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    A Tennessee-based sanitation company is agreeing to pay more than half a million dollars after a federal investigation found it illegally hired children to clean dangerous meat processing facilities. The U.S. Labor Department on Monday said Fayette Janitorial Service LLC has agreed to nearly $650,000 in civil penalties. It also says a court order mandates that it no longer employs minors. The Labor Department's February legal filing alleged that Fayette used 15 underage workers at a Perdue Farms plant in Accomac, Virginia, and at least nine at Seaboard Triumph Foods in Sioux City, Iowa. U.S. law prohibits companies from employing people younger than 18 to work in meat processing plants.

      A federal appeals court has upheld a 2021 ruling that NBA star Zion Williamson’s contract with a marketing agent was void because the agent was not licensed in North Carolina when the two entered an agreement in 2019. Gina Ford had sought $100 million from Williamson, claiming the former Duke star breached their contract. A federal judge in North Carolina found Ford was not a licensed agent in that state at the time she came to an agreement with Williamson. That shielded Williamson from any penalties associated with breaking the contract. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.

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