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☆ Trump wins a new, quicker path to SCOTUS overturning his felony conviction
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewLate Thursday morning, Donald Trump lost his last state-level appeal of his hush-money gag order. These two new legal losses now leave the door open for Trump to run to the US Supreme Court, according to constitutional law expert Michel Paradis. New York CourtsBoth losses are eligible under federal statute for Trump to seek Supreme Court review, also known as petitioning for "certiorari," or "cert" for short. Related stories"Ordinarily, the Supreme Court will only agree to hear questions that were decided by a lower court. AdvertisementAnd because Trump is Trump — and because "the Supreme Court can basically do whatever it wants" — the former president will likely dream big, Paradis predicted.

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☆ A Marine vet fatally subdued a screaming man on a NYC subway. Now, a secret video has emerged — but there's a catch.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-11 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. As Daniel Penny prepares for his October 21 manslaughter trial, this husband and wife have emerged as key but reluctant witnesses. "They have so far refused to share the video they took," the judge continued. Juan Alberto Vázquez/ReutersTo date, the judge noted, the pair has only agreed to meet with the DA a few times, via video. In a court filing on Monday, prosecutors conceded that there was a "synthetic cannabinoid present in his blood at autopsy."

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☆ DA will ask for 50-to-life sentence for embezzling assistant who slaughtered his tech CEO boss
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-10 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tyrese Haspil is expected to be sentenced Tuesday for murdering NYC tech CEO Fahim Saleh. The DA plans to ask for 50 years to life, a term Haspil's lawyer calls "a de facto life sentence." Sign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! AdvertisementManhattan prosecutors will ask on Tuesday for a 50-years-to-life sentence for Tyrese Haspil, the personal assistant convicted of charges stemming from the murder, decapitation, and dismemberment of Fahim Saleh, the tech CEO who was his former boss, according to the killer's defense lawyer.

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☆ Jack White sues Trump over the use of The White Stripes' 'Seven Nation Army': 'This machine sues fascists'
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Jack White and The White Stripes have sued Donald Trump. White claims that Trump's campaign improperly used the duo's smash-hit "Seven Nation Army." Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . On Monday, White and Meg White, the duo behind The White Stripes, sued Trump, his campaign, and one of his top campaign officials for using "Seven Nation Army" in a short video posted on X and other social media platforms.

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☆ Trump airplane-assault accuser Jessica Leeds calls him a 'sexual predator' and says she's deciding whether to sue
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-09 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewAt a press conference at Trump Tower in Manhattan on Friday, former President Donald Trump wanted the world to know he would never have sexually assaulted Jessica Leeds. "She would not have been the chosen one," he told reporters, implying her appearance wasn't up to his standards. On Monday, Leeds held a press conference of her own to confront him on that insult. With Trump Tower as her backdrop, she called the GOP presidential candidate "a sexual predator" and said she is deciding whether to sue him. Jessica Leeds speaks during a press conference outside Trump Tower.

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☆ Trump lawyers invoke Bob Dylan and Taylor Swift in 'Electric Avenue' copyright arguments. The judge was skeptical.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-07 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Eddy Grant's 2020 copyright suit against Donald Trump was in federal court in Manhattan on Friday. Trump's side referenced Taylor Swift and Bob Dylan in challenging the "Electric Avenue" copyright. Go to newsletter preferences Thanks for signing up! download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Grant's lawyers say Trump infringed on the copyright for "Electric Avenue" by including 40 seconds of the '80s dance hit in an August 2020 campaign tweet.

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☆ Delay in Trump's hush-money sentencing is a win for his campaign — and his wallet
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-06 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Trump had requested the delay to avoid the "politically prejudicial" impact a public sentencing could have on the election. The sentencing might not happen at all if Merchan's next major hush-money decision, now due November 12, overturns Trump's verdict or the indictment itself on presidential-immunity grounds. But Trump would have had to suffer — in person — through the sentencing proceeding itself. Only after sentencing would Trump have faced the possible loss of his liquor licenses in New Jersey. Trump has fought to overturn his conviction on immunity-based challenges lodged in state court and in federal court.

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☆ Trump will mimic Harvey Weinstein's successful appeal to fight his own sexual-assault verdict Friday. It won't be as easy.
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Laura Italiano | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The judge who oversaw the trial later said: "Trump 'raped' her as many people commonly understand the word 'rape.'" AdvertisementBut the lawyers who won Weinstein's appeal told Business Insider that what worked for their client probably wouldn't work for Trump. In the May 2023 verdict, the jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages. In the second trial, earlier this year, a separate jury said Trump owed Carroll an additional $83 million in defamation damages. AdvertisementInstead, it needed to find it was "more probable than not" that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll, a standard far more common in civil cases.

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☆ An unprecedented legal move could let Trump delay his hush-money sentencing until after Election Day
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-03 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Two days before his sentencing, Trump, they predict, will seek something never before allowed in the appellate courts in New York or in most states for that matter: an interlocutory appeal. AdvertisementEven Trump's Manhattan prosecutors are conceding that this is a legal monkey wrench to be reckoned with. "If New York's courts deny him a right to appeal, he can challenge the decision in federal court," said Paradis. If the federal district court in Manhattan says no, "he can appeal that to the second circuit federal court of appeals." This story has been updated to reflect Trump's federal court efforts, from August 29 to September 4, to further delay sentencing.

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☆ Trump lawyers are set to argue in court this week that the hit '80s song 'Electric Avenue' wasn't properly copyrighted
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-02 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's lawyers are expected to argue that, for decades, Grant somehow neglected to copyright the sound recording, or "master," for "Electric Avenue." Trump's lawyers acknowledge that Grant copyrighted the sheet music 40 years ago. Trump's side may argue that even Grant has tacitly acknowledged that the sound-recording copyright for "Electric Avenue" was never properly nailed down. Two weeks ago, on August 15, Grant applied to the US Copyright Office "for a sound-recording copyright registration of Electric Avenue," a court filing says. AdvertisementAnd Grant has been deposed by Trump's lawyers, who asked the artist to "explain" the song.

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☆ Trump's new indictment is 9 pages shorter — there's a good reason for that
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-28 | by ( Laura Italiano | Grace Eliza Goodwin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The previous indictment, which clocked in at 45 pages, had included what the US Supreme Court says is the kind of official-act evidence that can no longer be used in prosecuting presidents. The replacement indictment — which uses the same font and spans 36 pages — removes references to Trump's presidential acts with surgical precision, said Michael Bachner, a former Manhattan prosecutor and frequent commentator on Trump's legal travails. But in the new indictment, it's Trump the 2020 presidential candidate, not Trump the former president, who is charged. AdvertisementIn refiling his indictment, Smith was smart to convene a new grand jury rather than re-submit the case to the original panel. Still, the new indictment doesn't guarantee that judges won't throw out the case before it ever reaches a jury.

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☆ Judge orders 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli to hand over copies of one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-26 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

"Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli must surrender his Wu-Tang Clan album copies by Friday, a judge has ordered. The order is a victory for an NFT collective that bought the original "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin." The collective sued Shkreli after saying he boasted of sending copies to "chicks" and receiving sexual favors. AdvertisementA federal judge in Brooklyn has ordered "Pharma bro" Martin Shkreli to surrender all copies of his supposedly one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album by noon on Friday. The new preliminary order by Judge Pamela K. Chen, first reported in artnet, is the latest development in that lawsuit.

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☆ Taylor Swift can absolutely sue Trump over the fake endorsement images he reposted. Winning a lawsuit might be harder.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-19 | by ( Laura Italiano | Natalie Musumeci | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewShould Taylor Swift sue Donald Trump or just shake it off? "Swift could sue Trump and those who misappropriated her likeness by creating AI-generated images," Neama Rahmani, the president and a cofounder of West Coast Trial Lawyers, said. "So I wouldn't be surprised if they send the Trump campaign a cease-and-desist letter at a minimum," Rahmani said. Firmly in the "sue Trump" camp is James Walker Jr., a veteran entertainment attorney from Atlanta who reps the estate of Isaac Hayes. Swift would need to prove that the Trump campaign sent these images out with intent to deceive voters."

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Ceasar Bacarella v. Prime HydrationThe issue: In this case, Caesar Bacarella, the Florida-based owner of a line of sports supplements and apparel called Alpha Prime and protein brownies called Prime Bites, accuses Prime of trademark infringement. Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals v. Prime HydrationThe issue: In a trademark suit filed in June, Hi-Tech Pharmaceuticals, a Kentucky-based company, accused Prime Hydration of "unfair competition" and "infringement." What's next: Prime filed a motion to dismiss, which the judge granted on several technicalities. AdvertisementRefresco Beverages US v. Congo Brands and Prime HydrationThe issue: Refresco Beverages, a bottler for Prime, filed a lawsuit in Delaware against Prime Hydration and its parent company, Congo Brands. US Olympic & Paralympic Committee v. Prime HydrationThe issue: The Olympics committee alleges the company used various Olympic trademarks reserved for its beverage sponsor, Coca-Cola.

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☆ Woman Arrested in Plot to Steal Graceland From Elvis Presley's Family
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-16 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewA Missouri woman was arrested Friday in connection to a scheme to defraud Elvis Presley's family by stealing their interest in Graceland and trying to extort them for millions of dollars. Lisa Jeanine Findley, 53, faces charges of mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, federal prosecutors in Missouri said. Keough had sued a company that claimed it owned the rights to Graceland, and a judge ruled in Keough's favor in May. AdvertisementFindley posed as three different individuals from a fictitious lender called Naussany Investments, prosecutors said Friday. She then falsely claimed that Lisa Marie Presley had borrowed $3.8 million from Naussany in 2018, putting up Graceland as collateral, but never repayed the debt, prosecutors said.

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☆ Many musicians have copyright gripes with Trump, but only some can win in the courts
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Each songwriter belongs to a single PRO, so the Trump campaign would have needed to secure a license from the appropriate PRO," Litman said. According to BMI, Trump's campaign has taken out a "political entities license" from BMI for his 2016, 2020, and 2024 campaigns. Advertisement"If no license was obtained, the copyright owners in the songs can sue Trump, and they would win," Litman said. Trump's campaign has used Hayes' music at the former president's rallies more than 100 times and as recently as Saturday, Walker said. Walker, a 30-year entertainment-copyright lawyer, said the Hayes family hired him "after getting no response" from the Trump campaign for two years.

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☆ Israeli-born Intel executive sues, says he was fired for blowing a whistle on boss' 'horrific' pro-Hamas social media activity
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-13 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Go to newsletter preferencesSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewAn engineering executive who has served as an Israeli soldier says in a new federal lawsuit that he was fired from his job at Intel in April for complaining about his boss' "horrific and troubling" pro-Hamas social media posts. A dozen of the X posts "liked" by the boss are included in the lawsuit filed in Manhattan Tuesday. AdvertisementThe plaintiff "nearly lost his entire family to a missile strike by Hamas" earlier this year, the lawsuit says. John Doe says he was fired in retaliation for speaking out against his boss.

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☆ A crypto data leak led the FBI to America's most wanted sex trafficking fugitive. Now, the victims want his bitcoins.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-11 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +16 min

Four bitcoin wallets that led to sex-trafficking fugitive Michael Pratt's capture are seen in the bottom left corner. AdvertisementFrom Michael Pratt's 2019 criminal complaint. Federal prosecutors say Pratt increased traffic by forwarding each victim's video link to her school, work, family, and social connections. Michael Pratt's Swiss ID and Barcelona Mailboxes Etc. AdvertisementThese days, DeBarber runs the Baltimore-based Phoenix AI cybersecurity firm with cofounder Justine Li, a Girls Do Porn victim and plaintiff.

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☆ Trump complains that Kamala Harris calls him a felon in latest bid to get hush-money judge to recuse himself
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

In a new legal filing, Trump complains about Kamala Harris's "prosecutor vs. felon" taunts. Trump also complains that his hush-money judge's daughter worked as a consultant for Harris. Trump is making his 3rd try at asking the judge to recuse himself. AdvertisementKamala Harris framing the presidential race as "prosecutor vs. felon" may have touched a nerve with Donald Trump. "Harris immediately framed her candidacy with a specific false reference to this case as a contest of 'prosecutor vs. convicted felon,'" Trump's filing complains.

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☆ Trump will no longer send out his statements of worth
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

"Based on discussions with the Trump Organization, my understanding is that the Trump Organization does not intend to develop any estimations of value for any entity, the Trump Organization as a whole, or the guarantors' collateral," Jones wrote. Donald Trump no longer intends to calculate his own net worth for financial statements, this excerpt from a new report reveals. He has issued these net-worth statements — 20- to 30-page balance sheets formally called Statements of Financial Condition — since at least 2004. The firm declared the whole previous decade's worth of net-worth statements unreliable in 2022, saying it would stop preparing them. New York attorney general's officeThroughout the decade's worth of net-worth statements, Trump ignored generally accepted accounting principles, the AG and judge found.

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☆ Trump's NY fraud judge declines to recuse himself over 'nothingburger' hallway conversation
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. Read previewThe Manhattan judge who ordered Donald Trump to pay a nearly $500 million fraud judgment has declined — in no uncertain terms — the former president's demand that he recuse himself from the case over a brief hallway conversation. The sum owed by Trump accrues another $1 million in interest every nine days, and had reached $471 million by Thursday. Engoron did not mince words in saying on Thursday that he would not step down over "this 90-second, unsolicited diatribe." Lawyers for Trump and Bailey did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

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☆ NY fights to save Trump hush-money sentencing, saying it's a harmless error if evidence he's immune from entered the case
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-25 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewManhattan prosecutors are fighting to keep Donald Trump's September 18 hush-money sentencing on track, saying in a new filing Thursday that it was "harmless error" if evidence he's now immune from entered the case. But Trump would have been indicted and convicted even if evidence the defense calls "official" were removed, the filing adds. AdvertisementThe filing argues that Trump is wrong in now stamping much of the prosecutor's case "official act evidence." But these tweets describe unofficial acts unrelated to Trump's official duties, and for which he has no immunity, the prosecution filing now argues. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the prosecution filing.

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☆ Trump Lawyers Distance Selves From Alina Habba in Fraud-Trial Appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIt has been 10 months since Donald Trump's New York civil-fraud defense lawyers were ordered to pay $7,500 each in sanctions for filing repetitive and frivolous legal motions. The brief argues that in sanctioning the civil fraud defense lawyers in September, the judge improperly referenced two prior Habba matters that resulted in sanctions for her and Trump. Habba and other Trump lawyers did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the appeal. AdvertisementA nearly $500 million judgment — set by Engoron in February against Trump, the Trump Organization, and key longtime executives — remains on hold during Trump's appeal. Of that sum, Trump personally owes $471 million, as of Tuesday, including $17 million in post-judgment interest.

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☆ Trump Lawyers Distance Themselves From Alina Habba in Fraud-Trial Appeal
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-24 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewIt's been 10 months since Donald Trump's New York civil-fraud defense lawyers were ordered to pay $7,500 each in sanctions for filing repetitive and frivolous legal motions. The brief argues that in sanctioning the civil-fraud defense lawyers in September, the judge improperly referenced two prior Habba matters that resulted in sanctions for her and Trump. AdvertisementHabba wasn't among the five fraud-trial defense lawyers hit with the small, largely symbolic sanctions last September because her name wasn't on the motions Engoron attacked as "frivolous." Habba and other Trump lawyers didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the appeal. AdvertisementA nearly $500 million judgment — set by Engoron in February against Trump, The Trump Organization, and key longtime executives — remains on hold during Trump's appeal.

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☆ GOP lawsuits over Kamala Harris using Biden campaign funds or headlining Democratic ballots will all fail, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Laura Italiano | Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Republican legal experts and think tanks such as the Heritage Foundation are questioning Harris's ability to access the Biden-Harris campaign coffers. Others, including Congressman Steve Scalise, say it's wrong for Harris to assume the top line of the ticket after 14 million state primary voters cast ballots for Biden. There's no general election candidate being replaced, so those rules and regulations about replacement don't don't apply to the situation." AdvertisementNoti of the Campaign Legal Center said a meritless claim like this would be tossed from court immediately, leaving the GOP challengers' lawyers subject to possible sanctions for filing a frivolous suit. "I suspect it would be disposed of very quickly," Becker agreed of any legal challenge to Harris headlining Democratic ballots.

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