A California federal judge said Monday he is leaning toward allowing a false claims lawsuit brought against Erika Girardi and others by a costumer to move forward, saying in a tentative ruling the defendants "underestimated the significance" of the U.S. Department of Justice dismissing a criminal case against the costumer.
An Illinois federal judge has granted final approval to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's $2.7 billion settlement with Binance Holdings Ltd. and $150 million settlement with its founder Changpeng Zhao in the agency's suit over allegations of money laundering and other illegal activities, the CFTC announced Monday.
An attorney for Brad Pitt urged a California state judge on Monday not to dismiss his client's lawsuit against his estranged wife, Angelina Jolie, over her sale of her share of their French vineyard to a Russian oligarch, saying the facts support his claim she breached their implied-in-fact contract by selling to a "stranger."
The California federal judge who handed Monster Energy $43 million in attorney fees and interest in October after a record-breaking $293 million false advertising jury win over Vital Pharmaceuticals observed that Vital's CEO was impeached on the stand over 50 times, an astonishing figure that Monster's co-lead attorney, John Hueston, credited to getting the CEO to "lose control."
A Ninth Circuit judge aggressively questioned an attorney for asylum-seekers who are challenging the Biden administration's stance that it is not obligated to process asylum-seekers turned away at the border as they are not yet on U.S. soil, telling her no case in "history" supports her position.