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“When companies mislead customers to boost their profits by stealing tips intended for their workers, they are cheating their consumers, their employees, and their competitors who play by the rules,” DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb said.
A lawsuit alleging that Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z participated in the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old girl in 2000 has been dismissed. According to the BBC, an attorney representing the anonymous plaintiff voluntarily withdrew the case. It had initially been filed by lawyer Tony Buzbee, who is representing dozens of other plaintiffs in sexual
In a Thursday press conference, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that President Donald Trump’s order cannot be applied to any extending beyond the “continental shelf of the Untied States.”
In his last year in office, President Joe Biden signed an order adding “gender dysphoria” to the definition of “disability” outlined in Section 504. The lawsuit challenges this “Final Rule” to Section 504, with the attorneys general emphasizing that gender dysphoria cannot be definitively confirmed by any diagnostic test.
“Neither the President nor any executive branch agency has the power to unilaterally enact, amend, or repeal any statue. This is as true of a statute appropriating funds as it is any other statute,” the lawsuit alleges.
“One has to wonder if they’re doing it so they don’t have access to counsel, so that they can be held without rights, and so that the government can have these photo ops,” said American Civil Liberties Union lawyer Lee Gelernt.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat and named defendant in the Department of Justice’s lawsuit, said that the state’s law is sound and has “been upheld by the courts time and time again.”
“The Passport Policy […] is motivated by impermissible animus,” ACLU attorney Jessie Rossman wrote in the lawsuit. “It cannot be justified under any level of judicial scrutiny, and it wrongly seeks to erase the reality that transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people exist today as they always have.”
“The Trump administration’s attack on public health research funding is a direct attack on our state, which has long led the nation in medical and health innovations that have saved countless lives across our country,” New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin said in a statement. “
“CFPB employees have been placed in questionable status as they have been directed not to work but they have not been formally placed on any authorized type of leave,” the National Treasury Employees Union said. “It is substantially like that these initial directives are a precursor to a purge of CFPB’s workforce, which is now prohibited from fulfilling the agency’s statutory mission.”