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Facebook sued for giving preference to visa workers

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Plaintiff Purushothaman Rajaram Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit in a California US District Court against Meta Platforms Inc., million to eligible victims of Facebook’s alleged discrimination and train its employees on the anti-discrimination requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). million to the US, $9.5

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Supreme Court to address private employee whistleblower protections and public entity damages for covering up childhood sexual assault

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concerning California’s whistleblower statute. It followed a default judgment in the Labor Commissioner’s action for damages and statutory penalties against a since-closed night club after the club owner fired a bartender and threatened to report her to “immigration authorities” when she complained about unpaid wages.

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Risky Business: Appearance of ‘Risk’ Manager Sends Oberlin Students into Frenzy over the Danger of ‘Risk Aversion’

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The jury in June 2019 awarded the Gibsons $44 million in compensatory and punitive damages. At Northwestern University, students took over a class and forced it to end because the professor invited an immigration officer to discuss issues with students. A judge later reduced the award to $25 million. She was not fired.

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Foreign intelligence surveillance and immigration

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap are constitutionally excessive. Garland is an immigration case. City and County of San Francisco, California , 20-1775. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. 27 and Oct.

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May 2021 Updates to the Climate Case Charts

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United States Agreed to Dismissal of Appeal in Unsuccessful Trump-Era Challenge to California-Quebec Cap-and-Trade Linkage. s challenge to the constitutionality of the linkage between California’s greenhouse gas emissions cap-and-trade program and Quebec trading program. California , No. United States v. 20-16789 (9th Cir.

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Free exercise, greenhouse-gas regulation, and a slew of other relists from the long conference

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involving whether punitive damages that are twice compensatory damages, and fall within a state’s statutory punitive damages cap, are constitutionally excessive. City and County of San Francisco, California , 20-1775. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Epic Systems Corp v.