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Vice President Kamala Harris, whom Joe Biden has endorsed to replace him on the Democratic presidential ticket, started her political career as a California prosecutor who blended criminal justice reforms with a tough stance on some crimes, reports Luc Cohen.
Over more than a dozen years as San Francisco’s district attorney and then as California’s attorney general, Harris took some positions welcomed by the party’s left flank, including opposition to the death penalty and staking out a hard line during negotiations with big banks over home foreclosure abuses. Her stance on the death penalty was tested after police officer Isaac Espinoza was killed in 2004. Despite pressure from several California Democrats to bring the death penalty against Espinoza’s killer, Harris held firm and sought a life sentence.
But she rankled progressive critics with other moves, including a policy of criminally prosecuting parents of children who skipped school, a decision to charge a mentally ill woman with assaulting police, and rejecting a request for DNA testing from a Black man on death row who says he was wrongfully convicted of murder.
Her mixed record will likely provide fodder for Donald Trump to paint her as soft on crime. Harris has characterized her approach as being “smart on crime,” and has spoken of the importance of preventing and punishing crime while also protecting the rights of defendants and curbing excesses.
Read more on Harris’ record as a prosecutor.
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- The Los Angeles Superior Court was closed on Monday after a ransomware attack affected its systems. The court shut down all 36 courthouse locations in the county as court personnel and security experts worked to repair network systems that were “severely impacted” by a ransomware attack that was detected late last week.
- Former Attorney General Eric Holder and his law firm, Covington & Burling, will conduct vetting of potential running mates for Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
- Hunter Biden’s criminal tax trial is set to begin on Sept. 9, according to a court filing. Biden is charged with failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, while allegedly spending millions of dollars on drugs, escorts, exotic cars and other big-ticket items. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 16 Republican state attorneys general and Texas Senator Ted Cruz asked the U.S. Supreme Court last week to reconsider its 90-year-old precedent shielding federal agency commissioners from being fired at the whim of the U.S. president. Alison Frankel has the story on new amicus briefs urging the justices to grant review in a “seismic” case that could impact the most important, influential agencies in the U.S.
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“What license do we have to delve into the statutory history on this?“
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—U.S. Circuit Judge William Kayatta, who was among the judges on a 1st Circuit panel who seemed skeptical of the DOJ’s arguments as it urged the court to overturn a judge’s ruling that made it tougher for the government to win a lawsuit against Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. DOJ attorney Daniel Winik said that ruling was based on an interpretation of anti-kickback law that ran contrary to the goals of lawmakers who amended the law in 2010. But Kayatta and others on the panel questioned whether the DOJ was asking the court to look past the statute to what a few lawmakers said.
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- A pre-trial conference is scheduled in New York state court in Manhattan ahead of the Sept. 23 trial of Steve Bannon, the onetime advisor to Donald Trump, on charges of defrauding donors to the “We Build the Wall” fundraising scheme to privately finance the former U.S. president’s signature barrier along the U.S. southern border. According to the indictment, Bannon allegedly concealed his role in diverting hundreds of thousands of dollars to the drive’s chief executive.
- U.S. District Judge Kelley Brisbon Hodge in Philadelphia faces a self-imposed deadline for her ruling on the FTC’s noncompete ban. Hodge heard arguments on July 10 and indicated she would rule by July 23 on whether to issue a preliminary injunction. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Ada Brown in Dallas partially blocked the rule. Brown said the FTC lacked the power to adopt broad rules prohibiting practices that it deems unfair methods of competition.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- Haleon, a GSK spinoff that makes Robitussin, settled a consumer lawsuit that claimed its “non-drowsy” cough and flu medicine causes drowsiness, agreeing to pay $4.5 million and remove the “non-drowsy” claim from its packaging and marketing.
- Elon Musk’s X social media platform was hit with a trademark lawsuit by PR firm Multiply. The complaint said that X causes consumer confusion by using the “X” trademark for social media marketing services that compete with Multiply’s.
- The 1st Circuit appeared likely to reject former DraftKings executive Michael Hermalyn’s bid to overturn an injunction that severely restricts the type of work he can do after he joined rival Fanatics. The judges appeared skeptical of Hermalyn’s contention that the broad prohibition on non-competes in his new home state of California should have been applied in the dispute.
- A former unit of Bayer is squaring off in California this week against a petcare startup that claims the company tried to block competition for animal tick and flea treatments. Jurors in San Jose federal court heard opening statements in the antitrust case, which was brought by Tevra Brands against Bayer Healthcare.
- U.S. District Judge William Young in Boston rejected an industry-backed bid to block enforcement of a Massachusetts law banning the sale of pork from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, saying a federal law governing slaughterhouses does not preempt it. The judge rejected arguments by Missouri-based pork producer Triumph Foods and out-of-state pig farmers that the state law conflicted with a federal law regulating slaughterhouse inspections.
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- Erika Mayshar is leaving McDermott to join Greenberg Traurig, where she will be the new chair of the tax-exempt organizations and philanthropy practice. She’ll work out of the firm’s Orange County and Los Angeles offices. (Greenberg Traurig)
- Hogan Lovells added Jason Downs as a D.C.based partner. Downs previously was co-chair of the state attorneys general group and the environmental social and governance group at Brownstein Hyatt. (Hogan Lovells)
- Wilson Sonsini rehired partner Brandon Gantus in San Francisco, where he will co-lead the firm’s employee benefits and compensation practice. He most recently was at Freshfields. (Wilson Sonsini)
- Mintz hired corporate partner Thomas Earnest in San Francisco. He was founder and managing partner of Matterhorn Legal. (Mintz)
- McKool Smith brought on trial partner Chad Hummel in Los Angeles. He most recently at Sidley (McKool Smith)
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Some of the most exciting artificial intelligence advancements are happening in a world of connected devices, whether it be connected or autonomous automobiles, mobile phones, virtual reality headsets or old-fashioned laptops. Michael Cole of Mercedes-Benz Research and Development North America compares U.S. and EU approaches to AI regulation and explores how multinational companies and regulators can navigate the way forward.
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