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States prevail over Delaware in unclaimed property case at the Supreme Court
All nine Supreme Court Justices sided with a group of 30 states in a dispute with Delaware over hundreds of millions of dollars of unclaimed checks issued by MoneyGram, a money transfer company. The Court held that the unclaimed checks must be sent to the states where they were purchased, and not to Delaware, the company’s state of incorporation. The case turned on the interpretation of the Federal Disposition Act,1 a federal statute enacted by Congress in 1974, which governs escheatment of money orders “or other similar written instruments.”2 The Court held that the MoneyGram checks were similar to money orders, and therefore the federal statute determines which state can escheat the unclaimed…
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California Could Allow Electronic Recording in Civil and Family Court
Point out Sen. Susan Rubio has released a invoice that would permit California’s 58 demo courts to digitally file civil and relatives law scenarios, a controversial effort to handle statewide courtroom staffing shortages that deprive low-money litigants of formal court transcripts. The go arrives two weeks just after Los Angeles County Top-quality Court declared a slew of unparalleled economic incentives to recruit and keep court docket reporters. Court docket reporters offer verbatim documentation of proceedings that are important to filing appeals, examining judges’ habits and reading back proceedings to jurors. Courtesy of State Sen. Susan Rubio. California has been dealing with an acute shortage of court docket reporters. On Feb.…
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5 revelations from Dominion court filing
A filing in Delaware state courtroom by Dominion Voting Devices as component of the company’s blockbuster lawsuit towards Fox News and its guardian company is made up of under no circumstances-in advance of-revealed vignettes from within the community in the times that followed the 2020 election. Text messages, email messages and testimony contained in the submitting demonstrate the outlet’s best executives and hosts casting question on previous President Trump’s fake claims of a stolen election, and stressing about how point-checking individuals assertions on the air could possibly be obtained by the conservative media outlet’s substantial viewers. Dominion is suing Fox for defamation, in search of $1.6 billion in damages, alleging…
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As U.S. Supreme Court weighs YouTube’s algorithms, ‘litigation minefield’ looms
Court to listen to arguments on Tuesday in Portion 230 case Web firms protected from liability for person written content Slain woman’s household appeals ruling in YouTube dispute WASHINGTON, Feb 17 (Reuters) – In 2021, a California point out courtroom threw out a feminist blogger’s lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc (TWTR.MX) of unlawfully barring as “hateful carry out” posts criticizing transgender persons. In 2022, a federal court in California tossed a lawsuit by LGBT plaintiffs accusing YouTube, element of Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O), of limiting material posted by gay and transgender people today. These lawsuits were being amid many scuttled by a powerful sort of immunity enshrined in U.S. legislation that addresses…
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Two bills aim to offer more help for domestic violence victims in family court
DENVER — There are some tales in life that are tough to convey to. For Rebecca Zimmerman, it was the tale of a messy divorce from her very first spouse she’d fairly not relive. “I finally, soon after about 7 years of marriage, had had more than enough of psychological and physical abuse, but most of all, coercive regulate, him wanting to check anything that I did, him being in charge of every penny that I invested,” she claimed. When she initially filed for divorce, Zimmerman claims the abuse became a lot worse. Her ex-husband would split points, toss furniture all over, hold her up late at evening striving to…
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Court agrees to revisit case on program shielding over 300,000 immigrants from deportation
Washington — A federal appeals court on Friday decided to revisit a situation that could come to a decision the destiny of additional than 300,000 immigrants dwelling in the U.S. legally on humanitarian grounds, setting apart a ruling that experienced allowed the governing administration to revoke their non permanent legal position. The 9th Circuit Court docket of Appeals voided a 2020 ruling issued by a three-decide panel in the California-dependent appeals court docket that had permitted the Trump administration to terminate the Temporary Guarded Status (TPS) of hundreds of countless numbers of immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua and Sudan. Granting a ask for by attorneys symbolizing immigrants…
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