Kelly Pichardo, 32, will also have to pay more than $9,000 to American Airlines for the altercation, which came as incidents involving unruly passengers unnerved airline workers and the public.
The Ninth Circuit on Friday declined to revive a trademark suit brought by Arizona State University's governing body against the anonymous owner of an Instagram account titled "asu covid.parties" that called COVID-19 a hoax and urged students to attend parties maskless, finding that a reasonable consumer wouldn't believe the university actually ran the account.
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Body Camera Manufacturer Fails in Bid to Escape FTC Administrative Jurisdiction as Ninth Circuit Shows No Appetite for Judicial Overhaul of Merger Review Procedure Tuesday, February 2, 2021
The FTC, and antitrust enforcement in general, are having their moment. For example, in early January the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in
AMG Capital Management v. Federal Trade Commission
1 a case questioning the FTC’s authority to require defendants to pay restitution for money obtained as the result of illegal activities. In that case there is significant doubt about whether the Court will uphold the FTC Act’s Section 13(b) provision allowing for the FTC to obtain this equitable relief, and such a ruling would drastically change the way FTC approaches enforcement. Other developments may also impact the future of the agency, including proposals introduced in 2020 by Senator Amy Klobuchar, the newly-minted chair of the Senate’s Subcommittee on Antitrust
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Ariz. City Must Face Charter Unit s Suit Over Local Regs
Law360 (December 17, 2020, 8:11 PM EST) An Arizona federal court has denied the city of Yuma s bid to dismiss a lawsuit from a subsidiary of telecommunications company Charter over the city s insistence that the company comply with local cable regulations, even after the state established a uniform regulation in 2018.
U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza in a Tuesday ruling rejected the city s argument that Charter subsidiary Spectrum Pacific West LLC needed to provide a notice of claim to the city before filing the lawsuit.
While the city claims a notice of claim was necessary because Charter was seeking a monetary judgment, Judge Lanza said the city had not.
The city of Phoenix can t bar certain immigrants like asylum seekers and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from receiving pandemic-related housing assistance through a federally funded program, a judge ruled today.
Last July, local immigrant advocacy groups Poder in Action and the Arizona Dream Act Coalition, as well as a Phoenix resident and a DACA recipient who was denied housing assistance, filed a lawsuit against the city of Phoenix in the U.S. District Court of Arizona alleging that the city illegally denied people without qualified immigration status from accessing assistance for housing costs like rent, mortgage payments, and utilities. The $25 million program, officially dubbed the Emergency Utility Rent and Mortgage Assistance Program, was funded through the $293 million that the city received from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act that was passed last spring. It was designed to help Phoenix residents weather the economic fall