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Transgender graduation student attitude lawsuit

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JACKSON, Miss. – Opposing attorneys clashed Friday over whether a Mississippi school district can require a transgender girl to abide by a boys’ dress code as she and her classmates graduate from high school this weekend. The 17-year-old girl, listed in court papers by her initials LB, had chosen a dress to wear with her cap and gown Saturday at Harrison Central High School in Gulfport, a coastal town about 160 miles (260 kilometers) south of Jackson . Graduating boys are expected to wear white shirts and black slacks, while girls are expected to wear white dresses. Harrison County School…
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Thank the Maricopa County attorney for not being a MAGA Republican

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Arizona Republicans should pay heed to what happened this week at the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office. Rachel Mitchell, the Republican elected to the job in 2022, announced she would not prosecute two Phoenix police officers who shot and killed a man who was hurling rocks at a patrol car and later at them. Mitchell was in charge of the case because she did not run for office as a MAGA Republican. She did not kiss the Trump ring. She did not climb into the Stop-the-Steal barrel and ride it over Fantasy Falls to crushing defeat, as did so many other…
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Ben Crump, Attorney for Malcolm X’s Family: “We Refuse to Let Anybody Exterminate Black History”

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This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: this is Democracy Now!democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report. I’m Amy Goodman. We continue to look at the life and legacy of Malcolm X, born 98 years ago today, as we turn to civil rights attorney Ben Crump, representing Malcolm’s family in a $100 million wrongful death lawsuit against the FBIthe CIA, New York City and state, and the New York police, as well as the District Attorney’s Office, for concealing evidence of their involvement in Malcolm X’s 1965 assassination. Three men were convicted of…
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Attorney for woman in viral Citi Bike fight video says argument has nothing to do with race

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NEW YORK — A fight over a Citi Bike last week has exploded on social media, and now an attorney for the woman in the video is fighting the claims circulating online. Her attorney says she’s been unfairly branded, as he puts it, as a “Karen.” Sarah Jane Comrie, a physician’s assistant, says she had just ended her shift at Bellevue Hospital in Kips Bay and was ready to pick up the Citi Bike she says she reserved, but both she and a young Black man claimed the same bike outside the hospital . In a video, Comrie can be…
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Navigating Attorney Lateral Moves: Key Trends Shaping Today’s Legal Landscape

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The legal landscape is continuously evolving, and Lateral Link’s extensive research into the trends and shifts in the United States’ legal market offers valuable insights. As we explore these findings, we’ll discuss the implications for both law firms and individual attorneys while highlighting specific firms that have been active in the lateral market. Talent Wars: The Surge in Partner Hires Between 2021 and the end of 2022, 200 Am Law firms made waves by hiring over 3,600 new partners. These talent wars at the partner and associate levels were the talk of 2022, but the origins of these new partners…
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Missouri Judge Blocks GOP Attorney General’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care

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A Missouri judge temporarily halted a rule that requires adults and children to complete more than a year of therapy before receiving gender-affirming treatments such as puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery. Judge Ellen Ribaudo of St. Louis County Circuit Court temporarily blocked enforcement of Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s emergency rule. She ruled that the plaintiffs would “be subject to immediate and irreparable loss, damage or injury if the Attorney General was permitted to enforce the Emergency Rule, and its broad, sweeping provisions were implemented without further fact-finding or evidence.” As she pointed out, patients “are at high risk…
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Lori Vallow’s family reacts to her murder conviction: ‘We thank you’

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Lori Vallow’s family and the family of her sister Summer Shift have issued a joint statement after she was convicted of murder. Vallow was found guilty of the first-degree murder of her children Tylee Ryan and JJ Vallow, and of a charge of conspiracy in the first-degree murder of her husband Chad Daybell’s late wife Tammy. Vallow was born Lori Cox and is one of four siblings, the others being Summer, Adam Cox, and her alleged co-conspirator Alex Cox. Their initial support of Vallow in the early days of the search for the children evaporated when the bodies of Tylee…
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An Art Collector Is Suing His Former Attorney For Allegedly Stealing a $5 Million Andy Warhol Painting

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The New York art collector Stuart Pivar has filed a lawsuit against his lawyer for allegedly stealing an Andy Warhol painting after an unconventional deal. The complaint, filed April 17 in New York Supreme Court, says that Pivar sold a 1977 Warhol painting of himself—Porbit of Stuart Pivar—last year to his one-time attorney, Mitchell Cantor. The lawyer paid $100,000 for the piece, despite Pivar estimating it to be worth $5 million. When contacted by Artnet News, Pivar explained that he needed cash fast at the time, but could not recall why: “I needed it for something very, very important, whatever…