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On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit heard argument in two cases about when the president can target private attorneys. The cases stemmed from President Donald Trump's executive orders last year singling out specific law firms and lawyers that the president claimed posed a national security risk. But the arguments revealed how Trump's actions were nothing more than retaliation and censorship for anyone who dares to represent Democrats in court or challenge the administration's policies.

A manager who was sacked after 45 years at the Murphy construction group when the firm learned its machines, staff and materials were used to build a house for his son has lost his claim for unfair dismissal.

Jermaine Jackson, a Jackson 5 co-founder and older brother of Michael Jackson, has been ordered to pay Rita Barrett $6.5 million in damages after failing to respond to a rape lawsuit she filed in 2023, TMZ reports and court records confirm. Barrett alleged in the lawsuit that Jackson broke into her residence and raped her in 1988. Her lawyers failed to track Jackson down, but eventually received court approval to serve him legal notice in The Los Angeles Times.

The family row that has rocked one of Ireland's major hotel chains has taken a fresh twist, with a new lawsuit alleging lawyers and financial advisers acting for hotelier Noel O'Callaghan were covertly recorded by his son.

Well, the significanceand why this is importantis that the acting attorney general, Todd Blanch, who was the personal attorney for the president back during the Jack Smith investigations over the last couple of years, is now essentially switching sides, Perez replied, adding: And he potentially could be overseeing cases like the one that is being led by Joe DiGenova, a former U.S. Attorney down in Miami.

“I am not going to rubber-stamp this settlement, and I cannot rubber-stamp this settlement,” the judge said, Bloomberg reported. “Is Mr. Musk getting some kind of special treatment in this case?” Sooknanan was also quoted as saying.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted to approve the settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit stemming from the Sept. 7, 2022, killings of Benison and Maria Tran by then Deputy Devin Williams. The litigation revealed that Williams failed a pre-employment psychological evaluation before the county hired him and that deputies - during a prior 911 incident with the deputy and the victims - doctored a 911 report, turned off their body cameras, and advised the victim not to file a restraining order against the deputy, which would have limited his ability to work.

In August 2022, Karen Budd-Falen, a private attorney at the time who now serves as the third highest-ranking official at the Interior Department, sent a 53-page appeal challenging a Bureau of Land Management decision to allow a conservation nonprofit to continue grazing bison on public land in central Montana while expanding its access to new areas.

Sergeant Stephen O'Brien told the Cahersiveen District Court that Mr Menolascina had used the blade of scissors on a Swiss-Army style knife to make "cutting strokes" to 28 items of clothing valued at €27,869 at the Quills Woollen Market in Kenmare on May 10. The clothing included 22 sheepskin coats, a tweed jacket, two coats and a top. The items were unsuitable for resale.

A businessman has sued the Garda Commissioner for wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution after being repeatedly charged with breaching a restraining order, only for each case to be either dismissed or withdrawn.

Prosecutors say short-seller Andrew Left manipulated the market and deceived retail investors. Two stock analysts who disagreed with Left's negative reports on stocks have testified. Left's defense has pressed the idea that disagreeing on stocks is normal and doesn't indicate fraud.

The Osaka High Court ruled on 8 May that the country's family registration system, the koseki, a mandatory national record-keeping system tracking births, deaths and marriages, violates Japan's constitutional equality protections by only offering "male" and "female" as gender options.

Reports out of Paul Weiss bear all the hallmarks of a stealth layoff, with litigation associates being let go for "performance" issues that never came up before.

Musk's lawyers used cross-examination to attack Altman's credibility, citing testimony from former OpenAI figures including Mira Murati, Ilya Sutskever and Helen Toner, along with older criticism from his career as a tech executive and investor. Musk's lawyers also highlighted OpenAI's dealings with companies in which Altman holds a financial stake, including Stripe, Cerebras and Helion.

Then the Callais decision dropped on April 29. The 6-3 majority of the Court did nothing to delay its implementation until after the current election cycle. Indeed, the Court waived its customary 32-day pause before making decisions final, thereby ensuring states could race to implement it right away, as Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson noted in an angry dissent from the order.

Tiger Woods will have to submit his prescription drug records to law enforcement as part of the investigation into his March 27 traffic crash, a judge ruled Tuesday. But those records will not be made public under the state's legendarily broad public-records law after Martin County judge Darren Steele ordered that the documents be made available to just select people connected to the court case.

Erik Fleming is now the fourth person to be sentenced in connection with Perry's death. He had been facing up to 25 years in prison but got a much lesser sentenced because he cooperated with prosecutors. As part of sentence, the 56-year-old will also have to complete three years of supervised release after his 24 months behind bars.