Where a sex trafficking defendant lured women into prostitution using social media, her vagueness challenge to a ban on using social networking accounts was rejected. There was a “commonsense” meaning of the condition, she heard the probation officer’s explanation, could ...

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Where the former employee alleged that he was harassed, made fun of and yelled at by his supervisors, but failed to show that the conduct was because of his race or color, the defendants prevailed on the hostile work environment ...

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Where the plaintiff alleged his cancer was caused by exposure to wood dust from 1981-1992, but the link between wood dust and cancer was not known at the time, judgment was granted to the lumber manufacturers. Background Christopher Lightfoot maintains ...

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Where the immigration judge focused on why a Honduran gang targeted the petitioner’s family, rather than petitioner herself, that was wrong. Because the record showed that the gang leveraged her familial relationship to her husband, as well as their familial ...

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Where a high school student reported conduct that could be objectively understood as alleging sexual harassment to a school official with authority to address complaints of sexual harassment and to institute corrective measures, that establishes actual notice of such harassment ...

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In a case of first impression, the court joined other circuits in holding that immigration judges have a duty to develop the record in immigration court proceedings, especially in pro se cases. Here, a Salvadoran man’s petition for review of ...

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In a case of first impression, the court held that police can conduct warrantless searches of non-vehicular containers incident to a lawful arrest only when the arrestee is unsecured and within reaching distance of the container at the time of ...

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Where an insurance policy provided coverage to affiliates of the Episcopal Church, that policy extended to a breakaway parish that is embroiled in litigation against the diocese. Nothing in the master policy suggested the insurance company has the duty—or the ...

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In a case of first impression, the court held that where an employer transfers an employee from a position they could perform if provided with reasonable accommodations to a position they do not want, that could support a failure-to-accommodate claim. ...

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Where the Turkish government communicated instructions through a Turkish businessman to an executive at the Flynn Intel Group who followed those instructions, his convictions for acting as an unregistered foreign agent and conspiring to do so were reinstated. Background A ...

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