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No Pseudonymity for Lawyer Alleging Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment and Retaliation

From Judge Ronnie Abrams yesterday in Doe v. Legal Aid Society (S.D.N.Y.): [1.] [Pseudonymity is more justified if] the litigation… The post No Pseudonymity for Lawyer Alleging Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment and Retaliation appeared first on Reason.com.

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Ex-Fox News anchor’s rape accuser ‘feels vindicated’ after assault charge is dropped

EXCLUSIVE: A battery charge against former Fox News producer Jennifer Eckhart has been dropped following what she described as a ‘highly distressing’ incident

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Ed Henry’s rape accuser Jennifer Eckhart arrested, accused of attacking her boyfriend

Jennifer Eckhart was arrested on suspicion of battery after her boyfriend reportedly tried to end their relationship

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Ex-Fox News star Ed Henry hit with restraining order by Jennifer Eckhart ahead of high-profile sexual assault trial

Exclusive: In her petition for an injunction for protection against Ed Henry, Jennifer Eckhart claims that the FBI visited her last year to discuss allegations surrounding the former Fox News star

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Fox News cleared in former producer’s sex assault lawsuit against one-time network star Ed Henry

‘No reasonable jury could find Fox News liable,’ a judge declared in lawsuit

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Firing Teacher for Refusing Instructions Not to Call Police About Alleged Assault by Student May Violate State Law

From Friday's decision by Judge Ronnie Abrams in Samuels v. Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science (S.D.N.Y.), Samuels' allegations: On June 9, 2022, one of Samuels' students "threw a hard ball that hit Samuels in the head, causing a concussion." Upon being struck, Samuels immediately reported the incident and…

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Man who sold Michael K Williams fentanyl-laced drugs that killed him sentenced to 10 years in prison

New York City drug dealer sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing ‘The Wire’ star with fentanyl-laced heroin

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Dealer gets 10 years in prison in death of actor Michael K. Williams

A New York City drug dealer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for providing “The Wire” actor Michael K

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Qualified Immunity May Shield FBI Agents Who Abused the No-Fly List

The feds routinely abuse people’s rights and claim they shouldn’t be held accountable.

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Caroline Ellison: How a young math whiz with an appetite for risk became a major player in Sam Bankman-Fried’s corrupt crypto empire

After the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the trading firm she ran, Alameda Research, the 28-year-old became an unlikely celebrity—and a public villain.

Fortune

Veteran jurist picked to weigh moving Trump’s criminal trial

A judge known for his care and cautiousness in presiding over litigation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks was selected Friday to decide whether Donald Trump’s criminal case proceeds in state or federal court

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Protected Iran critic speaks at sentence in plot against her

A California woman who admitted unwittingly funding a plot to kidnap an outspoken U.S.-based opponent of Iran's regime has been sentenced to four years in prison

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Bankman-Fried’s fraud case is reassigned after original judge recuses herself

The fraud case against FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has been reassigned to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan after the original judge in the case recused herself over a potential conflict of interest.

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Judge kept FTX execs' plea deals secret to get founder to US

A judge agreed to keep secret that two of Sam Bankman-Fried's executive associates were cooperating with investigators so that the cryptocurrency entrepreneur would not change his mind and fight extradition from the Bahamas to the United States

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Parents and Children

From today's SEC v. Moraes (excerpted in this post), written by Judge Ronnie Abrams (S.D.N.Y.): In the interest of full transparency, the Court notes that Romeril [a litigant in an earlier case that the court cited -EV] was represented on his petition for certiorari by Floyd Abrams, my father. Rare…

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The woman who called 911 on a Black bird watcher wasn't wrongfully fired, judge rules

Amy Cooper, a white woman, lost her job as a portfolio manager at a New York investment firm after she called the police on a Black man who asked her to put her dog on a leash.

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‘Central Park Karen’ loses lawsuit claiming she was illegally fired after infamous outburst

Police dropped charges of filing a false report

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"Central Park Karen" Defamation & Discrimination Lawsuit Rejected

From today's opinion by Judge Ronnie Abrams (S.D.N.Y.) in Cooper v. Franklin Templeton; this seems correct to me (for more on the defamation theory here, see this post): Plaintiff Amy Cooper, a white woman, was formerly employed by Defendant Franklin Templeton in New York as a Portfolio Manager. On May…

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