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Judge Clears Runway for Suit Against Airline Search
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
A federal judge refused to dismiss a lawsuit accusing customs agents of illegally searching airline passengers. In Amadei v. Duke, the agents allegedly...
Federal Judge Blocks NYC's Airbnb Crackdown
By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on
The litigation between Airbnb and New York City is starting to heat up as the like-Uber-but-for-hotels company won a rather and significant motion in federal...
Judge Orders Government to Remove Citizenship Question from Census
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
Finding a government decision "arbitrary and capricious," a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to remove a citizenship question it added to the...
NYC Prison Power Outage Leads to Civil Rights Class Action
By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on
A prison power outage is always a big deal these days where so much security-related tech relies on electricity. But when you couple the loss of heat and hot...
Court: Unpaid Interns Don't Get Paid
By William Vogeler, Esq. | Last updated on
Student interns don't usually expect to get paid, but Patrick Velarde wasn't that kind of intern. Velarde attended a beauty school, and performed cosmetology...
Sony and UMG Face Terminated Copyright Class Action
By George Khoury, Esq. | Last updated on
A recently filed pair of proposed class action lawsuits in the New York District Court seek to hold Sony and UMG liable for ignoring the copyright termination...