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After Wildfires, Scorched Trees Could Disrupt Water Supplies
TWIN BRIDGES, Calif. (AP) — In a California forest torched by wildfire last summer, researcher Anne Nolin examines a handful of the season’s remaining snow, now darkened by black specks from the burned trees above. Spring heat waves had already … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreMan Charged With Setting Fire at California Home Depot
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A man charged with setting a fire that gutted a Northern California Home Depot, prompted hundreds to flee and filled the sky with smoke was trying to cover up a theft of tools, authorities said … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJudge Rejects ‘Gag Order’ for Elon Musk in Shareholder Suit
Elon Musk will not be subjected to a “gag order” preventing him from discussing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded Tesla Inc. shareholders by tweeting in 2018 about taking his electric car company private, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday. U.S. … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreFederal Court in Delaware Requiring Disclosure of Litigation Funding Agreements
Insurers are applauding a decision by the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Delaware to require parties to disclose whether a litigation funder has an interest in any cases brought before him. The standing order issued on Monday … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreThese Art Sleuths Are Taking on Traffickers in a $10 Billion Black Market
From a tiny office in southern India, S. Vijay Kumar scans case files on his laptop with the precision of a forensic scientist. To an untrained eye, the width of a bronze Shiva’s nose or the definition of its knuckles … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreHospital Must Turn Over Info on Famous Cardiologist, Appeals Court Says
Once a party relinquishes information considered privileged, it cannot then claim that other information about the same subject must remain sealed, a federal appeals court found in a medical malpractice and fraud case that has resulted in three separate rulings … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreJudge Rules Amazon Must Reinstate Fired Warehouse Worker
A judge has ruled Amazon must reinstate a former warehouse employee who was fired in the early days of the pandemic, saying the company “unlawfully” terminated the worker who led a protest calling for Amazon to do more to protect … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreSouth Africa Launches Relief for Durban Flooding; 443 Dead
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Declaring a national state of disaster, South Africa has allocated $67 million to help those hit by floods that have killed at least 443 people in the eastern city of Durban and the surrounding KwaZulu-Natal province. Nearly … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreCalifornia Gives Rivers More Room to Flow to Stem Flood Risk
MODESTO, Calif. (AP) — Between vast almond orchards and dairy pastures in the heart of California’s farm country sits a property being redesigned to look like it did 150 years ago, before levees restricted the flow of rivers that weave … Source: Claims Journal
Read MoreThree Black Churches Rebuilding in Louisiana After 2019 Arson
OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Three years after an arsonist torched three small Black Baptist churches in rural Louisiana, rebuilding is well under way. Mount Pleasant Baptist Church in Opelousas is months from reopening, with visible progress at St. Mary Baptist … Source: Claims Journal
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