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Auto shop let customer drive away with 'defective exhaust system' before he and 20-year-old passenger died from carbon monoxide poisoning: Lawsuit
Inset: Kirby Graham (Haliburton Funeral Chapel). Background: The Illinois auto shop accused of letting Kirby Graham drive away with a defective exhaust system, leading to his death and the death of a co-worker from carbon monoxide poisoning (Google Maps). A routine...
Ready or Not: The Next Wave of Democratic Congressional Investigations Is Coming
For months, Members of Congress, commentators, and companies have previewed what Democratic control of the House and Senate would mean for congressional oversight. Yesterday, voters made it official. In two months, Democrats will hold the gavels in both...
Woman speeding away from cops runs red light and crashes, ejecting man from her vehicle and flipping it over: Police
Background: The intersection of South 24th Street and Garland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky (Google Maps). Inset: Jhonna'Kaye Parra (Louisville Metro Government). A woman in Kentucky is accused of running a red light while racing away from police, allegedly causing...
Woman speeding away from cops runs red light and crashes, ejecting man from her vehicle and flipping it over: Police
Background: The intersection of South 24th Street and Garland Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky (Google Maps). Inset: Jhonna'Kaye Parra (Louisville Metro Government). A woman in Kentucky is accused of running a red light while racing away from police, allegedly causing...
California Climate Disclosure Laws – OCC Challenges Application to Federally Chartered Banks—but November 10 Reporting Deadline Remains
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the federal regulator of national banks and federal savings associations, has challenged the application of California’s climate disclosure laws to those institutions, citing interference with federal banking...
SSRN: Cowan & Cutler Post “Cold-Blooded Corporate Charity: Policy Pitfalls of the Big Beautiful Floor”
Mark Cowan (Bosie State) and Joshua Cutler (Boise State) have posted a paper on the OBBBA’s one percent floor on corporate charitable deductions. You can read a draft on SSRN. From the abstract: “For ninety years, the federal tax law stayed...
Morning Docket: 11.04.26
* Midterm elections will force White House to rethink caliber of judicial nominees. Or just ram a bunch through before January and then leave vacancies for the next two years. [Law360] * Democrats will now have the power to dig into Biglaw’s deals with Trump....
The FTC Is Flexing Its Muscle In Healthcare
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Court hears argument in religious discrimination dispute
Justice Thomas Johnson was born on this day in 1732. As we noted in a Closer Look about Johnson in July, he has the distinction of holding the third-shortest tenure of any associate justice in Supreme Court history.At the CourtOn Tuesday, the justices heard argument...