The 11 states suing to stop the Obama administration’s directive expanding transgender student rights agreed to drop their lawsuit against the move following the Trump administration’s move to rescind the order. The states, led by Texas, sued in May, arguing that the Obama administration had overstepped its authority when it directed the nation’s public schools to allow transgender students to …
A judge this morning ordered a stay – or hold – in the litigation of a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by former ALEA Secretary Spencer Collier. Montgomery Circuit Judge Eugene Reese ordered the stay in the lawsuit filed against Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley, current ALEA director Stan Stabler, Bentley’s former advisor Rebekah Mason and her RCM Communications Inc., and the dark money group …
Friday, July 29, 2016
There have been several recent and interesting updates to the In re Petrobras Securities Litigation, 14-cv-9662 (S.D.N.Y.) that we have discussed several times on this blog. First, the Second Circuit has decided to accept review of the class certification question.