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Corporate Counsel

Tesla Tries to Halt EEOC Suit, Citing 'Unseemly, Toxic Interagency Competition'

The automaker argues that the racial discrimination lawsuit suffers from "factual vacuity." Separately, it has asked the court to stay the case, asserting the agency skipped a required "conciliation" process in a mad rush to to outshine the California Civil Rights Department, which had filed its own suit.
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New York Law Journal

Paul Weiss, Emery Celli Lawyers Join Class Action Challenging NYC Searches of Families' Homes

The complaint, which was filed in the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday, accuses ACS caseworkers of using "coercive tactics" to enter and search families' homes.
3 minute read

International Edition

Bar Associations and Human Rights Arms Speak Out on Navalny's Death

"This is a pattern we have seen too many times with the imprisonment, and murders of Russian opposition figures," the director of the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute said, as governments began imposing sanctions on Russia in response to Navalny's death.
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Law.com

Sixth Circuit Judge Dissents From Majority's Grant of Summary Judgment on Terminated Black Police Officer's Disparate Treatment Claim

In a dissent, Sixth Circuit Judge Ransey Guy Cole Jr. shared that he believed that a reasonable jury could find that the Lexington Police Department's reasons for terminating a Black police officer who provided confidential department communications to activists protesting police brutality were pretextual.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Pittsburgh Judges Ask Court to Toss Suit From Lawyer Jailed in Discovery Dispute

The defendants contend that Bernard's incarceration "was the result of his own vexatious and dilatory behavior."
4 minute read

The Recorder

9th Circuit Says a Consent-Based Search Was 'Unlawful' in Partial Reversal

The panel partially reversed the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California's denial of defendant Brett Wayne Parkins' motion to suppress a search of his apartment when officers from the Huntington Police Department questioned him for aiming a laser pointer at an aircraft.
4 minute read

International Edition

Canadian Judge Says Government Has 'Failed' Canadians by Leaving Dozens of Judicial Vacancies Unfilled

A Federal Court judge has called on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government to take action to reduce the number of unfilled seats on superior court benches.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Judge Explains Partial Judgment in Suit Over Firing From Court System

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Penn Taps Wilmer to Defend Against Allegations of Enabling Campus Antisemitism

The firm previously prepared former Penn president Elizabeth Magill for a December congressional hearing investigating college campus antisemitism. Criticism over Magill's responses ultimately led to her resignation.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Decision of the Day: Misconduct Complaint Could Not Force Recusal; No Private Right of Action Under §2000ee-1

This ruling was selected and summarized by the New York Law Journal's decision editors. 
2 minute read

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