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This Decision and Order from Justice Engoron denies all motions for directed verdict from Donald J. Trump, et al, in the New York State civil liability trial before Justice Engoron.

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At least five times during the recently concluded ten-and-a-half week trial of this matter, defendants moved for a directed verdict. ... This Court hereby denies that motion and, furthermore, denies all the prior motions that the Court previously took under advisement.

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On December 4, 2023, the court issued a Memorandum Opinion and Order denying Defendant’s motions to dismiss based on Presidential immunity and constitutional grounds. ECF Nos. 171, 172. Defendant has appealed that decision, ECF No. 177, and filed a Motion to Stay Proceedings Pending Appeal, ECF No. 178 (“Motion”). For the reasons set forth below, the court will GRANT in part and DENY in part Defendant’s Motion.

This filing by the Government in the DC Circuit case United States of America v. Donald J. Trump describes three expert witnesses that they plan to call to present Donald Trump's cell phone data around January 6, 2021.

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Question presented

Whether a former President is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office or is constitutionally protected from federal prosecution when he has been impeached but not convicted before the criminal proceedings begin.

This document is the ruling from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals regarding Donald J. Trump's motion to lift the gag order put in place by Judge Chutkan.

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Specifically, the Order is affirmed to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding. The Order is also affirmed to the extent it prohibits all parties and their counsel from making or directing others to make public statements about—(1) counsel in the case other than the Special Counsel, (2) members of the court’s staff and counsel’s staffs, or (3) the family members of any counsel or staff member—if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with, or to cause others to materially interfere with, counsel’s or staff’s work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is highly likely to result. We vacate the Order to the extent it covers speech beyond those specified categories. See 28 U.S.C. § 2106. The administrative stay issued by this court on November 3, 2023, is hereby dissolved.

This document describes proposed rail corridor projects, along with funding amount. Map of the corridors is on p18.

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President Donald J. Trump respectfully submits this motion for an order enforcing the automatic stay of all district court proceedings in this case pending the final resolution of his recently filed appeal from the Court’s December 1, 2023 rulings on, inter alia, Presidential immunity and double jeopardy. Docs. 171, 172. The filing of President Trump’s notice of appeal has deprived this Court of jurisdiction over this case in its entirety pending resolution of the appeal. Coinbase, Inc. v. Bielski, 599 U.S. 736, 738 (2023). Therefore, a stay of all further proceedings is mandatory and automatic. Id.

The character Archie Bunker in All In The Family was originally offered to Mickey Rooney, who declined. Carroll O'Connor lived in Europe, and accepted the role only because he thought the show would fail and he could go home, so much so that part of his contract with Norman Lear included a return plane ticket to Rome so that he could fly back when it failed

This document is filed by the Government in the DC Circuit case before Judge Chutkan. It describes "extensive advance notice of the intrinsic evidence it plans to introduce at trial."

Last week, Rudy Guiliani submitted a request to change his civil defamation trial from a jury trial to a bench trial. The decision on his liability was made in August 2023 via default judgment; this trial (next week) is to determine damages. Judge Beryl A. Howell ruled against that request in this document.

These Plaintiff-submitted documents outline a case against Lamington Farm Club, in relation to Alina Habba interjecting herself into a sexual harassment case involving Plaintiff and a manager at Bedminster.

Over the last few days, there's been an increasing problem with spam accounts from lemmy.blahaj.zone. It seems like they're working on addressing this issue, at least in a one-at-a-time fashion, but it's clear that they have not been able to proactively prevent the problem yet.

Of specific note, these accounts are posting links to offensive images. kbin.social doesn't display these images inline (at least not for me), which is nice, but the fact that they're being posted anywhere feels like a liability concern for kbin.social could be raised.

I don't pretend to know what can or should be done to address this. I just wanted to bring it up, because @ernest should know about it.

Reference:

https://kbin.social/m/main@lemmy.blahaj.zone/t/675827/Here-s-another-spam-account