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On Thursday, Judge Scott McAfee of Fulton County, Georgia, dismissed three charges in the state’s election interference case against former President Donald Trump and his co-defendants. Judge McAfee ruled that Counts 14, 15, and 27 of the indictment must be dropped due to a conflict with federal law, specifically referencing an 1890 US Supreme Court…
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Federal judges should prevent their law clerks from seeking employment with political organizations while they remain part of the court system to protect the judiciary’s independence, according to new ethical guidance. The U.S. Judicial Conference’s Committee on Codes of Conduct issued the guidance on Thursday, offering an election-year update to an advisory opinion on permissible…
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A Tennessee judge has denied a motion to remove Wanda Halbert from her position as Shelby County Clerk, following a court ruling on Friday. The decision came amidst allegations that Halbert had engaged in “willful neglect to perform her duties.” The case centered on whether Halbert and her legal team had responded within the required…
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A University of California, Los Angeles neuroscience professor, Lucina Uddin, has sued six major academic journal publishers, alleging they violated antitrust laws by prohibiting simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and refusing to compensate scholars for peer review services. Uddin filed the proposed class-action lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday against Elsevier, John Wiley &…
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The United States has imposed new sanctions against the Russian state-controlled media organization RT, citing its alleged involvement in global covert influence operations, cyber activities, and election interference. According to a statement released by the U.S. State Department on Friday, RT’s operations extend beyond journalism and into cyber capabilities aimed at destabilizing democratic institutions worldwide.…
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes lifted freezes on Starlink and X bank accounts after transferring 18.35 million reais ($3.3 million) from those accounts to the national treasury. The court issued this lift after determining that the transferred amount satisfied the fines X owed to Brazil, resulting from a dispute between Elon Musk and…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs is once again facing legal trouble, this time from his former Bad Boy Records artist, Dawn Richard. Richard, who gained fame as a member of the girl group Danity Kane, has filed a lawsuit against the music mogul, alleging a series of abusive behaviors dating back to her time working with him.…
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Harvey Weinstein faces new criminal charges as Manhattan prosecutors prepare to retry him following the reversal of his rape conviction. In 2020, a jury in Manhattan convicted Weinstein, 72, of rape, but the New York Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in April, ruling that the judge improperly allowed testimony from accusers not formally involved…
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Prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump will host a special screening of the documentary “How to Sue the Klan” at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) on Tuesday, September 17. The event, organized by UTC’s Division of Access and Engagement, will take place from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts Center in…
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On Thursday, a Georgia judge dismissed two criminal counts in the 2020 election interference case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and one additional count against his allies. Fulton County Judge Scott McAfee ruled that state prosecutors lacked the authority to bring charges related to the alleged filing of false documents in federal court. However,…
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