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A Franklin County Appeals Court panel upheld a trial court decision to deny bail to a Columbus man convicted on charges related to the shooting deaths of his sister and another woman who were fighting outside of a local bar. The 3-0 panel of the Tenth District Court of Appeals found in its review of [...]
An appeals court in Louisiana has ruled that NASDAQ can’t require diversity on the boards of companies that list on the exchange. The decision comes more than three years after the Securities and Exchange Commission approved NASDAQ’s proposal to boost the number of women, racial minorities and LGBTQ people on corporate boards. The proposed policy [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the state’s product liability law prohibits counties from bringing public nuisance claims against national pharmaceutical chains as they did as part of national opioid litigation, a decision that could overturn a $650 million judgment against the pharmacies. An attorney for the counties called the decision “devastating.” [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors sidestepped some Justice Department rules when they seized the phone records of reporters as part of media leak investigations during the Trump administration, according to a new watchdog report. The report from the Justice Department inspector general’s office also found that some congressional staffers had their records obtained by prosecutors [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio has ruled that a trial court decision denied a criminal defendant the opportunity to justify his request for retesting for DNA evidence on the shell casings found at the scene of a fatal shooting in Cleveland June 5, 2016. Justice Michael Donnelly wrote in the court’s lead opinion that although [...]
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The Biden administration has approved plans for a sale of oil and gas leases in Alaska that leaves open the door for drilling in a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The sale will be held Jan. 9, less than two weeks before President Joe Biden leaves office. It will [...]
Morgan Stanley Smith Barney will pay a $15 million penalty as part of a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission related to four financial advisers who stole millions of dollars of advisory clients’ and brokerage customers’ funds. The settlement also is related to the firm’s failure to adopt policies and procedures designed to prevent [...]
RENO, Nev. (AP) — A probate commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch’s effort to change his family’s trust to give one of his sons control of his media empire and ensure Fox News maintains its conservative editorial slant, according to a sealed document obtained by The New York Times. In a decision filed last week, [...]
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri business groups have filed a lawsuit to try to stop a voter-approved law that will raise the state’s minimum wage and require employers to give workers paid sick leave. The Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry, restaurant and grocers associations say the law violates a state constitutional requirement that ballot [...]
China said this week it is investigating the American microchip company Nvidia over suspected violations of Chinese anti-monopoly laws. In a brief press release with few details, Chinese regulators appear to be focusing on Nvidia’s $6.9 billion acquisition of network and data transmission company Mellanox in 2019. Considered a bellwether for artificial intelligence demand, Nvidia [...]