Do Kwon, who created the Luna and TerraUSD cryptocurrencies that collapsed in 2022, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud, capping a spectacular fall from grace.
Category: Decisions and Verdicts
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India’s Supreme Court Tells New Delhi to Round Up Stray Dogs
In cities across the country, the feral animals are both loved and feared. The judges are forging into intensely emotional territory by going after the ones in the capital.
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California Supreme Court Requires New Review of Rooftop Solar Policy
The court revived a legal challenge to a 2022 regulation that significantly reduced the compensation utilities paid to owners of home solar systems for the electricity they sent to the grid.
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Trump Questions Discrimination Claims, Even One His First Administration Brought
The case against a Chicago mortgage lender has become a Rorschach test for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, epitomizing how the left and the right feel about the agency.
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‘Victim-3’ in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Indictment Argues for His Release From Jail
Once part of the government’s case against the music mogul, a former girlfriend wrote to a judge in support of Mr. Combs’s request for bail ahead of sentencing.
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Jury Says Tesla Was Partly to Blame for Fatal Crash
Lawyers for the family of a woman struck and killed by a Tesla sedan in 2019 argued that the company’s Autopilot software should have avoided the crash.
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Prosecutors Oppose Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Bid for Release From Jail
Earlier this week, the mogul’s lawyers renewed their efforts to secure his release ahead of his October sentencing on prostitution-related convictions.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Lawyers Ask Judge to Vacate Jury’s Verdict or Retry Him
In a 62-page motion, the music mogul’s legal team argued that his conviction under the Mann Act — which bars interstate commerce related to prostitution — should be overturned.
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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Awaiting Sentencing, Asks Judge to Release Him From Jail
Lawyers for the music mogul, who is to be sentenced in October on prostitution charges, filed court papers saying he would sign a $50 million bond.
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Supreme Court Lets Trump Fire Consumer Product Safety Regulators
The court’s order was the latest in a series of emergency rulings on the scope of the president’s power over independent agencies.
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Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Restricting Associated Press Access to Trump
The earlier decision found it legal for the president to restrict access to a news organization in invite-only places like the Oval Office or Air Force One.
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William H. Neukom, Microsoft Lawyer Who Led Antitrust Fight, Dies at 83
In the 1990s, the U.S. called Microsoft a bullying monopoly and sought to rein it in. The company lost in a landmark decision, but emerged intact.