The coronavirus pandemic is entering an unruly and violent phase as protests against mandatory vaccines break out in vaccine-rich Western countries and anger mounts in poorer countries where vaccines are only trickling in.
The move comes as the delta variant of the novel coronavirus explodes across the Golden State.
Researchers aim to give government officials a tool to determine the actual number of Covid-19 cases in their area.
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In Tuesday's episode, we dig into efforts to decriminalize psychedelic drugs and take you behind the scenes of two trials dealing with sex crimes --- the NXIVM sex cult and R&B star R. Kelly.
Health & Science
Experts say that if global emissions continue to stay at such high levels, record-breaking heatwaves are likely to become even more commonplace in the future.
The EPA plans to enforce tougher regulations for the disposal of wastewater from coal-fired power plants, but it could take years before the new rule goes into effect.
Across the Nation
Tom Barrack was an informal adviser to the former president during his 2016 run and later chaired Trump’s inaugural committee.
Remington argued a complaint filed by relatives of Sandy Hook victims did not show its marketing influenced the shooter who carried out the 2012 elementary school massacre.
The panel agreed Chinese company accused of stealing manufacturing secrets worth billions of dollars is not a foreign state and cannot hide behind diplomatic immunity.
Since time beyond memory, reporters on the court beat looked through a box on the clerk’s counter that held the new civil complaints filed that day. They were panning for nuggets of news.
Rulings
The Ninth Circuit upheld the dismissal of a suit against the speaker of Arizona’s House of Representatives and the governor’s chief of staff brought by former state Representative Donald Shooter, who claimed he was wrongfully expelled from office after a legislative investigation into sexual harassment allegations against him. The investigation found he had created a hostile work environment. The court ruled the defendants are entitled to qualified immunity.
An appeals court in California disqualified the private judge who was presiding over the custody dispute between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. The court ruled the judge hadn’t sufficiently disclosed his professional relationships with Pitt’s attorneys.
The Centers for Disease Control did not have the authority to impose an eviction moratorium on rental properties across the country during the pandemic, the Sixth Circuit ruled. The moratorium is set to expire at the end of this month.
A federal court in Arizona ruled that attorneys for the widow of a man who was killed during an encounter with Mesa Police Department officers should be discouraged but not barred from commenting on the character of the parties involved in the underlying civil rights and wrongful death complaint. The plaintiff’s counsel Mark Geragos has a podcast in which he sometimes discusses the case.
An appeals court in Washington dismissed a complaint brought by Inna Khodorkovskaya, wife of exiled Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkosvky, in which she claimed that a play called “Kleptocracy” falsely depicted her as a prostitute and murderer.
From the Walt Girdner Studio
A tugboat inches across New York Harbor. From Walt Girdner's America collection.
Inspecting fishing nets in a Spanish port city. From Walt Girdner's Europe collection.
Hot Cases
A class of Tennessee residents sued Republican Governor Bill Lee and the head of the state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development for bringing an early end to enhanced unemployment benefits included in federal pandemic relief legislation.
Environmentalists sued the Biden administration to stop plans to thin the forests in the Montana's Beartooth Ranger District.
A man sued Siskiyou County Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming that the court failed to remove records of his minor marijuana offense from their website in violation of state law that requires such offenses more than two years old to be removed from the record.
A class action lawsuit was filed against San Diego and its public utilities department on Wednesday, alleging that residential and commercial customers were overcharged in fees to make up for shortfalls from industrial wastewater dischargers.
Environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday, alleging the government agency authorized helicopter intrusions into the Scapegoat Wilderness in Montana without analyzing how they would impact the environment.
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