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Litigation Reform Moving Fast Through House of Representatives

With both Congress and White House now in Republican hands, the U.S. House of Representatives is moving with dispatch to consider a series of litigation reform measures, some stalled for years by Democratic opposition and others of relatively recent vintage. Bruce Kaufman at BNA Bloomberg has a three-part series (first, second, third) followed by an update today on the looming battle over the …



‘Empire’ Lawsuit: Child Detainees Claim Filming Kept Them From Getting Schooled

In what might be the first documented instance of children complaining that they weren’t allowed to go to school, the people behind the series “Empire” have been hit with a class-action lawsuit by a pair of young detainees who claim that the shooting of the series kept them from receiving their education. In the suit, filed in federal court in Illinois on Wednesday, two minors claim that an …