The U.S. Supreme Court kicked-off opinion season this morning with a pair of 6-3 rulings. The court ruled in favor of a Miami music producer in a legal fight with Warner Music over a song by rapper Flo Rida, finding that there is no time limit for recovering monetary damages in copyright cases that have been filed before the expiration of a statue of limitations.
Donald Trump watches as Stormy Daniels is questioned, May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Jane Rosenberg
Donald Trump‘s lawyer sought to catch inconsistencies in porn star Stormy Daniels‘ various tellings of an alleged 2006 sexual encounter with Trump, part of an effort on Thursday to undermine her credibility as a witness in the first criminal trial of a former U.S. president.
In nearly four hours of cross-examination on Tuesday and Thursday, defense lawyer Susan Necheles asked Daniels about her earlier testimony of the alleged encounter compared with versions in a book she wrote and interviews she gave over the years. Read more about what’s happening at the trial today.
For TikTok and its parent company ByteDance, the decision about where to file a petition contesting the constitutionality of a U.S. law requiring the Chinese company to divest the online microvideo platform was easy: The law itself says that only the D.C. Circuit can hear a challenge to the statute. That jurisdiction mandate, writes Alison Frankel, is not unprecedented in statutes with national security implications — but the TikTok venue mandate, Frankel says, raises some unique questions about how the D.C. appeals court will handle the case, and whether the U.S. Supreme Court will ultimately have the authority to review the appellate court’s ruling.
