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96 hours of work

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A federal court in Arkansas denied summary judgment to the city of McGhee, which was sued by a female paramedic it fired after she refused a new schedule that required her to work 96 consecutive hours. The city has not provided a legitimate, non-retaliatory explanation for why she would be required to work 96 straight hours.

Courts and churches

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the courts do not have to abstain from deciding a property dispute between the United Methodist Church and a smaller church that seeks to split from it. The ecclesiastical abstention doctrine does not apply here because the dispute is not a church matter as much as it is an issue of property ownership.

Baby formula prices

CHICAGO — A federal court in Illinois dismissed a nationwide class action brought by consumers against Abbott Labs, whose baby formula prices spiked during a 2022 recall of tainted formula. The court says that the formula maker was not “obligated to maintain particular levels of formula production or supply or otherwise ensure stable formula prices,” and that precedent shows drug manufacturers are not statutorily required to continue supplying their medicine.

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