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Using a racial slur can trigger civil, administrative and sometimes criminal consequences: employers can face liability under Title VII and employees can be disciplined or sued when slurs create a hos...
Maryanne Trump Barry publicly criticized her brother in recorded interviews and leaked conversations, calling him “cruel,” “an unprincipled phony,” and saying he “has no principles,” remarks reported ...
Donald Trump’s corporate Chapter 11 filings have repeatedly allowed his enterprises to reorganize rather than liquidate, producing mixed outcomes: creditors and investors sometimes recovered value und...
Noncitizens on U.S. soil are entitled to protections under the Fifth Amendment: courts and advocates say the Due Process Clause applies to “persons,” not citizens only, and that enforcement practices ...
Courts repeatedly rejected challenges to Barack Obama’s eligibility and birth-certificate claims; the Hawaii Department of Health and multiple courts treated the state birth record as the authoritativ...
A November 2023 federal jury in the Northern District of Illinois found major egg producers and two industry trade groups liable for conspiring to limit U.S. egg supplies and inflate prices, leading t...
have split along lines of technology and mens rea: circuits have generally upheld prosecutions based on hyperlinks and active stings while taking a more cautious approach where possession depends on ,...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...
Since 2017 multiple federal appellate courts have come out on different sides of whether the federal government may condition certain grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. §1373, creating a circuit split...
Federal courts since 2017 have produced a fractured body of decisions about conditioning federal grants on compliance with 8 U.S.C. § 1373: multiple district courts struck down the Administration’s co...
Three federal circuits have held that 18 U.S.C. § 111 requires proof of the common‑law offense of simple assault as an element of at least some § 111 prosecutions, while at least four other circuits h...
Federal appellate courts are split in how they treat Social Security number (SSN) misuse and related identity crimes when deciding whether an offense is a "crime involving moral turpitude" (CIMT): som...
Federal courts have applied the three-part Miller obscenity test to online pornography unevenly, producing a de facto circuit split over whether Internet content should be judged by local community st...
Since 2019 the U.S. judiciary has consistently treated sovereign‑immunity defenses to enforcement of ICSID awards against Venezuela as a matter governed by the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) ...
The Speech or Debate Clause bars the Department of Justice from using a Member’s protected legislative acts as the basis for prosecution, civil liability, or compelled testimony, and it creates eviden...
Crystallex converted an April 2016 ICSID award into a U.S. federal judgment and pursued veil‑piercing remedies to attach PDVSA/CITGO shares in Delaware, initiating a judicial‑sale process to satisfy i...
U.S. courts — especially the federal courts in the Third Circuit and Delaware — and certain Caribbean courts (notably Trinidad and Tobago and courts in the Dutch Caribbean such as Curaçao) have been t...
U.S. courts have, in multiple high-profile matters, permitted enforcement of both ICSID and ICC awards against Venezuela or its state companies, but enforcement has been contested through sovereign-im...
U.S. courts have steadily narrowed sovereign-immunity protections for claims tied to Venezuela by treating PDVSA not as an untouchable foreign sovereign but, in many enforcement contexts, as the Repub...
Creditors seeking to collect awards and judgments against Venezuela have relied on U.S. commercial enforcement tools — conversion of arbitration awards into U.S. judgments, registration in Delaware, w...