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Nineteen Republican attorneys general filed a rare complaint directly with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to block several Democratic-led states from pursuing climate change-related litigation against major oil and gas companies in state courts. States including Alabama, Florida, and West Virginia challenged California, New Jersey, Connecticut, Minnesota, and Rhode Island, alleging that by suing major…
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Authorities prepared for an only-in-America blockbuster trial, featuring a former president in the dock, Donald Trump. This case promised salacious details and forced Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and now vying for power again, to face allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress. The trial became a political and legal…
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On Friday, families of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting filed two lawsuits against Instagram’s parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft, and the gunmaker Daniel Defense. They claim these companies cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens, including the Uvalde shooter. The wrongful death complaints argue that…
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FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell were not complicit in the fraud that led to the crypto company’s collapse, concluded a court-appointed examiner on Thursday. In November, a court convicted former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of stealing $8 billion from FTX customers. Creditors and investors accused the company’s lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell of…
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Former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby was sentenced to one year of home detention on Thursday, May 23, 2024, for her convictions related to perjury and mortgage fraud. U.S. District Judge Lydia Kay Griggsby handed down the sentence of three years of supervised release but opted against sending Mosby to prison, despite prosecutors seeking a…
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On Thursday, Georgia prosecutors announced their decision to appeal a judge’s ruling that dismissed some criminal counts in the 2020 election subversion case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several of his allies. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who oversees the case, stated that a state appeals court’s decision to review Trump’s bid…
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Jurors could render their verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money case as soon as next week, potentially impacting the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that secured the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels…
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Jury selection begins on Wednesday in the criminal trial of exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. U.S. prosecutors accuse Guo of defrauding thousands of investors and supporters out of more than $1 billion. The trial, overseen by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan, could extend into July. Prosecutors aim to prevent Guo, a fierce critic…
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A District judge temporarily blocked part of a Florida law on Wednesday that imposes criminal penalties for willfully transporting people who lack legal immigration status into the state. The law, which took effect in 2023, classifies such cases as felonies under the crime of human smuggling. Judge Roy Altman cited testimony from plaintiffs who expressed…
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Apple (AAPL.O) announced on Tuesday that it plans to ask a U.S. judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department and 15 states in March. The lawsuit alleges that the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, harmed smaller rivals, and drove up prices. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Julien X. Neals…
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