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Wage Theft: You Might be a Victim and Not Know It

Small, seemingly innocuous moments in a worker’s day-to-day may seem like “just a part of the job.” However, in many cases, these routine moments are actually wage theft. They’re illegal, and they’re costing American workers billions of dollars every year.

Statistics show that workers in Los Angeles, widely regarded as the wage theft capital of the United States, lose $26.2 million to wage theft every week. Yes – week. 80% of Los Angeles workers have experienced wage theft ...

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Alarm Bells Ring as Pennsylvania Legislature Moves to Gerrymander Judicial Benches

Pennsylvania house republicans launch assault on state judiciaryRepublican members of Pennsylvania’s legislature aren’t very pleased with the way the Commonwealth’s courts have come down on a variety of key issues. At the top of that list is, of course, the gift that never stops giving when it comes to whipping the base into a frenzy: the endlessly recounted and consistently verified results of the 2020 election.

Rather than taking the defeat with honor and integrity ...

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PA Supreme Court to Amazon: Security Screening Time Must be Paid

Amazon ordered to pay warehouse employees for security screening timeIn a 5-2 ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ordered that Amazon must pay its employees for the time they spent waiting in line to be screened by security at the end of their shifts. The ruling comes as a result of a lawsuit brought by two warehouse workers in 2013 who alleged that the departure screenings would routinely add 10 to 20 ...

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Tort Lawsuits on the Decline as Factors Converge

tort lawsuits on the declineIt should surprise no one that the United States has had a reputation as one of the most litigious countries in the world for a very long time. And according to an article recently published in the Wall Street Journal, even though it may still seem that way, the reality is that this reputation may be less deserved now than at any point in recent history. In fact, continue reading...

New Report Suggests Women Disproportionately Targeted by Drug and Device Companies

watchdog group suggests women disproportionately targeted by drug companiesThe judicial freedom and access watchdog American Association for Justice issued a report earlier this month that suggests that women pay a disproportionately-high price for the greed of the pharmaceutical industry. The report, titled “From Accutane to Zonite: A History of Dangerous Drugs & Devices Marketed to Women,” is a scathing read of nearly 60 pages that looks at the way women have ...

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Tort Reform and the Continued Scourge of Government Doublespeak

Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act. Protecting Access to Care Act. Tort reform. Reigning in frivolous lawsuits.

Taken purely at face value, any of these things could be seen as something positive. Who wouldn’t want to keep people from abusing the legal system? Who wouldn’t want to protect access to the care we and our loved ones need to stay healthy (a question that is, admittedly, a bit more difficult to answer now that the country faces the possibility of 20+ million losing ...

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