housing unit of Manhattan's Metropolitan Correctional Center, when in fact they had not, according to the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

Judge Will Let Trump Have His Day in Court to Fight Release of NY Tax Records 

"The court will also order that the congressional defendants not receive the requested records for a period of fourteen days, during which time the court can decide whether the request is lawful," U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said in an order late Monday.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Investment Funds Partner Jumps From Gibson Dunn to Latham

Edward Nelson spent more than a decade at Gibson Dunn in New York.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Head of Investigations at JCOPE Chosen as New Top Lawyer for MTA Inspector General

Pei Pei Cheng-de Castro was most recently the director of investigations and enforcement at the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, the state panel tasked with investigating ethics violations by public officials, employees, and lobbyists.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Mayors in NY Join Call for More State Funding to Implement Criminal Justice Reforms

"This is another unfunded mandate that the villages and cities have to address," said Robert T. Kennedy, the mayor of Freeport in Nassau County and current president of NYCOM.
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