Tom Goldstein, the founder of SCOTUSBlog, is scheduled to be sentenced today in a case that has drawn significant attention across the legal community.
In a development that reads more like a thriller than a civil dispute, a plaintiff reportedly hired spies to extract confidential case intelligence from a Biglaw partner representing the opposing side.
The Department of Justice has abandoned its effort to compel journalists to testify about their reporting on security vulnerabilities surrounding the new Air Force One aircraft.
The security problems with the presidential aircraft had been widely known, making the DOJ’s attempt to silence reporting on the matter a particularly contentious legal battle from the outset.
The government continues to impose further tariffs, adding to an already complex and shifting trade environment that businesses across multiple sectors are being forced to navigate carefully.
The Supreme Court’s Grants Pass decision, which drew fierce criticism from advocates who warned it would inflict needless suffering on homeless and vulnerable populations, has now been in effect for two years.
Critics of the Grants Pass ruling have argued consistently that the decision would cause real harm, and by most assessments those warnings have proved entirely accurate in the time since.
The DOJ is moving to fast-track merger approvals by significantly scaling back the antitrust division’s initial information requests, a shift that critics say will weaken scrutiny of major corporate consolidation.
Bloomberg reports the changes to the merger review process could fundamentally alter how deals are assessed, reducing the burden on companies seeking approval but raising concerns among competition advocates.
Europe has imposed a $1 billion antitrust fine on Google (GOOGL), the latest major regulatory action from EU authorities who have repeatedly moved to penalise what they regard as anticompetitive behaviour by large technology firms.
The fine against Google underscores a continuing transatlantic divide in how regulators approach the market dominance of major technology companies, with European authorities showing a far greater appetite for enforcement action.
For American audiences accustomed to lighter regulatory touch in the technology sector, the scale and frequency of European antitrust penalties against firms like Google may still come as a striking contrast to domestic enforcement norms.