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U.S. Attorney Breon Peace spoke to our colleague Luc Cohen a day after former U.S. Congressman George Santos pleaded guilty to fraud and identity theft charges.
Peace, the top federal prosecutor for Long Island and the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, said that the deal under which Santos pleaded guilty came together recently – and Santos’ willingness to spend at least two years in prison was critical for prosecutors.
Peace is now gearing up for a likely prosecution of alleged Mexican drug lord Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada. A motion is pending to move Zambada, who was arrested last month in a dramatic operation at a New Mexico airfield, from Texas to Brooklyn to face drug trafficking charges in the same court where Zambada’s fellow Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and former Mexican security minister Genaro Garcia Luna were convicted.
Read more of the interview with Peace.
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- A Clifford Chance spokesperson said the firm is “in shock” as divers search for partner Christopher Morvillo and his wife Neda, who are among six missing passengers of a sunken yacht off Italy’s coast. Morvillo was traveling with his longtime client, British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, just weeks after helping him avoid conviction in a 12-year legal saga.
- A federal judge allowed a lawsuit to move ahead that alleges mandatory membership in the Wisconsin State Bar violates the free speech rights of members who object to certain initiatives of the association including diversity programs. The lawsuit was brought by Daniel Suhr, a Wisconsin attorney represented by the conservative legal advocacy group Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty.
- Takeshige Sugimoto, a former partner at international law firm Bird & Bird, has agreed to a legal practice ban in England after admitting he abused his position of seniority over a junior colleague by sending her inappropriate WhatsApp messages.
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That’s how much a bill adding 66 new federal judges would cost taxpayers over a decade, according to new estimates from the Congressional Budget Office. The U.S. Senate has unanimously endorsed the bipartisan JUDGES Act, which would be the first major expansion of the judiciary since 1990, and the bill is currently awaiting consideration in the U.S. House of Representatives. Nate Raymond has more on the plan.
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Disney this week dropped its controversial bid to force a grieving widower to arbitrate a wrongful death claim, but there’s a new candidate for the most aggressive corporate motion to compel arbitration. Alison Frankel has the story of an educational tech company’s bid to force parents to arbitrate class action claims that it breached state and federal laws by illicitly harvesting and selling data from kids whose schools use the company’s products. Its rationale: The schools were acting as the parents’ agents when they signed contracts with the company, so the parents are bound by mandatory arbitration clauses in those contracts. The parents say that’s not what the law says – and now they have crucial backing from the FTC.
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- U.S. District Judge George O’Toole Jr will hold a hearing in the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after an appeals court directed him to investigate whether two jurors in his 2015 trial were biased and should not have been seated, creating potential grounds to overturn his death sentence.
- U.S. District Judge Thomas Thrash Jr is holding a hearing in Atlanta in a lawsuit by an anti-affirmative action group backed by Edward Blum that secured an order blocking venture capital fund Fearless Fund from making grants to Black women-owned businesses. Blum’s group American Alliance for Equal Rights last year alleged the Fearless Fund was violating a 19th century federal law that bars racial bias in private contracts.
- The 9th Circuit is hearing oral arguments as it considers Idaho’s appeal of a district court’s injunction against a state law barring gender-affirming care for minors. The U.S. Supreme Court in April granted Republican Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador’s request to narrow the preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Lynn Winmill, who ruled that the law violated the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection under the law, while the state pursues an appeal.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- The state of Utah filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court challenging federal control over more than a third of the land within its borders, saying government policies are restricting access to those lands for recreation and energy and infrastructure development.
- A nationwide group of doctors and scientists involved in diagnostic testing has asked a court to block a new FDA rule that would allow the federal government to regulate tests developed and used in-house by laboratories. In the lawsuit, the Association for Molecular Pathology said the regulation would impose tens of billions of dollars in new costs on laboratories.
- U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland, has thrown out an assessment by a federal agency governing how endangered marine species should be protected from oil and gas drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Boardman ruled the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Services’ so-called “biological opinion” did not adequately address risks species face.
- Walt Disney Co agreed to have a court decide a wrongful death lawsuit brought by a widower in Florida, after earlier arguing the case belonged in arbitration because the man signed up for a trial of streaming service Disney+.
- The 9th Circuit said Google must face a revived lawsuit by Google Chrome users who claimed the company collected their personal information without permission after they chose not to synchronize their browsers with their Google accounts. The ruling said the judge who dismissed the proposed class action should have assessed whether Chrome users consented to letting Google collect their data.
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