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Antivax Parents Sue Over Mandatory Vaccination Order In New York (Which Has A Major Measles Outbreak)
A group of five unnamed mothers are suing the city of New York, trying to get it to block a mandatory measles-mumps-rubella vaccination order city officials ordered earlier this month in specific ZIP codes in Brooklyn amid a major measles outbreak.
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Judge Gives Lyft Something To Worry About Ahead Of Its IPO
Back in December, New York City approved the nation’s very first minimum wage pay floor for app-based drivers — a historic victory Lyft undercut almost immediately by challenging the change in court. Today, drivers got more good news when a judge denied Lyft’s motion for an injunction that would block the minimum wage for its…
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New York Attorney General Finds That Sale Of Social Media Bots, Fake Engagement Is Illegal
The New York Attorney General’s office has announced a settlement with Devumi LLC, a social media-marketing firm whose tactics were exposed by the New York Times last year, in what the office wrote is “the first finding by a law enforcement agency that selling fake social media engagement and using stolen identities to engage in online…
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NYC To Amazon: All This Could Be Yours
Newly released proposal documents reveal the extent to which New York was willing to bend over backwards to win the bid for an Amazon branch office, as well as the sites the retail giant passed on in lieu of a hefty chunk of Long Island City.