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Judge denies Trump motion to dismiss DC case over selective prosecution

A federal judge on Saturday refused to dismiss a federal election interference case against former President Trump because he argued he was wrongly and independently prosecuted. in 16 page orderU.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote that the court must assume at the outset of the proceedings that the allegations against Trump are true, and that […]

NY judge awards Nazi-looted painting worth millions to Holocaust victim’s heir Eva Zirkl

The Bronx heirs of an art collector murdered during the Holocaust have inherited millions of dollars’ worth of paintings looted by the Nazis, a ruling in an upstate New York court ended a long-running legal battle. Viennese artist Egon Schiele’s 1917 watercolor, “Portrait of the Artist’s Wife,” was presented to Eva Zirkle, the sole surviving […]

Tesla lawyers ask judge to vacate decision invalidating Musk’s $56B pay package

Lawyers for Elon Musk and Tesla Inc.’s directors are seeking to overturn a Delaware judge’s ruling that ordered the company to back out of Musk’s massive and unprecedented compensation package. Friday’s hearing followed a January ruling in which Chief Justice Katherine St. Jude McCormick concluded that Musk engineered a landmark compensation package in 2018 in […]

Trump’s Jan. 6 case officially back in Judge Chutkan’s hands after immunity ruling

Former President Trump’s federal election interference charges were formally sent back before a judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday to determine how they will be heard, following the Supreme Court’s decision last month to grant immunity to former presidents. The case has been frozen for months due to President Trump’s assertion of immunity, but U.S. […]

Olympic surfing judge Ben Lowe dismissed over Tahiti photo

Ben Rowe, a surfing judge for the Paris Olympics, withdrew from the competition in Tahiti on Thursday after a photo of him posing with Australian surfer Ethan Ewing and his coach Bede Durbidge was posted on social media. According to the Associated Press, the International Surfing Association removed Rowe from his position to “protect the […]