California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, along with attorneys from three of the state’s largest cities, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. claiming their misclassification of workers as independent contractors violates state law and places a burden on California taxpayers. The suit, filed by Becerra and city attorneys for San Francisco, [...]
3M filed a federal trademark infringement suit Tuesday against a medical supplies company for the resale of N95 masks to the state of Wisconsin at inflated prices. Similar to previous litigation initiated by the country’s largest producer of N95 masks surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the suit filed against Hulomil LLC alleges that the “deplorable pandemic [...]
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, whose 30-year rule ended when he was ousted from office during the conflict that came to be known as the Arab Spring in 2011, died Tuesday in Cairo at the age of 91. Mubarak served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 following the assassination of Anwar Sadat, to [...]
Texas filed an original action in the US Supreme Court Monday to overturn California’s ban on state-funded travel to a list of 11 states—including Texas—that have adopted policies that California has deemed discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation or gender. California Assembly Bill 1887, enacted in 2016 and expanded in 2017, bans state-funded or [...]
Senators heard closing arguments from House managers and lawyers for the White House on Monday, two days ahead of the scheduled vote in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump. Both sides were given two hours to make their final arguments on their opposing conclusions regarding Trump’s interactions with Ukraine ahead of the 2020 general [...]
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied requests to expedite consideration of a legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACT). The decision means that the court will not hear the challenge before the current term ends in June. The petition to fast-track the case was brought by 19 states lead by California earlier this [...]
A Wisconsin appeals court on Tuesday temporarily put a hold on Monday’s decision by a county circuit court judge to remove 209,000 voter names after finding the state’s Elections Commission in contempt. The appeals court decision comes just one day after the circuit court judge’s firm order to purge the voter names and the subsequent [...]
Top Iranian forces commander and architect of military operations, Qasem Soleimani, was killed early Friday in Baghdad by a drone strike ordered by US President Donald Trump, the Pentagon announced. Suleimani, leader of the US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and top commander of Iranian security and intelligence operations, was [...]
Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor announced Monday that five people have been sentenced to death and three sentenced to jail terms in connection with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last year. The trial verdict revealed that charges had been dismissed for the remaining three of the eleven that had [...]
A leak of highly classified documents from the Chinese government has exposed the manual used in operating China’s mass detention camps, including policing and surveillance tactics to prevent escape from the camps the Chinese government has labeled “vocational training institutions” that hold Muslim Uighurs and other minorities. According to a new report by the International [...]
