Sam Bankman-Fried has lost his appeal against his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence for the collapse of FTX. A US appeals court upheld the jury's decision, rejecting his defense that he believed FTX had sufficient funds.
US President Donald Trump’s lawyer, hoping for an eventual Supreme Court victory, has asked a federal appeal court in New York to temporarily block a long-time columnist from collecting a US$83 million defamation award. The lawyer, Justin D. Smith, told the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing on Tuesday to stay its decision supporting the award so that Trump will not have to pay writer E. Jean Carroll while he appeals to the high court. A Manhattan jury awarded Carroll the payout in...
Danco Laboratories filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court on May 2 asking it to halt a lower court ruling requiring in-person exams before mifepristone can be prescribed. The appeal came hours after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily reinstated the in-person dispensing requirement, blocking telemedicine providers from prescribing the abortion pill by mail in response to Louisiana's challenge. Danco warned the ruling would cause chaos and force providers and patients to guess at what is allowed. Louisiana argues mail delivery allows women to bypass abortion bans. The FDA is currently reviewing the drug's safety.
