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...But stood in a Manhattan courtroom on Thursday, head of curly hair bowed, the one-time master of persuasion failed to win over the person who, in that moment, mattered most: a federal judge who would soon...
...It is Trump’s second courtroom appearance in a week, after he attended a hearing before a federal appeals court in Washington over whether he can use presidential immunity to dismiss a federal criminal case...
...In 1974 he attended law school at New York University and then clerked for a federal judge in Manhattan. He joined Fried Frank in 1978 aiming for a career as a litigator....
...Alba’s cause attracted a number of prominent political supporters, including some of Trump’s Republican allies in the House of Representatives and New York City mayor Eric Adams....
...The trial judge disagreed and ruled the case could proceed....
...Axon Enterprise vs Federal Trade Commission & Securities and Exchange Commission vs Cochran These cases hit at the core of the debate on the power of US federal regulatory agencies....
...“I think the judge was intrigued with that issue during the trial,” said Bill Kovacic, a former Federal Trade Commission chair and competition professor of law and policy at George Washington University...
...The Office of Inspector General said Robert Kaplan and Eric Rosengren had traded securities in a way that could “cause a reasonable person to question” their “impartiality”. 4....
...“This is as bad as it gets for a civil decision,” said Evan Gotlob, a former state and federal prosecutor who practices in New York....
...Eric Swalwell asked whether Republican lawmakers “want it both ways” after calling for impartiality in Hunter Biden’s investigation while asking Garland to comment on details of the probe....
...Federal bankruptcy judge David Jones in Houston dismissed arguments by Apollo and Angelo Gordon that they had been unfairly frozen out of a controversial $875mn loan refinancing Serta Simmons executed in...
...A New York federal judge agreed in 2022 that Serta creditor claims should go to trial to determine what constituted an open market purchase....
...But Eric Adams, New York’s Democratic mayor, said in a speech in August that the city has gone “past our breaking point”....
...The claims against Donald Trump, his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr and the family’s businesses were allowed to proceed to trial, which is scheduled to take place in Manhattan in October....
...Prominent US bankruptcy judge David R Jones will step away from hearing large cases as a federal appeals court investigates his alleged failure to disclose a romantic relationship with a prominent bankruptcy...
...MetLife fought back, and won when a judge ruled in 2016 that its Sifi designation had been “arbitrary and capricious”....
...Read the full report from Eric here....
...The agreement came just hours after a federal judge ruled that the case, originally brought by a single Epstein accuser, would be widened to include dozens of women who claim to also have been abused by...
...A federal district court judge upheld their position, ruling last year that the law allowed creditors to keep the money because, in part, they had no reason at the time to believe the payment was mistaken...
...But unless a judge sides with the billionaire — or the social media group’s board agrees to terminate the transaction — a group of seven banks that agreed to lend $13bn in April for the buyout are still...
...The FTC will bring the complaint in its in-house court, which will be presided over by an independent administrative law judge within the agency, rather than in federal court....
...But their large deposits exceeded the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s insurance limits and were susceptible to flight....
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