The high-dollar economic woes of Mike Lindell and his small-town Minnesota-based company MyPillow continue apace. So does the litigation. Last week, the pro-Donald Trump conspiracy theorist and his once-lucrative business sued several lending companies over the eye-popping repayment terms of a $600,000 merchant cash advance. Under the terms of the agreement signed in September, Lindell...
A woman who claims Rudy Giuliani harassed, sexually assaulted her, and subjected her to a hostile work environment while she was an employee, only to fire her and “never paying her for the work she performed,” finally returned to court after lengthy delays in the case, as a judge heard arguments Wednesday over whether various...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced Tuesday that a Catholic hospital in Eureka has agreed to provide emergency abortion care to its patients while a lawsuit against it proceeds. Bonta sued Providence St. Joseph Hospital in state court in California in September for violating state law by refusing to provide emergency abortions to people experiencing...
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to the District of Columbia’s ban on extra large capacity magazines. A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against four gun owners who argued that they needed magazines that hold up to 17 bullets for self-defense. U.S. Circuit...
A Donald Trump supporter from Alabama who admittedly “lost it” when it seemed inevitable that the former president would be booked at the Fulton County Jail and have a mug shot taken in his Georgia RICO case is now going to federal prison for close to two years for threatening voicemails he left for DA...
The indicted decade-long former FBI informant accused of lodging false bribery allegations against President Joe Biden and Hunter Biden filed a “legally flawed, rambling and disorganized” demand for discovery, whether for “information that does not exist,” evidence that has already been shared with the defense, or documents that he isn’t legally entitled to receive. Two...
As the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights groups link arms in an effort to stop a commonwealth-sanctioned voter roll purge in Virginia, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s understanding of a nearly 20-year-old legal doctrine has risen to the foreground. In the Old Dominion, under the terms of Executive Order 35, election officials had...
A Texas judge running for reelection is under scrutiny for allegedly illegally soliciting votes from students at the college where he teaches. Tanner Neidhardt was appointed to the 483rd Judicial District Court in Hays County in 2022 by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, for a term set to expire on Dec. 31, 2024. In...
The Donald Trump-appointed federal judge who tossed out the former president’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution and reportedly burnished her perceived credentials as a candidate for U.S. attorney general, if Trump wins the 2024 election, defended herself and her rulings on Tuesday while declining to step aside from presiding over the attempted Trump assassination case against...
Signaling something of a continuation of the amici curiae fight over special counsel Jack Smith’s authority that preceded Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision to toss Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit on Monday allowed the former Whitewater independent counsel, a law professor, and a legal organization to...