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The Arizona House of Representatives approved a bill on Tuesday that would prohibit transgender women and girls from playing on female school sports teams. House Bill 2706 would require interscholastic or intramural sports teams sponsored by educational institutions to be expressly designated, based on biological sex, as male, female or mixed sex. Athletes who are [...]

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Apple reached a settlement on Friday in its litigation regarding slow iPhones, agreeing to pay up to $500 million to settle the case. The case arises out of a class action complaint which alleges that older versions of iPhones started to have performance problems after Apple’s new operating system was released and installed on those [...]

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Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., the re-election committee for the sitting president, filed a libel suit against The Washington Post in federal court on Tuesday. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that the newspaper published two articles containing “false and defamatory statements” in June 2019. It [...]

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two cases Tuesday: Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Charles Liu v. Securities and Exchange Commission. The first case challenges the constitutionality of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The director of the CFPB, while appointed by the president and confirmed by [...]

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A bipartisan group of US representatives introduced a bill Monday to prevent the internet sale of counterfeit goods. The Stopping Harmful Offers on Platforms by Screening Against Fakes in E-Commerce Act (SHOP SAFE Act) would hold internet platforms liable under trademark law for third-party sites selling counterfeit goods sold on the platform. The group cited [...]

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The US Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday in Kansas v. Garcia that federal immigration law does not preempt a state prosecution for identity theft. Ramiro Garcia, Donaldo Morales and Guadalupe Ochoa-Lara were all found to have used someone else’s social security number to qualify employment and/or housing. The state of Kansas utilized the I-9 form [...]

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The US Department of Justice (DOJ) unsealed an indictment Monday against two Chinese nationals on charges for laundering over $100 million from a cryptocurrency exchange hack by North Korean hackers in 2018. The two nationals, Tian Yinyin and Li Jiadong, were indicted on counts of money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. “These defendants [...]

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The US Supreme Court heard oral arguments in two deportation cases Monday. The first case, Nasrallah v. Barr, poses the question of whether an appeals court can assess factual findings of an administrative agency regarding asylum denial relief. Immigrants who are denied asylum may seek relief to stay in the US if deportation endangers the [...]

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The Utah Senate approved a bill on Monday banning all elective abortions in the event the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade. The bill would prohibit abortion in all cases except those where the life of the mother or significant bodily functions of the mother are at risk, the unborn fetus has a “lethal” defect [...]

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