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Administrative Law Judge Backs Firing Teacher in Mask Dispute

Requiring masks in schools during the pandemic has been a highly controversial issue, with Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Legislature last year barring mask mandates for students.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Public Utilities Commission Loses 2nd Case in Rural Telecom Subsidies Dispute

What is at stake in these court challenges is the solvency of the Texas Universal Service Fund, a state account established by the Texas Legislature in 1997 to provide a subsidy to telecommunications firms that service high-cost and rural users.
6 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: Hogan Lovells Duo Protects a 'Speed Bump' for High-Frequency Traders

Hogan Lovells partner Cate Stetson and senior associate Katie Wellington secured a key appellate victory on behalf of IEX, the exchange featured in Michael Lewis's book "Flash Boys" for its efforts aimed at frustrating high-speed trading strategies.
8 minute read

Law.com

Contempt Order Against State Agency Reversed After Trial Court Failed to Consider 'Willfulness'

"A party cannot be held in civil contempt if it lacks the ability to comply," wrote the Florida First District Court of Appeal in a decision that reversed a contempt order the court said had "characteristics of both civil and criminal contempt sanctions."
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Buffalo Teachers Who Called In Sick After Shooting Threat Found to Be 'Unlawful Strikers'

A New York appeals court on Thursday upheld an administrative ruling that said a group of Buffalo teachers and their union engaged in "an unlawful strike" when they called in sick the day after a school melee happened and a nonstudent combatant yelled out, "I'm coming tomorrow with a gun to shoot up this ... f****** school" and "[i]f you show up to work tomorrow, you're going to all die."
5 minute read

National Law Journal

Justices Will Hear Challenge to Biden's Immigration Enforcement Priorities

The divided court, however, refused to stay an injunction against the policy pending the outcome of the justices' review.
3 minute read

Law.com

Bench Report: Biden's Focus on DC Circuit Nominations + Fixing Judicial Succession 

President Joe Biden is on his way to appointing three judges to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
12 minute read

Texas Lawyer

'Surprise Switcheroo': 2 Circuits Align in Defense of FDA Rule Against Flavored E-Cigarettes

FDA did consider petitioners' device type, and it concluded (reasonably) that what truly impacts youth smokers is flavor preference, not device preference, the Fifth Circuit said.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Gunmaker Under Fire in Wake of School Shooting for Allegedly Marketing to Children

"These marketing tactics ... exploit the heightened susceptibility of teenage boys and post-adolescent men with their heightened propensity for violent behavior," Everytown said.
3 minute read

Texas Lawyer

$10 Million PPP Loan Forgiveness: Lawyers Credit Parallel Negotiation

This type of SBA loan was created at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic to help companies keep staff on payroll and was intended to be forgiven if borrowers complied with the staffing requirements.
4 minute read

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