Southern California Edison, a unit of utility firm Edison International, was sued on claims that its electrical equipment started one of the major wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area, according to court filings. The suits appear to be the first of hundreds or even thousands that will arise from the wildfires that have engulfed parts of Southern California in the past week. The lawsuits were filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of homeowners, renters, business owners and others with properties destroyed by the Eaton Fire in the Pasadena area. Read more: https://reut.rs/4j6sGnI
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Chris Kavanaugh, a former top federal prosecutor in Virginia, will join U.S. law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP as a partner, the firm said. Kavanaugh had announced last year that he would resign from the post after Democratic President Joe Biden appointed Kavanaugh's wife, Jasmine Yoon, to serve as a federal judge in his district. Kavanaugh, who had served as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Virginia since 2021, had been with the Justice Department for more than 17 years. He officially stepped down last month. Top law firms have looked to hire prominent lawyers leaving the government ahead of Republican President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House. Read the full story to find out more ➡️ https://reut.rs/40xKPn2 #legal #legalnews #lawfirms #lawfirm #lawyers
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Noel Francisco, the lawyer representing TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok, it could come after other companies, too. The law, which was the subject of arguments before the nine justices on Jan. 10, sets a Jan. 19 deadline for ByteDance to sell the popular social media platform or face a ban on national security grounds. The companies have sought, at the very least, a delay in implementation of the law, which they say violates the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protection against government abridgment of free speech. The justices signaled through their questions during the arguments that they were inclined to uphold the law, although some expressed serious concerns about its First Amendment implications. Read more: https://reut.rs/4jgDTC6
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A federal judge has cleared the way for the DOJ to publicly release a portion of former Special Counsel Jack Smith's report on President-elect Donald Trump's 2020 election subversion case. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed to the bench by Trump at the end of his first term, had previously blocked the Justice Department from releasing the entire report. A former war crimes prosecutor, Smith brought two of the four criminal cases Trump faced after leaving office but saw them grind to a halt after Cannon dismissed the classified documents case and the U.S. Supreme Court — with three justices appointed by Trump — ruled that former presidents have sweeping immunity from prosecution for official acts. Smith formally resigned his position as special counsel on Jan. 10. Trump has denied any wrongdoing in both cases. Subscribe to The Afternoon Docket: https://reut.rs/4g1NkCB
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's company said on Jan. 10 it has retained William Burck, a managing partner of U.S. trial firm Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and longtime Republican insider, as its outside ethics advisor. Burck will help the Trump Organization develop and maintain internal ethics policies to ward against conflicts of interest, the company said in a press release posted on X by Trump's son Eric, who is an executive vice president of the company. Earlier Burck was a federal prosecutor in Manhattan and served as deputy White House counsel in the George W. Bush administration. David Thomas has more: https://reut.rs/3C6LfYn
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Apple has abused its dominant position by charging app developers an unfair 30% commission through its App Store, costing British consumers up to 1.5 billion pounds ($1.8 billion), a London tribunal heard. The U.S. tech company is facing a mass lawsuit brought on behalf of around 20 million iPhone and iPad users in the United Kingdom, who were allegedly overcharged for app purchases. The lawsuit at London's Competition Appeal Tribunal is the first mass lawsuit against a tech giant to come to trial under Britain's burgeoning class action-style regime, with many other cases waiting in the wings. Read more: https://reut.rs/4gQxXOS
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Vince McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment chief executive, will pay back about $1.33 million to the company as part of a securities enforcement action against him. McMahon, represented by Kirkland, settled SEC charges that he concealed from the company's board two settlement agreements worth $10.5 million with women who had potential claims against him. He did not admit wrongdoing. The accord also requires him to pay a $400,000 civil fine. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: reut.rs/42drFnQ
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The District of Columbia on Jan. 10 filed a lawsuit seeking to hold the federal government responsible for pollution in the Anacostia River, accusing it of systematically contaminating the river over the past 150 years by treating it as a dumping ground for sewage, trash and industrial waste. District of Columbia Attorney General Brian Schwalb in a lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., said the U.S. government should be forced to clean up the river in order to protect residents' health and make it safe for fishing, swimming, and wildlife. He argued the federal government had turned the nine-mile river that flows through Washington, D.C. and parts of Maryland into a 'cost-free toxic dumping ground,' wrecking what should be a pristine natural resource and disproportionately harming communities of color living east of the river. Nate Raymond has more: https://reut.rs/40sT6sF
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A U.S. appeals court on Jan. 10 revived a lawsuit by a conservative group opposed to diversity initiatives in medicine that challenged a Pfizer fellowship program designed to boost the pipeline of Black, Latino and Native American people in leadership positions at the drugmaker. U.S. antitrust enforcers weighed in last week on Elon Musk's lawsuit seeking to block OpenAI's conversion to a public company, pointing out legal doctrines that support his claim that OpenAI and Microsoft engaged in anticompetitive practices. The lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok, it could come after other companies, too. U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, has resigned, as the Republican president-elect prepared to return to the White House. Here’s your legal file 👇
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U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith, who led the federal cases against Donald Trump on charges of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat and mishandling of classified documents, resigned from the DOJ on Jan. 10. Read more legal buzz in The Daily Docket. Subscribe: http://reut.rs/42drFnQ