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Hunter Biden will be the first child of a sitting president to be a criminal defendant when jury selection in his gun charges case begins today, coming just days after another historic first: the criminal conviction of a former U.S. president.
Hunter Biden has pleaded not guilty to three federal criminal charges related to his 2018 purchase of a .38-caliber Colt revolver. He was charged in September by U.S. Special Counsel David Weiss, a Trump appointee, with lying about his use of illegal drugs when he bought the handgun and with illegally possessing the weapon for 11 days in October 2018.
During the trial, federal prosecutors are likely to dissect lurid details of Biden’s crack cocaine addiction that could provide fuel for opponents of his father’s presidential reelection bid, reports Tom Hals.
Federal prosecutors have said in court filings they will present photos, testimony and messages to show that Hunter Biden was an illegal drug user around the time he bought the gun, but failed to disclose it as required on a federal gun purchase form. The government said it might call his ex-wife and solicit her testimony about incidents such as removing drugs from Hunter Biden’s car to protect their daughter.
Hunter Biden’s legal team has questioned what it means to be a knowing addict. They have said he had completed an 11-day rehabilitation stint and he could have believed he was sober when he ticked the box for “no” on the federal gun purchase form asking if he was an unlawful user of controlled substances.
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- Google cannot head off a jury trial over its alleged digital advertising dominance by unilaterally cutting the government a check, the DOJ told U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema in a filing. The government and a coalition of states responded to Google’s argument that only a judge — and not a jury — should hear the government’s lawsuit in Virginia federal court challenging the company’s power over online advertising.
- Rudy Giuliani should be stripped of his law license for his work on a failed lawsuit challenging former President Donald Trump’s 2020 U.S. election loss in Pennsylvania, a D.C. disciplinary board recommended. The board in a report found Giuliani violated two legal ethics rules by making sweeping claims of voter fraud without evidence in the Pennsylvania lawsuit, which a federal judge dismissed. Lawyers for Giuliani declined to comment.
- Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution. Some called for attacks on jurors, the execution of the judge, Justice Juan Merchan, or outright civil war and armed insurrection.
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That’s how much a U.S. jury awarded in damages at trial to electric-aircraft startup Zunum Aero, which accused aerospace giant Boeing of trade-secret theft. Zunum alleged Boeing stole its trade secrets to power competing hybrid-electric planes. Jurors agreed with Zunum that Boeing copied Zunum’s technology and drove it out of the emerging short-haul electric aircraft market after investing in the company. Boeing said the verdict “is not supported by the law or the fact.” At least part of the award could be tripled under trade secrets law.
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When Brian Wallach, then a 37-year-old federal prosecutor in Chicago, was diagnosed with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, doctors told him the same thing: “We can’t help you. Get ready to die.” Instead, Wallach, now an associate at Skadden, and his wife in 2019 launched a non-profit, I Am ALS, that’s successfully pushing for new research and treatments. The duo are the subject of a documentary now streaming on Amazon Prime. Jenna Greene in her latest column talks with Wallach and his Skadden boss Chuck Smith about the film and his work at the firm.
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“The law entrusts physicians with the profound weight of the recommendation to end the life of a child to preserve the life of the mother.“
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- Today, American Airlines will ask a Boston-based 1st Circuit panel to reverse a judge’s decision in May 2023 that sided with the DOJ and declared that the carrier’s now-scrapped U.S. Northeast partnership with JetBlue was anticompetitive. The judge’s ruling invalidating the partnership must be overturned because it threatens a wide range of other collaborations between competitors, lawyers for American Airlines said in its appeal.
- Also today, jurors at the trial of British tech pioneer Mike Lynch are expected to hear closing arguments in San Francisco on in the fraud case related to Hewlett-Packard’s $11 billion acquisition of his software company Autonomy in 2011. The Cambridge University-educated entrepreneur took the stand in his own defense at the trial, denying wrongdoing and telling jurors that HP botched the two companies’ integration.
- On Tuesday, baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, is due to appear in federal court in California, where he was charged with stealing more than $16 million from the Los Angeles Dodgers power-hitting pitcher to cover gambling debts. Ohtani has said he was a victim of theft by Mizuhara and that he never bet on baseball or knowingly paid a bookmaker. Mizuhara is planning to plead guilty.
- On Wednesday, the NFL “Sunday Ticket” antitrust trial kicks off in Los Angeles federal court, where residential and commercial subscribers of the weekly pro football package of games are seeking billions of dollars in alleged overcharges. The NFL has denied the allegations and defended its business practices for distributing what it has called a premium product. A group of current and former league executives have been named as witnesses.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Judge John Chun in Seattle will hold a status conference in the FTC’s antitrust case accusing Amazon of abusing its market power to minimize competition and keep prices artificially high. Amazon has denied the agency’s claims. The two sides have been feuding over whether Amazon failed to retain internal communication involving its top leaders. A trial is scheduled for October 2026.
- On Friday, Tesla is expected to ask a Delaware judge to reject a request for a $6 billion legal fee for the lawyers who represented a shareholder who sued and voided Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package from the automaker. Musk has blasted the request on his X platform, saying that “the lawyers who did nothing but damage Tesla want $6 billion.” Tesla shareholder Richard Tornetta sued Musk in 2018 over the pay package, which a Delaware judge nixed in January.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Meta’s Facebook said it will settle a lawsuit by the state of Texas that accused the social media giant of illegally using facial-recognition technology to collect biometric data of millions of Texans without their consent. Meta and Texas said in a court filing in Texas state court that they have agreed in principle to resolve the lawsuit, which marked the first major action under Texas’ biometric privacy law.
- U.S. consumers suing French luxury house Hermes expanded their lawsuit accusing the company of forcing buyers to spend thousands of dollars on other products before they can purchase one of the company’s famed Birkin bags. Another California resident joined the lawsuit in San Francisco federal court, becoming the third named plaintiff in the proposed class action that was first lodged in March.
- Amazon.com lost an early bid to dismiss claims that the company discriminated against a Black event producer by limiting her job duties and placing her on a performance improvement plan. The decision by U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian is among the first to apply an April ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Muldrow v. St. Louis that said workers do not have to show a concrete injury such as a pay cut, demotion or firing to pursue claims under the federal law banning employment discrimination.
- The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, accusing the student loan servicer of illegally collecting on student loans that have been discharged in bankruptcy and sending false information about consumers to credit reporting companies. The defendant, which serviced about $17.8 billion of student loans at the end of 2023, called the agency’s lawsuit “regulatory overreach.”
- A unanimous 2nd Circuit panel said the “unreasonably prolonged” detention of green card holders without a bail hearing when they face deportation after being convicted of crimes can violate their constitutional rights, but declined to set a strict time limit. The panel said it was unreasonable that a Jamaican man convicted of child sexual abuse and a Dominican citizen who pleaded guilty to assault were respectively detained for seven months and nearly two years without a chance to qualify for bail.
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- Paul Hastings said it has hired a large team of finance and restructuring partners from rival King & Spalding, including its global finance and restructuring practice co-leader Jennifer Daly. At least 10 other King & Spalding partners are joining Paul Hastings’ offices in Chicago, Houston, New York and Washington, D.C., the firm said. (Reuters)
- Marc Krickbaum, who served as U.S. deputy special counsel under Robert Hur in his investigation of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents, rejoined Winston & Strawn, the firm said. (Reuters)
- Kirkland added partner Michael Urschel in New York as leader of the firm’s structured finance and structured private credit practice. Urschel was previously at Milbank. (Kirkland)
- Snell & Wilmer added partners Aubyn Krulish and Bill Ojile in Denver. Krulish, who is joining the corporate and securities practice group, and Ojile, who is joining the special litigation and compliance practice group, were previously at Armstrong Teasdale. (Snell & Wilmer)
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