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Employers trying to prove that employees fit within an exemption only need to meet a preponderance of the evidence standard, rather than clear and convincing evidence.

Case file: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/604/23-217/case.pdf

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Meta is accused of seeding the pirated material that the company obtained from LibGen to train its AI models.

Case file: https://torrentfreak.com/images/relief-order-397.pdf
Case file: https://torrentfreak.com/images/third-amended.pdf

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Tehran’s First Criminal Court has sentenced the popular singer Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death on appeal after he was convicted of blasphemy for “insulting Prophet Muhammad”, according to Iran International. The case was reopened after the prosecutor rejected the original verdict to sentence Tataloo to 5 years of imprisonment.

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A British teenager has pleaded guilty to charges of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England. The crime horrified the country and online disinformation about it fueled days of nationwide rioting.

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A woman went on trial in France on Monday accused of starving to death her daughter who died of a heart attack aged 13 in 2020.

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CNN reached a legal settlement with a security contractor Friday after a Florida jury found the network had defamed him by suggesting he was charging "exorbitant prices" to evacuate people from Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrawal in August 2021.

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Darrin Bell won a major cartooning award in 2019.

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A South Korean court will weigh Saturday whether to extend the detention of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol, after investigators arrested him over a failed martial law bid.

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Federal prosecutors are ending the bribery case against former New York Lieutenant Gov. Brian Benjamin, in light of the death of a key witness, reported The New York Times on Friday.

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A re-sentencing hearing for Lyle and Erik Menendez over the bloody murder of their wealthy parents was delayed Friday as Los Angeles grapples with devastating wildfires.

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Three lawyers who represented late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were sentenced to up to 5,5 years in prison. A verdict that reflects escalating Kremlin repression.

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A Polish man is taking Germany to court over checks at the German-Polish border. He says that it's not just because they make life difficult, but also because they contravene EU law.

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The Queensland woman allegedly raised thousands of dollars by chronicling her child's supposed illness online.

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After Nevada police seized Stephen Lara’s lifesavings in 2021, a Nevada court ruled that it illegally used federal agents to evade state protections

Case file: https://ij.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CERT-SIGNED-CV21-01595-Lara-v-NHP-Order-Granting-JOP-and-Denying-Counter-JOP_v3.pdf

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Gregory Rodriguez, 56, who faced 97 counts, convicted of crimes in one of state’s largest prison abuse scandals

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Allstate and its data subsidiary Arity for unlawfully collecting, using, and selling driving data from over 45 million Americans.

Case file: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Allstate%20and%20Arity%20Petition%20Filed.pdf

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