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The judge overseeing Rudy Giuliani’s bankruptcy granted him a rare legal win.In a court order Friday, the judge dismissed the Chapter 11 case and allowed him to appeal the $148 million defamation judgment he owes.But there’s a catch: Giuliani isn’t allowed to file for bankruptcy again over the next 12…
By Tom Hals WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Tesla (NASDAQ:) shareholders will appear in court on Monday to argue that an unprecedented request for more than $7 billion in attorneys’ fees to be paid by the company is “outlandish,” the latest twist in a legal showdown over Musk’s $56 billion pay…
Two years ago, Steve German was optimistic.He’d done well for himself as a trial lawyer in Phoenix, suing insurance companies on behalf of workers who were denied benefits. And he’d just launched a new venture with Miami investment firm 777 Partners that he hoped would revolutionize the legal business.Arizona had…
Investment bank Jefferies hosted a discussion focused on the upcoming Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, where participants, among other things, outlined the potential scenarios that could lead to Elon Musk increasing his ownership in the electric vehicle (EV) giant. According to a legal expert, the Tesla (NASDAQ:) CEO can obtain a…
By Chris Prentice and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A legal assault on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is chipping away at its powers to oversee Wall Street and is likely to intensify with two imminent Supreme Court rulings. A U.S. appeals court last week overturned a major SEC…
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn, slammed business leaders who support former President Donald Trump, arguing that a 2024 win for the Republican would actually be bad for the economy.Hoffman, who cofounded LinkedIn in 2002, wrote an op-ed article in The Economist last week criticizing his fellow executives’ “myopia”…
Moments after those 34 “guilties” rolled in on Thursday — making him the first former president convicted of a felony — Donald Trump was handed two copies of a standard New York City Department of Probation form.Titled “Court Order for Investigation and Report,” it would have been quickly filled out…
The chances of Donald Trump spending any time behind bars after a jury found Trump guilty on all counts in his New York hush-money trial are slim to none, legal experts told Business Insider. The jury in Trump’s historic trial found him guilty on Thursday of 34 felony counts of falsifying…
A jury found Donald Trump guilty of all 34 felony counts in the New York hush-money trial.The judge scheduled Trump’s sentencing hearing for July 11.But it could take months, maybe over a year, until Trump faces any consequences, legal expert says. A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump guilty of all…
In the 1970s, the lawyer Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump a simple playbook for political fights: attack, counterattack, and never apologize.Trump is employing that strategy on “The Apprentice,” an independently produced biopic about him that premiered this week at the Cannes Film Festival.In a cease-and-desist letter, one of Trump’s attorneys…
