Posted by Kangyi He. According to this current news story, the governor of California signed a law on corporate boardroom diversity. The news mainly presented that “hundreds of California-based corporations must have directors from racial or sexual minorities on their boards under a first-in-the-nation bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom(California governor signs corporate boardroom …
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Child Labor Laws Should Be Taken Seriously
Posted by Dongsheng Xu. According to an article published on Fox News on September 15th: McDonald’s franchises in Idaho have been punished in 11 locations for violating the child labor law. According to Labor department, the operator and owner of the franchisee: Darmody Enterprises L.T.D，violated the local labor law. According to the article: “Darmody allowed …
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Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
Posted by Nicholas Minikel. The quote from Charles Colton can be easily applied here because Warren Lotas was almost exactly copying Nike shoes. The problem here is how truly similar the shoes are because it is so obvious that Warren Lotas is copying Nike because they put a Nike logo on their own shoe. Nike …
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Churches, Cuomo and Coronavirus
Posted by Elyse Bentz. This article published by The New York Times discusses court cases that have made their way to the supreme court about the government lifting their Coronavirus restriction on attendance at religious services. Churches in California, Nevada, and New York all presented cases stating that the restrictions violated the First Amendment right …
Williams-Sonoma v. Amazon
By Dominick Pellegrini In 2018, Williams-Sonoma filed a lawsuit against Amazon’s furniture business, Rivet. According to Fox News, Williams-Sonoma claims that Rivet used their designs in order to sell cheaper furniture. The case was handled in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, which ruled in a dismissal of the case due to …
Court upholds hog verdict; Smithfield announces settlement
Posted by Ron Richards A recent article that was written by Gary D. Robertson states a federal appeals court upheld 2018 jury verdict that awarding money to neighbors of a North Carolina industrial hog that made unbearable to live in peace because of noise and smell. The judges’ ruled that the jurors’ multimillion-dollar verdict in …
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Bill Bans Imports of Slave-Produced Goods
The President signed into law a bill passed by Congress banning U.S. imports of “fish caught by slaves in Southeast Asia, gold mined by children in Africa, and garments sewn by abused women in Bangladesh.” The law closes a loophole in an 85-year-old tariff law which allowed these products to be sold. Due to high demand …
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Administrative Rule May Not Be Protecting Farmers
Posted by Mike Elwell. A recent article written by David Pitt discusses a law regarding the protection of animal farmers, was recently withdrawn by the US agency after being delayed six months by President Trump. The reason for this rule being instated was so that farmers would have an easier time suing companies that were …
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Presidential Pardon – Article II
The district court judge dismissed the guilty verdict against Sheriff Joe Arpaio citing President Trump’s plenary power to pardon under Article II of the United States Constitution. “Prosecutor John Keller said it was appropriate to dismiss the case against Arpaio.”
The Age of Majority Differs from State to State
Posted by Mihran Naltchayan. Watching the news earlier, I heard a report that the juvenile ages among the states in the United States are all different. I always thought that any person eighteen or younger is considered a juvenile. That is a false assumption on my part. In New York, Connecticut, and North Carolina, a juvenile …
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