A half dozen accidents involving Piper Aircraft Inc. planes with steering difficulties prompted U.S. crash investigators to get involved. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) probe focuses on six incidents between December 2019 and January 2021. In those accidents, pilots of high-end Piper M600 aircraft had trouble with directional control... Read More »
Representative Bennie Thompson, D-MS and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, is suing Trump and Giuliani, along with two far-right groups - the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — for the January 6 riot, alleging conspiracy to incite deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol. Other Democratic Congresspersons, including... Read More »
In 1991, Willie B. Smith III and others abducted 22-year-old Sharma Ruth Johnson at gunpoint from an ATM, used her card to steal $80 from her account, and took her to a cemetery where Smith shot her in the back of the head. Johnson was the sister of a police... Read More »
On Wednesday, February 10, in a clash between two of the world’s largest battery makers, the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) affirmed a judge’s earlier ruling in favor of LG Chem. In making its decision, the commission was bound by statute to consider how its decision would affect U.S. consumers.... Read More »
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan tried to obtain search warrants last year for Rudolph W. Giuliani’s digital records. They were looking for electronic records about his pals with Ukrainian connections who helped him dig for mud to throw onto the Biden family, and with whom Giuliani was thought to have a... Read More »
President Biden’s executive orders have included directives to some government agencies to re-examine Trump-era health care policies. Among those to be reviewed are the Medicaid work requirements and short-term health plans. Agencies are specifically directed to re-examine any policies and rules that limit access to health care, such as adding... Read More »
The H-1B visa program, used by highly-skilled foreign workers, was the recipient of a temporary ban proposed by the Trump administration last October. On January 8, 2021, the Trump administration finalized a rule that would have eliminated the H-1B visa lottery altogether for the coming season, replacing the lottery with... Read More »
Settlement Washington Football Team employees produced secret lewd videos from outtakes of the 2008 and 2010 swimsuit calendar shoots. The former cheerleaders involved filed suit. Now they’ve reached confidential settlements with the team. Cindy Minniti, an attorney representing the team and its owner, Daniel Snyder, said “The matter has been... Read More »
The Justice Department dropped its legal challenge of California’s net neutrality law in the Eastern District Court of California on Monday. This move could represent a shift back to the Obama-era policy of equal access to the internet. The FCC’s interim leader Jessica Rosenworcel said, “When the FCC, over my... Read More »
Request to Delay On Wednesday, February 3, 2021, the Supreme Court postponed oral arguments and legal filings in cases regarding an asylum policy and Trump’s border wall at the request of Biden’s Justice Department. The asylum case was to be heard on March 1 and the wall case on February... Read More »
Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was removed from her committee assignments in response to her past involvement in conspiracy theories and rhetoric condoning violence on social media. On Friday, February 5, she said that her removal would stifle her constituents, and then said that serving on committees controlled by Democrats was... Read More »
SolarWinds, a network-management software maker, has had one of the worst hacker breaches in U.S. history. The attack was sophisticated, broad in scope, and marred the trust placed in tech providers. SolarWinds’ new chief executive is still trying to determine how his company became the hacker’s main avenue of attack.... Read More »
On Monday, February 1, 2021, the Justice Department requested that the U.S. Appeals Court for the District of Columbia put the California emissions litigation on hold to “ensure due respect for the prerogative of the executive branch to reconsider the policy decisions of a prior administration.” A coalition of 12... Read More »
Consulting firm McKinsey & Company reached an agreement with attorneys general in 47 states, five territories and the District of Columbia to settle investigations into its role in “turbocharging” opioid sales nationwide. It has agreed to pay $573 million after lawsuits revealed quantities of documents showing how McKinsey drove sales... Read More »
Steve Bannon, formerly an investment banker and media executive, served as chief strategist and senior counsel to Trump until he left the White House in 2017. Trump, on his last day as President, pardoned him on federal fraud charges. However, that pardon only applied to alleged federal crimes. Now Manhattan... Read More »
