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  • Trump Lawyers Say Posting $464 Million Bond ‘Impossible’ in NY Fraud Case

    03/18/2024 2:54:43 PM PDT · by NYer · 51 replies
    Epoch News ^ | March 18, 2024 | Catherine Yang
    Attorneys for former President Donald Trump urged a New York appeals court again on March 18 to remove or lower the $464 million bond President Trump must pay in less than a week as he tries to appeal a more than $350 million judgment from a civil fraud case.“Enforcing an impossible bond requirement as a condition of appeal would inflict manifest irreparable injury on Defendants, and ‘defeat or impair [this Court’s] appellate jurisdiction,’” they argued.The New York Attorney General’s office, which brought the civil fraud lawsuit, argued the appeals court had no authority to do so, while the defense pointed...
  • Texas lawsuit accuses Colony Ridge of 'pernicious business model'

    03/16/2024 6:10:32 AM PDT · by Twotone · 11 replies
    The Blaze ^ | March 14, 2024 | Alex Nitzberg
    The state of Texas has lodged a lawsuit targeting Colony Ridge for allegedly perpetrating a scheme that involves selling properties while misleading buyers about their condition. "Colony Ridge, Inc. (CRI), Colony Ridge Development, LLC (CR Development), Colony Ridge BV, LLC (CR Bella Vista), Colony Ridge Land, LLC (CR Land), T-Rex Management, Inc. (T-Rex), (collectively, 'Colony Ridge') and their owner, John Harris, have built a sprawling community northeast of Houston on a foundation of false, misleading, and deceptive sales, marketing, and lending practices," the suit claims. The suit describes a "pernicious business model" in which a high rate of defaults perpetuates...
  • Conservative publication launches $1 million lawsuit against celebrity climate scientist

    03/16/2024 6:45:38 AM PDT · by Twotone · 5 replies
    Just the News ^ | March 14, 2024 | Kevin Killough
    The National Review is suing Penn State climate celebrity scientist Michael Mann for $1 million. “We cannot recover the time and effort that Mann has wasted, but we can recover more than a million of the dollars that we have lost defending our unalienable right to free speech,” the Review’s editors wrote Wednesday. Mann won a defamation suit against two conservative writers who had criticized his “hockey stick” graph, which other climate scientists have questioned. Mann and his colleagues say the research demonstrates a sharp rise in unprecedented temperatures in the past few decades. In 2012, Rand Simberg posted an...
  • Former Horry County police officer ‘violently thrown backwards’ trying to help pilot after 2021 Socastee crash, lawsuit claims

    03/14/2024 3:16:27 PM PDT · by PilotDave · 18 replies
    Wbtw ^ | 14 Feb 2024 | Adam Benson
    A former Horry County police officer sustained life-altering injuries while responding to a 2021 plane crash that was later blamed on faulty maintenance, according to a recently filed lawsuit. Kevin McLean was among the first responders to a May 21, 2021, plane crash just off Socastee Boulevard in which the pilot, 60-year-old James Marklin Harper, was killed.
  • Female Athletes Sue NCAA Over Transgender Competitors in Sports

    03/14/2024 10:34:26 AM PDT · by CFW · 19 replies
    The Free Press ^ | 3/14/24 | Francesca Block
    Over a dozen female athletes are suing the National Collegiate Athletics Association for letting transgender athletes compete against them and use female locker rooms in college sports. At the center of the class-action lawsuit is Lia Thomas, the trans athlete who dominated the 2022 NCAA Swimming Championships while a student at the University of Pennsylvania. The suit states that both the NCAA and Georgia Tech, which hosted the event, knowingly violated Title IX, the federal statute that guarantees equal opportunity for men and women in college education and sports. The lawsuit, the first federal action of its kind, seeks to...
  • Eagles Lyrics Case Abruptly Dropped Following New Henley Evidence

    03/06/2024 7:31:37 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 27 replies
    UltimateClassicRock ^ | 3/6 | Bryan Rolli
    Prosecutors on Wednesday abruptly dropped the charges against three men accused of stealing handwritten Eagles lyrics from Don Henley after the bandleader reportedly failed to disclose thousands of pages of evidence on time. The news came to light after Henley waived his attorney-client privilege, thus granting prosecutors access to 6,000 pages of previously undisclosed materials, including emails between Henley, Eagles manager Irving Azoff and their legal team. Assistant District Attorney Aaron Ginandes wrote in a letter to the court that the defense should have had an opportunity to cross-examine the prosecution about these materials. "It is now clear that both...
  • Former Twitter executives sue Elon Musk for more than $128 million in severance

    03/04/2024 9:51:36 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Former senior executives of Twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments. Twitter's former CEO Parag Agrawal, Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal, Chief Legal Counsel Vijaya Gadde and General Counsel Sean Edgett claim in the lawsuit filed Monday that they were fired without a reason on the day in 2022 that Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter, which he later rebranded X. Because he didn't want to pay their severance, the executives say Musk "made up fake cause and appointed employees of his various...
  • Hunter Biden’s Chinese legal ‘client’ threatens to sue unless first son pays back $1 million

    03/03/2024 2:55:06 PM PST · by packagingguy · 31 replies
    The New York Post ^ | March 3, 2024 | Miranda Devine
    Hunter Biden was paid $1 million by Chinese firm CEFC to act as attorney for their employee, Dr Patrick Ho, but now Ho is threatening to sue the first son within seven days unless he gets the money back — because he claims Hunter did no legal work for him. Ho sent a legal letter to Hunter last week requesting that their attorney-client agreement be terminated immediately and threatening legal action unless he receives a detailed list of services provided by Hunter and reimbursement for the unused funds, as laid out in the 2017 contract. Ho’s letter, sent by Hong...
  • New York AG Letitia James Sues JBS Foods, the world's largest beef producer for misleading the public about environmental impact

    03/03/2024 8:36:31 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 120 replies
    X/Twitter Post ^ | 02/28/2024 | Letitia James
    I'm suing @JBSFoodsUSA, the world's largest beef producer, for misleading the public about its environmental impact. The beef industry is one of the largest contributors to climate change, and JBS has falsely advertised its commitment to sustainability and endangered our planet. — NY AG JAMES @NewYorkStateAG 1 53 PM · Feb 28, 2024 ·
  • Lawyers who sunk Elon Musk's big pay package are now asking for nearly $6 billion worth of Tesla stock. Musk doesn't seem happy.

    03/02/2024 6:52:17 AM PST · by packagingguy · 23 replies
    Business Insider ^ | Mar 2, 2024 | Lloyd Lee
    Lawyers for a Tesla shareholder successfully argued in a Delaware court that Elon Musk doesn't deserve a $55-billion compensation package for his work at the EV company. Instead, some of that compensation package should go to them in attorney fees, the lawyers argued to a Delaware judge. The attorneys argued in a Friday court filing that the fee for their litigation work amounts to about 11% of the pay package. That amounts to about $5.96 billion worth of Tesla shares based on the current price of the company's stock at $202.64 per share. Chancellor Kathleen McCormick of the Delaware Chancery...
  • Judge blocks California from suing makers of 'abnormally dangerous' guns

    02/22/2024 4:34:13 AM PST · by BBQToadRibs2 · 21 replies
    Reuters ^ | 02/22/2024 | Nate Raymond
    Feb 21 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday blocked California's attorney general from enforcing a new law that allows residents, the state and local governments to sue members of the firearms industry that manufacture or sell "abnormally dangerous" guns. U.S. District Judge Andrew Schopler in San Diego sided with, opens new tab a firearms industry trade association in finding that part of a gun control measure signed into law by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 was likely unconstitutional. It is the first ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of California's Firearm Industry Responsibility Act. The law was...
  • Trump can raise the money for an appeal without liquidating his assets

    02/21/2024 5:22:46 PM PST · by rlmorel · 21 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 2/21/2024 | Michael Applebaum
    <p>Mar-a-Lago, just one of 45’s properties, is estimated to be worth between $4.375 billion and $17.5 billion...</p>
  • Texas AG Ken Paxton Suing to Shut Down Nonprofit He Alleges Is Facilitating Illegal Immigration

    02/21/2024 3:47:48 PM PST · by CFW · 12 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 2/21/24 | Ryan Morgan
    Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has asked a state judge to shut down a nonprofit organization that operates a network of shelters in Texas, alleging that the organization appears to be facilitating illegal border crossings and human smuggling. The Republican attorney general began investigating the Catholic nonprofit Annunciation House earlier this month over potential violations of state law. The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) issued a Feb. 7 “request to examine” the nonprofit’s records, including documents detailing what services it provides to immigrants who are in the country legally or illegally. According to Mr. Paxton, Annunciation House refused to...
  • Lawsuit Filed by MH Resident Challenges County’s ‘Domestic Violence Protocol’

    02/21/2024 1:24:57 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    Gilroy Dispatch ^ | February 13, 2024 | Joe Dworetzky
    It was a Valentine’s Day from hell. According to a complaint filed Feb. 9 in federal court, Tom Mosgrove spent Valentine’s Day in 2022 in Santa Clara County jail after his then-wife called the police and reported that he pushed her into a closet and blocked her from leaving. Tom Mosgrove claims that he was not an instigator of the incident and never touched his wife nor did anything of a violent or threatening nature that night, but the police arrested him anyway because of a county policy that allegedly requires someone to be arrested when police respond to a...
  • Texas AG Paxton sues NGO aiding migrants, accuses it of encouraging illegal immigration

    02/20/2024 8:56:31 PM PST · by Tench_Coxe · 23 replies
    FIRST ON FOX: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing a Catholic non-governmental organization operating in the state and wants to have its registration revoked, alleging that it is encouraging illegal immigration and operating a stash house for those entering illegally.Paxton has sued Annunciation House — a Catholic nonprofit set up in the 1980s — and is seeking to revoke its registration to operate in Texas.Annunciation House describes itself as a volunteer organization that "offers hospitality to migrants, immigrants, and refugees in El Paso, Texas."
  • Transgender Muslim inmate serving 55 years for killing baby files $150K lawsuit for not being allowed to wear hijab

    02/20/2024 12:54:52 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 60 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 02/20/2024 | Jamie Joseph
    A transgender inmate serving a 55-year sentence for strangling her 11-month-old stepdaughter to death filed a civil lawsuit against the prison chaplain for allegedly prohibiting her from wearing a hijab outside her immediate bed quarters, despite identifying as Muslim. Autumn Cordellionè, also known as Jonathan C. Richardson, is currently serving out her sentence at the Branchville Correctional Facility, an Indiana Department of Correction state prison for men. According to the lawsuit filed Nov. 30 and obtained by Fox News Digital, a prison chaplain told Cordellionè the hijab was not allowed to be worn outside her immediate bed area. Cordellionè is...
  • New Bill Would Give States the Right to Sue Federal Government Over Illegal Alien Invasion

    02/19/2024 8:30:59 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 27 replies
    Red State ^ | 02/19/2024 | Mike Miller
    Republican Reps. Chip Roy (Texas) and Dan Bishop (N.C.) introduced the Standing Up to the Executive Branch for Immigration Enforcement Act, or “SUE for Immigration Enforcement Act,” on Wednesday. The six-page bill is being marked up by the House Judiciary Committee.Incidentally, "marked up" is the process by which a U.S. congressional committee debates, amends, and rewrites proposed legislation.So the bill was filed in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last July that held that Texas and Louisiana did not have standing to challenge a policy implemented by embattled Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — I know: Try to control...
  • Trudeau, Freeland sued by Freedom Convoy protesters following Federal Court ruling. ( Canada )

    02/14/2024 9:03:22 PM PST · by george76 · 5 replies
    Counter Signal. ^ | February 14, 2024 | MIKE CAMPBELL
    A number of Freedom Convoy protesters who had their bank accounts frozen by the Trudeau Government’s invocation of Emergencies Act have sued the Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland. ... The development comes just weeks after a Federal Court judge ruled that Trudeau’s decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, which gave the government unprecedented power, was a violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Two lawsuits were announced on Wednesday, the first of which was announced by lawyer Keith Wilson. “BREAKING: On the 2-year anniversary of the Federal Government illegally invoking war measures against its citizens and...
  • COVID Vaccine Injuries Deserve a Day in Court

    02/12/2024 2:04:28 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 10 replies
    Reason ^ | MARCH 2024 | CHRISTIAN BRITSCHGI
    Injury claims for COVID vaccines are subject to a different process than other vaccines.Some 270 million Americans received at least one COVID-19 vaccine dose. Tens of thousands have since claimed they suffered a COVID vaccine injury, ranging from minor side effects to severe adverse reactions. Around 9,000 of those people have requested compensation through the only legal avenue available to them—the federal government's Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP). To date, the CICP has paid only $30,855 to just eight claimants. Another 1,588 people have had their claims turned down—making for a 98 percent rejection rate. Thousands more have been left...
  • "It Has To Be Done": After Court Victory For Freedom Convoy, Canadians Ready To Sue Federal Government, Banks and the Police

    02/09/2024 9:12:44 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 6 replies
    Epoch Times ^ | 02/09/2024 | Matthew Horwood
    Several Freedom Convoy protesters, buoyed by a recent victory in Canadian federal court, said they’re preparing to sue the federal government, banks, and the police that brought the 2022 protest to a heated end.(Illustration by The Epoch Times, Getty Images, Shutterstock)“I think it’s the second phase to what took place with the federal court case,” military veteran and plaintiff Eddie Cornell said. “We’ve got a big hill to climb, but it’s something that’s necessary. It has to be done.”On Jan. 23, Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley issued a ruling against the federal government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act in response...