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Larry H. Parker, Famed Personal Injury Attorney, Dies at 75
Larry H. Parker, an accident and personal injury lawyer whose television commercials promised he’d “fight for you” and became staples in living rooms across Los Angeles, died on March 6 in San Juan Capistrano, Calif. He was 75. His death was confirmed by his son, Justin Parker, who did not cite the cause. Over the […]
Read MoreFive Ways Buying and Selling a House Could Change
A settlement reached this week threatens to strike a blow to an established standard of residential real estate: the 6 percent sales commission. It also will change who pays it. The deal, reached after a yearslong court battle initially brought by a group of home sellers in Missouri, calls for the powerful National Association of […]
Read MoreDating Apps Like Hinge, Tinder and Bumble Are Getting Worse
“The golden age of dating apps is over,” a friend told me at a bar on Super Bowl Sunday. As we waited for our drinks, she and another friend swiped through Bumble and Hinge, hunting for new faces and likes. Across the bar were two young men: phones out, apps open, clearly doing the exact […]
Read MoreMike Lynch, Former UK Tech Mogul, Face Trial for Defrauding HP
Every morning in his townhouse in the tony San Francisco neighborhood of Pacific Heights, the man once referred to as Britain’s Bill Gates gets to work. That man, Mike Lynch, checks in with his investment firm, Invoke Capital, on its recent performance. He speaks with researchers in Cambridge, England, whom he funds personally, about the […]
Read MoreDoes Having a Gun Make a Person Suspicious? Courts Aren’t Sure Now.
It was 2:30 a.m. on Valentine’s Day last year when a detective watching a live camera feed from a major Queens thoroughfare spotted a man in a minivan who appeared to be holding a gun. The police said they had quickly arrested the man, Robert Homer, and found a loaded Glock pistol in his pocket. […]
Read MoreConnecticut Trooper, Brian North, Is Acquitted in Killing of a Black Teenager
A former Connecticut state trooper was acquitted on Friday of manslaughter and other charges in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old Black man after a car chase four years ago. The trooper, Brian D. North, was criminally charged in 2022 in the killing of the teenager, Mubarak Soulemane, on Jan. 15, 2020. The killing occurred […]
Read MoreNYC Will No Longer Shelter Migrant Adults After 30 Days
New York’s longstanding legal obligation to provide shelter to homeless people will be scaled back significantly under a settlement agreement announced on Friday that was reached amid the city’s continuing struggle to house thousands of migrants. To ease the burden on the city’s shelter system, adult migrants will be allowed to stay in shelters for […]
Read MorePowerful Realtor Group Agrees to Slash Commissions to Settle Lawsuits
American homeowners could see a significant drop in the cost of selling their homes after a real estate trade group agreed to a landmark deal that will eliminate a bedrock of the industry, the 6 percent sales commission. The National Association of Realtors, a powerful organization that has set the guidelines for home sales for […]
Read More4 Ways a Settlement Could Change the Housing Industry
In the early hours of Friday morning, the National Association of Realtors agreed to a global settlement deal that would resolve several lawsuits against the trade group. A group of Missouri home sellers sued N.A.R. over their policies on agent compensation, arguing that a N.A.R. rule requiring home sellers to pay commissions to their agents […]
Read MoreCentral Park Sidewalk Restoration Is Fixing Bumps for Accessibility
The sidewalks surrounding Central Park were designed to help you escape. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the landscape architects behind the landmark, proposed in their 1858 planning document to plant a plush line of trees to separate the sidewalk and the road, “for the purpose of concealing the houses on the opposite side of […]
Read MoreWhy a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty
Four or five years ago, Sidney Hill’s young son came to him with a question that Mr. Hill didn’t know how to answer. The boy had learned that day about the millions of acres of land that his people, the Onondaga, had once called home, and the way that their homeland had been taken parcel […]
Read MoreFlorida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data
When Romeo Chicco tried to get auto insurance in December, seven different companies rejected him. When he eventually obtained insurance, it was nearly double the rate he was previously paying. According to a federal complaint filed this week seeking class-action status, it was because his 2021 Cadillac XT6 had been spying on him. Modern cars […]
Read MoreAshwin Deshmukh Knew How to Win Friends and Hustle People
Sometimes, you meet someone in New York who gives you a good feeling and a bad feeling at the same time. Maybe you’re introduced at a bar, through a friend of a friend. This person is charming and full of ideas, ideas that resonate with you. He seems to know everyone you know, and some […]
Read MoreBoeing Whistleblower Who Raised Quality Concerns Is Found Dead
A prominent Boeing whistle-blower, a former quality manager who raised concerns about manufacturing practices at the company’s 787 Dreamliner factory in South Carolina, was found dead on Saturday with what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to local officials. The whistle-blower, John Barnett, was in Charleston for a deposition for a lawsuit in […]
Read MoreLegal Settlement Clarifies Reach of Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Law
The State of Florida and plaintiffs who challenged a parental rights law that critics nicknamed “Don’t Say Gay” agreed to a settlement on Monday that clarifies the reach of the legislation, which prohibits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity in kindergarten through eighth grade. The plaintiffs, a group that included students, parents, educators and […]
Read MorePotential Obstacle to Trump Media’s Merger Appears to Have Been Cleared
The threat of a last-minute obstacle to the merger of former President Donald J. Trump’s social media company and a cash-rich shell company appears to have subsided. Two early founders of Trump Media & Technology Group reached a temporary truce with Mr. Trump’s company at a hearing on Saturday morning in Delaware Court of Chancery. […]
Read MoreAlabama IVF Protection Bill Will Reopen Clinics but Curb Patient Rights
The Alabama legislature on Wednesday is expected to pass legislation that will make it possible for fertility clinics in the state to reopen without the specter of crippling lawsuits. But the measure, hastily written and expected to pass by a huge bipartisan margin, does not address the legal question that led to clinic closings and […]
Read MoreOpenAI Says Elon Musk Tried to Merge It With Tesla
OpenAI, in its first public comments about Elon Musk’s lawsuit against the influential artificial intelligence research lab, said that Mr. Musk tried to transform the lab from a nonprofit into a for-profit operation before he left the organization in early 2018. The comments, made in a blog post published on Tuesday evening, are part of […]
Read MoreAmy Coney Barrett’s Opinion in Trump Ballot Case Sends a Distinct Message
Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion was just a page long, all of two paragraphs. But in distancing herself from both blocs in Monday’s nominally unanimous Supreme Court decision rejecting a constitutional challenge to former President Donald J. Trump’s eligibility to hold office, she staked out a distinctive role. Justice Barrett was the third of Mr. […]
Read MoreRacial Profiling in Japan Is Prevalent but Unseen, Some Residents Say
It’s not that there is anything bad about your hair, the police officer politely explained to the young Black man as commuters streamed past in Tokyo Station. It’s just that, based on his experience, people with dreadlocks were more likely to possess drugs. Alonzo Omotegawa’s video of his 2021 stop and search led to debates […]
Read MoreWhy ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right
In vitro fertilization creates life, in the most literal sense. The procedure offers a chance to make a baby, with eggs that are fertilized and develop into embryos in a lab. I.V.F. has helped countless people have children, including couples struggling with infertility and an increasing number of L.G.B.T.Q. parents. In a sense, it’s the […]
Read MoreHe Cursed at a Police Officer. Now He’s Caught in a Free Speech Fight.
Tony Rupp didn’t intend to become a fighter for the First Amendment. He was really just out for some pasta. In December 2016, Mr. Rupp, a Buffalo-area lawyer, was leaving Chef’s Restaurant, a popular Italian place in the city’s downtown, when he said he saw a black SUV — its lights off — bearing down […]
Read MoreCuban Artist Ana Mendieta’s Family Fights to Tell Her Story
It was an evening in late January, and Raquel Cecilia Mendieta was dining at the Parador, the 12th-century monastery-turned-hotel where she was staying while she installed artwork for a new survey of Ana Mendieta, the famous Cuban-born performance artist — and Ms. Mendieta’s maternal aunt — at a nearby museum. It had been a long […]
Read MoreThe Big Questions Raised by Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI
From Silicon Valley to Wall Street to Washington, the blockbuster case that Elon Musk filed against OpenAI and its C.E.O., Sam Altman, has become Topic A. It is the business world’s hottest soap opera. But among lawyers, the case has become something of a fascination for a different reason: It poses a series of unique […]
Read MoreThe Paradox at the Heart of Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit
It would be easy to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI as a case of sour grapes. Mr. Musk sued OpenAI this week, accusing the company of breaching the terms of its founding agreement and violating its founding principles. In his telling, OpenAI was established as a nonprofit that would build powerful A.I. systems for […]
Read MoreWhy Elon Musk’s OpenAI Lawsuit Leans on A.I. Research From Microsoft
When Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, for breach of contract on Thursday, he turned claims by the start-up’s closest partner, Microsoft, into a weapon. He repeatedly cited a contentious but highly influential paper written by researchers and top executives at Microsoft about the power of GPT-4, the breakthrough artificial intelligence […]
Read MoreAs Trump’s Criminal Trial Approaches, He May Be His Own Worst Enemy
Donald J. Trump was minutes away from being grilled under oath by the New York attorney general and he was itching to talk. To fend off the state’s fraud investigation, the former president insisted on answering every question, believing he alone knew what to say. But his lawyer at the time, Ronald P. Fischetti, directed […]
Read MoreSupreme Court to Decide How the First Amendment Applies to Social Media
The most important First Amendment cases of the internet era, to be heard by the Supreme Court on Monday, may turn on a single question: Do platforms like Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and X most closely resemble newspapers or shopping centers or phone companies? The two cases arrive at the court garbed in politics, as they […]
Read MoreAbortion Laws, Accidents and Lax Rules Now Imperil Fertility Industry
To the fertility patients whose embryos were destroyed at an Alabama clinic, the circumstances must have been shocking. Somehow, a patient in the hospital housing the clinic had wandered into a storage room, pulled the embryos from a tank of liquid nitrogen, and then dropped them on the floor — probably because the tank was […]
Read MoreIn New York, the Trump Brand Is Costing Some Condo Owners
In the world of real estate, Donald J. Trump’s name has long been synonymous with luxury. At one of his buildings in Manhattan, a five-story waterfall slides down a wall of Breccia Perniche marble. White-gloved doormen, cascading chandeliers and panoramic views of the city’s skyline are the hallmarks of another. It’s that image of luxury, […]
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