The New York City Department of Education and a district superintendent were accused of racial discrimination against employees in the New York County Supreme Court.
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A federal judge in Dallas deems the nonprofit’s Chapter 11 filing as an attempt at getting around the New York attorney general’s lawsuit to dissolve the NRA.
FILE – This Feb. 29, 2020 file photo, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md. New York’s attorney general is suing the National Rifle Association, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business over allegations that high-ranking executives diverted millions of dollars for personal benefit. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
DALLAS (CN) A federal judge dismissed the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy case Tuesday for bad faith, ending the gun rights group’s plans to reorganize in Texas to escape New York regulators’ lawsuit seeking to dissolve it for alleged mismanagement.
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BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – New York Attorney General Letitia James has moved to dismiss Amazon’s lawsuit against her that seeks to block litigation she filed against it over the company’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her May 3 motion comes a month after her lawsuit got a restart in New York state court. The timeline essentially is this: James threatened suit, Amazon sued her to block it, James filed her own suit.
“Amazon’s complaint should be dismissed,” James’ lawyers wrote. “As an initial matter, the court lacks federal subject matter jurisdiction because Amazon requests anticipatory declaratory and injunctive relief while disputing the meaning and application of state law.
LGBTQ students sue Yeshiva University for discrimination
May 7, 2021
NEW YORK (JTA) A group of students and alumni is suing Yeshiva University for discrimination, claiming that the university violated New York City’s human rights law when it refused to recognize an LGBTQ student club.
The lawsuit was filed Tuesday in New York County Supreme Court.
Over the last few years, the students repeatedly lobbied the university’s administration to formally recognize a Gay-Straight Alliance club. The university, a prominent Modern Orthodox institution, has grappled with how to reconcile a traditional interpretation of Jewish law, which does not allow homosexual. For access to this article please