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A US congressional committee released testimony Thursday from whistleblowers within the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), suggesting that federal officials slow-walked an investigation into President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. The US House Ways and Means Committee, which is currently majority-Republican, released the testimony following closed door meetings and the announcement of federal charges against Biden earlier [...]

The US Attorney for the District of Delaware charged Hunter Biden, US President Joe Biden’s son, on Tuesday with tax and firearm offenses. Biden faces two tax-related charges. Those charges include two violations of 26 U.S.C. § 7203 which criminalizes willfully failing to file a tax return, supply tax information or pay taxes. The first [...]

Judge John Dorsey of the United States Bankruptcy Court District of Delaware rejected in part and ruled in favor in part of a motion Friday by bankrupt cryptocurrency trading company FTX’s debtors and the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors requesting the company’s customer list stay private. Dorsey ruled individual customer names would remain permanently sealed [...]

A Delaware court Tuesday began hearing the defamation case between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News Network. Tuesday morning, Judge Eric Davis finalized jury selection and appointed a special master. By 1:30 PM EST, the court expected to begin opening statements. However, when court resumed after a significant delay around 4:00 PM EST, the parties [...]

The US Supreme Court Tuesday released a unanimous opinion holding that certain abandoned financial instruments that are similar to money orders may be recovered by the state in which they were purchased. In Delaware v. Pennsylvania, the court ruled that these abandoned financial instruments, worth hundreds of millions of dollars, fell under the definition of [...]

Getty Images Monday filed a complaint against Stability AI, an open artificial intelligence platform, for allegedly misusing the stock photo company’s images without its permission. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the District of Delaware, states that Stability AI copied more than 12 million images from Getty Images’ collection, including its captions [...]

White House lawyer Richard Sauber Saturday said more classified documents have been found at President Joe Biden’s Delaware residence. Earlier this week, the White House announced that classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in November last year. However, while arranging for the Department of Justice (DOJ) to take possession of these documents [...]

US Attorney General Merrick Garland Thursday announced the appointment of special counsel in the investigation of classified documents from the Obama-Biden Administration discovered in an office formerly used by President Joe Biden. Special counselor Robert Hur is a former career Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutor and former US Attorney for the District of Maryland. In [...]

Attorneys general in 40 states Monday announced a $391.5 million, multi-state settlement with Google over the company’s location tracking practices. The agreement marks the largest US privacy settlement in history. Authorities allege that Google’s collection of location information violated the participating states’ consumer protection laws because “Google misled its users into thinking they had turned [...]

JURIST staffers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law are filing dispatches on various aspects of the November 2022 midterm elections in Pennsylvania. Here, Pitt Law 1L Luke Watkins offers a general perspective on the vote and the role mail-in ballots will play in it.  Pennsylvania, the old adage goes, is Pittsburgh and Philadelphia [...]