McDonald’s and a franchise holder are at fault after a hot Chicken McNugget from a Happy Meal fell on a little girl’s leg and caused second-degree burns, a jury in South Florida found in a case reminiscent of the famous hot coffee lawsuit of the 1990s.
Read More »With Feinstein back, 3 judicial nominees move forward
Senate Democrats advanced three of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees along party lines Thursday after weeks of delay due to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s extended absence.
Read More »Biden wary of 14th Amendment in debt crisis
If the fight with Congress over raising the government’s debt limit is such a dire threat, why doesn’t President Joe Biden just raise the borrowing ceiling himself? It’s theoretically possible, but he’s skeptical.
Read More »Justices back law requiring more space for pigs
The Supreme Court on Thursday backed a California animal cruelty law that requires more space for breeding pigs, a ruling the pork industry says will lead to higher costs nationwide for pork chops and bacon.
Read More »The Unfrazzled Lawyer: 5 symptoms of ineffective time management
In this column, we’ll dig further into the time-management key by identifying five symptoms of an ineffective time-management strategy.
Read More »Putin may not outrun warrant for his arrest
History shows that it would require a little bit of good luck for prosecutors — and a few bad decisions by Putin — for the Russian autocrat to end up in handcuffs. But it’s far from impossible.
Read More »Wisconsin judge revives complaint over fake electors
Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission must disregard its earlier ruling unanimously rejecting a complaint against fake presidential electors who attempted to cast the state’s ballots for former President Donald Trump when it rehears the case, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Read More »Court: EPA must regulate contaminant in water
A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency must regulate perchlorate, reversing a Trump-era rollback on a drinking water contaminant linked to brain damage in infants.
Read More »N.Y. teen court more about listening than penalizing
At the discretion of a city court judge, and sometimes a town justice, a youth who pleads guilty to charges will have their sentence determined in Teen Court, where they will be represented by a teen “attorney,” and sentenced by other teens.
Read More »Shutting down free speech has become bipartisan thing
Much of the rising intolerance to speech has a common thread: Instead of using speech or protest to counter the speech or expression that critics dislike, people on the right and the left appear to want to prevent ideas they don’t like from entering the conversation.
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