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☆ A judge who overturned a $72 million verdict against Boeing disclosed he bought and sold Boeing stock while hearing the case — but says his wife's IRA was to blame
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-21 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Judge James Robart told Business Insider a bank that managed his wife's individual retirement account purchased Boeing stock in April 2023. He said as soon as he learned about it, he had the stocks sold; his financial disclosures said the shares were sold on two dates in May and June. Based on the prices that Boeing shares traded at on the days her IRA bought and sold the shares, at least one of the two sales was a money-loser, while the second could have been profitable. He and his family disposed of their Boeing shares more than a year before that decision. The amount of Boeing stock traded isn't much compared with Robart's total wealth.

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☆ Judges in Trump-related cases face unprecedented wave of threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +20 min

These broadsides frequently trigger surges in threats against the judges, prosecutors and other court officials he targets, Reuters found. In that time, serious threats against federal judges alone have more than doubled, from 220 in 2020 to 457 in 2023, as Reuters reported on Feb. 13. For judges, threats have always been part of the job. Over the last four years, the Marshals investigated more than 1,200 threats against federal judges that they considered serious, according to the data provided to Reuters. Among the 57 federal prosecutions Reuters identified during that period, 47 involved threats against federal judges, six involved threats against state judges, and four involved threats against both.

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Companies Amazon.com Inc FollowJune 28 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) brought by the parents of two teenagers who committed suicide by consuming sodium nitrite they bought on the online retailer's platform. "Kristine and Ethan's fates were undisputedly tragic, but the court can only conclude that they necessarily knew the dangers of bodily injury and death associated with ingesting sodium nitrite," Robart wrote. "There are no household uses for sodium nitrite and no consumer, let alone children, could reasonably know how lethal it was," she said. "In Washington State it is against the law to aid in suicide and that's exactly what Amazon did." The case is McCarthy et al v Amazon.com Inc, U.S. District Court, Western District of Washington, No.

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