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The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office announced on Wednesday its intention to retry the sex crimes case against Harvey Weinstein, following the overturning of his previous conviction. During Weinstein’s first hearing since the overturn, the judge ordered him to remain in custody until the next hearing scheduled for May 29. Weinstein, aged 72, had been convicted…
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The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has temporarily blocked a National Labor Relations Board case accusing SpaceX of illegally firing engineers who criticized CEO Elon Musk. This comes as the rocket company pursues a legal challenge to the agency’s structure. A three-judge panel in New Orleans issued a single-sentence order on Thursday, barring the…
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Court papers show that U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico. The indictment, returned by a grand jury on Tuesday and unsealed on Friday, alleges that the…
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In court on Friday, Google and the U.S. Justice Department clashed over allegations that Google’s Alphabet unit unlawfully schemed to dominate search advertising. Closing arguments were presented in a case the government asserts could shape the “future of the internet.” District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington grilled both sides with questions. Do competitive platforms such…
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Hope Hicks, a former top aide to Donald Trump, testified on Friday that he instructed her in the final days of the 2016 presidential election to deny his sexual relationship with porn star Stormy Daniels. Hicks’ testimony provided jurors with an inside look at the campaign’s damage-control efforts when Trump faced multiple accusations of unflattering…
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On Thursday, a lawyer representing a group of transgender women urged a U.S. appeals court to revive claims alleging that Tennessee’s decades-old policy of not permitting individuals born in the state to amend their birth certificates to reflect their gender identity violates the U.S. Constitution. A three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of…
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U.S. attorneys representing a woman who alleges her colon cancer stems from the now-discontinued heartburn drug Zantac told a Chicago jury on Thursday that pharmaceutical giants GSK and Boehringer Ingelheim were aware that improper handling of the product could lead to cancer but failed to issue warnings to the public. Mikal Watts, representing 89-year-old Angela…
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A federal judge struck down parts of a North Carolina law that restricted patients’ access to the abortion pill mifepristone, which has become the subject of legal battles nationwide. Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine Eagles struck down the state’s requirements on Tuesday, including that mifepristone be prescribed only by doctors and only in person, as…
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In Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial, the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, fined the former U.S. president $9,000 for contempt of court on Tuesday. Merchan warned that he would consider imprisonment if Trump continued to violate a gag order. Merchan imposed the gag order to prevent Trump from criticizing witnesses and other participants in the…
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Johnson & Johnson announced on Wednesday that it is pushing ahead with a $6.475 billion proposed settlement for tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products contain asbestos and cause ovarian cancer. The deal, if approved, would resolve the lawsuits through a third bankruptcy filing of a subsidiary company.…
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