US attorneys raised new concerns about Sam Bankman-Fried’s electronic communication capabilities in new court documents filed late Monday and, along with the former FTX CEO’s lawyers, asked a federal judge for more time to negotiate tightened bail conditions. “Today, it came to the government’s attention…that the defendant used a VPN or “Virtual Private Network” to […]
An attorney for Elliot Blair’s family claims that his head was likely “hit and dragged” by more than one person before dying while on a vacation in Mexico. Blair, a public defender in California, was vacationing in Rosita, Mexico last month with his wife Kimberly Williams celebrating their one-year anniversary when he was found dead […]
Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story! Attorneys representing Dennis Mitsunaga, former Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and four Mitsunaga & Associates executives indicted for allegedly conspiring to charge a former Mitsunaga employee with felony theft are trying to dismiss some of the charges based on their statute of limitations. In a separate filing […]
Attorney Ben Crump; Memphis Police Officer Preston Hemphill. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Gerald Herbert/AP, Memphis Police Department) Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by the Memphis police following a traffic stop, expressed disappointment and frustration with the Memphis Police Department over the news that a sixth officer […]
Walmart’s Liabilities Under the HWCL: A California Case Study Rita Elfarisi In December 2021, the California Attorney General along with approximately a dozen district attorneys filed a lawsuit against Walmart.[1] The complaint alleges Walmart dumped nearly 80 tons of hazardous waste from more than 300 stores in California landfills throughout the state every year over […]
Agency Delegation to External Parties: An Unexplored Challenge Benjamin Lehman The Supreme Court recently declined to grant cert in Texas v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, a case from the 5thth Circuit. However, the three justices said the decision was driven by threshold issues of mootness and statute of limitations, but they would grant a review […]
Hundreds of people were arrested over the violence, which saw government buildings and police come under attack Brazil’s attorney general has filed an indictment against 39 people for their alleged involvement in the storming of the Senate building on 8 January. The riot saw thousands of supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro attack government buildings […]
It’s Time for a Carbon Tax Andrew Zhang Most Americans are worried about global warming.[1] Unfortunately, our actions do not reflect that worry. In 2019, 6,558 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (the total global warming potential of all greenhouse gases adjusted to the potential of carbon dioxide) were emitted into the atmosphere from the […]