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Clearing the rot: Hungarian parliament votes to dismantle Orbán's network
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is tearing down what’s left of Viktor Orbán’s political machine. Parliament voted to remove Orbán allies, including the president and top judges.
Man charged with murder of SF social worker renews not guilty plea
Attorneys for Wilfredo Tortolero Arriechi have previously claimed he was going through a mental health crisis on the day he stabbed a social worker at San Francisco General Hospital.
Landlords lose appeal challenging NYC broker fee ban
The city showed that broker fees harm housing affordability and mobility, and that the FARE Act helps alleviate them, the judges determined.
Judge voids Trump's $1.8 billion settlement with IRS
Trump sued the IRS earlier this year over a leak of his tax returns and settled for $1.776 billion in a deal shot down by a federal judge Monday as "collusion."
Second Circuit greenlights antitrust injunction against radio ratings titan Nielsen
Cumulus Media, which owns hundreds of radio stations around the country, claims Nielsen is unlawfully conditioning access of its national data on the purchase of its local product.
Patient files class action against One Medical over data breach
The putative class action stems from a breach of private information in June by the cybercriminal group ShinyHunters.
Experts dissect ‘us vs them’ prison culture behind recent fatal beatings in New York
A deeper understanding of human nature may be what's missing from the conversation around prison violence.
States sue to stop Warner-Paramount merger
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he'd seek an order stopping the merger if the defendants didn't hit pause while the lawsuit moves through the court system.
Force-feeding on the table for National Guard shooting suspect on hunger strike
Rahmanullah Lakanwal has refused food and water, leading to his hospitalization while still in pretrial detention.
Man who killed Dartmouth professors at 17 to get a chance at parole in about 20 years, judge rules
According to Robert Tulloch’s friend, the teens were bored with their lives when they concocted a plan to kill strangers, steal their money and move to Australia.
Prenatal exposure to acetaminophen
MANHATTAN — The Second Circuit partially vacated a New York federal court’s exclusion of some expert testimony in two cases in which parents’ suits against big pharma corporations and retail pharmacies were dismissed over claims of failure to warn about possible ADHD and autism resulting from prenatal ingestion of acetaminophen products. The appellate court said testimony should be allowed when “a particular technique or theory has gained general acceptance in the scientific community, and an expert reliably applies that methodology to the subject of inquiry.”