LEGAL NEWSLINE

CHARLESTON — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s office is leading a coalition of eight states in an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court supporting a group of parents who are challenging Michigan’s Blaine Amendment that prohibits nonpublic elementary and secondary schools from receiving public aid.

Defense Contractor Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Money Laundering and Unlawful Export of Military Data

LOS ANGELES (Legal Newsline) - Businesses have received a measure of relief from the California Supreme Court, which has rejected a call for penalties against a company that thought it was complying with state law.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Legal Newsline) - Tennessee educators will get to move forward with their challenge to the state's Prohibited Concepts Ban, which they argue will open them to disciplinary proceedings started by disgruntled students and parents.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Legal Newsline) - Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost is pointing at addiction statistics as he tries to hold together a state law targeting youth usage of social media websites.

TAMPA, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - Parents of a 17-year-old daughter who worked at a Florida Wendy's say her wrongful firing caused her to be missing for five days.

DALLAS (Legal Newsline) - Groups challenging the Department of Labor's new rules concerning who can be considered a "fiduciary" and held liable for the loss of retirement funds say courts have already rejected this effort.

On Tuesday, The Buckeye Institute testified before the Ohio House Government Oversight Committee on the policies in Ohio House Bill 331, which ensures that village governments that are unable to provide core services to their residents are held accountable. The bill also makes it easier for village residents to vote on whether to dissolve their local government.

The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act (FCA) against Study Across the Pond LLC (SATP) and its principal, John Borhaug. SATP, which is organized under the laws of Massachusetts, recruits American students to attend foreign schools in the U.K., as well as other countries. The complaint, filed in the District of Massachusetts, alleges that SATP and Borhaug knowingly caused UK schools to submit false claims to the Department of Education for federal student aid by demanding that the foreign schools enter into arrangements...

Attorney General Ashley Moody filed suit against Biden’s Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services over the administration’s attempt to force Florida to violate its own law and fund drugs and surgeries for “gender transition” for children. Moody stated, “Florida passed a law to protect our children from dangerous, irreversible gender-transition drugs and surgeries. Now, Biden and his federal bureaucrats are trying to go around our child-protection law to force the state to pay for puberty blockers and gender-transition surgery...

The U.S. Justice Department has charged a Russian national with creating and running the LockBit ransomware group, which has targeted over 2,000 victims and extorted more than $100 million in ransom payments. Dimitry Yuryevich Khoroshev, also known as LockBitSupp, faces a 26-count indictment in the District of New Jersey.

A federal jury in Pensacola, Florida, convicted a former U.S. Army soldier yesterday for the murder of a pregnant, 19-year-old fellow soldier on a U.S. Army base in Germany more than 22 years ago. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, on Nov. 3, 2001, Shannon L. Wilkerson, 43, beat and strangled Amanda Gonzales to death in her barracks room at Fliegerhorst Kaserne, then a U.S. Army base in Hanau, Germany. Wilkerson was a member of the U.S. Armed Forces at the time of the offense but was later discharged.

Attorney General Moody Demands Congress Permanently Defund Hamas-Tied United Nations Relief and Works Agency

Benjamin Naftalis, a legal representative for Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of Binance, stated that there is an absence of precedent for defendants sentenced to prison time for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). This statement was made in a court filing ahead of Zhao's sentencing hearing on April 30, where he received a four-month prison sentence.

"A Minnesota man was sentenced today to 108 months in prison for wire fraud and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns."

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - The owner of a Boston apartment building faces a lawsuit over the death of a man who fell out of a second-story window.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Legal Newsline) - A Florida woman who was shot at a Tallahassee convenience store is suing for her injuries, which include her being paralyzed from the waist down.

BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Plaintiffs fed up with spam emails are suing one of the senders in Massachusetts state court.

BISMARCK, N.D. (Legal Newsline) - An eye doctor who warned his patient not to drive on the highway isn’t responsible for a fatal accident that occurred when the patient’s truck rammed a horse-drawn hay wagon on the highway, the North Dakota Supreme Court has ruled.

WILMINGTON, Del. (Legal Newsline) - Mark Zuckerberg may be one of the world’s most powerful people by dint of his control of Facebook owner Meta, but that doesn’t expose him to liability for failing to fix the world’s problems, Delaware’s Chancery Court ruled.