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Settles Federal Suit Charging Fresh Produce Supplier Allowed Hostile Work Environment to Fester GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – Pero Family Farms Food Company, LLC, will pay $40,000 in compensatory damages and furnish other relief to settle a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) lawsuit, the federal agency announced today. The EEOC’s suit alleged Pero Family Farms…

Here’s a phrase I have to use but hate doing so: let’s go back to the 2020 presidential campaign. During what was essentially a multi-year advertisement for just how absolutely petty, stupid, and disingenuous a political system could possibly be, the 2020 American presidential election also featured a video sent out by the Trump campaign on social…

Left: Richard Tanner Ozment (McLennan County Sheriff’s Office). Right: The location where Michael Brooker was found fatally wounded (KXXV). Insets, left to right: Richard Tanner Ozment (McLennan County Sheriff’s Office), Michaela Brooker (GoFundMe). A Texas parolee accused of killing a 38-year-old mother with a machete and a concrete block was caught after his mother reported…

The UN Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) in Sudan on Thursday expressed concerns over the rise in conflict-related sexual violence in Sudan. According to the team, reports from Khartoum and Al Jazira showed that an increasing number of girls and women were abducted and subjected to rape, sexual capacity, and forced marriage. The HCT stated that…

In our last post, we addressed the ongoing issue of China’s abuse of Red Notices against people who owned very successful businesses and against dissidents. Today, we’ll consider a primary goal of certain criminal cases being filed against those individuals: asset seizure.  In China and much of the world, a person’s assets may be seized…

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently clarified the incorporation-by- reference doctrine in terms of how a lower court may treat documents outside the four corners of the complaint in deciding both motions to dismiss and motions for judgment on the pleadings with respect to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure12(d). This…

David Becker (Craighead County Sheriff’s Office). An Arkansas father was arrested this week after he admittedly shook and threw his 3-month-old baby, police in the Natural State say. David Allan Becker, 25, stands accused of one count of domestic battery in the second degree resulting in physical injury, according to Craighead County Sheriff’s Office records….

NPEs continued their August and September busyness.* Frequent filers included Accessify, Adaptive Avenue Associates, Advanced Transactions, AML IP, Fall Line Patents, Linfo IP, Patent Armory, Push Data, S3G Technology and Symbology. As usual, I prepared the report in partnership with and using Docket Navigator and its powerful database. Docket Navigator is a valuable resource, and…

In the property management industry, where everything is deeply competitive, a critical question is whether or not a property manager is entitled to switch from one property management company to another and, at the same time, continue servicing the same condominium building with the property manager’s new employer. For example, suppose John is a property…

William Bryan (left) and his wife Beverly Bryan (right) (Zarzaur Law). After multiple wrong-site surgeries that resulted in permanent harm or death — including a procedure in which a patient’s liver was removed instead of his spleen — a surgeon’s license has been suspended in Florida. The Sunshine State’s Department of Health and Surgeon General…