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Donald Trump’s angry and incessant broadsides against the judges handling the criminal and civil suits against him are inspiring widespread calls for violence, our colleagues Peter Eisler, Ned Parker and Joseph Tanfani write in a new special report. Trump’s language can signal to his followers that judges are no different from partisan rivals worthy of attack, threatening the legitimacy of the independent judiciary, experts on political violence told Reuters.
In a review of commenters’ posts on three pro-Trump websites, including the former president’s own Truth Social platform, Reuters documented more than 150 posts since March 1 that called for physical violence against the judges handling three of his highest-profile cases — two state judges in Manhattan and one in Georgia overseeing a criminal case in which Trump is accused of illegally seeking to overturn the state’s 2020 election results.
Those posts were part of a larger pool of hundreds identified by Reuters that used hostile, menacing and, in some cases, racist or sexualized language to attack the judges, but stopped short of explicitly calling for violence against them. Trump himself hasn’t called for violence on judges. Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung did not respond to specific questions about the posts. Trump has a right to criticize what he called “un-Constitutional witch hunts,” Cheung said.
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- White law students are more likely to land full scholarships and less likely to receive scholarships covering less than half their tuition compared with their non-white classmates, according to new data from the American Bar Association. White students were awarded 70% of the full-tuition scholarships given by law schools this year but comprise about 61% of the national pool of full-time law students, the ABA figures show.
- Plaintiffs’ firm Simmons Hanly Conroy was hit with a lawsuit by plastic pipe manufacturing giant J&M Eagle, which accused the firm of suppressing evidence and using perjured or falsified testimony and statements in asbestos litigation. The lawsuit in Chicago federal court filed by Steptoe marked the latest attempted counterstrike by a defendant against the asbestos plaintiffs bar. Simmons Hanly called the allegations against it “baseless.”
- An NLRB administrative judge opted not to delve into Starbucks’ claims that the agency’s structure is unconstitutional, while ruling that the coffee chain committed various labor law violations at a unionized New Orleans store. Judge Geoffrey Carter said he lacks the authority to rule on constitutional issues, and the claims made by Starbucks — echoing arguments by SpaceX, Amazon and Trader Joe’s in other cases — are “a matter for the federal courts to decide.”
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That’s how many liens have been filed since 2019 in Texas by more than two dozen companies against projects developed by SpaceX and its contractors, according to a Reuters investigation from Marisa Taylor and Steve Stecklow. Combined, the liens have sought payments totaling more than $2.5 million. SpaceX didn’t respond to requests from Reuters for comment. Reuters couldn’t determine for every lien whether outstanding bills were owed by SpaceX or by one of its contractors who commissioned work or materials on its behalf. Either way, the liens are a legal mechanism through which creditors can secure claims against SpaceX for work done at its properties. A former Texas official described SpaceX as “the big bully on the playground.”
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Tesla threatened to fire law firm in bid to block Musk pay critic – court document
Delaware law professor Charles Elson accused electric car-maker Tesla on Monday of threatening to fire longtime Tesla outside counsel from Holland & Knight if Elson — a Holland & Knight consultant for nearly 30 years — proceeded with plans to file a friend-of-the-court brief criticizing the company’s bid to restore CEO Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package. Elson claims Tesla’s bullying of the law firm forced him to resign from Holland & Knight to spare the firm from retaliation. The firm told Alison Frankel that it was not bullied or coerced but decided Elson’s brief “was inconsistent with the firm’s obligations to its client, Tesla.”
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Uber-backed proposal to cap Nevada lawyers’ contingency fees survives initial challenge
A Nevada ballot initiative that would impose the most sweeping and draconian contingency fee limit in the United States has survived its first legal challenge. District Court Judge James Russell of Carson City ruled on Friday that the ballot initiative to cap contingency fees in all civil cases at 20% complies with Nevada requirements for petitions seeking signatures from Nevada voters. Opponents of the fee cap vowed to appeal the decision to the Nevada Supreme Court. Alison Frankel has the story.
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“He said to me, ‘This is a disaster, a total disaster. Women are going to hate me.“
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—Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen, testifying that the Republican presidential candidate was furious that porn star Stormy Daniels was shopping a story in 2016 about an alleged sexual encounter with him, telling Cohen it would be catastrophic for his campaign. Cohen on Monday began testifying at Trump’s trial in New York state criminal court in Manhattan, where Trump was charged in a scheme to buy Daniels’ silence about the alleged 2006 encounter. Trump’s defense has suggested a payment to Daniels could have been made to spare Trump and his family embarrassment, not to boost his campaign. Cohen testified that Trump appeared solely concerned with the effect on his White House bid.
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- The FTC said it will host an online seminar to provide an overview of the agency’s new rule banning noncompetes. The agency said it will share information about compliance with the rule, which is set to take effect on Sept. 4. Several lawsuits are challenging the rule, and the measure is likely vulnerable, according to experts who said some courts have grown increasingly skeptical of federal agencies’ power to adopt broad rules.
- 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, prosecutors said last week.
- Jack Teixeira, a member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who leaked classified military documents on topics including the war in Ukraine, is due to appear for a military justice proceeding to face new charges. Teixeira pleaded guilty in March to charges brought by the DOJ and will be sentenced to at least 11 years in prison. The Air Force said it would pursue charges against Teixeira in the military justice system over alleged misconduct related to his duties.
- A 10th Circuit panel will consider whether to revive a lawsuit by six members of the University of Wyoming’s chapter of the sorority Kappa Kappa Gamma challenging its admission of a transgender woman as a sorority sister. Lawyers from Schaerr Jaffe are on the team fighting the sorority. The sorority is represented by lawyers from Vorys Sater, who told the appeals court that “courts have a limited role to play in the governance of private, voluntary organizations.”
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- China-based Hesai Group sued the U.S. government in D.C. federal court for adding the maker of lidar light sensors to a list of companies allegedly working with Beijing’s military. Hesai, whose technology help self-driving cars and driver-assistance systems gain a three-dimensional map of the road, was added to the list by the U.S. Department of Defense in January along with over a dozen other companies. Lawyers from Akin filed the lawsuit for Hesai.
- Massachusetts’ attorney general has taken Uber and Lyft to trial over allegations that the ride-share companies are misclassifying thousands of drivers in the state as independent contractors to avoid treating them as more costly employees. The non-jury trial in Boston comes amid broader legal and political battles over the status of drivers for app-based companies whose services fuel the U.S. gig worker economy.
- Sung Kook “Bill” Hwang tried to trick all of Wall Street, a federal prosecutor told a Manhattan federal jury, as the trial on charges stemming from the 2021 collapse of Hwang’s $36 billion fund Archegos Capital Management began. Prosecutors have alleged Hwang and Archegos lied to Wall Street banks to secure billions of dollars of funding that they then used to inflate stock prices. Former Archegos Chief Financial Officer Patrick Halligan, who is also on trial, enabled the scheme, they claim. Hwang and Halligan have pleaded not guilty.
- The Biden administration asked a federal judge to terminate key aspects of a Clinton-era settlement agreement that established minimum standards for housing unaccompanied migrant children in detention facilities. HHS in a filing in Los Angeles federal court said it should be released from the settlement after it adopted regulations last month in response to an explosion in the number of detained children and backlash from Republican-led states.
- Apple’s Latham team asked a U.S. judge to knock out a proposed consumer class-action lawsuit claiming the iPhone maker overcharges customers by monopolizing cloud storage for users of its devices. The lawsuit from Hagens Berman alleged Apple violated antitrust law by coercing customers to use the company’s iCloud service to back up core data and device setting files. Apple in a filing called the claims “implausible.”
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- Paul Weiss brought on M&A partner Chelsea Darnell in the firm’s New York office from Kirkland. (Paul Weiss)
- Akin added Houston-based energy transactions partner Trent Bridges from Sidley Austin. (Akin)
- Haynes and Boone added IP partner Jeff Morton to the firm’s Orange County, California, office. Morton previously led the life-sciences group at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch. (Haynes and Boone)
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The DOJ is expected to continue focusing federal False Claims Act enforcement on cybersecurity, pandemic fraud, health care fraud and other areas in 2024 and beyond, write Scott McBride and Rasmeet Chahil of Lowenstein Sandler. The department also recently used that civil tool to go after alleged violations by private equity investors and venture capital funds involving their portfolio companies, the authors write. Read more on the DOJ’s priorities and trends.
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