JURIST

JANUARY 25, 2021

Dominion Voting Systems sued Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani Monday for defamation following his post-election statements regarding their voting machines. billion in damages, including punitive damages. billion in damages, including punitive damages.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 25, 2021

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election.

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JURIST

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The District of Columbia (DC) filed a civil lawsuit Tuesday against Proud Boys International, LLC and The Oath Keepers, a non-profit organization. DC is seeking compensatory, statutory and punitive damages from the organizations for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol.

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LawSites

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Attorneys at Akin Gump declined to discuss the lawsuit. But Akin Gump, in its complaint for damages and injunctive relief filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court and in a petition to the U.S. 2022 CA 004744 B, filed in the Civil Division of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

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JonathanTurley

MARCH 31, 2021

attorney Patrick Malone, who previously filed ethics complaints against lawyers representing the Trump campaign or the Republican party. The officers seek $75,000 in damages in their complaint but also ask for unspecified punitive damages. The 40-page lawsuit was written by D.C. The complaint presents five counts.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The federal district court for the District of Columbia cited failures to address climate change as one of the bases for finding that a biological opinion for continued authorization of the Southeast U.S. District of Columbia v. shrimp fisheries in federal waters was arbitrary and capricious. County of Maui v.

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ClimateChange-ClimateLaw

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The amendments were challenged in a petition filed by 20 states, along with Chicago, Denver, and the District of Columbia, and in a second petition filed by 10 environmental groups. In a FOIA lawsuit brought by Competitive Enterprise Institute, a federal district court in the District of Columbia ruled that the U.S.

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