January 11, 2023

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Law:

Legal Industry Expert Predicts More Law Firm Layoffs In 2023
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Layoff Season Rears Its Ugly Head Across Biglaw
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Defendant goes free after prosecutor allegedly lies about content of ‘venue?’ note
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Cleveland law firm, attorney criticized after social media post shows insulting text sent to attorney who left firm after maternity leave 'Collecting Salary From The Firm While Sitting On Your Ass' Is Certainly one Way For A Senior Lawyer To Describe Maternity Leave After Text Calling Maternity Leave 'Sitting On Your Ass,' Law Firm Looks To Sit On Its Ass In Response
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Cleary Gottlieb raids Travers Smith and Dechert in London for partner trio
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Former Proskauer COO is out of a job at new BigLaw firm after he is accused of theft of sensitive information
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‘But My Dead Husband’s Black’ Not An Excuse To Drop The N-Word In Court
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ChatGPT -- Are The Robots Finally Here?
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How To Bounce Back After Being Rejected For A Job
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Morrison Foerster Elects 18 Partners Transactions department dominates in 18-strong promotions round at Morrison Foerster
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UK: The law firms with the fanciest offices 2023
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That Sound You Hear Is Investor Class Actions Settling
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Over half of law firm workers say legal TV shows influenced their career choice
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TikToker goes viral with explanation as to why law school is nothing like Legally Blonde
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Law students are the biggest boozers, new research suggests
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Serial Killer Admits to Cold Case Killing of Stanford Law Librarian Who Was Strangled to Death with Scarf
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DOJ subpoenas Giuliani over Trump fundraising after 2020 election
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Former Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg to be sentenced Allen Weisselberg, former Trump Org. CFO, sentenced to 5 months in jail Ex-Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg Gets Five Months Behind Bars, as Judge Bemoans Sentence Couldn't Have Been 'Much Greater'
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Trump is headed to court Tuesday to argue that presidents can't be sued for defamation. Here's what's at stake Trump Lawyer Tells Court Response to Rape Claim Was Part of His Job Trump, DOJ attorneys argue statements on rape allegation were part of job as president D.C. appeals court weighs its role in Trump libel suit Court weighs immunity for Donald Trump in defamation case over rape claim Granting Donald Trump Immunity in Rape Suit Will Give Public Officials 'Open Season' to Defame, Accuser Tells Top D.C. Court
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Meet Fani Willis, the Georgia prosecutor investigating Trump and his allies
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Far-Right Internet Troll Baked Alaska Who Livestreamed Jan. 6 Is Going to Jail High stakes for DOJ as Proud Boys sedition trial under way 'Everyone Stayed': Nancy Pelosi's 'Right-Hand Woman' Shares Harrowing Jan. 6 Details at Trial of Man Who Kicked Up His Feet on Office Desk Alex Jones’s Lawyer Benched from Proud Boys Seditious Conspiracy Case Until Disciplinary Proceedings Resolve Judge Rejects Proud Boys' Racial Bias Claims Over Diverse Jury, Notes Panel Isn't 'Bereft of White People'
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Supreme Court declines to hear long shot 2020 election case
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GOP’s ‘weaponization’ panel would have power to review those probing Trump House GOP establishes committee targeting 'weaponization' of federal government with 'at least as much' funding as the January 6 committee Mutually assured obstruction: House GOP aims 'weaponization' panel at DOJ House GOP Is Teeing Up Probes of Justice Department, Intelligence Republicans' escalating war with the feds
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Texas Republican files articles of impeachment against Mayorkas
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Biden’s classified-records headache is Garland’s special-counsel nightmare Biden classified docs included intel and briefing memos Biden gets new political headache with discovery of classified documents Trump-appointed US attorney is investigating classified documents found by Biden’s lawyers at office he used What we know so far about Biden documents GOP Intelligence chair asks for damage assessment from Biden records House leaders respond to comparisons of Biden, Trump classified docs US intelligence materials related to Ukraine, Iran and UK found in Biden’s private office, source tells CNN There's a key difference between the classified documents found at a former Biden office and the ones Trump kept at Mar-a-Lago, national security expert says Biden now has his own classified documents problem. Here’s how it compares to Trump’s. Maybe The Biden Classified Docs *Won't* Become The Next BUT HER EMAILS False Equivalency? Trump, Biden classified documents cases differ in key ways. Here’s how. Biden classified docs vs. Trump classified docs: What's the difference? WH won’t say why discovery of classified records in Biden office kept quiet Special counsel decision looms over Biden documents probe Biden "surprised" government records taken to his old office
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Biden announces website, other measures to curb border crossings, during leaders summit Biden-Obrador Find Common Ground on Migration What Biden’s immigration restrictions mean for migrants
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Cops reveal Virginia teacher Abby Zwerner’s emotional question after shooting 'Certainly a possibility' mother could face charges after her 6-year-old allegedly shot Virginia teacher, police chief says The first school shooting of 2023, committed by a 6-year-old, raises concerns about childhood gun access and questions of liability 6-year-old is unlikely to be charged in teacher's shooting, but parents could be, experts say
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Hacksaw, hatchet and blood found in search for missing mom of three Pal reveals mom of three's demeanor at New Year's Eve party day before she vanished
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Uvalde School Police Chief Focused On Evacuation Rather Than Confront Gunman: Report
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Lawyers for Dr. Dre tell Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to stop using his music Marjorie Taylor Greene Did Not Forget About Dre, But Did Forget About The Copyright Act
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Depp Lawyer Camille Vasquez's New Job at NBC Divides Viewers—'Abhorrent'
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Rapper Flo Rida Heads to Trial with Celsius Energy Drink Company Over Endorsement Deals
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Outrage mounts in D.C. after man fatally shoots boy, 13, he suspected was breaking into cars Grand Jury to Review Deadly Shooting of 13-Year-Old Boy in D.C.
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Harvey Weinstein Asks New York's Top Court to Toss 2020 Rape Conviction
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Alan Dershowitz Outlines Possible Defense Tactics for Alleged Idaho Student Murderer
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Illinois Lawmakers Pass Assault Weapons Ban After Heated Debate SCOTUS to Decide Legality of Rifle Bumpstocks Judge Blocks Parts of New Jersey Gun Law
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Republican House will vote on bills to curtail abortion and immigration
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Mother fatally shoots shovel-wielding intruder who broke into her Louisiana home, authorities say
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Anti-abortion groups are pushing 2024 Republicans to back a national ban
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Judges:

Biden struggles to confirm judges in the South and thwart Trump’s impact
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A Tale of Two Presidents
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Law firm’s more protective test for attorney-client privilege ‘is a big ask,’ Kagan says Justices debate test for attorney-client privilege when lawyer’s advice has multiple purposes
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The Supreme Court is more diverse than ever. But the lawyers who argue before it? Mostly white men.
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Michigan Supreme Court Justice Bernstein apologizes to Justice Bolden over hiring flap Michigan Supreme Court Justice Apologizes After News Of His Backseat Judging Didn't Go Over Too Well
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The American public no longer believes the Supreme Court is impartial
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Wall Street:

Stock futures rise after Nasdaq’s third-straight winning day
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Stocks close higher as investors await inflation report, Nasdaq notches 3-day win streak
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Wall Street Is Too Pessimistic on Stocks, Says HSBC Strategist Kettner
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Layoffs:

Bed Bath & Beyond lays off more employees as it fights to survive
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A lawyer representing hundreds of laid-off Twitter staff has accused Elon Musk of trying to 'fleece' workers over severance pay
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Laid-Off Workers Are Flooded With Fake Job Offers
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Informatica is cutting 450
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Blend cuts workforce by 340
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Goldman Sachs bankers have nickname for layoff bloodbath planned by CEO
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Esper lays off 21% of workforce due to ‘unpredictable business environment in 2023’
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More Crypto Pain as Coinbase Slashes 20% of Workforce
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Upcoming 2023 layoffs might surpass 2022 layoffs for tech companies.
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Amazon, Salesforce Job Cuts Are Warning Signs for Stock Prices
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Amazon to Shut Three UK Warehouses With 1,200 Staff Impacted
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Autos:

Video of Tesla on FSD Causing Major Crash
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Rail:

Passengers stuck on Amtrak train for hours in rural South Carolina
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Agribusiness:

Three drought years expected to push US cattle inventory to 72-year low
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Fraud:

December 2022 Ponzi Scheme Roundup
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Politics:

House Republicans in the dark on McCarthy’s shadow document McCarthy’s concessions spur fears of potential default, government shutdown
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McConnell faces difficult 2023 amid Trump, House GOP pressures
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These Republicans were selected to chair House committees after Speaker battle delay
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House Democrats brace for Speaker McCarthy to block their committee assignments in retaliatory strike
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New York Democrats Demand George Santos Ethics Probe He'll talk 'on his own time': Rep. George Santos asks for 'personal space' as he dodges fraud questions George Santos campaign paid staffer nearly $100k to pretend to be Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff and get money from donors Curious about George: House Republicans debate Santos’ fate
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Members of Congress rank only above telemarketers in poll on ethics, honesty
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Abbott, Texas GOP at Odds on How to Spend Record $33 Billion Surplus
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Drag Shows Are the Next Target for Republican Lawmakers
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Madison Cawthorn never bothered to hand over constituent casework to the successor who beat him and it's now a gigantic mess
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U.S. Congress continues to grow in racial, ethnic diversity 118th Congress has a record number of women The paradox at the heart of the most diverse Congress ever
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DeSantis considers banning 'hostile nation' China from buying Florida real estate, polishing tough-on-China foreign policy stance amid 2024 speculation
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Democrat appears to flip Virginia state Senate seat in closely watched special election
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Economy:

World Bank warns of potential global recession this year
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US households’ debt rises to $16.5 trillion
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Jamie Dimon Says Fed May Need to Hike Interest Rates Beyond 5%
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Inflation’s Path From Peak Is Next Big Question for US Economy
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Fed’s Powell won’t stop rate hikes until he ‘terrifies’ the wealthiest of investors, says this CIO
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Fed’s Bowman Says More Rate Hikes Needed to Curb Inflation
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Regular Guy Neel Kashkari Has The Perfect Analogy To Explain Inflation To His Fellow Non-Economists
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The Fed is embarrassed about its inflation mistake and will likely go too far in raising interest rates, former Fed president says
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Treasury’s Yellen to Stay On at Biden’s Request as Showdown Over Debt Nears
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Small business confidence lowest since June
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Middle Class in California? Probably Not
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Consumers more upbeat about their finances in 2023, New York Fed finds
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Global Inflation May Mean ‘Paradigm Shift,’ BIS’s Carstens Warns
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US Consumers Roll Over More Credit-Card Debt as Inflation Bites
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How changes in consumption caused by COVID-19 affected inflation
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House GOP Stops Short of Specific Spending-Cut Demands for Debt Limit
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Russia’s Budget Gap Surges to Record as War Pressures Finances Vladimir Putin’s budget faces ‘catastrophe’ after Western price cap spells doom for Russian oil exports Vladimir Putin's plan to squeeze Europe on energy thwarted by warm winter G-7 Eyes Two Prices Caps for Russian Refined Petroleum Products European Natural Gas Prices Fall as Mild Winter Crimps Demand Russia Will Seek to Limit Its Oil Discount On Market Principles (Un)Natural gas prices in Europe
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This firm fines employees US$1,200 if they disturb colleagues on vacation
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This Country Will Offer 18 Months of Parental Leave For Working Parents
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The 'best job in America' pays over $120,000 a year, offers low stress, healthy work-life balance — and it's also in high demand
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Visualizing $65 Trillion in Hidden Dollar Debt
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New York Wants to Link Minimum Wage to Inflation, Hochul Says
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NJ Aims to Lure NYC Commuters Back With Hybrid Work Tax Breaks
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The Debt Ceiling Is a Red Herring
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GOP: Slash Social Security and Medicare White House turns talk of Medicare, Social Security cuts against GOP
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McCarthy has put Social Security and Medicare at risk to become Speaker
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Larry Summers blasted for hailing US job losses from 'tropical paradise'
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Top Democratic appropriators says GOP 'guaranteeing a shutdown' Top Senate appropriators pledge to keep government funded in face of House uncertainty House GOP Leader sidesteps debt ceiling questions
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US Debt Clock
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World Debt Clock
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How People Really Live
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Real Estate:

Planning for the Rescue Capital Wave of 2023
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MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest Weekly Survey
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US housing price slowdown continues as mortgage financing poses headwind
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Super-Prime Real Estate in New York and Florida Has Hit a Wall
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Wells Fargo, once the No. 1 player in mortgages, is stepping back from the housing market
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Miami remains the least-affordable U.S. city for housing
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Municipalities:

A fight over public records in Puerto Rico hinges on financial board’s claim of sovereign immunity
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Chester receiver in the city’s bankruptcy case says the mayor threatened him and used a racial slur
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California Faces First Budget Gap Since 2018 as Stock Market Hits Taxes
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An Ailing Arkansas City Elected an 18-Year-Old Mayor to Turn Things Around
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Oil/Gas:

Biden officials lay out road map for net-zero transportation by 2050
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Oil and Gas Are Back and Booming
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New York’s Hochul Proposes Banning Gas in New Buildings
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Record US Oil Output Seen Leading Non-OPEC Growth Next Year
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US Plan to Decarbonize All Transportation
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The New Soldiers in Propane’s Fight Against Climate Action: Television Stars
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Retailing:

Bed Bath & Beyond Reports Wider Loss Than in Last Week’s Warning Bed Bath & Beyond Reports Quarterly Loss, Bankruptcy Threat Looms Bed Bath & Beyond Bankruptcy Looms Bed Bath & Beyond ducks analysts after posting nearly $400M loss in Q3 Bed Bath & Beyond: Pay no attention to the share price Bed Bath & Beyond taps new restructuring adviser as bankruptcy looms Bed Bath & Beyond US in a ‘death spiral’ Bed Bath & Beyond and bankrupt?
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Party City Holds Talks on Potential Bankruptcy Loan
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Fitch: Gulf between retail’s winners and losers to widen in 2023
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US Online Prices Drop a Fourth Month on Steep Holiday Discounts
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Salesforce: Online holiday spending rises 5%; returns up 63%
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Macy’s warns of light holiday sales; consumer to be ‘pressured’ in 2023 Macy’s lowers holiday sales prediction Macy’s to shutter 4 full-line stores
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Crypto:

Gemini’s Winklevoss Demands Removal of DCG CEO Barry Silbert Crypto’s Hotel California traps the Winklevoss twins DCG's Barry Silbert Talks About Genesis in Letter to Shareholders Winklevoss twin accuses Barry Silbert's DCG, Genesis of accounting fraud — and say the crypto conglomerate embarked on a 'campaign of lies' FTX Collapse: Dispute Between Billionaires Winklevoss, Silbert Escalates
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Class warfare in the crypto bankruptcies?
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US lawmakers call on court to approve ‘independent examiner’ in FTX bankruptcy case FTX Bankruptcy Law Firm Is Wrong Fit for Role, Four Senators Say FTX Battle Royale Has Regulators, Creditors, Current Execs And Former CEO Vying For Crippled Exchange’s Assets Third Bankman-Fried Associate Nishad Singh Met With Prosecutors Tom Brady and Bob Kraft Are Among FTX Shareholders Set for Wipeout The hunt for FTX’s missing riches FTX’s venture backers included Patriots owner Robert Kraft and billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, new filings show SBF, who was once worth $26 billion, says he tried to survive on a jar of peanut butter when in a Bahamian prison FTX seeks court rulings on asset sales, customer privacy Australian firms dragged into FTX bankruptcy saga FTX's Next Bankruptcy Hearing: Deadlines, Leases, and SBF's Attorneys Step Forward FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried put $20 million into a big VC fund that then took a stake in the crypto exchange right back
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Coinbase CEO appears to blame Sam Bankman-Fried for latest layoffs Crypto Winter Gets Chillier: Coinbase Cuts 1,000 Positions
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Ex-Coinbase Manager’s Brother Gets 10 Months in Crypto Fraud
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Dip Buyers Help Pare Record Bitcoin Discount at Grayscale Trust
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Binance Acknowledges Past Flaws in Maintaining Stablecoin Peg Reserve Voyager-Binance Deal To help Customers Recover 51% of Pre-Bankruptcy Assets Judge Clears Binance.US Bid to Acquire Bankrupt Crypto Lender Voyager Digital Binance customers have pulled a staggering $12 billion from the crypto exchange in just 2 months, report says
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Mark Cuban to be deposed over his promotion of Voyager crypto 'Ponzi scheme' in class action lawsuit
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Core Scientific Mined Over 1,400 BTC in December Despite Bankruptcy Filing
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Ethereum Software Firm ConsenSys to Cut Upwards of 100 Staff
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UK Mulls Cryptocurrency Version Of Sterling
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BlockFi's CEO cashed out more than $9 million from the crypto platform last year to pay US taxes BlockFi Creditors Battle to Keep Their Details Secret
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Tech:

Twitter’s ‘Cost Cutting By Not Paying Bills’ Now Going To Increase Legal Fees
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Elon Musk might have tweeted himself into hot water — again — with a regulator
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New Jersey, Ohio join other states in banning TikTok from state devices
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A woman found strangers trying to get into her house. They booked it on Airbnb but the homeowner never listed it.
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A Third of Dublin’s Office Space Lies Dormant as Tech Giants Cut Jobs
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Lawsuit pushes addiction case against social media firms
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Pensions:

US Faces a $4 Trillion Pension Headache
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Pensions face one-two punch: market rout and COLA demands
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Tax:

House GOP passes bill to slash IRS funding in first act of new Congress
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House Republicans to vote on bill abolishing IRS, eliminating income tax
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Student Debt:

Biden administration proposes lowering income-driven student loan repayments Feds propose 'student loan safety net' alongside forgiveness Here's what to know about a new student loan proposal that provides payment relief to borrowers making less than $30,600 What to Know About Biden’s Income-Driven Repayment Proposal
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The Stakes Of Biden's Student Loan Relief Are Much Bigger Than $10,000 To $20,000
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Labor:

Nurses Extend Strike to Second Day at 2 Major New York City Hospitals The real reason 7,000 nurses in New York City have gone on strike
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Supreme Court leans toward concrete company in lawsuit over strike damage
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New Bankruptcy Opinions
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Bankruptcy Court Web/Pacer Site Directory

Recent Ch. 11 Filings (14 new filings today)
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Recent Ch. 11 Adversary Proceeding Filings (3 new filings today)
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Bankruptcy Code (html) - Bankruptcy Code (pdf) Prior BK Codes (pick year from list) - Bankruptcy Rules
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UCLA-LoPucki Bankruptcy Research Database
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Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Case Studies
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Avoidance Actions:

State Laws For Avoiding Insider Preferences (UVTA, UFTA & In re Lamie)
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Third Circuit Finds That Prepetition Option Termination Is Not Transfer
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Mass Torts:

Liability insurance in mass tort bankruptcy cases – A brief primer
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W.R. Grace offers $18.5M to settle Montana asbestos claims
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Aviation:

All airlines ordered to pause domestic departures after outage Widespread flight delays in US after FAA computer outage Flights ‘grounded & delayed across US’ after FAA reports crucial system failure leaving planes ‘on tarmac for hours’
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Long-Haul Flight Passengers Should Wear Face Masks, WHO Says
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Spirit Air Pilots Approve Union Contract Boosting Pay
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Religion:

Pope Benedict XVI and the Church After the Fall
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Church of England apologizes for slave trade past Sets aside $100 million for fund
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Cannabis:

Seniors using weed skyrockets
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Food/Beverage:

Restaurant Performance Index declined 0.8% in November
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Healthcare:

Nurses Retain Top Ethics Rating in U.S., but Below 2020 High
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Surging opioid overdoses prompt more Americans to carry Narcan spray
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Pentagon drops COVID vaccination mandate
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Utilities:

Fear Extremists are Targeting US Power Grid
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Celebs:

Erika Jayne Girardi, hundreds more targeted in trustee lawsuits
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Musk is Like Ford, but Not in a Good Way
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Climate:

US Storms, Heat, Drought Racked Up $165 Billion of Damage in 2022
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Insured Losses Hit $120 Billion as Extreme Weather Upends Norms
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Bond Markets Flash Warning About Environmental Catastrophes
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Powell Vows to Limit Fed’s Climate Role to Protect Independence Powell: ‘Inappropriate’ for Fed to make climate policy
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Newsom proposes cuts to climate change programs amid cloudy economic outlook
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G-20 Central Bankers Confront Limits of Mandates on Climate
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Biden Nears Now-or-Never Point for Cementing New Climate Rules
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US Climate Emissions Rose 1.3% in 2022 But Trailed Economic Growth U.S. greenhouse emissions show signs of slowing — but not quickly enough
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Soaked California Faces More Rain as Residents Are Forced to Flee California storm damage could top $1 billion Major atmospheric river lashes California with "life-threatening" flooding California Struggles to Clean Up from Storms Rains blamed for 17 deaths in California, a state primed for very different natural disasters
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The Year That Seared Europe Ends as 5th Warmest on Record
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Round-the-Clock Clean Power Doesn’t Cost a Fortune, Study Shows
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Travel is almost back to pre-Covid levels. So are carbon dioxide emissions.
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Banking:

Credit Suisse May Halve 2022 Bonus Pool
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Sovereigns:

Ghana Requests 20 Common Framework Debt Restructuring -source
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France ready to back Pakistan in talks with creditors: President Macron Pakistan and the bankruptcy threat that looms over it Pakistan stares at bankruptcy even as Saudi decides to conduct study to assist Pak economy
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Egypt Needs ‘Critical’ Gulf Deals to Cover Funding Gap, IMF Says Egypt Inflation Breaches 21% in Spreading Fallout of Devaluation
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UK:

Thousands of UK Firms Fear Going Bust as Energy Support Is Cut
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Rescue Deal Proposed for Britishvolt Values Firm at Just £32 Million
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Faegre Drinker Strengthens London Restructuring and Insolvency Team With Finance Partner Gary Bellingham
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UK Recruiter’s Warning Sends Staffing Stocks Tumbling
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Sunak's Use of Private Jet Defended by No. 10
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UK to Publish Planned Anti-Strike Law in Bid to Stem Disruption
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Londoners Ride Shared Bikes More Than Ever to Beat Train Strikes
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Royal PR battle rages as Harry spares no one Queen Elizabeth wanted to know what Meghan thought of Trump when they met: Prince Harry’s memoir Royal family thinks Harry has been taken 'by a cult of psychotherapy and Meghan' Prince Harry's publisher claims 'Spare' book is fastest selling non-fiction of all time
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Wirral Council prepares for massive cuts
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Burton cabinet maker 'buried her head in the sand' over bankruptcy
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EU:

ECB Member Schnabel Says Rates Must Rise Significantly and Steadily
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Canada:

Ontario Court of Appeal Considers Interpretation of “Creditors or Others” Under the Fraudulent Conveyances Act
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FTX Aftermath From a Canadian Securities Law Perspective
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Union Prepares Strike Votes for 35,000 Tax Workers in Canada
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Canada will see weakest level of homes sales since 2001 this year: TD report
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Russia:

Russian prisoners sent to the front lines in Ukraine have been publicly executed for not charging into enemy fire, captured inmates say
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Ukrainians Rush to Relocate Businesses to Poland After Invasion
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What is the US getting in Ukraine for $100 billion?
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Russian Attacks Help Tame Ukraine’s Flaring Wartime Inflation
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US could send Stryker armoured vehicles to Ukraine The new weapon the U.S. is giving Ukraine isn’t a tank, but it is a problem for Russia
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Mercenary fighters help Russia edge toward a breakthrough in its bitter fight for Ukraine's east Ukraine bolsters its defenses in the east as Russia sends waves of attacks Ukraine says mining town holding out against Russian assault Russia on verge of biggest gain in Ukraine since summer
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Russian artillery fire down nearly 75%, US officials say, in latest sign of struggles for Moscow
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Zelensky in speech to Golden Globes: "There will be no Third World War"
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China:

China’s Credit Growth Slows in December Amid Covid Waves
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Pfizer Says Partner in China Is Gearing up for Paxlovid Sales
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China Private Firms’ Cash Woes Ease as Policy Support Deepens
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Xi Warns China Officials to Avoid ‘Collusion’ With Big Business
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MENA:

Israeli insolvency lawyer expects increase of cases in 2023
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Iran Sentences Belgian Aid Worker to 40 Years, 74 lashes for Spying
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Iran Ex-President’s Daughter Sentenced to Prison Over Protests
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Israel Accused of Trying to Topple Palestinian Authority
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Brazil:

Brazil seeks to restore order after pro-Bolsonaro capital riots Brazil’s ‘Trump of the Tropics’ Stoked Riots—Then He Fled to Florida Brazil Prosecutors Eye Bolsonaro’s Assets as Rich Backers Disavow Riots An Insurrection Foretold Bolsonaro eyes early return as US stay irks Biden What comes after Brazil’s January 8? The root causes of Brazil’s violent protest, explained by an expert
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France:

France to Raise Minimum Retirement Age to 64 as of 2030 Emmanuel Macron faces ‘mother of all battles’ over raising French retirement age French Unions Plan First Strikes Over Pension Reform on Jan. 19
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India:

SC Holds That Section 7(5)(A) of IBC Confers Discretionary Power on NCLT To Admit Application of Financial Creditor Seeking Initiation of CIRP of Corporate Debtor
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Byju’s seeks more time from lenders to recast $1.2 billion debt
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Singapore:

205 Singapore companies forced to close down last year as number rises after two-year fall
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