Trump’s legal worries extend far beyond charges in New York

The hush money case in New York that has led to criminal charges against Donald Trump is just one of a number of investigations that could pose legal problems for the former president.

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Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, confirmed Thursday that he had been informed that the former president had been indicted on charges involving payments made during the 2016 campaign to silence claims of an extramarital sexual encounter. The specific charges were not immediately made public.

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Trump faces a string of other inquiries as he campaigns for another term in 2024, including a criminal investigation over

NY state judge temporarily closes dormitory school in house at Clarkstown’s request

NEW CITY – A dormitory school operating inside a house along rustic South Mountain Road has been ordered temporarily closed by a New York State Supreme Court justice.

Justice Christie D’Alessio granted Clarkstown’s request for a temporary restraining order. The town’s legal action claims the house has a certificate of occupancy as a single-family house and has caused environmental problems for neighbors.

D’Alessio ordered the property owner, Yoel Yzvi Templer, to remove the teenage students from the house, which is perched on the mountain above the two-lane South Mountain Road. She gave Templer’s attorney until April 14 to respond to

This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 27th March 2023 – UKSCBlog

On Wednesday 29th and Thursday 30thth march the Court will hear the case of Jalla and another v Shell International Trading and Shipping Company and another, on appeal from [2021] EWCA 63. This case concerns the Bonga oil field, 120km off the coast of Nigeria, where Shell extracts oil using a mobile oil rig. On 20 December 2011, there was a leak from one of the flexible flowlines between the rig and mooring buoy while oil was being transferred onto a ship. The spill contained at least 40,000 barrels and was one of the largest spills in Nigerian

WKYT Investigates UPDATE | Advocates, lawmakers consider possible fixes for ‘predatory’ toxic water ads

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – With a long legal road just beginning for thousands of veterans exposed to toxic water at Camp Lejeune, advocates and lawmakers are looking at ways to protect veterans from what they call “predatory practices” by some attorneys.

There is some disagreement, however, as to what might be the best course of action to correct those lingering problems.

The Honoring our PACT Act, which was signed into law last August, included provisions from the Camp Lejeune Justice Act, allowing veterans who were exposed to toxic water at the North Carolina military base to seek relief in court.

JTI POLSKA Sp. Zoo and Ors v Jakubowski and Ors – UKSCBlog

In this post, David McKie and Dany Bitar, partners and associates respectively in the litigation team at CMS, preview the decision awaited from the Supreme Court in JTI POLSKA Sp. Zoo and Ors v Jakubowski and Ors.

Overview

This leapfrog appeal was heard by the Supreme Court on 28 February 2023. The case concerns whether a carrier is liable under the Convention on the Contract for the International Carriage of Goods by Road 1956 (“CMR”) for approximately £500,000 in excise duty payable by the owners of a cargo of cigarettes, because of a partial theft of the

New Russian campaign tries to entice men to fight in Ukraine

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Advertisements promise cash bonuses and enticing benefits. Recruiters are making cold calls to eligible men. Enlistment offices are working with universities and social service agencies to lure students and the unemployed.

A new campaign is underway this spring across Russia, seeking recruits to replenish its troops for the war in Ukraine.

As fighting grinds on in Ukrainian battlegrounds like Bakhmut and both sides prepare for counteroffensives that could cost even more lives, the Kremlin’s war machine badly needs new recruits.

A mobilization in September of 300,000 reserveists — billed as a “partial” call-up — sent panic

UPDATE 2-Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders consider possible legal action -law firm

(Updates with PIMCO declining to comment)

By Naomi Rovnick, Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro and Chiara Elisei

LONDON, March 20 (Reuters) – Lawyers from Switzerland, the United States and UK are talking to a number of Credit Suisse Additional Tier 1 (AT1) bond holders about possible legal action after the state-backed rescue of Credit Suisse by UBS wiped out AT1 bonds, law firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan said on Monday.

Quinn Emanuel said it was in discussions with Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders representing a “significant percentage” of the total notional value of the instruments. Quinn Emanuel did not name the bondholders.

This Week in the Supreme Court – w/c 20th March 2023 – UKSCBlog

Hearings in the Supreme Court are now shown live on the Court’s website.

On Wednesday 22nd march the Court will hand-down judgment in Moulsdale t/a Moulsdale Properties v Commissioners for His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (Scotland) [2023] UKSC 12. The judgment will determine whether the taxpayer’s sale of certain property to an unconnected purchaser was a supply exempt from value added tax under Schedule 10 to the VAT Act 1994. The hand-down will take place at 9:45am in Courtroom 1.

On Thursday 23rd march the Court will hear the case of R (on the application of Officer W80)