Nightly Brief

Your Thursday night briefing from the staff of Courthouse News

Top CNS stories for today including two more suspicious packages appearing to contain rudimentary pipe bombs and aimed at critics of Donald Trump are intercepted by authorities; a lawyer for the Trump Foundation struggles to secure dismissal of claims that the entity is a “shell corporation”; a federal judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking Georgia election officials from rejecting absentee ballots or ballot applications when a voter’s signature does not match the one on their voter registration card; the Indiana Supreme Court rules fantasy sports websites do not violate the state’s publicity-rights law by using the names and pictures of college athletes without their consent; a push to alleviate California’s affordable housing crisis through increased rent control is sputtering at the finish line; the European Parliament votes to ban many single-use plastic items; the European Court of Justice rules operatic and orchestra workers are entitled to challenge abuses in fixed-term employment contracts, and more.

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National

1.) Two more suspicious packages appearing to contain rudimentary pipe bombs – one bound for the home of former Vice President Joe Biden and another delivered to a property belonging to actor Robert De Niro, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump — were discovered by authorities Thursday.

2.) Trading courtroom blows for over an hour with the New York attorney general, a lawyer for the Trump Foundation struggled Thursday to secure dismissal of claims that the entity is a “shell corporation.”

Regional

6.) The Indiana Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that fantasy sports websites do not violate the state’s publicity-rights law by using the names and pictures of college athletes without their consent.

7.) After nearly three years of investigation, New York’s attorney general pulled the trigger Wednesday on a fraud complaint against Exxon that is seen as the climate-change equivalent to the lawsuit that tamed Big Tobacco.

8.) Three members of a California white nationalist group appeared in Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday after the FBI arrested them for organizing and participating in riots across the state.

Research & Polls

10.) A push to alleviate California’s affordable housing crisis through increased rent control is sputtering at the finish line, according to a statewide poll released Wednesday.

International

11.) The European Parliament on Thursday voted to ban many single-use plastic items, targeting what the administrative arm of the EU says are the 10 products most likely to end up as litter in oceans.

12.) Siding with an Italian ballerina, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday that operatic and orchestra workers are entitled to challenge abuses in fixed-term employment contracts.

13.) Reinstating trademark protection for mineral water produced in Devin, Bulgaria, the European General Court found Thursday that any association tourists might have with the tiny spa town is not enough to cause confusion.

14.) JPMorgan Chase and the French bank Credit Agricole failed Thursday to prevent the European Commission from publishing a decision regarding a cartel that rigged the benchmark interest rate known as Euribor.

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