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"This is an absolute honor to sign. What they've done is, it's just terrible," Trump said as he signed the order. "Weaponization — you could say weaponization against a political opponent — and it should never be allowed to happen again."

Opponents of diversity programs are increasingly banking on an 1866 civil rights law meant to protect Black people from economic exclusion as a way to challenge corporate diversity and equity policies as well as funding to Black-owned businesses

The move to weed out equitable hiring is part of a much longer history of exclusion in both the US and Canada

China appears to be requiring foreign law professors to submit their syllabi to ensure they are following a doctrine President Xi Jinping has been pressing across the nation’s society to cement his control.

A handful of law firms are behind a spike in class-action lawsuits claiming consumers are harmed by opaque, half-full macaroni boxes and "all natural" fiber supplements.

The court agrees with the defense position that "[w]hatever the utilities of [the Amended Complaint] as a fundraising tool, a press release, or a list of political grievances, it has no merit as a lawsuit."

From T. Markus Funk (a legal scholar, former prosecutor, and my erstwhile coauthor) at Sean Solis, both at Perkins Coie, in Bloomberg Law: The US Supreme Court issued a significant decision in its Controlled Substances Act (CSA) jurisprudence as applied to the nation's opioid epidemic. At issue in Ruan v.…

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign said its communications with a firm that did opposition research into then-candidate Donald Trump’s Russia ties should be kept out of a related criminal case.

Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee have agreed to pay $113,000 to settle a Federal Election Commission investigation

T. Markus Funk (a partner at Perkins Coie and a scholar of, among other things, self-defense law) and I published an article on this subject at Bloomberg Law last week; I thought I'd reprint it, with Bloomberg's permission. The material on English and German law is Markus's contribution, and the…