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Campbell’s Soup Exec’s Hidden Recording Sparks Racial & Consumer-Rights Fallout
What Happened According to multiple news reports, the vice-president and chief information security officer at Campbell’s Soup, Martin Bally, was recorded in a meeting with a security-analyst employee, Robert Garza, in which Bally allegedly: Mocked the company’s own products, saying the chicken “came from a 3-D printer.” Disparaged the brand’s low-income customers, describing the food as “s t for f *ing poor people. Who buys our s**t?” Made racial remarks about Indian employe
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Wyoming Introduces Clean Air and Geoengineering Prohibition Act: What It Would Mean for State Law and Environmental Oversight
Wyoming legislators have unveiled a working draft of a significant new environmental policy—titled the Wyoming Clean Air and Geoengineering Prohibition Act —that would prohibit intentional atmospheric interventions over the state and empower the state’s environmental agency to halt projects deemed risky. The bill, drafted as 26LSO‑0211v0.5, was prepared by the Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Interim Committee for consideration in the 2026 session.
Nov 173 min read


THC Gummies and Drinks Could Be Banned Under New Federal Spending Bill Provision
A quietly inserted provision in the federal spending bill signed by President Trump is sending shockwaves through the hemp industry. The measure, largely overlooked during negotiations, would effectively ban a wide range of popular THC-infused products , from gummies and sodas to topical pain relievers and vape cartridges — items now sold nationwide in gas stations, wellness shops, and online retailers. The hemp market emerged after the 2018 Farm Bill legalized the crop and
Nov 143 min read


Boeing Reaches Settlements with Families of 737 MAX Crash Victims
The first civil trial over the deadly Boeing 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia is underway, marking a pivotal moment in one of the most tragic aviation disasters of the modern era. Multiple families of victims have reached confidential settlements with Boeing as new trials begin to determine compensation for others who lost loved ones in the 2019 crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 . The settlements come more than six years after the second of two catastrophic 737 MAX crashes — i
Nov 63 min read


Law Firms Redefine the Billable Hour: How AI Is Transforming Legal Training
Across the legal industry, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how law firms train attorneys, manage workloads, and serve clients. One leading global firm has introduced a groundbreaking initiative allowing first-year associates to dedicate nearly 400 hours of their annual billable targets exclusively to learning and experimenting with AI tools. The move marks a pivotal shift in how firms view professional development, signaling that AI literacy is becoming as essentia
Nov 63 min read


Teacher Abby Zwerner Wins $10 Million Verdict Against School Administrator in Landmark Negligence Case
A Virginia jury has awarded former first-grade teacher Abigail “Abby” Zwerner $10 million in damages after determining that her former assistant principal, Ebony Parker , acted with gross negligence for failing to intervene before a 6-year-old student shot Zwerner inside her classroom at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia , in 2023. The verdict — delivered after four days of emotional testimony — marks one of the most significant civil rulings in U.S. e
Nov 64 min read


Medical Evidence Strengthens Legal Cases Against Air Pollution and Climate Harm
Mounting medical and scientific evidence is reshaping how courts handle cases involving air pollution, environmental negligence, and climate-related health harm , according to experts writing in The BMJ’s latest climate issue . Their findings suggest that as the science connecting pollution to human disease becomes more precise, it is also becoming a powerful tool for legal accountability and climate justice worldwide. The Growing Legal Value of Medical and Climate Eviden
Nov 53 min read
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