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* Carole Baskin has been awarded the zoo once owned by Joe Exotic to satisfy a judgment from long-standing litigation between the two. Baskin should go after Exotic’s country music songs next. [BBC]
* A government lawyer says that the number of prisoners with COVID-19 at a federal lockup is likely seven times higher than previously reported. [ABC News]
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* A Florida man has been convicted of fraud for claiming he represented The Village People and fleecing a casino out of $12,000. “It’s fun to stay at the ‘J.A.I.L.'” [Fox News]
* Google faces a $5 billion class action for tracking the internet usage of users even though browsers are set in “private” mode. [Reuters]
* Attorney General Barr is purported to have personally ordered protesters removed so President Trump could visit a church near the White House earlier this week. [CNN]
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* A company has been ordered to pay $3.6 million in attorneys’ fees for their adversary on top of a $600,000 judgment and paying their own lawyers $5 million. Bet they wish they just settled the case earlier. [Chicago Law Bulletin]
Jordan Rothman is a partner of The Rothman Law Firm, a full-service New York and New Jersey law firm. He is also the founder of Student Debt Diaries, a website discussing how he paid off his student loans. You can reach Jordan through email at [email protected].