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In the second historic verdict involving a president in less than two weeks, a jury found President Joe Biden’s son Hunter guilty of making false statements on a gun background check and of illegally possessing a firearm. Tom Hals and Jack Queen tell us what happens next:
Hunter Biden is facing a maximum of 25 years in prison, but the sentencing guidelines for illegally possessing a firearm, Hunter Biden’s most serious offense, is 15-21 months, and most offenders get less than that. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika set no date for sentencing.
Hunter Biden’s legal team, which said they would pursue “all legal challenges available” after the verdict, made three arguments to dismiss the case prior to trial and could raise those issues again on appeal. They argued the gun law was unconstitutional following a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2022 that expanded gun rights, that the case was politically motivated, and that a plea deal Hunter Biden struck last year remains in effect even though prosecutors rescinded it.
Hunter Biden still faces a trial in September on charges of violating tax law. Having been convicted once, he could face a greater sentence if found guilty again.
Last month, Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election.
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- An Israeli data-scraping company sued by Elon Musk’s X Corp is taking aim at the social media company’s legal team, telling a judge in San Francisco that X’s law firm Quinn Emanuel switched allegiances and must be thrown off the case. Lawyers at Quinn Emanuel entered the case last week, seeking to file an amended lawsuit accusing Bright Data of illegally copying data from X. Bright Data asked U.S. District Judge William Alsup to disqualify Quinn Emanuel, accusing it of brazenly switching sides and ignoring ethical conflicts.
- Attorneys challenging $78 million in legal fees stemming from a data breach class action settlement with T-Mobile urged the 8th Circuit to throw out the “windfall” award, arguing it made up an oversized share of the $350 million settlement fund.
- Madonna and ticketing giant Live Nation told a U.S. judge that they were nowhere near settling a proposed class action from fans who sued over a late concert start, accusing a lawyer for the plaintiffs of misleading the court. The pop icon’s lawyer Jeff Warshafsky, who also represents Live Nation, said in a court filing that the ticketholders’ attorney made a “false” statement to U.S. District Judge Hector Gonzalez in Brooklyn that a settlement had been reached in the case. Warshafsky said talks had occurred but that nothing was final.
- The University of California at Berkeley for a second time asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging campus antisemitism, arguing in a filing that new claims over its handling of recent pro-Palestine campus protests are premature because those incidents are still under investigation.
- Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on July 12, a day after former President Donald Trump is set for sentencing in his hush money case, a person familiar with the matter said.
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That’s how much a digital art collective says it paid for the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” only to discover that convicted pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli had copied it and was releasing the music to the public. Shkreli paid $2 million in 2015 for the album and gave it up to partially satisfy a $7.4 million forfeiture order after his 2017 conviction for defrauding hedge fund investors and scheming to defraud investors. The plaintiff PleasrDAO said thousands of people tuned in on Sunday to hear the album on a live stream that Shkreli called a “Wu tang official listening party.”
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“Gender identity is real.“
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–U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle in Tallahassee, who wrote in his ruling that parts of Florida’s ban of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender children and restrictions on gender-affirming healthcare for adults are unconstitutional. He ordered that it not be enforced. Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed the restrictions into law in 2023, banning people under the age of 18 from receiving puberty blockers or hormone therapy to treat gender dysphoria, though the law allowed children who had begun receiving gender-affirming care before May 17, 2023, to continue to do so with new restrictions. The judge ruled that certain elements violated the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law.
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- Los Angeles U.S. District Judge Sherilyn Peace Garnett will weigh Disney’s request to dismiss the lawsuit filed against it by actor Gina Carano alleging wrongful termination from Star Wars series “The Mandalorian.” Carano argued she was fired in 2021 for voicing conservative opinions on social media platforms including then-Twitter. Disney countered that it “has a constitutional right not to associate its artistic expression with Carano’s speech.”
- The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet is scheduled to hold a hearing titled, “The U.S. Intellectual Property System and the Impact of Litigation Financed by Third-Party Investors and Foreign Entities.” The witnesses include former U.S. Representative Bob Goodlatte; Paul Taylor, a visiting fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute; and Donald Kochan, executive director of the Law & Economics Center at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School.
- CFPB director Rohit Chopra is slated to testify before the U.S. Senate Banking Committee for the first time since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the CFPB’s funding mechanism in May in a constitutional challenge brought by the payday loan industry, handing a victory to President Joe Biden’s administration and a setback to the agency’s conservative critics.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $700 million to settle an investigation by 42 U.S. states and Washington, D.C., into its marketing of baby powder and other products that contained talc. The settlement resolves charges that Johnson & Johnson misled consumers into believing the talc products, which it sold for more than a century before discontinuing sales, were safe when it knew they were linked to cancer. J&J maintains its talc products are safe.
- A federal judge in Texas said the Biden administration improperly attempted to rewrite a federal law barring sex discrimination in schools by applying it to LGBTQ students. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth ruled in a lawsuit brought by the state’s Attorney General Ken Paxton that legal guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education three years ago was invalid because the agency lacked the power to adopt it and that it could not be enforced in Texas.
- Four more U.S. states – Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada and Washington – joined the DOJ’s lawsuit against Apple alleging the iPhone maker is monopolizing smartphone markets, the department said. Fifteen states and the District of Columbia joined the original lawsuit that was filed in March.
- U.S. manufacturing and chemical industry groups filed a lawsuit seeking to block a federal rule announced earlier this year setting the first-ever drinking water standard to protect people against toxic “forever chemicals.” In a brief petition against the EPA filed in the D.C. Circuit, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Chemistry Council said the rule is “arbitrary, capricious, and an abuse of discretion” and exceeds the EPA’s authority under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
- Paramount Pictures resolved a lawsuit that accused the studio of misusing another company’s motion-capture technology in the 2015 film “Terminator: Genesys,” according to a court filing in which Paramount and plaintiff Rearden asked a California federal court to dismiss the case.
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- Norton Rose Fulbright expanded its regulatory, investigations, securities and compliance practice with a 12-lawyer group, including partners Jeff Kalinowski, Eric Martin and Jeff Ziesman in St. Louis, and Laura Perlov in Denver. The team arrives from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner. (Norton Rose Fulbright)
- ArentFox Schiff hired a group of 17 technology and life sciences lawyers and specialists in Boston, including eight partners. The team comes from Burns & Levinson. (ArentFox Schiff)
- WilmerHale hired corporate partner Judith Hasko in Palo Alto as co-chair of its life sciences practice. Hasko previously was at Latham. (WilmerHale)
- Willkie added an 11-lawyer bankruptcy and restructuring team in Germany from Latham, including Jörn Kowalewski, Ulrich Klockenbrink and Hendrik Hauke. (Willkie)
- FisherBroyles brought on Devika Kewalramani in New York as a partner and its general counsel. She previously was leader of the law firm industry practice at Moses & Singer. (FisherBroyles)
- White & Case added D.C.-based partner Mark Davies to its IP practice and global technology industry group. He previously was at Orrick. (White & Case)
- Polsinelli hired real estate partner Vasiliki Yiannoulis in New York from Withers. (Polsinelli)
- Labaton Keller Sucharow brought on partner Lauren Ormsbee in New York to serve as a litigation team leader and member of its securities litigation group. She previously was at Bernstein Litowitz. (Labaton Keller Sucharow)
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