Category: Politics

Gary Waetzig filed an age discrimination suit against his former employer, Halliburton. He then dismissed the suit when the company pointed out that he had agreed to arbitrate. When he lost in arbitration and tried to return to federal court, the statute of limitations on…

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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.  After a bit of stasis on the relist front, the Supreme Court took decisive action at last week’s conference, on…

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The issue in Dewberry Group v. Dewberry Engineers is whether a federal court calculating the defendant’s profits in a trademark infringement lawsuit can include all the profits of related entities in the same corporate group. Justice Elena Kagan’s succinct opinion for a unanimous court squarely…

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WASHINGTON — British troops in a post-war Ukraine would be able to “take care of themselves,” Donald Trump said Thursday,

The Trump administration on Wednesday reiterated its request for the Supreme Court to lift an order by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that instructed President Donald Trump to temporarily reinstate the head of an independent federal agency tasked with protecting whistleblowers from retaliation. Last…

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Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have left Romania on a private plane headed for the United States, according to