A New York judge partially lifted a gag order on Donald Trump following the presidential candidate’s conviction on criminal charges stemming from an effort to influence the 2016 election by buying a porn star’s silence. Read more.
Trump’s lawyers argued the gag order was stifling his campaign speech and that it might limit his ability to respond to attacks from President Joe Biden during their upcoming debate on June 27. Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office said limits on Trump’s speech about trial witnesses were no longer needed. But they urged Justice Juan Merchan to keep in place restrictions on his comments about jurors, court staff and individual prosecutors, citing risks to their safety.
Julian Assange holds a document at a location given as London, Britain, in this still image from video released June 25, 2024. “@wikileaks” via X/Handout via REUTERS
The deal marks the end of a legal saga that has seen Assange spend more than five years in a British high-security jail and seven years holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London as he fought accusations of sex crimes in Sweden and battled extradition to the U.S., where he faced 18 criminal charges.
An increasingly nasty tussle is underway for control of billions of dollars in claims arising from the 2022 implosion of crypto exchange FTX. The dispute is pitting lawyers who are pursuing claims within the confines of FTX’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware against attorneys who are leading consolidated class actions on behalf of FTX’s customers in Miami federal court. Alison Frankel digs into the feud, writing that it boils down to a critical question of law:Which court – and which lawyers — should be in charge of claims by FTX’s defrauded customers?
