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Today's Video Focus: Conflict of Interest? Ex-corporate lawyer now runs FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection. Corporate lawyer Andrew Smith’s appointment to head the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer protection raised some eyebrows earlier this summer. Now, a heavily redacted set of documents have done little to allay this concern.
Focus of the Day Article:
Bereaved cohabitant Siobhan McLaughlin has won her case at the Supreme Court that unmarried couples should have a right to the widowed parent’s allowance.
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