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An Appeal Court Has Ruled That Calling Someone a Bad Boss Is Not Implying Abuse

Dan Schneider won the opening round against the producers of Quiet on Set, and a three-judge panel has now reversed that decision unanimously.

Nathan Prewitt·3 min
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Three Clancy Jurors Have Described the Deliberations, and What the Holdout Said

The foreperson says the panel was never deciding whether Lindsay Clancy killed her children, but whether she knew it was wrong.

Julia Renner·3 min
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A Texas Band Teacher Has Been Arrested a Second Time Over Alleged Relationships With Students

Jesse Orta faces allegations involving two 17-year-old pupils at the San Antonio school where he taught, and investigators say the first relationship…

Julia Renner·3 min
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The Hitman She Met on Tinder Was a Confidential Informant

Jaclyn Diiorio has been indicted federally over an alleged plot to have a Philadelphia police officer and his 19-year-old daughter killed, more than…

Simone Bassett·3 min
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The Supreme Court Did Not Say the Demolition Was Legal, Only That Nobody Could Sue

Five justices left the East Wing question unanswered and dismissed the case on standing, while a 250-person crew worked 20 hours a day to make the…

Peter Lindqvist·3 min
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A Mistrial, a Deadlocked Jury and the Father Who Asked Everyone to Forgive His Wife

Three years after Lindsay Clancy strangled the couple's three children, Patrick Clancy has remarried and is threatening to sue the people accusing…

Claire Ashford·3 min
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The Crypto Godfather Has Been Given Fifteen Years for a Daylight Kidnapping in Connecticut

Adam Iza admitted financing an attempt to steal 50 million dollars in Bitcoin, and disputed his role in the carjacking that followed, which his…

Nathan Prewitt·3 min
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CBS Studios Has Moved to Strike a Former Matlock Writer's Discrimination Suit

The studio has filed under California's anti-SLAPP statute, backed by declarations from the three producers named, and says an investigation found…

Megan Alcott·3 min
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The Couple Who Spent Two Decades Trying to Undo a Murder Conviction

Eileen and Keen Umbehr were strangers to Dana Chandler when they took up her case, and they have now outlasted three verdicts in it.

Grant Hollis·4 min
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Matthew Fornaro on the Legal Realities of Doing Business Between New York and South Florida

The flow of people and capital between New York and South Florida has reshaped how business gets done in both regions.

Marcus Stratton·4 min
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FTC Files Against the Processor It Says Banked More Than a Thousand Shell Merchants

The Federal Trade Commission has accused 5967 Ventures, LLC, trading as Humboldt Merchant Services, of processing payments for more than a thousand…

Grant Hollis·6 min
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Justice Department decree would cut one of America's largest landlords off from pricing software trained on rivals' data

A proposed consent decree published in the Federal Register on 18 September 2026 would stop Pinnacle Property Management Services from using rental…

Curtis Vance·6 min
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Nuvei to pay $4.85 million over merchant screening, and the FTC adds a knowledge test it must now plead

A federal judge in Arizona entered the order on 9 September 2026 and closed the case, and the two Commissioners who brought it used the filing to…

Naomi Fairbank·6 min
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Federal Trade Commission proposes to treat undisclosed personalized pricing as likely unlawful under Section 5

The agency concedes it has no power to ban the practice and argues instead that setting a price from a shopper's own data, without saying so, is…

Simone Bassett·5 min
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FTC moves to bar Beretta from putting its own people on Ruger's board

The proposed consent order does not stop the Italian gunmaker buying up to a quarter of its American rival, but it requires that whoever takes a seat…

Grant Hollis·5 min
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The funding theory the consumer bureau argued, lost in two courts, and then stopped acting on

Ten months after telling a federal court it could not lawfully draw money from the Federal Reserve, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has…

Rachel Whitmore·5 min