"Today it's with great regret that I let you know about our decision to close the SFO flight attendant base," American Airlines executive Brady Byrnes said in the September memo obtained by Insider. In closing its San Francisco base, citing.
John Masslon of Washington Legal Foundation, co-authored amicus brief
NEW ORLEANS (Legal Newsline) - The Washington Legal Foundation (WLF), a public-interest law firm, has asked a federal appeals court to decertify a class of USAA life insurance policyholders, who are alleging that the company breached their life insurance policies by considering “unlisted factors” when setting their cost of insurance rates.
An amicus filed by WLF with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals said that a district court’s class certification in
Spegele v.
USAA Life Ins. Co. “not only creates a glaring intra-class conflict by forcing injured and uninjured policyholders into a single class in violation of Rule 23 [federal rules of procedure covering class actions], but it papers over crucial choice-of-law and statute-of-limitations questions that are unavoidably individualized.”
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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh attends the funeral of former U.S. President George H.W. Bush at the U.S Capitol Rotunda on Dec. 3, 2018 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Jabin Botsford - Pool/Getty Images
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Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh wasted no time cutting to the chase during a hearing Tuesday in a climate change case in which the City of Baltimore is seeking potentially billions in damages from the fossil fuel industry related to climate-induced extreme weather and sea level rise.