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Emilee Carpenter, a New York-based wedding photographer who in April 2021 sued the state over public accommodation laws that required her to service same-sex weddings despite her religious objections. | Emilee Carpenter
A Christian wedding photographer has filed a complaint against New York over a state law that requires her to service same-sex wedding ceremonies despite her religious objections.
Emilee Carpenter of Emilee Carpenter Photography sued multiple state officials, with the lawsuit being filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Western District of New York.
Named defendants include New York Attorney General Letitia James; Jonathan J. Smith, interim commissioner of the New York State Division of Human Rights; and Weeden Wetmore, district attorney of Chemung County.
Accountant gets more than 10 years in jail for embezzling $36 million from Los Angeles company - and using $23M of it to pay off astronomical credit card debt
Paul McDaniel, 44, also known as Edward Martin Karuku, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in federal prison Thursday
McDaniel pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in September 2019
McDaniel embezzled over $36 million from Hypermedia Systems, Inc. during the course of more than seven years, using the bulk to pay off his credit card debt
According to the Department of Justice McDaniel used $23 million to pay off debt and transferred $8 million to his personal accounts
Friday, April 9, 2021
Be warned that further below you re going to read about a couple of insults to human intelligence.
One week after Ericsson responded to Samsung s Federal Circuit appeal of an anti-antisuit injunction from the Eastern District of Texas, a former Trump Administration official was the first of what may be a long list of amici curiae ( friends of the court ) supporting the Swedish failed handset maker against the Korean electronics giant (this post continues below the document):
Under President Trump, Dr. Copan was Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology, which means he also served as Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST joined the DOJ s Antitrust Division under Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim and the USPTO under Andrei Iancu (who has, as I predicted, returned to the L.A. patent litigation firm of Irell & Manella, which typically represents NPEs) in replacing a really good and balanced policy state
Friday, April 9, 2021
In
Ocegueda v. Zuckerberg, No. 20-CV-04444, 2021 WL 1056611 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 19, 2021), the United States District Court for the Northern District of California became the first court to rule on a motion to dismiss claims alleging deficiencies in a company’s compliance with policies intended to promote diversity. The plaintiff, a common stockholder of Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook” or the “Company”), alleged claims for breach of fiduciary duty and further alleged defendants made false and misleading statements in the Company’s Proxy Statement in violation of Section 14(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The plaintiff alleged that Facebook’s public statements promoting values of diversity and inclusion were at odds with the Company’s alleged practices regarding (i) the hiring and promotion of diverse candidates to senior leadership positions; (ii) purported discriminatory advertising practices; and (iii) alleged hate speech