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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty on Wednesday to violating U.S. espionage law, marking the end of his imprisonment in Britain and allowing his return to Australia, concluding a 14-year legal odyssey. Assange, 52, agreed to plead guilty to a single criminal count of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified U.S. national defense…
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Tesla (TSLA.O) and opponents of Elon Musk’s compensation clashed on Friday over how to resolve the legal issues surrounding the CEO’s $56 billion pay package and the billions of dollars in potential legal fees generated by the case. Tesla, in a court filing, urged a Delaware judge to recognize the vote by Tesla shareholders in…
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A California jury convicted David DePape on Friday of kidnapping, burglary, false imprisonment, threatening the family member of a public official, and dissuading a witness. This conviction follows his federal court conviction last year. DePape, a right-wing conspiracy theorist, attacked Paul Pelosi, the husband of former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, with a hammer. The…
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California’s highest court ruled that a patient can pursue a claim against a drug or medical device maker for failing to warn of a product’s risks, even if the warning would not have stopped the patient’s doctor from recommending it. In a unanimous opinion by Justice Joshua Groban on Thursday, the California Supreme Court revived…
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Dallas-based law firm McKool Smith, known for taking on high-stakes patent cases and other litigation, announced it will pay its associates and other lawyers mid-year bonuses up to $30,000. McKool Smith’s managing principal and chairman, David Sochia, revealed in an internal memo on Thursday that bonuses for principals, associates, and senior counsel will range from…
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Hawaii agreed on Thursday to decarbonize its transportation system by 2045, settling a lawsuit by 13 young people who claimed the state violated their constitutional rights with infrastructure that contributes to greenhouse gas emissions and climate change. Democratic Governor Josh Green announced the “groundbreaking” settlement at a news conference attended by activists and lawyers involved…
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has adopted a legal theory that would eliminate numerous recent lawsuits filed by groups opposing race-based diversity programs, which align with his conservative views. In a concurring opinion in last week’s Supreme Court decision preserving access to the abortion pill mifepristone, Thomas questioned the constitutional foundation of a legal doctrine…
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Relatives of the victims of two fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes urged the Justice Department on Wednesday to impose a fine of up to $24.78 billion on the planemaker and pursue a criminal prosecution. Paul Cassel, a lawyer representing 15 families, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department that “because Boeing’s crime is the…
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The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide how difficult it should be for employers to prove in court that their workers qualify for exemptions from overtime pay and other legal protections under U.S. wage laws. The justices granted a petition by grocery distributor EMD Sales Inc to review a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of…
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday it referred a complaint against the social media platform TikTok and its parent company ByteDance to the Justice Department over potential violations of children’s privacy. In March, a source told Reuters the FTC could resolve a probe into TikTok over allegedly faulty privacy and data security practices…
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