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U.S. House Republicans moved quickly to set up an investigative hearing following the assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania over the weekend. The chairman of the House oversight committee invited the director of the Secret Service to testify on July 22. The Senate Homeland Security Committee was said to have opened an investigation.
The attack on Trump raised questions about how the Republican presidential candidate is protected on the campaign trail and what caused the apparent security lapses at Saturday’s rally, our colleagues Gram Slattery and Alexandra Ulmer reported. Trump was shot in his right ear and suffered minor injuries, one rally attendee was killed and two other spectators were injured. The shooter, who was killed, left few clues as to any motive.
In a statement, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said “violence like this is an attack on our democracy.” Garland said the DOJ “will bring every available resource to bear to this investigation.” The FBI was seeking any digital media of the shooting as part of its ongoing probe. Trump on Sunday arrived in Milwaukee, where he is due to receive his party’s nomination at the Republican National Convention.
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- The FTC announced a suite of new actions taking aim at “unfair and deceptive practices” it said are illegally imposed on U.S. franchisees by their brand owners, such as requiring new fees not outlined in franchise contracts, or using contract provisions to discourage franchisees from speaking with regulators.
- The D.C. Circuit declined to revisit a decision that said the National Association of Realtors can’t shake DOJ subpoenas. The 2-1 panel order in April said U.S. antitrust enforcers could reopen an investigation of the real estate industry trade group despite having earlier closed a probe. The group separately will pay $418 million in a consumer class action settlement and throw out commission rules that home sellers said violated antitrust law.
- Donald Trump ally and former DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark lost his challenge in federal court to the D.C. bar’s misconduct probe stemming from his alleged role in helping the former president’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss. A D.C. Circuit panel said Clark’s subpoena fight was moot, and also that his effort to “remove” the bar’s case to U.S. court was untimely. An ethics panel in April in a preliminary ruling said Clark should face discipline. He has denied wrongdoing.
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Plaintiffs counsel are honing legal strategies to bring a new wave of lawsuits against the “troubled teen industry” — a billion-dollar business providing “tough love” at residential programs for youth with behavioral, mental health or other issues. In her latest column, Jenna Greene looks at why the cases are so hard to win — and where plaintiffs lawyers are starting to succeed.
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“The state’s withholding of the evidence
was willful and deliberate.“
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—New Mexico Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer, in announcing her ruling to dismiss involuntary manslaughter charges against Alec Baldwin on Friday, after prosecutors and police withheld evidence on the source of the live round that killed “Rust” cinematographer Halyna Hutchins in 2021. State prosecutors said they did not intend to mislead the court. Sommer dismissed the case with prejudice “to ensure the integrity of the judicial system and the efficient administration of justice.” Baldwin, represented by Quinn Emanuel’s Alex Spiro, left the courthouse without speaking with reporters.
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- Today, jury deliberations will resume in the securities fraud trial of Ozy Media and its co-founder Carlos Watson in Brooklyn federal court. A defense lawyer last week in closings said Watson was betrayed by a top deputy who lied to investors and forged documents to hide the startup’s dire finances. Prosecutors contend that Watson and Ozy falsified information about Ozy’s finances and audience size, fabricated contracts and inflated its earnings projections to dupe investors. Watson and Ozy have pleaded not guilty.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers in Oakland will weigh the fairness of a non-monetary settlement resolving stockholder derivative litigation against Apple over older iPhone shutdowns and slower performance. The settlement involves policy, corporate governance, and oversight reforms, the plaintiffs’ lawyers at Robbins and Weiss Law told the court. They have asked the court for $6 million in legal fees for their work.
- On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals in Newark, New Jersey federal court will hear about key legal issues as Apple plans to fight the government’s blockbuster antitrust suit. The lawsuit filed by the DOJ and 15 states in March alleges the iPhone maker monopolized the smartphone market, hurt smaller rivals and drove up prices. Apple told Neals in May that “far from being a monopolist, Apple faces fierce competition from well-established rivals.”
- Also on Wednesday, residential and commercial subscribers of the NFL’s “Sunday Ticket” programming are expected to defend their $4.7 billion verdict alleging they’ve been overcharged. The NFL’s lawyers at Wilkinson Stekloff and Covington have asked the court to throw out the jury verdict, calling the amount “nonsensical” and disputing the evidence. The plaintiffs are represented by lawyers from Susman Godfrey, Hausfeld and Langer, Grogan & Diver.
- On Thursday, U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith is expected to respond to Donald Trump’s request to largely pause the criminal case accusing him of illegally retaining classified documents. Trump said the case should be paused until a federal judge determines how the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling on presidential immunity affects the case.
- On Friday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Kennelly in Chicago will hold a fairness hearing to weigh hundreds of millions of dollars in settlement funds from major U.S. schools accused of short-changing financial aid for students and favoring wealthy applicants for admission. Among other schools, Brown, Yale and Columbia universities agreed to pay a combined $62 million to resolve claims against them. The settling schools have all denied any wrongdoing.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Amazon.com must comply with an EEOC subpoena investigating claims that the online retailer discriminated against pregnant warehouse workers. U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield in Manhattan rejected Amazon’s claims that the subpoena was too broad and sought irrelevant information. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
- U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam in California dismissed a lawsuit accusing the FDIC of improperly blocking nearly 170 former employees of the failed First Republic Bank from accessing at least $150 million of retirement funds. Gilliam said a federal law enacted after the 1980s savings-and-loan crisis gave the FDIC broad authority to act as receiver for failed banks, and prevented him from intervening.
- Two conservative federal judges in Texas separately blocked the Biden administration from enforcing new anti-discrimination protections for LGBTQ students, preventing the rule from taking effect in the Republican-led state and a school district represented by a Christian legal rights group. The rulings by U.S. District Judges Matthew Kacsmaryk and Reed O’Connor followed decisions by several other Republican-appointed judges.
- Citigroup’s lawyers at Jones Day asked a U.S. judge in Florida to dismiss a racial-discrimination lawsuit that claims the bank violated federal civil rights law by waiving ATM fees for customers of minority-owned banks. In a filing, Citigroup said its ATMs do not know users’ race, meaning that race did not matter when it charged fees. The plaintiffs are represented by Consovoy McCarthy, which often argues conservative causes.
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The U.S. Olympic Committee has the exclusive right to license Olympic–related terms and symbols, and brands should take close care over any marketing that mentions or plays off of the Olympic Games, write Jonathan Hyman and Jeff Van Hoosear of Knobbe Martens. Be wary of these cautionary tales.
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