As the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) weighs new proposals that critics warn would further flood courts with meritless lawsuits, it’s important to remember who benefits from tilting the rules of legal engagement in favor of patent infringement plaintiffs. Advocates for the USPTO’s proposed rules, and similar measures in the recently introduced PREVAIL Act, frame their position...
House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Thursday asked special counsel Jack Smith to turn over information relating to attorney Stanley Woodward, who has represented numerous Mar-a-Lago employees in dealings with prosecutors. Woodward is in the midst of a battle with the Justice Department as it seeks a so-called Garcia hearing to review potential conflicts...
Two Colorado legislators are demanding a full environmental review of a proposal to expand a Utah oil transport facility — plans they believe could endanger their state’s residents across the border. Because the potential expansion of the Wildcat Loadout is located on federal land, Sen. Michael Bennet (D) and Rep. Joe Neguse (D) appealed to...
Story at a glance Employees are less happy than they were at the beginning of the pandemic, according to a new report from human resource software company BambooHR. The company collected data on work satisfaction from over 57,000 employees across 1,600 small and medium-sized companies since January of 2020. It found that worker...
Justice Brett Kavanaugh said Thursday that he was “hopeful” that the Supreme Court would take “concrete steps” to move forward to address ethics issues at the high court. Speaking at a judicial conference in Ohio, Kavanaugh referred to Chief Justice John Roberts’s comments from May, when he said the justices were committed to addressing ethical...
Russia is holding "sham elections" in its occupied territories in Ukraine in an attempt to give its presence more legitimacy, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday during his visit to the war-torn nation. Local and municipal elections are being held in four fully or partially occupied regions of eastern Ukraine: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and...
For the second time, the Miami-Dade County School Board rejected a proposal that would've made October “LGBTQ history month," according to multiple reports. The 5-3 decision came around 1 a.m. Thursday morning, after dozens of public speakers representing both sides of the issue made their respective cases. A similar item was proposed last year before also...
An attorney for Peter Navarro called for a mistrial Thursday, just after the former economic adviser to former President Trump was convicted of contempt of Congress. Stanley Woodward, who represented Navarro in his contempt of Congress case, claimed that jurors, who deliberated for nearly five hours before reaching a verdict, went outside during their break...