A New York judge will decide this week whether to overturn President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal conviction for hush money payments to a porn star, in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity. Justice Juan Merchan announced he would make his decision by Tuesday. This ruling marks the first of two critical…
A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that a trial judge correctly determined that American Airlines’ now-abandoned partnership with JetBlue Airways violated federal antitrust law. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Boston, sided with the U.S. Department of Justice, affirming the trial judge’s decision to block the airlines’ “Northeast Alliance.” This alliance…
Massachusetts’ top court ruled on Friday that a woman must return a $70,000 engagement ring from Tiffany & Co. to her former fiancé, Bruce Johnson, marking a significant end to 65 years of legal debates in the state over who is responsible when a relationship ends. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court sided with Johnson in…
The United States charged an Iranian man on Friday for allegedly participating in a plot orchestrated by Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, the Department of Justice announced. Farhad Shakeri, 51, told law enforcement officials that he received instructions on October 7, 2024, to provide a plan for killing Trump. According…
A Texas federal judge ruled against President Joe Biden’s immigration program on Thursday, potentially blocking the initiative for the remainder of Biden’s presidency. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker determined that the program, which would provide a path to citizenship for certain immigrant spouses of U.S. citizens, exceeded Biden’s executive authority. The program, known as…
A New York federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on Thursday against OpenAI, the artificial intelligence giant, which accused the company of misusing articles from the news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon ruled that the outlets could not demonstrate sufficient harm to support their claims.…
A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday upheld a jury’s verdict that cleared Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the company of liability in a case involving allegations that Musk misled investors with his 2018 social media posts. The posts claimed he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private at $420 per share, a statement that caused…
Donald Trump’s claimed victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election will effectively end the criminal cases against him, at least for the duration of his time in office. Trump, the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, has spent much of this year defending himself in four ongoing legal cases. These charges stem from…
The Republican-led states of Missouri and Texas filed lawsuits on Monday to block the U.S. Justice Department from sending monitors to their states on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting rights laws. Both states are among 27 that the Justice Department announced on Friday it would monitor during the upcoming election, as part…
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