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Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles and commentary related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read: Recommended Citation: Ellena Erskine, The morning read for Friday, April 25, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 25, 2025, 11:40 AM), https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/04/the-morning-read-for-thursday-april-24-2/ Source link
Home Daily News Lawyers will seek stipulated dismissal of… Law Firms Lawyers will seek stipulated dismissal of fired associate’s bias suit against Kirkland & Ellis By Debra Cassens Weiss April 14, 2025, 2:35 pm CDT A fired associate and Kirkland & Ellis plan to ask a court to toss the lawyer’s federal lawsuit against the law firm alleging gender bias and retaliation, according to an April 8 docket entry. (Image from Shutterstock) A fired associate and Kirkland & Ellis plan to ask a court to toss the lawyer’s federal lawsuit against the law firm alleging gender bias and retaliation, according…
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ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. A Treasury Department inspector general is probing efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to obtain private taxpayer data and other sensitive information, internal communications reviewed by ProPublica show. The office of the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has sought a wide swath of information from IRS employees. In particular, the office is seeking any requests for taxpayer data from the president, the Executive Office of the President, DOGE or the president’s…
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to respect each other’s sovereignty and come up with a draft peace deal by 2 May. The deal was signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers in Washington, with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio also present at Friday’s ceremony.Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been displaced in recent months as Rwanda-backed M23 rebels have seized swathes of mineral-rich territory in eastern DR Congo. After losing territory, the government in Kinshasa turned to the US for help in exchange for access to the minerals.Relations have been so poor between…
WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse and may affect those who have experienced sexual violence or know someone affected by it. The woman who accused Britain’s Prince Andrew and other influential men of sexually exploiting her as a teenager trafficked by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein has died. She was 41.Virginia Giuffre died by suicide Friday at her farm in Western Australia, her publicist confirmed.”Deeply loving, wise and funny, she was a beacon to other survivors and victims,” publicist Dini von Mueffling said in a statement.”She adored her children and many animals. She was always more concerned with me than…
The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here. The Supreme Court made short work of two of last week’s first-time relists. The court granted review in United States Postal Service v. Konan to determine whether the Federal Tort Claims Act provision exempting claims arising from “the loss” or “miscarriage” of letters or postal matter extends to claims that the Post Office deliberately refused to deliver mail to an address. But the court denied review of landlord Lebene Konan’s cross-petition claiming that Postal Service employees conspired to…
Home Daily News Suit is ‘almost a word-for-word carbon copy’… Ethics Suit is ‘almost a word-for-word carbon copy’ of prior complaint filed by different lawyers, federal judge says By Debra Cassens Weiss April 15, 2025, 8:53 am CDT A federal judge in Puerto Rico has said she is considering sanctions for a San Juan, Puerto Rico, lawyer who filed a lawsuit that is “almost a word-for-word carbon copy” of a suit filed by different lawyers representing different plaintiffs. (Image from Shutterstock) Updated: A federal judge in Puerto Rico has said she is considering sanctions for a San Juan, Puerto Rico,…
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This article was produced by ProPublica in partnership with The Oregonian/OregonLive. Sign up for Dispatches to get our stories in your inbox every week. Reporting Highlights What Nike Says: The world’s largest sports apparel maker says its suppliers pay workers 1.9 times the minimum wage on average, based on partial data for the workforce. What We Found: A payroll sheet for one Cambodian factory reveals few people making that much, even after years on the job. What It Means: Workers told ProPublica their wages weren’t enough to make ends meet and that they needed to work overtime just to keep…