Nearly seventeen years after a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of 3,000 freelance journalists, settlement checks are in the mail. The lawsuit itself claimed “copyright infringement by some of the country’s biggest publishers,” but now the writers who endured the lengthy legal process “will start receiving their pieces of a settlement totaling $9 million this week.”
If you are like millions of other Americans, your “typical” day includes multiple Internet interactions. You probably check your email account, check in on social media—Facebook, Instagram or Twitter (or all three)—place an online order or two and research why your leg hurts at night or where you want to go on your next vacation. In the course of all those online exchanges, you have likely encountered a “Terms of Service” page—which you probably scrolled through hurriedly, so you could click on “Agree” and get on with your task. What you may not know is by checking “agree” on the Terms of Service Agreement, you essentially permitted your personal information to be tracked, mined, sold and otherwise distributed.
Prosecutors in different jurisdictions will investigate the assault allegations which forced New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman out of office. Schneiderman, who’d cast himself as a champion of women’s rights and staunch opponent to the Trump administration, was accused of violently attacking several former partners. The four women, speaking to The New Yorker, described the
Cleveland Clinic Hit with Hefty Payout in Age Discrimination Case
If you’re the parent of a baby and enjoy dressing them in Carter’s clothing, this recall notice is for you. Recently, Carter’s decided to recall “more than 100,000 three-piece cardigan sets sold in sizes newborn to 24 months” over choking hazard concerns. As it turns out, the button on the cardigan can “fall off, posing a choking hazard to young wearers.”
The Trump administration is laying down new mandates that’d see more immigrants prosecuted for illegal entry to the United States – a move advocates fear will lead to the separation of families. Under the new policy, the Department of Homeland Security will refer ‘100 percent of illegal southwest border crossings’ to the Justice Department. U.S.
Work-Related Deaths are at Unacceptable Levels, according to AFL-CIO
On Friday, the Trump administration ended a special immigration program for some 57,000 Hondurans. The decision, said Michael Martin of National Public Radio, is only the latest in a series of similar actions. ‘Temporary Protected Status’ – an immigration category protecting refugees of natural disaster and manmade catastrophe – was revoked for Nicaraguan and Salvadoran
Ashley and Leland Jones recently filed a wrongful death lawsuit “on behalf of their daughter, Rowyn, who was born on October 16, 2016, and died the next day.” In the lawsuit, the couple allege that their daughter’s death was “caused by a botched delivery and a failure to order a needed Caesarean section,” and names Dr. Ashley M. Lane, nurse Chelsey Roberts, and Bolivar OB/GYN LLC and its parent company, Signature Medical Group, Inc. as defendants, according to the suit.
Penn State’s student-led Outing Group can no longer go outside because they might get hurt, but some danger is good for us as prep for life’s challenges.