legal battle

  • Trump Saw Porn Star Story As ‘Disaster’ – Cohen Says In Hush Money Testimony

    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…

  • Aerospace and defense giant RTX’s (RTX.N) Pratt & Whitney unit is now the last defendant in a potentially high-stakes lawsuit over an alleged conspiracy to restrict hiring and recruitment after a global engineering services firm inked a settlement with the plaintiffs. Attorneys leading the proposed class action case disclosed the settlement with Belcan Engineering Group…

  • Exxon Hit With $725.5M Verdict In Mechanic’s Leukemia Diagnosis

    A Pennsylvania jury ordered ExxonMobil (XOM.N) to pay $725.5 million to a former mechanic who claimed toxic chemicals in the company’s gasoline and solvents caused his cancer, according to attorneys for the plaintiff. Attorneys said the 10-2 verdict came on Thursday after a trial in a state court in Philadelphia, where former mechanic Paul Gill…

  • Missouri Judge Approves First Wave Of Settlements Over Real Estate Commissions

    A U.S. judge in Missouri, Stephen Bough, approved $208 million in consumer antitrust settlements with Re/Max and two other leading real estate brokerages. He cast aside objections claiming the deals could bar others from pursuing their own claims that the defendants inflated home sales commissions. U.S. District Judge Stephen Bough in Kansas City stated that…

  • Musk’s X Corp Loses Lawsuit Against Israeli Data-Scraping Company

    A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X Corp against an Israeli data-scraping company, accusing it of illegally copying and selling content from the social media platform, as well as providing tools for others to do the same. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly…

  • Texas Apex Court Rules Mother Can’t Collect Damages Over Unwanted Pregnancy

    On Friday, Texas’ highest court limited women’s ability to obtain monetary damages from medical providers whose alleged negligence led them to have unwanted pregnancies, ruling that state law does not treat the birth of a healthy child as an injury for which a parent must be compensated. The Texas Supreme Court ruled that a mother…

  • Trump Hush Money Judge Urges Prosecutors To Rein In Michael Cohen

    the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal trial urged prosecutors to instruct Michael Cohen, Trump’s estranged former lawyer and fixer, to cease making public statements about the case before his anticipated testimony next week. Todd Blanche, Trump’s defense lawyer in the case related to hush money paid to a porn star, highlighted Cohen’s social media activity…

  • Chrisley Family Faces Opposition as Plaintiff Accuses Them of Profiting Off Car Crash, Rejects Bid to Seal Case

    A legal battle between reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and Patrick Rykwalder, the plaintiff suing them over their son Grayson’s 2022 car crash, has taken a contentious turn. The Chrisleys are facing accusations of attempting to seal the case to avoid public scrutiny, a move strongly opposed by Rykwalder. The incident in question…

  • Elon Musk May Testify Again In SEC’s Twitter Takeover Probe

    On Thursday, a federal judge indicated a willingness to compel Elon Musk to testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter. Lawyers for the billionaire appeared in a San Francisco courtroom on Thursday to urge U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to decide against the SEC,…

  • Trump Secures Another Win In Bids To Slow Criminal Prosecutions

    On Wednesday, Donald Trump secured another victory in his campaign to slow down the criminal cases against him, as a Georgia appeals court agreed to hear his bid to disqualify the district attorney prosecuting him for attempting to overturn his election loss in the state. This ruling extends the legal battle regarding a past romance…