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The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit heard oral arguments on Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging St. James Parish’s land-use policies have discriminated against majority-Black neighborhoods, resulting in pollution and other harms. St. James Parish, located outside New Orleans, is accused of implementing a 2014 land-use plan that “effectively codified” racist…

A recently published report has detailed the largest multi-provincial Salmonella outbreak in Canada in more than two decades, linking 515 confirmed cases to contaminated red onions imported from the United States. The outbreak, which occurred between June and August 2020, affected residents across seven provinces, with 19 percent of those infected requiring hospitalization. The findings,…

In line with broader efforts to remove procedural deterrents from issuers engaging in securities offerings, for about the past year, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – “BaFin“) has been implementing an abridged timeframe for its review of prospectuses for offers and listings of shares. It has also rolled out a pilot…

(Photo by: HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) This Term, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Garland v. VanDerStok. The case is about whether “ghost guns,” that is, weapons that are sold in kits to be assembled by the purchaser, are exempt from federal gun regulations. Of course, once assembled, ghost guns are…

Left: beheading suspect Justin Mohn (Bucks County DA). Center: victim Michael Mohn receives an award from in 2019 (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers). Right: suspect claims he tried to make a citizen’s arrest of his father (WPVI/YouTube). A Pennsylvania son accused of beheading his father and posting a lengthy video on YouTube showing the victim’s…