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Pro-bono Lawyers Reunited 105 Migrant Kids with Parents

A cohort of pro-bono attorneys seeking to reunite immigrant children and parents separated by Trump administration policies announced they found the parents for 105 kids over the course of a month. So reports NBC News.

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Biden’s DOJ Not Backing Female Student Athlete Suing Over Transgender Competitors

Female track star Alanna Smith said she thinks biological women are being denied medals due to transgender athletes competing alongside them. So reports Yahoo! News.

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Texan Charged More Than $9K for Energy Bill Sues Operator for $1B

Texas resident Lisa Khoury has filed a $1 billion class-action suit against energy company Griddy Energy for charging “exorbitant prices” during the historic storm that left many without power. So reports ABC News.

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TikTok Settles Class Action Involving Kids As Young As Six, Unpublished Video Data

Social media app TikTok will pay $92 million to settle a number of lawsuits—many of them filed by minors—that accused the company of amassing user data “without consent and [selling] it to advertisers.” So reports Engadget.

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Justice Sotomayor a Target of Murderous Anti-fem Lawyer

The now-dead men’s rights attorney Roy Den Hollander, who killed U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’ son and wounded her husband in a New Jersey shooting last year, had also been tracking United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. So reports the Associated Press.

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Mike’s Hard Lemonade Capitalizes On 'Texas Cat Lawyer' Goof Up

Texas lawyer Rod Ponton, who accidentally found himself stuck in a Zoom kitty-filter during a virtual civil hearing, has now helped turn the incident into an advertisement for Mike’s Hard Lemonade. So reports AdWeek.

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Trump Lawyer Barred from Teaching at Law School Due to Impeachment Defense

David Schoen, an attorney who was part of Donald Trump’s most recent impeachment defense team, has been told by a law school where he was preparing to teach a civil rights course that he will no longer be doing so as the unnamed school expects it will make students and faculty uncomfortable. So reports the Epoch Times.

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Pitt. Police Are Going to Have to Shave: Council

After some back-and-forth between city lawmakers, Pittsburgh police officers will, in fact, have to keep neat hair and trimmed beards despite the CROWN Act passing last year. So reports WPXI.

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Ex-WWE Wrestlers Want SCOTUS to Take a Up Head-injury Lawsuits

A coalition of former WWE wrestlers is taking their head-injury case to the Supreme Court. Plaintiffs, including William “Billy Jack” Haynes, Matthew “Luther Reigns” Wiese, Ryan Sakoda and Russ “Big Russ” McCullough, along with the wife of the late Nelson “Viscera” Frazier, are claiming the entertainment franchise “failed to protect them from repeated head injuries.” So reports the Associated Press.

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Amazon, NY AG Trade Legal Barbs Over COVID-19 Concerns

Amazon filed a lawsuit against New York State Attorney General Letitia James in an effort to prevent the state from launching its own lawsuit against the retailer regarding the firing of Christian Smalls. So reports Reuters.

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