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Reasons Not to Limit Private-Employer-Imposed Speech Restrictions: The Employer's Own Free Speech Rights?

As I mentioned earlier this week, ten years ago I wrote a descriptive and analytical law review article called Private Employees' Speech and Political Activity: Statutory Protection Against Employer Retaliation, which aimed to catalog these often-little-known statutes. This year, I'm returning to the subject, trying to analyze the strongest arguments…

Reason

Boy Scouts ruling threatens $250 million abuse deal with Mormons

The Boy Scouts of America may be forced to cut $250 million from its proposal to set up a trust fund for sex abuse victims after a judge rejected a key provision of a deal the youth group signed with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Tribune News Service

Ruling leaves questions about Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan

A Delaware bankruptcy judge has approved parts of the Boy Scouts of America’s reorganization plan but has rejected other provisions, saying the organization has decisions to make regarding the plan

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Boy Scouts must change $2.7 billion sex abuse fund, judge rules

The Boy Scouts of America must adjust their plan to create the biggest sexual abuse compensation fund in the U.S. in order to win final court approval for the $2.7 billion proposal, a judge ruled.

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Cheerfulness by Timothy Hampton review – the power of pep

This literary and cultural survey of a neglected emotion takes in Beckett, Boy Scouts and breakfast cereal

The Guardian - UK

Michigan police to conduct review after officers used images of Black men for target practice

Photos showing targets were taken during a Boy Scouts field trip to the Farmington Hills police department in April

The Guardian - US

5 horrifying Boy Scout abuse doc moments

Hulu's two-hour film revisits the rampant sexual abuse that took place within the Boy Scouts of America for decades

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‘It’s such a horrible thing’: devastating film examines sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts

In Leave No Trace, survivors speak about what they endured under the Boy Scouts of America, leading to the biggest sexual abuse settlement in history

The Guardian - US

Scouts sell off camps under strain from sex abuse suits

As the financially struggling Boy Scouts sell off a growing number of campgrounds — conservationists, government officials and others are scrambling to find ways to preserve them as open space

The Independent UK

Sage Steele Suing ESPN for Violating Her Free Speech Rights: A Quick Sense of the Law

NPR (Dustin Jones) reports on the lawsuit, Steele v. ESPN Productions, Inc. (Conn. Super. Ct.): During Steele's appearance on former NFL quarterback Jay Cutler's podcast, which aired Sept. 29, 2021, Cutler asked why she had a Band-Aid on her armp. She explained that she had just gotten her COVID-19 vaccine…

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Boys Scouts bankruptcy judge approves sale of BSA warehouse

The judge handling the Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy has approved the BSA’s request to sell its warehouse and distribution center in North Carolina for roughly $13.5 million and lease back the property from the buyer

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Thorny issues face Boy Scouts bankruptcy judge

A Delaware judge is facing a host of controversial and complex issues as she weighs whether to approve the Boy Scouts of America’s bankruptcy reorganization plan

The Independent UK

Future liability releases at center of Boy Scouts bankruptcy

Attorneys for the Boy Scouts of America say protecting local BSA councils and troop sponsoring organizations from future liability for child sex abuse claims is critical to the national group’s reorganization plan

The Independent UK

Judge tosses Girl Scouts’ lawsuit complaining of Boy Scouts’ adoption of gender-neutral language

NEW YORK — Tough cookies, a Manhattan federal judge told the Girl Scouts on Thursday as he tossed a lawsuit complaining that the Boy Scouts’ decision to go gender neutral hurts the the girl organization’s brand.

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Judge tosses Girl Scouts' recruitment suit vs. Boy Scouts

A federal judge has tossed out a lawsuit in which the Girl Scouts claim that the Boy Scouts are creating marketplace confusion and damaging their recruitment efforts through their use of words such as “scouts” and “scouting.”

Tribune News Service

Boy Scouts victims' fund unfair to insurers, companies argue in court

The Boy Scouts of America’s sexual abuse compensation fund may force insurers to make payments they can’t negotiate over, even if the claims are fraudulent, a group of the companies argued in court.

The Independent UK

Trial set to consider approval of Boy Scouts bankruptcy plan

A trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America's proposed reorganization plan should be approved is beginning more than two years after it sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations

The Independent UK

Michigan announces 1st charges in Boy Scouts investigation

Michigan authorities have announced the first criminal charges stemming from the state’s review of child sexual abuse lawsuits against the Boy Scouts of America, charging a former troop leader before his release from a New York prison on separate crimes

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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Stresses Need to Preserve Calm in Libya

UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on Libya Stephanie Williams made on Sunday a surprise visit to the city of Sabratha, where she was greeted by the Boy Scouts before meeting with the mayor, as well as members of the municipal council, and representatives from the Council of Elders and Notables. Williams…

Los Angeles Times

Boy Scouts reach bankruptcy deal with attorneys for sexual abuse survivors

Negotiators for the Boy Scouts of America and lawyers for thousands of sexual abuse survivors have struck an eleventh-hour deal to allow the youth group’s reorganization plan to move forward in Bankruptcy Court.

Los Angeles Times

Boy Scouts reach bankruptcy deal with attorneys for sexual abuse survivors

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