McDonald's Seeks Supreme Court Ruling on No-Poach Employee Clauses
Dec 05, 2023 08:46 am UTC| Business Law
McDonalds has requested a hearing from the U.S. Supreme Court to establish whether franchises can enforce rules against hiring employees from other franchisors within the same chain. The company submitted the appeal on...
Intel Triumphs in US Court: $2.18 Billion VLSI Verdict Overturned
Dec 05, 2023 07:09 am UTC| Business Technology Law
A U.S. appeals court overturned a $2.18 billion patent-infringement award that patent owner VLSI Technology had won against Intel Corp. This ruling marks the reversal of one of the largest verdicts in the history of U.S....
Dec 05, 2023 05:39 am UTC| Law Economy
Planned Parenthood no longer provides abortions in Texas, Louisiana and the other 10 states that have essentially banned abortion since the Supreme Court handed down its Dobbs v. Jackson decision in June 2022. But the...
Dec 05, 2023 05:39 am UTC| Law
In todays American criminal legal system, courts impose fines and fees as a means to punish people and hold them accountable for legal violations. At times, people are sentenced to pay without incarceration, but...
Government's preventative detention for ex-detainees who pose serious risks set to pass this week
Dec 04, 2023 12:49 pm UTC| Law Politics
The government on Wednesday will introduce its legislation to enable preventative detention of former immigration detainees judged to pose a high risk of committing serious violent or sexual crimes. The legislation will...
Silencing Sarah Jama diminishes Canadian democracy
Dec 04, 2023 12:33 pm UTC| Law Politics
Sarah Jama, the MPP for Hamilton Centre, is suing the Ontario government and Legislative Assembly after being censured in the legislature by members of the Progressive Conservative government. On Oct. 23, the Ontario...
Equitable sentencing can mitigate anti-Black racism in Canada's justice system
Dec 04, 2023 12:33 pm UTC| Law
Black people continue to be overrepresented at all levels of the Canadian justice system. According to the Correctional Service of Canada, nine per cent of offenders in custody were Black in 2020-2021, despite only...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects