Environmental Law | Clean Water Act | Washington State Two lawsuits accused a gold mine’s owner of violating its water pollution permit. A private group settled and the owner argued that ended the state’s case too. A federal appeals court…
Employment · Corporate Speech · Religious Discrimination Internal messages, an unusually involved union president and two termination notices now sit at the center of a revived discrimination case. Mrrrow! >:3 please read on Based on a Ninth Circuit opinion filed…
Employment · Stock Options · Forced Arbitration A federal appeals court has just ruled that a former executive’s entire lawsuit, harassment and money claims alike, can stay in public court instead of private arbitration. Diaz-Roa v. Hermes Law, P.C., No.…
Biometric Privacy / Railroads / Illinois A federal appeals court rejected the railroad’s argument that commuter-train and overpass contracts with Illinois governments exempted its freight-yard fingerprint scanning from the state’s biometric privacy law. Whether the practice actually violated that law…
Investigation: Crypto and Commodities Fraud Every Friday, thousands of accounts went up by about the same small percentage. Federal court orders now say no trading produced those numbers, and that the money behind them was mostly gone. Published September 30,…
Environmental enforcement Federal inspectors cited failed sensors, corrosion indicators, missing inspection records and other alleged deficiencies at a California facility handling more than 10,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia. Airgas agreed to a $164,931 civil penalty while neither admitting nor denying…
Environmental enforcement Our EPA says products sold under the Honeywell and Vick’s brands carried misleading efficacy claims, contained improperly treated filters or entered the country without required import notices. Kaz neither admits nor denies the factual allegations. Primary source: EPA…
Environmental enforcement A federal consent document describes a release above the 100-pound reporting threshold at Bakelite’s Riegelwood, North Carolina, facility. It leaves the size of the release, the length of the reporting delay and the agreement’s final execution status unclear.…
Environmental enforcement Inspectors at the company’s Nitro, West Virginia, facility documented overdue hazardous waste, missing emergency-plan details, training gaps, unsigned shipment records and improperly managed fluorescent lamps. Dana Transport, Inc. · Nitro, West Virginia · EPA Docket No. RCRA-03-2026-0229 Hazardous…
Product Safety • Court Records A newly filed lawsuit says raised metallic logos in certain Mercedes-AMG seats became hot enough in the Los Angeles sun to leave burns shaped like the brand itself. The legal complaint describes two incidents… but…