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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week restarted plans to temporarily store nuclear waste at sites in rural Texas and New Mexico. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, reversed a federal appeals court ruling that invalidated the license granted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a private company for the facility in southwest Texas. [...]
The attorneys general of Ohio and 48 other states, the District of Columbia and five United States territories have signed on to a $7.4 billion settlement with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced this week. Now that the state sign-on period has concluded, local governments nationwide will [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A former Columbus doctor who was fired before being found not guilty on murder charges in the deaths of 14 patients lost a defamation lawsuit against his former employers this week, after a judge stepped in for a jury on grounds the evidence presented by the defendants was incontrovertible. Franklin County Common [...]
The Ohio State Bar Foundation Board of Trustees recently approved $559,000 in grants to several non-profit organizations that promote civics and law. The board approved a grant in the amount of $123,000 awarded to the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education for civics-education programs, which focus on teacher training and outreach to expand student engagement in [...]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed this week that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty filed the lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Wisconsin [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling last week that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. The girl’s family says that her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to make sure she [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Disney and Universal last week filed a copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle over generative AI. Filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, the complaint claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate [...]
It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College? She had not, and as the officer suspected, somebody else had applied to Arizona community colleges [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology company seeks the court’s approval to buy the struggling firm. Biological samples, DNA data, health-related traits and medical [...]
Sixteen states have sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow the sale of forced-reset triggers that make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly and return devices already seized to their owners. The suit argues that returning the triggers would violate federal law, pose a threat to residents and law enforcement, and worsen gun violence. [...]