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Trump selects a new Tesla on White House driveway to show support for Elon Musk
Legal Events 03/13/2025President Donald Trump shopped for a new Tesla on the White House driveway on Tuesday, selecting a shiny red sedan to show his support for Elon Musk ‘s electric vehicle company as it faces blowback because of his work to advance the president&r...
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Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola files for bankruptcy protection
Legal Events 02/17/2025Troubled electric vehicle maker Nikola has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection months after saying that it would likely run out of cash early this year.Nikola was a hot start-up and rising star on Wall Street before becoming enmeshed in scanda...
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Trump gets no-penalty sentence in his hush money case, while calling it ‘despicable’
Legal Events 01/06/2025President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday to no punishment in his historic hush money case, a judgment that lets him return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.With Trump appearing by video from his Florida ...
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TikTok asks Supreme Court to temporarily block law that could ban site in U.S.
Legal Events 12/17/2024TikTok on Monday asked the Supreme Court to step in on an emergency basis to block the federal law that would ban the popular platform in the United States unless its China-based parent company agreed to sell it.Lawyers for the company and China-base...
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South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
Legal Events 11/15/2024South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during a presidential campaign.If...
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Kenya’s deputy president pleads not guilty in impeachment process
Legal Events 10/20/2024Kenya’s deputy president, who faces impeachment, pleaded not guilty in a senate hearing Wednesday to all allegations including corruption, inciting ethnic divisions and support for anti-government protests that saw demonstrators storm the count...
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US courts may be more open to lawsuits accusing foreign officials of abuses
Legal Events 10/06/2024A U.S. court has given two top associates of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman until early November to start turning over any evidence in a lawsuit from a former senior Saudi intelligence official who says he survived a plot by the kingdom to si...
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New rules regarding election certification in Georgia to get test in court
Legal Events 09/30/2024Two controversial new rules passed by Georgia’s State Election Board concerning the certification of vote tallies are set to face their first test in court this week.The Republican majority on the State Election Board — made up of three m...
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Americans are ‘getting whacked’ by too many laws and regulations, Gorsuch says
Legal Events 07/25/2024Ordinary Americans are “getting whacked” by too many laws and regulations, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch says in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield.“Too little law and we&rsq...
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Albania’s supreme court leaves ethnic Greek ex-mayor in prison
Legal Events 07/17/2024Albania’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a verdict of the lower courts keeping a former elected mayor from the country’s Greek minority in prison after he was convicted of buying votes.A Supreme Court statement said that it upheld the ver...
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Marilyn Mosby to be sentenced for mortgage fraud and perjury convictions
Legal Events 05/20/2024A former top prosecutor for the city of Baltimore will soon learn her sentence for lying about her personal finances so she could improperly access retirement funds during the COVID-19 pandemic.Former Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby ap...
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Nigeria’s Court reinstates terrorism charges against separatist leader
Legal Events 12/15/2023Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday overturned a lower court ruling dismissing terrorism charges against a popular separatist leader whose trial has been blamed for an outbreak of violence in the country’s southeast region.The Court said Nn...