Legal News

The Hague District Court in the Netherlands rejected Friday a motion by ten Palestinian and Dutch NGOs to halt arms export to Israel.

Case file: https://uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=ECLI%3ANL%3ARBDHA%3A2024%3A20828 (Dutch)

The Fukuoka High Court ruled that Japan’s current policy against same-sex marriage is discriminatory and unconstitutional on Friday. This marks the third time a High Court in the country has declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional, and this ruling specifically calls on the government to undertake necessary legal reforms.

Case file: https://www.call4.jp/file/pdf/202412/4012259b3b9dba36b31125ec947ea53a.pdf (Japanese)

ABC News has agreed to pay $15 million toward Donald Trump’s presidential library to settle a lawsuit over anchor George Stephanopoulos' inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183.58.1.pdf

The Hong Kong District Court on Thursday found seven protesters guilty of rioting in relation to the mob violence at the Yuen Long subway station during the city’s anti-extradition movement in 2019.

Case file: https://legalref.judiciary.hk/doc/judg/html/vetted/other/ch/2020/DCCC001106_2020_files/DCCC001106_2020ES.htm

The judge overseeing the Georgia election interference case against Donald Trump and several others has rejected an effort by Trump’s former campaign lawyer, Kenneth Chesebro, to invalidate his guilty plea.

Case file: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/georgia-v-chesebro-order-dismissing-plea-fulton-superior.pdf

Former NFL player Eric Moulds was sued by a New York woman who accused him of allegedly infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease.

President-elect Donald Trump has sued ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, and now the judge has decided both must sit for depositions next week.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183/gov.uscourts.flsd.664183.57.0.pdf

Far-right Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued a New York doctor on Friday that he accused of unlawfully providing a Texas woman abortion pills in violation of the conservative state’s strict abortion laws.

Case file: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Dr%20Carpenter%20Filed%20Petition.pdf

John Does claim rapper fed them spiked drinks and sexually assaulted them while unconscious as recently as 2022

A man who killed nine people and wounded 12 in one of the two mass shootings in Serbia last year that shocked the country and triggered the biggest protests in years was found guilty and sentenced on Thursday to 20 years in prison.

A former FBI informant accused of fabricating a multimillion-dollar bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden’s family has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges.

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Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.275165/gov.uscourts.dcd.275165.6.0.pdf

A win for WP Engine.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25451524/wp-engine-v-wordpress-injunction.pdf

Nvidia's legal battles continue to grow.

Case file: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-970_2dq3.pdf

President-elect Donald Trump has filed a motion to try to toss out the lawsuit against him by the exonerated "Central Park Five" — the group of five Black and Latino men who were initially convicted of a brutal rape in New York City in the late 1980s but later cleared as innocent.

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.paed.628885/gov.uscourts.paed.628885.26.1_2.pdf

Class action could foil Photobucket’s plan to turn old photos into AI goldmine.

Case file: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/12/photobucket-sold-users-biometric-data-without-consent-lawsuit-says/

The Khatai District Court in Azerbaijan held a trial on Sunday of the six journalists detained Saturday in Baku on smuggling charges. Five of the six reporters, Natig Javadli, Khayala Aghayeva, Aytaj Tapdig, Aynur Elgunesh, and Aysel Umudova work with the Berlin-based independent media outlet Meydan TV. The sixth person is an independent journalist. The Azerbaijani interior ministry justified the arrest in a statement to a pro-government news outlet, accusing them of illegally importing foreign currency.

The jury was unable to come to a consensus on the most serious charge of manslaughter.

ByteDance and TikTok filed an emergency motion on Monday asking an appeals court to temporally block the law that would ban TikTok in the U.S.

The lawsuit claims that Amazon secretly stopped sending its drivers to two District zip codes in 2022, causing delays in deliveries for Prime members there.

Case file: https://oag.dc.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/Amazon%20Complaint%20%28final%29.pdf

The U.S. Supreme Court again denied a request to lift a gag order placed on President-elect Donald Trump after he was convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in New York.