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Only three boats started the 35th Pineapple Cup - Montego Bay Race, led by the modified Volvo70 Pyewacket70 which hoped to break the monohull course

NEW ORLEANS —In a notable workers’ rights win as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled in late spring that a Texas fracking company can’t claim the virus is a “natural disaster” that lets it avoid the federal WARN Act—the plant-closing law—and lay off its workers without notice. The June 15 ruling by Judge Carl Stewart of the Fifth U.S.

NEW ORLEANS —In a notable workers’ rights win as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the federal appeals court in New Orleans ruled in late spring that a Texas fracking company can’t claim the virus is a “natural disaster” that lets it avoid the federal WARN Act—the plant-closing law—and lay off its workers without notice. The June 15 ruling by Judge Carl Stewart of the Fifth U.S.