Lawyer's Pringles poop prank in parking lot of victims advocacy center leads to suspension
The Ohio Supreme Court didn’t think that the parking lot incident was random.
“Although Blakeslee testified that he randomly selected all the locations in which he deposited his feces-filled cans, the circumstantial evidence in the record weighs heavily against his testimony that he randomly chose the Haven of Hope parking lot as his drop zone,” the state supreme court said.
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Michigan has become the 12th state to pass landmark legislation that sets a 100% clean electricity deadline for utilities. Michigan is currently the No. 3 state in the US for clean energy investments, with $21.3 billion of investments.
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New Michigan law will require responding agencies to inform tenants and occupants of apartment buildings when there are imminent health and safety threats at the building. If a building cannot be vacated, the bill states a building owner would have to correct the violation in the "shortest reasonable time."
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This question came up - under federal law, the minimum wage for most workers is $7.25 an hour. But just how much that is can vary widely, because of the interplay of state and federal rules on minimum wages and tips.
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Michigan’s “Shopping Reform and Modernization Act” protects consumers when an item purchased scans at a higher price. The law took effect on Sept. 1, 2011
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Countries including the United States, Britain and New Zealand have banned the app on government phones despite TikTok repeatedly denying that it has ever shared data with the Chinese government and would not do so if asked.
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Insurance Executives Refused to Pay for the Cancer Treatment That Could Have Saved Him. This Is How They Did It.
A Michigan law requires coverage of cancer drugs. One insurer came up with a “defensible” way to avoid paying for treatments that offered Forrest VanPatten his last chance for survival. “We crossed the line,” says a former executive.
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The code would improve transparency around gifts received by justices and set up a process to investigate and enforce violations.
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So why haven’t these cases settled? Trials are public and verdicts garner headlines. What makes Conagra willing to risk the reputation of its market-leading PAM cooking spray devolving into the Ford Pinto of food products?
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The lawsuits say that an employer runs afoul of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when it exercises discretion over these forfeitures to benefit itself over workers. According to the lawsuits, the companies used forfeitures to reduce the money they’d otherwise have to contribute to their plans, instead of using it to reduce the administrative expenses borne by workers.
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