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President Trump installed new acting heads at three key federal labor agencies, including Vince Micone as acting secretary of labor, Marvin Kaplan as acting chair of the NLRB and Andrea Lucas as acting chair of the EEOC. Kaplan and Lucas are each the sole Republican at their respective five-member agencies, so they will have little power to make changes until Trump's nominees for vacancies are confirmed by the Senate. Subscribe to The Daily Docket https://reut.rs/4dsTnQ1 #legal #legalnews

Prince Harry settled his privacy claim against Rupert Murdoch's UK newspaper group after the publisher admitted unlawful actions at its Sun tabloid for the first time, bringing the fiercely-contested legal battle to a dramatic end. In a stunning victory for Harry, 40, the younger son of King Charles, News Group Newspapers, publisher of The Sun and the now-defunct News of the World, also admitted it had intruded into the private life of his late mother, Princess Diana. Harry's lawyer, David Sherborne, said the publisher had agreed to pay the prince substantial damages. A source familiar with the settlement said it involved an eight-figure sum. Harry had been suing NGN at the High Court in London, accusing its newspapers of unlawfully obtaining private information about him from 1996 until 2011. Read more: https://reut.rs/3PNPtaB

Good morning! President Donald Trump’s executive orders sparked lawsuits and left TikTok in legal limbo; A wave of former Biden administration officials landed new law firm gigs; The SEC created a crypto task force; Plus, Harvard settled lawsuits over antisemitism on campus Subscribe to The Daily Docket https://reut.rs/4dsTnQ1 #legal #legalnews #litigation

U.S. President Donald Trump has installed new acting heads at three key federal labor agencies, the first step in what is expected to be a major overhaul of Biden-era policies. Trump shortly after taking office on Jan. 20, named Vince Micone as acting secretary of labor and appointed Marvin Kaplan as acting chair of the National Labor Relations Board and Andrea Lucas as acting chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Democrats currently hold a 2-1 majority at the NLRB and a 3-1 majority at the EEOC. The labor board could change hands in the next few months, but Republicans will not have control of the EEOC until July 2026 at the earliest. Dan Wiessner has more: https://reut.rs/3Cj5D8C

The first full day of the new Trump administration brought a wave of new hires by U.S. law firms adding outgoing Biden officials to their ranks. Steven Dettelbach, who served as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will rejoin BakerHostetler in April and will lead its 400-lawyer litigation practice group beginning in 2026, the firm said. Nicholas Folly, who served as deputy chief of the criminal division in the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office, has returned to Debevoise & Plimpton as a counsel in its San Francisco office. Andrew Dean, who co-led the assets management unit at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, has joined Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP as a partner in New York. The moves follow weeks of earlier law firm hires of agency appointees and civil servants leaving government as Democratic former President Joe Biden prepared to leave office ahead of the new Republican administration. Read more: https://reut.rs/42m2cbQ #legal #legalnews #lawyers #lawfirms #UnitedStates

President Donald Trump launched his sweeping immigration crackdown on Jan. 20 which included an order reinterpreting birthright citizenship, a principle that has been recognized in the United States for more than 150 years. Swipe for a look at U.S. birthright citizenship and Trump's legal authority to restrict it https://reut.rs/3PInj0q ⬇️

Harvard University will provide additional protections for Jewish students under a settlement that resolves two lawsuits accusing the Ivy League school of becoming a hotbed of rampant antisemitism.   Harvard said it will adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism, including specific examples of discrimination and harassment, when evaluating whether conduct violates its non-discrimination and anti-bullying policies.   The university will also address Frequently Asked Questions about its policies online, report annually for five years on its enforcement efforts, and provide training on combating antisemitism to staff who review discrimination complaints.   Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket for more: https://reut.rs/4g1NkCB

LIVE: Prisoners charged in Jan. 6 Capitol riot to be released People criminally charged with participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol leave a Washington prison after U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned them in a show of solidarity with supporters who stormed the seat of American power in his name. #Jan6 #January6 #CapitolRiot #Pardons #Trump #DonaldTrump #Reuters #News #Live Keep up with the latest news from around the world: reuters.com

President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 signed an executive order requiring most federal employees to return to work in person full time, a move that is likely to spark backlash and legal challenges from unions. Trump directed the heads of all federal agencies to 'take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements' and require employees to report to 'their respective duty stations' full time. The two-sentence order says the directive 'shall be implemented consistent with applicable law.' But, about 26% of federal employees are unionized and many are covered by bargaining agreements that allow for remote work or hybrid arrangements. The Trump administration will have to wait for those to expire or try to renegotiate the agreements. Bargaining agreements between federal agencies and unions can only be challenged in court if they contain illegal terms or were the product of coercion, bribery or some other wrongdoing. Dan Wiessner has more: https://reut.rs/3E4FYkN

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 seeking to delay by 75 days the enforcement of a ban of popular short-video app TikTok that was slated to be shuttered on Jan. 19. While signing the order, Trump suggested the United States government should be a half owner of TikTok's U.S. business in return for keeping the app alive and warned that he could impose tariffs on China if Beijing failed to approve a U.S. deal with TikTok. The executive order capped 48 hours of legal maneuvering and political intrigue that left millions of U.S. TikTokkers struggling for answers about the fate of their app. Read more: https://reut.rs/4g8d3tt