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By Diana Novak Jones, Mike Scarcella and Sara Merken |
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to grant clemency to at least some of his supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and has said he expects to begin doing so shortly after he is sworn in to office on Jan. 20. Trump has sent mixed messages about how many of the more than 1,580 people charged in the attack could be granted clemency. At times he has suggested "many" will, though he has also signaled there could be exceptions. Legal experts believe those most likely to be issued pardons are the people who were charged with misdemeanor offenses such as trespassing or parading on Capitol grounds but were not accused of any violence. Read more about what clemency actions Trump could take. |
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- Accounting giant KPMG is moving to launch a new legal services business in the U.S., taking advantage of relaxed law firm ownership rules in Arizona. A KPMG US subsidiary applied to the Arizona Supreme Court to operate as an alternative business structure under a state program that allows non-lawyers to co-own law firms, a spokesperson told Reuters.
- Leading law firms took advantage of rising M&A mega-deals in 2024, with Kirkland advising on global deals that had the largest combined value. The value of global announced M&A deals hit $3.2 trillion, a 10% increase compared with the prior year and the "strongest annual period for deal making since 2022," the London Stock Exchange Group said.
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Twenty bucks might get you a pizza or half a tank of gas or a night at the movies. Under the terms of a proposed class action settlement with Apple, it might also be the price of your privacy. The company last week agreed to pay $95 million to settle claims that its voice-activated assistant Siri inadvertently recorded users' private conversations, with individual class member payouts capped at $20 per device. Paltry as it may sound, the compensation is in line with at least eight other data privacy settlements, Jenna Greene writes in On the Case. |
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"You made me look like my dog."
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—Rudy Giuliani to courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg during a break in a hearing, at which the former New York City mayor tried to fend off a bid to have him held in contempt of court by two Georgia election workers whom he falsely accused of trying to help steal the 2020 U.S. presidential election for Joe Biden. Giuliani criticized a drawing that Rosenberg, who was documenting Friday's hearing for Reuters, made of him in a prior proceeding and asked whether she would make him look "nice," according to Rosenberg. Read more from the hearing. |
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- Today, Walt Disney, Fox and Warner Bros Discovery are slated to ask the 2nd Circuit to reverse a ruling that blocked the launch of their Venu Sports streaming service, arguing that a district court judge was wrong to halt its planned debut on antitrust grounds. FuboTV sued to stop the joint venture.
- Also on Monday, U.S. District Judge John Koeltl in Manhattan will hold an initial conference in the U.S. antitrust lawsuit accusing Visa of suppressing competition by threatening merchants with higher fees and paying off potential rivals.
- On Tuesday, Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzmán, is due to appear in federal court in Chicago for a status conference. In July last year, he was detained along with alleged Sinaloa Cartel leader Ismael 'El Mayo' Zambada in Texas. Guzmán has pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges.
- On Wednesday, retired liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is set to serve as a member of three-judge panels hearing appeals at the 1st Circuit, marking the first time he has done so since stepping down from the Supreme Court in June 2022. Breyer, 86, will also hear cases on Friday.
- On Thursday, many U.S. courts will be closed for the nationwide day of mourning for the late President Jimmy Carter.
- On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in a bid by TikTok and its China-based parent company, ByteDance, to block a law intended to force the sale of the short-video app by Jan. 19 or face a ban on national security grounds.
Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.
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- PayPal was hit with a lawsuit by an Asian American businesswoman who accused the digital payments company of racial bias for restricting part of a $535 million investment program to Black and Hispanic applicants, costing her millions of dollars.
- The DOJ and Boeing told U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor they have not reached agreement on a revised plea deal after he rejected the deal in December, faulting a diversity and inclusion provision.
- Anthropic reached an agreement with Universal Music and other music publishers over its use of "guardrails" to keep its chatbot Claude from generating copyrighted song lyrics, resolving part of a lawsuit the publishers filed last year.
- The 7th Circuit threw out a nearly $29 million penalty that the FTC won in a lawsuit that accused a telemarketing company of making millions of calls to people on the Do Not Call Registry. A court panel agreed that telemarketer Day Pacer and other defendants violated the registry but ruled that the trial court must re-do its calculation of the damages award.
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- Akin hired corporate partner Daniel Wayte, who focuses on capital solutions transactions, in London from Orrick. (Akin)
- Labor and employment firm Ogletree Deakins opened an office in Calgary, Alberta, with partners Shana Wolch and Justin Turc, who previously were at McCarthy Tétrault. (Ogletree Deakins)
>> More moves to share? Please drop us a note at LegalCareerTracker@thomsonreuters.com.
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New state laws aimed at curbing the use, sale, or other disclosure of individually identifiable health data reflect growing concerns that existing federal privacy regulations fail to adequately protect such personal information, particularly reproductive health data, from third-party access and criminal investigations, write Sheryl Xavier, Andrea Frey and Stephen Phillips of Hooper, Lundy & Bookman. Read today's Attorney Analysis. |
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