Major junior hockey players, aged 16 to 20, claim the independent leagues colluded to limit competition among themselves for player recruitment, in violation of U.S. antitrust law. According to the players, the anticompetitive agreements span across six hockey leagues and more than 146 clubs, nearly the entire North American ice hockey industry.
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Michigan’s third grade reading law ends with few kids getting held back
Michigan will no longer require school districts to hold back third graders who score too low on reading tests. In March 2023, the Democrats in control of state government threw out the third grade reading law, which went into effect in 2016 under Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration. The repeal went into effect this week.
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If you work overseas for a U.S. company, you might want to think twice before you step forward to report corporate wrongdoing. It’s a different story when employees are based overseas and work for a foreign subsidiary of a U.S. company, as the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals explained, in a Canadian man’s case against software company Oracle.
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Gun, abortion, energy reform among 142 Michigan laws taking effect Feb. 13
Nearly half of the laws passed by the Democratic-majority Legislature last year are set to take effect this week, including sweeping overhauls to the state’s energy and election policies, repeals of Republican-backed labor laws and abortion restrictions and firearm safety measures long sought by gun control advocates.
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