Joe Biden is now the 46th president of the United States. He was inaugurated under intense security following the attempted coup on Jan. 6, 2021, by Donald Trump supporters after the former president called for an insurrection against his own country’s government.
In his inauguration address, Biden made reference to the coup attempt and once again held up the U.S. as an example to the rest of the world:
“America secured liberty at home and stood once again as a beacon to the world. That is what we owe our forebears, one another, and generations to follow.”
Biden makes his inaugural address, via CTV News.
Plaintiffs lawyer Scott Hendler
DOVER, Del. (Legal Newsline) – Banana plantation workers who tried to sue in Delaware – despite working in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Panama – have again been told they cannot do so.
The Delaware Supreme Court on Jan. 12 rejected their appeal to a 2013 dismissal of their complaint, finding a motion to vacate that dismissal filed five years after it was too late.
“Not surprisingly, the Superior Court cited the two reasons for the delay offered by the plaintiffs – the burden of the many other DBCP cases counsel was handling and the time and research required to prepare the motion – and found them to be unpersuasive,” says the opinion, authored by Justice James Vaughn.
Biden Must Close the Revolving Door Between BigLaw and Government
Representing corporate clients against the public interest isnât the ideal training ground for Biden administration officials.
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Progressive groups have called on President-elect Joe Biden to scrutinize potential appointeesâ ties to the corporate sector.
The Revolving Door Project, a Prospect partner, scrutinizes the executive branch and presidential power. Follow them at therevolvingdoorproject.org.
This week,
reported that Susan Davies, a corporate antitrust lawyer who has
represented Facebook, was a leading contender to head Bidenâs Department of Justice Antitrust Division. This news came on the heels of
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The man regarded as the world s richest banker, whose financial group owns London’s Gherkin building, has died aged 82.
Lebanese-born banker Joseph Safra, who built an empire of over $85 billion in banking assets, died of natural causes in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Thursday.
Safra “leaves a legacy that will be followed by many generations,” his company Banco Safra said in a statement.
Joseph Yacoub Safra was born in 1938, in Beirut, Lebanon. A low profile but totemic figure in the financial industry, Safra came from a Jewish banking family with roots in Aleppo, Syria.
The Safra family dynasty began its foray into the financial world by financing camel-caravan traders in the Ottoman Empire.