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Trump secures one delay, and seeks another
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The U.S. Supreme Court is likely to reject Donald Trump’s claim that he cannot be prosecuted for trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, legal experts told our colleague John Kruzel, but the justices’ decision to spend months on the case could help his bid to return to the White House.
The scheduling of late April arguments reduces the chances that a federal trial on the former president’s unprecedented attempt to reverse an election defeat could be resolved before the Nov. 5 election, when he is seeking to unseat President Joe Biden. It’s possible that the court, with a 6-3 conservative majority that includes three Trump appointees, may not rule on his claim before June, some legal experts said, which would make it unlikely that U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith could secure a verdict by Election Day.
And today, U.S. District Aileen Cannon is set to consider Trump’s request to delay his scheduled May 20 trial on charges that he illegally held onto sensitive national security documents at his Florida resort after leaving office. Trump, who has pleaded not guilty, last week asked the Florida judge to dismiss the DOJ’s charges.
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- President Joe Biden said he will nominate former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh to serve on the U.S. Postal Board of Governors after lawmakers had urged action. Earlier this month, Reuters reported that more than 80 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives had urged Biden to nominate two candidates to open seats on the postal board, complaining about slow deliveries and increased costs. Two seats became vacant in December.
- Settlement talks have failed in a lawsuit accusing X and owner Elon Musk of refusing to pay more than $500 million in severance to employees who were laid off after he acquired the company, according to a court filing. Lawyers for X and former engineer Chris Woodfield, who filed the proposed class action last year, said in a joint filing that talks failed to lead to an agreement earlier this month.
- New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office is investigating the cause of last week’s AT&T wireless outage that lasted up to 12 hours as well as the telecom firm’s response. AT&T said on Saturday it would provide $5 billing credits for consumers who were impacted but has not disclosed how many customers temporarily lost service.
- PFLAG, a leading LGBTQ advocacy group, has sued Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, seeking to block his demands for information about its work with families seeking gender-affirming treatments, such as puberty blockers and hormones, for transgender minors.
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That’s about how many Black factory workers a California state judge tentatively ruled can sue Tesla as a group for its alleged failure to address rampant race discrimination and harassment at its Fremont plant. California Superior Court Judge Noel Wise in Oakland said in a written order that the lawsuit presents questions common to all Black workers at the plant of whether Tesla was aware of the alleged misconduct and refused to take steps to prevent it. The tentative ruling comes ahead of a hearing scheduled for today where Tesla can contest Wise’s decision, though judges typically do not change their minds.
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In the plethora of copyright lawsuits against AI developers, a pair of complaints filed on Wednesday against OpenAI and related defendants stands out: Unlike most of the authors, artists and news organizations that have sued AI developers, The Intercept and Raw Media are not alleging straightforward copyright infringement claims. The media companies are instead asserting only that OpenAI and its co-defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Alison Frankel explains why it matters.
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“I could not believe how many death threats I got.“
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- A Georgia judge will hear closing arguments in a bid by Donald Trump and his co-defendants to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the state election interference case. Trump and two co-defendants are seeking to disqualify Willis and dismiss the charges, alleging Willis benefited financially from an “improper, clandestine personal relationship” with Nathan Wade, a lawyer she hired to help lead the investigation.
- Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder who successfully sued to invalidate Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package are expected to file papers asking for attorneys fees in the case. A Delaware judge tossed out Musk’s record-breaking Tesla pay package in January, calling the compensation granted by the EV maker’s board “an unfathomable sum” that was unfair to shareholders. Shareholder Richard Tornetta, who brought the lawsuit in 2018, is represented by Greg Varallo of Bernstein Litowitz.
- U.S. prosecutors face a deadline in Brooklyn federal court to respond to a bid by Genaro Garcia Luna, a former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of his country’s fight against drug traffickers, for a new trial after he was convicted in 2023 on U.S. charges that he took bribes from the Sinaloa cartel.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Bankrupt drugmaker Endo International will pay up to $465 million to settle the federal government’s law enforcement, tax, and healthcare cost claims, the DOJ said. The settlement removes Endo’s largest obstacle to completing its plan to sell assets to its lenders in bankruptcy.
- A cluster of lawsuits has been filed over the blank-check acquisition company deal to take Donald Trump’s social media company public. A former executive of the blank check company is suing to block the deal, claiming he’s being shortchanged on the stock he is expected to receive in the merger, while Trump Media is suing the executive, accusing him of holding up the deal in an extortion plot. Meanwhile, two Trump Media shareholders are suing the company, claiming it is diluting their stake in the company as part of a cash grab
- The SEC has settled charges against Lordstown Motors that the electric vehicle manufacturer misled investors about the sales prospects of its flagship truck, the Endurance.
- Wells Fargo, which has spent years trying to extricate itself from its fake accounts scandal, was sued for allegedly not doing enough to help customers who were harmed. The Wells Fargo customer who filed the lawsuit said the letter that the bank sent customers who may have been enrolled in unwanted products was difficult to decipher and put the onus on customers to fix the problems.
- Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued a Planned Parenthood affiliate, accusing it of helping minors travel to Kansas to get abortions without notifying their parents in violation of state law. The lawsuit cites undercover footage released by the conservative Project Veritas last year purporting to show a Planned Parenthood Great Plains employee offering to arrange an abortion for a 13-year-old in Kansas.
- Kimberly-Clark has been hit with a proposed class action filed by Connecticut residents living near a facility where it makes Kleenex accusing the consumer goods company of contaminating their properties and drinking water with toxic “forever chemicals.”
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- Dechert brought on partner Brian Miner, who previously co-chaired the M&A and securities group at Schulte Roth & Zabel. (Reuters)
- Squire Patton Boggs hired partner Sarah Mirza for its IP and technology practice. Mirza was previously with Artegis Law Group. (Squire)
- Willkie added private equity partner Nils Röver in Germany. He most recently was at Latham. (Willkie)
- Buchalter brought on Jeffrey Frasier in Portland, Oregon, as a litigation partner from Chenoweth Law Group. (Buchalter)
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