Jay Peters
Elon Musk has been ordered to appear at a court hearing tomorrow in Philadelphia.
It’s for the DA’s lawsuit over his probably illegal $1 million daily voter giveaway — I wonder if he’ll show up.
Law Archive
Archives for October 2024
Elizabeth Lopatto
FTX co-conspirator Nishad Singh isn’t going to prison.
Singh, now the fourth FTX executive to be sentenced after Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison, and Ryan Salame, will receive three years of supervised release.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who has presided over the cases, said that Mr. Singh provided crucial assistance to the government and that he had played a “much more limited” role in the scheme than his colleagues had.
Nishad Singh, a Top FTX Executive, Is Given No Prison Time After Cooperation
[The New York Times]
Trump has promised to roll back Biden’s EV policies on ‘day one.’
Andrew J. Hawkins
Conservative courts are strangling the functions of government. Another round of Trump judges will finish us.
Sarah Jeong
An endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris.
Nilay Patel
Wes Davis and Richard Lawler
The Verge’s guide to Project 2025.
Gaby Del Valle
Your vote matters. Here’s how it will change the future.
Adi Robertson, Gaby Del Valle and 3 more
Wes Davis
Elon Musk didn’t have to delete tweet about unionizing Tesla workers’ stock options, court rules.
The US Fifth Circuit Appeals Court found that the Tesla CEO’s 2018 tweet questioning why workers attempting to unionize would “give up stock options for nothing” was protected free speech, reports Bloomberg.
The National Labor Relations Board had ordered Tesla to tell Musk to delete the tweet in 2021, months after a judge deemed it to be illegal.
Richard Lawler
Delta is suing CrowdStrike over July’s global IT outage.
Reuters reports Delta filed a lawsuit Friday over the July 19th crash, blaming CrowdStrike for having “forced untested and faulty updates to its customers, causing more than 8.5 million Microsoft Windows-based computers around the world to crash.”
Delta’s CEO already called out Microsoft and CrowdStrike during a CNBC interview (included below), saying, “When was the last time you heard of a big outage at Apple?,” while Microsoft said Delta ignored offers to help recover faster.
Sarah Jeong
Here’s a “grim bit of trivia” about the FTC’s click-to-cancel rule:
One of the lawyers suing to block the immensely popular new Federal Trade Commission regulation happens to be the wife of one of the judges sitting on that appeals court. Don’t worry though:
Federal law mandates that judges recuse from cases in which their spouse represents a party, so even if [James] Ho, one of the Fifth Circuit’s thirstiest culture warriors, were assigned to the panel, her involvement is less a five-alarm legal ethics fire than a grim bit of trivia about just how tight-knit the conservative legal movement can be.
(Relatedly, last year, Ian Millhiser at Vox called James Ho “the edgelord of the federal judiciary,” describing him as “a Breitbart comments forum come to life.”)
