Representatives of Uber and Lyft warned Thursday that a New York City effort to regulate app-based ride-hailing services will stall innovation and threaten competition. The regulations “will be crushing to our thousands of drivers,” Michael Allegretti, New York head of ...
Read More »Missouri group to examine human trafficking policies
Advocates for human trafficking survivors, law enforcement, state officials and lawmakers will be meeting over the next 18 months to evaluate Missouri’s policies to combat human trafficking. Deborah Hume is a founding member of the Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking ...
Read More »FIFA probe shines light on sports marketing firms
The U.S. Justice Department’s targeting of FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, has put a spotlight on the powerful role that marketing firms play in the global sports arena. Such firms act like talent agencies: They work with athletes, teams and ...
Read More »Lawsuit: St. Louis suburb’s courts violate rights of poor
A federal lawsuit seeking class-action status accuses a St. Louis suburb of often violating the rights of the poor by jailing them because they can’t pay small amounts of bond money. The lawsuit filed Wednesday in St. Louis against 13,000-resident ...
Read More »Courts give Florida company sovereign immunity
A private corporation that runs the University of Central Florida’s athletic program won’t have to pay $10 million to the family of a football player who died during practice, the Florida Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The court ruled the University ...
Read More »Southern Missouri school officials face religious lawsuit
Joplin school officials are being sued over claims that they violated the U.S. Constitution by allowing students to go on a field trip earlier this month at a Christian ministry. The Joplin Globe reports that the suit was filed by ...
Read More »Molestation claim against Michael Jackson’s estate dismissed
A choreographer who accused Michael Jackson of years of molestation cannot pursue his allegations against the singer’s estate because he waited too long to file the legal action, a judge ruled. Superior Court Judge Mitchell Beckloff wrote in his ruling Tuesday that ...
Read More »Pending home sales jump to strongest level in 9 years
Americans signed contracts to buy homes in April at the fastest pace in nearly nine years, evidence that steady job growth is strengthening the real estate market. The National Association of Realtors said Thursday that its seasonally adjusted pending home sales index ...
Read More »Administration to judge: Toss House health care suit
Obama administration attorneys urged a federal judge Thursday to throw out a politically charged lawsuit by House Republicans over the president’s health care law, but encountered plenty of skeptical questions. “You don’t really believe that, do you?” U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer ...
Read More »Justices toss Washington law on bad-faith lawsuits
The Washington Supreme Court has struck down a state law that attempts to curtail lawsuits brought in bad faith to hinder public discussion. In a unanimous opinion Thursday the court said the law, enacted by the Legislature in 2010, violates ...
Read More »Federal appeals court rejects Arkansas’ 12-week abortion ban
The St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a key abortion restriction in Arkansas on Wednesday, agreeing with a lower court judge that it was inappropriate to ban most abortions after the 12th week of pregnancy if ...
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