Since January, Pres. Trump has signed scores of executive orders rolling back environmental regulations and proposed slashing the budgets of agencies tasked with addressing climate change. But many of the administration’s most high-profile actions are being held up in a slow-moving legal and political system that Trump’s team of Washington newcomers is still struggling to navigate.
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The Fifth Circuit ruled Monday that Yahoo owes Dallas-based prize promoter SCA Promotions $5.5 million for backing out of a deal designed to pay $1 billion to anyone who successfully predicted the winner of all 63 games in the 2014 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
Updated – Jeff Tillotson Deposes Warren Buffett & Marissa Mayer, Defeats Yahoo at 5th Circuit
The Fifth Circuit ruled Monday that Yahoo owes Dallas-based prize promoter SCA Promotions $5.5 million for backing out of a deal designed to pay $1 billion to anyone who successfully predicted the winner of all 63 games in the 2014 NCAA men’s basketball tournament.