Just two months after Donald Trump took his oath of office, in March, 2017, EPA chief Scott Pruitt made it a priority to rescind President Obama’s signature climate control initiative, known as the Clean Power Plan (CPP), put in place by executive order in 2015. The regulation on power plants is the first of its kind to reduce greenhouse gas … [Read more...]
New York Qui Tam Attorneys Weigh in on Record $83 Million Award for Bank of America Whistleblowers
Setting the stage for future successful whistleblowing litigation, New York City qui tam attorneys, Adam Pollock and Steve Cohen, of newly-minted Pollock Cohen LLP, weighed in on Monday’s SEC record $83 million award to three Bank of America’s/ Merrill Lynch executives for holding up to $58 billion a day in a clearing account that should have been … [Read more...]
Blue States Try to Replace Obamacare Individual Tax Mandate; Red States Seek to Offer Stripped-Down Versions
Just before Christmas, the Republican tax plan that slashed rates on corporations also duplicitously repealed the “individual mandate,” the Obamacare tax that allows the federal government to fine people who don’t have their health insurance, leaving a lump of coal in the Christmas stockings of middle-class Americans, who count on a pool of both … [Read more...]
LGBT Employees are Protected under Civil Rights Act
Back in 2004, this reporter’s niece was an employment attorney in New York City. She said that, “at the time I practiced, it was assumed that the CRA [Civil Rights Act] did not cover discrimination based on sexual orientation. “I would have loved to see the progression of the argument that ‘sex’ includes ‘sexual orientation”, my niece said, … [Read more...]
States and Cities are Banning Bump Stocks Used in Las Vegas Massacre
Increasingly frustrated by Speaker Paul Ryan’s close relationship with the National Rifle Association (NRA), states and cities are banning the so-called “bump stock” recoil devices that gunman Stephen Paddock used to fire on a crowd of concert-goers gathered on the Las Vegas Strip, killing at least 59 people and injuring more than 500. Officials … [Read more...]
Maryland Joins Blue States’ Suit Against Tax Plan
Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh is the latest official to join the coalition of high-tax, blue-state governors in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, who are challenging the Republican tax law’s $10,000 cap on state and local tax (SALT) deduction as unconstitutional. Legal analysts—both red and blue--say that arguments claiming the $1.5 … [Read more...]
As Florida Considers Felons’ Right to Vote, Private Prisons Raise 13th Amendment Questions
For the first time in Florida history, voters will decide whether to restore the right to vote for 1.5 million ex-convicts—predominantly black and Hispanic non-violent, drug offenders-- who have been stripped of their voting rights for a lifetime after serving their prison time and parole. It is noteworthy that the proposed right to vote excludes … [Read more...]
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Gerrymander Victory May Supersede High Court’s Jurisdiction, Legal Analysts Say
On Monday, The U.S. Supreme Court succeeded in blocking a panel of North Carolina Federal judges from striking down 13 congressional districts as Republican partisan gerrymanders until an appeal can be prepared. However, the Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court’s decision this week to redraw all of the state’s 18 congressional districts in a major … [Read more...]
US Attorney Wages War on Future Massachusetts Pot Sales
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is scrambling to rescue her state’s recreational pot industry — set to launch in July — from the clutches of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' US Attorney for Massachusetts, Andrew E. Lelling. Lelling threw the future of Massachusetts’ cannabis legalization into doubt last week when he said he “cannot provide … [Read more...]
Kentucky Governor Threatens End of Health Coverage for 400,000
Kentucky’s Governor Matt Bevin Threatens to End Expanded Medicaid if Courts Block Trump’s Work Requirement Mandate Kentucky is the first state to test a work requirement for its Medicaid recipients following a November, 2017 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid directive, and Republican Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin isn’t about to see his prize … [Read more...]
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