The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct dismissed an ethics complaint against Justice Juan Merchan, who oversees the hush money criminal case against former U.S. President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the judge confirmed. “Justice Merchan said the complaint, filed more than a year ago, was dismissed in July with a caution,” stated Al…
A New Mexico judge announced on Friday that she will rule next week on Alec Baldwin’s requests to dismiss charges against him in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin is trying to avoid an unprecedented Hollywood manslaughter trial for an on-set death. Baldwin’s lawyers filed motions to dismiss his indictment, alleging prosecutorial misconduct,…
Sidney Powell conceded defeat in her four-year-old lawsuit that claimed widespread voting fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election in Michigan. She took this step after a federal appeals court denied her latest attempt to avoid sanctions in the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier on Thursday that Powell and other…
The U.S. Justice Department accused Boeing (BA.N) of breaching its obligations under a 2021 agreement that prevented the planemaker from facing criminal prosecution after fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2018 and 2019, resulting in the deaths of 346 people. The finding suggests that Boeing could face prosecution it had previously evaded, potentially leading to new…
The Biden administration has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject an appeal by international deals broker Blenheim Capital, alleging exclusion from a multibillion-dollar transaction involving South Korea’s purchase of F-35 fighter jets and a satellite. The U.S. Justice Department presented the Biden White House’s views on the case in a filing on Tuesday, as…
Canadian e-commerce provider Shopify (SHOP.TO) sued a subsidiary of Chinese technology company JOYY Inc (YY.O) in New York federal court on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally copying Shopify’s software to build its own e-commerce platform. In the lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Shopify alleged that JOYY’s…
Republican-led states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing broad legal protections for transgender workers. The 18 states filed the complaint in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, late Monday. They asserted that the federal workplace bias agency lacked the power to assert that federal law requires employers to use…
On Tuesday, Donald Trump’s lawyers grilled Michael Cohen about insulting social media posts and television appearances in an attempt to undermine his testimony that Trump authorized a hush money payment to a porn star. Trump attorney Todd Blanche aggressively questioned Cohen, who acknowledged calling the former president a “dictator douchebag” on TikTok and admitted to…
In Monday’s trial at New York state criminal court in Manhattan, jurors heard Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former fixer, testify that the Republican presidential candidate expressed fury over porn star Stormy Daniels shopping a story in 2016 about an alleged sexual encounter with him. Cohen stated that Trump considered it catastrophic for his campaign, expressing…
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