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The federal government’s rules to determine how much temporary foreign workers should be paid in Louisiana’s crawfish-processing industry violates an appeals court decision and is depressing wages for U.S. workers, according to a new lawsuit.
Crawfish industry workers and groups such as the New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice filed the federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on April 27. The lawsuit seeks to invalidate a federal Department of Labor rule allowing the seafood processors to rely on state wage surveys rather than a large-scale federal study, the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey.
Brandi Levy s case could have major implications for student free speech Cheerleaders / YouTube screenshot Kevin Daley • April 19, 2021 6:15 pm
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Brandi Levy was at a convenience store called Cocoa Hut when she posted a Snapchat that would land her in the Supreme Court.
The rising sophomore wanted to broadcast her anger after learning she would spend a second year on the JV cheer squad at her Scranton-area school. Fuck school fuck softball fuck cheer fuck everything, Levy captioned a selfie in which she held up the middle finger. Her coaches removed her from the team after they saw a screenshot of the photo. That punitive step set off a major First Amendment battle over school power to police student speech off campus, which the justices will consider later this month.
Supreme Court Sides With FCC, Allows Loosening of Media Ownership Rules
The decision could lead to a massive wave of consolidation among local mediaTim Baysinger | April 1, 2021 @ 8:15 AM Last Updated: April 1, 2021 @ 8:34 AM
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The FCC scored a big win on Thursday as the Supreme Court decided, in a unanimous decision, that the regulatory body was well within its rights to loosen restrictions regarding media ownership rules.
The result could have a far-reaching impact on one of the oldest businesses in the TV industry.
In 2017, the FCC, led by Trump-appointed chairman Ajit Pai, proposed changes that would strike down the “Eight Voices Rule,” a ban on in-market consolidation of stations if the result would lead to fewer than eight independently owned stations Additionally, the FCC voted to remove a 45-year-old rule that bars one company from owning a TV station and newspaper within the same market (although a few exceptions have bee
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In the internet age, judges began applying the Tinker standard to off-campus speech that causes disruption at school. After the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that premise in the Mahanoy case, the Supreme Court agreed to review the decision. A broad ruling could set an entirely new standard for schools’ ability to wade into extracurricular speech.
Mahanoy Area High School in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, kicked student B.L. off the junior varsity cheerleading team after she posted a Snapchat selfie holding up a middle finger with a vulgar caption. Other students saw the picture, and one alerted a cheerleading coach.