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Since October, the Supreme Court has heard oral argument in two major redistricting battles, involving allegations of partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin and Maryland. When the justices take the bench next Tuesday, they will hear oral argument in a third redistricting dispute, this time involving allegations...
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Opening your own law firm, especially straight out of law school, can be overwhelming. Unless you happen to win the lottery, chances are you don’t have a giant pile of cash lying around to put towards your law firm marketing, especially when you’re still working...
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Public outrage over the arrest of two African-American men at a Philadelphia Starbucks prompted a corporate crisis that led the company to take the unprecedented step of closing more than 8,000 stores for an afternoon in May to train baristas on how to recognize their...
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Patrick Kennedy, former Democratic representative and scion of the political dynasty, is the go-to player for companies seeking to benefit from the Trump administration’s multibillion-dollar response to the opioid crisis. He is taking in well over $1 million in salaries and equity stakes in the...
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For years, the signature requirement for completing a credit card transaction has felt something like an obsolete means of confirming a user’s identity. Effective this month, however, four of the country’s largest credit card providers: American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa, will no longer require...
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Seven dead bodies tend to focus the attention. But don’t count on it — not if they are dead men behind bars.
In South Carolina. In an election year.
Seven inmates were stabbed and beaten to death and 17 injured in eight hours of nightmarish rioting at...