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“America’s Got Trump”: Get Ready for a Truly Made-for-TV Prosecution

JonathanTurley

I have been critical of the indictment, which is reportedly based on a highly dubious use of a New York misdemeanor charge to revise a long dormant federal election law charge. In 2018 (yes, that is how long this theory has been around), I wrote how difficult such a federal case would be under existing election laws.

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The Closing: Trump’s Final Argument Must Be Clarity to Chaos in Merchan’s Courtroom

JonathanTurley

It was then zapped back into life in the form of roughly three dozen felonies by claiming that bookkeeping violations — allegedly hiding payments to Stormy Daniels to ensure her silence about a supposed affair with Trump — were committed to hide another crime. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) did not even find grounds for a civil fine.

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Can Trump Escape Accountability?  

The Crime Report

In our culturally and politically divided America, plagued by “failures to communicate,” by alt-right violent threats to law and order, and by a withering Democratic Republic, the real life series of events that we have all been experiencing seem like some kind of fictional drama made for surrealist viewing.

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A seven-case late-May calendar

At the Lectern

Sony Music Entertainment : (1) Do representations a seller made about a creative product on the product packaging and in advertisements during an ongoing controversy constitute speech in connection with an issue of public interest within the meaning of the anti-SLAPP statute (Code of Civ. Proc., § 425.16)? (2) & Prof. 12101 et seq.)?

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Supreme Court will hear forum selection and workers’ comp cases, but it turns down two animal rights matters; also, there’s one separate statement

At the Lectern

” The petition asked for “recognition of the elephants’ common law right to bodily liberty protected by habeas corpus.” HDI Global Insurance Company is another grant-and-hold for Another Planet Entertainment v. The court denied a habeas corpus petition in In re Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. Vigilant Insurance Co.

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Caila A Coleman: 5 Things You Need To Become A Top Lawyer In Your Field

The Estrin Report

Talking to people who are not attorneys will help ensure that your strategy is translating well, and they can help you think of options outside of the law that you may have overlooked. That being said, what does it take to stand out and become a “Top Lawyer” in your specific field of law? Caila A Coleman. – Chere Estrin.

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Solar energy, civil sexual assault cases to be decided

At the Lectern

5th 932, the majority reasoned, “Because a second voluntary dismissal in federal court is claim preclusive in a federal question case, the plaintiff cannot strip out the federal claims and file the action in state court solely as a California law action.” La Salle Bank (2023) 95 Cal.App.5th See here and here.)

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