The Sixth Circuit found that despite third-party sellers having little control over prices on sites like Amazon, Kentucky can enforce its coronavirus-era price-gouging law against in-state companies.
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CINCINNATI (CN) Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron is allowed to enforce a price-gouging law activated during the Covid-19 pandemic against online retailers, a federal appeals panel ruled Thursday.
The Online Merchants Guild sued Cameron after one of its members was investigated and subpoenaed by the commonwealth following accusations of price-gouging related to respirator masks and hand sanitizer.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky Nearly 190 police officer left the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD) in 2020 and 43 have stepped away from the agency so far in 2021, either choosing to retire or resign altogether, as law enforcement officials struggle to recruit new members to make up for a deficit in manpower, authorities and a union spokesperson told Fox News on Tuesday.
“I would say that we’re in dire straits,” said River City Fraternal Order of Police press secretary Dave Mutchler, speaking to the current condition of LMPD staffing. Mutchler also serves as a spokesperson for the Louisville Metro Officer Union.
THE United States Justice Department has launched a civil investigation into the police force whose officers shot dead unarmed black woman Breonna Taylor last year, Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Monday.
The probe into Louisville police will also focus on the Louisville-Jefferson County government, he said, and will assess whether the police routinely use unreasonable force, including on protesters.
A similar review is under way of Minneapolis police, which was begun soon after former officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of the murder of unarmed black man George Floyd.
Mr Garland said the investigation would also look at whether Louisville police regularly engage in racially discriminatory practices or deny access to public services for people with disabilities.
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