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[Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports]

Breaking: A judge threw out the Kennedy Center's lawsuit against jazz musician Chuck Redd, who canceled a Christmas Eve concert to protest the venue's renaming for Trump.

Redd's lawyer: "The lawsuit was political retribution, pure and simple."https://t.co/qe31fhFuTi

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Full statement: https://t.co/OQEzrCP6pc

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A Superior Court judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Kennedy Center against client and acclaimed drummer Chuck Redd under DC's Anti-SLAPP Act.

The Center sued Redd following his comments in December on his decision to withdraw from the Center’s Christmas Eve program.

[Daniel Hamburg @DHamburgReports]

#BREAKING: A D. C. Superior Court judge has just dismissed a lawsuit from the Kennedy Center @kencen, which sued jazz musician Chuck Redd for canceling a Christmas Eve concert.

Redd said he canceled because President Trump’s name was added to the center.

The judge said there was no breach of contract because a contract was never signed, and the lawsuit was based on the political statement Redd made, which is covered under D.C.’s anti-SLAPP law. @DCNewsNow

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Full statement: https://t.co/OQEzrCP6pc

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Jeremiah spoke with the Washington Post about his experience, read here: https://t.co/upBdf20DW0

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

BREAKING: KBK and @wbaidlaw represent Jeremiah Schofield, a former SSA Executive who blew the whistle on a Trump administration attempt to falsely declare 2.7 million people as dead in Social Security records, in order to upend their lives and force them out of the country.

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Read KBK and Whistleblower Aid’s statement here: https://t.co/Gke7sBT3Ma

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

Moshe Marvit, member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) today filed suit in federal court challenging President Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to remove him from office.

Read more here: https://t.co/hVh3Fi7XSy

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

KBK partners @DebraKatzKBK and @LisaBanksKBK have a new op-ed in @TheHillOpinion: arguing that the Swalwell case proves #MeToo never went away... and Congress still has work to do to protect its own staff.

Read here:
https://t.co/CgA9b05uT1

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Wage theft steals $1-3B from NY workers annually. In a new @timesunion piece, partner @HughBaran explains how new legislation, the EmPIRE Worker Protection Act, can fight wage theft, generate revenue for @nyslabor, and put money back in workers' pockets.

https://t.co/14L8oX05rK

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Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice confirmed, in a court filing for another case, that DOGE officials had access to this data and hosted information on a third-party server. Learn more here: https://t.co/49uAgsMjYO

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

Social Security whistleblower client Charles Borges and KBK partner @DebraKatzKBK joined Amna Nawaz on @NewsHour to discuss allegations that DOGE officials illegally accessed sensitive data in March 2025. Watch here 🔽

[PBS News @NewsHour]

The Social Security Administration now says members of Elon Musk’s DOGE team working at the agency last year accessed and shared sensitive data.

The disclosure seemed to confirm some key concerns first raised in a whistleblower complaint last summer filed by the agency’s chief data officer, Chuck Borges.

@IAmAmnaNawaz spoke to Borges and his lawyer, Debra Katz.

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

Whistleblower and former Chief Data Officer of the Social Security Administration, Charles Borges, today filed an OSC complaint against the agency, alleging that he was retaliated against for reporting the potential compromise of data by DOGE.

Read here: https://t.co/HgLiBtB20e

[Katz Banks Kumin LLP @katzbanks]

Today, in response to news that the federal government was beginning a new phase of Reductions-in-Force (RIFs), employment and civil rights attorney @DebraKatzKBK issued the following statement:

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#BREAKING Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the NIAID, learned today that Health and Human Services Kennedy Jr. terminated her employment 27 days after she filed a whistleblower complaint.

Full statement: https://t.co/BSuHWEbtaz

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Attorneys @DebraKatzKBK and @LisaBanksKBK issued a statement today following @AndrewTangel's reporting that the FAA will allow Boeing to resume authority over critical safety checks on its 737 MAX aircraft. Statement ⬇️

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Today, a New York State Court dismissed all of Harvey Weinstein's groundless fraud claims against KBK client Irwin Reiter. The court said that these claims against Mr. Reiter were a deliberate intimidation tactic before Weinstein's retrial.
More from @Variety 🔽

[Variety @Variety]

A judge on Tuesday threw out Harvey Weinstein‘s lawsuit against Irwin Reiter, the head of accounting at the Weinstein Co. who blew the whistle on him in 2017.

https://t.co/29H5hbBNOG

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KBK client Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo was interviewed by @CBSEveningNews about her whistleblower complaint detailing government wrongdoing related to NIH officials’ cancellation of critical research grants and the politicization of scientific research and vaccine safety.

Watch here:

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

NIH whistleblower details clash over childhood vaccines with Trump administration: "We became inconvenient" https://t.co/dZ5i52p6Hb

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Read more about our representation of Mr. Seawright in today's AP story, here: https://t.co/k9H8pX2H3u

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KBK is representing Marc Seawright, the former Director of Information Governance and Strategy at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, who filed a discrimination complaint against the EEOC itself, alleging systematic anti-LGBTQ+ bias under Acting Chair Andrea Lucas.