Tom Hals
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Reuters legal reporter
Delaware
Joined June 2009
As I note in this piece by @tomhals @Reuters, docs released in litigation show that troop deployment in LA and other cities is highly risky: it puts the military “on a knife's edge” & “potentially damages the U.S. military's reputation and broad support across the U.S.
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A trove of internal military reports and messages offers a rare inside look at concerns from commanders.
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In the next edition of "historic criminal trials," crack addiction and a Colt .38 revolver take center stage, replacing porn star hush-money payments
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The criminal trial of Hunter Biden on gun charges kicks off next week, with federal prosecutors likely to dissect lurid details of his crack cocaine addiction that could provide fuel for opponents of...
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Tesla shareholder seeks to bar Musk from dodging from Delaware pay ruling
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A Tesla investor who successfully sued to void CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package asked a Delaware judge on Wednesday to prevent the electric carmaker from bucking the court's authority by...
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Trump to be deposed in dispute with media company co-founders
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to be deposed later this month by lawyers for co-founders of his social media company as part of a dispute over ownership in Trump Media &...
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Can the US ban TikTok? Not easily, if enforcement means infringing free speech of the company and its users
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TikTok's new lawsuit to block a U.S. law forcing the social media company's Chinese parent to divest it or be banned could spark a landmark clash over free speech, government power and the balance...
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The judge wants answers why $500 million was sent to a 20-something with no qualifications who was running a hedge fund with "its primary business location turned out an International House of Pancakes in Miami."
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I covered bankruptcy courts for years and this is a new one -- a bankruptcy judge ordering the arrest of a hedge fund manager
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A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Thursday ordered the arrest of William Cameron Morton, a hedge fund manager who allegedly helped Indian education technology startup Byju's hide $533 million from its...
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The legal team that voided Musk's $56 bln pay package from Tesla are now asking for their own huge payday that works out to $288,000 an hour -- but by some measures, that's a bargain.
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The lawyers who successfully voided Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package as excessive admitted their request for a $6 billion fee is "unprecedented," but by some measures, it might be cheap.
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Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want a $6 bln fee
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The lawyers who voided Elon Musk's $56 billion compensation as excessive on Friday sought a record a $6 billion legal fee, payable in the electric car maker's stock.
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A former executive of the blank-check acquisition vehicle that plans to take Donald Trump's social media company public sued to block the deal until he obtained a larger payout, according to a lawsuit docketed Feb. 29 in Delaware
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A former executive of the blank-check acquisition vehicle that plans to take Donald Trump's social media company public sued to block the deal until he obtained a larger payout, according to a...
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In Alabama a frozen embryo is a person in a wrongful death lawsuit. In Texas, a brand-new old PO Box is a "principal place of business" if a company wants a favored bankruptcy judge.
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A U.S. judge has ruled that law firms Latham & Watkins and Jackson Walker did not commit bankruptcy fraud by opening up a new bank account and P.O. box to ensure that a California-headquartered...
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Hunter Biden not protected from gun charges by Second Amendment, DOJ argues @tomhals
https://t.co/tAq5sDBAaY
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Are corporate boards violating their duty to investors by adopting DEI policies? Some conservative groups think so, and some companies are modifying their diversity programs
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At least six major US firms have modified policies meant to boost racial and ethnic representation that conservative groups threatened to sue over, a Reuters review of corporate statements has found.
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Catholic nuns sue Smith & Wesson to halt its assault-style weapons sales
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"These rifles have no purpose other than mass murder," the nuns said in a statement. AR-15 assault-style rifles have been used in a number of mass shootings in America.
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After losing a shareholder trial Dole Foods owner David Murdock moved to a Nevada charter. Elon Musk did the same with Twitter/X after a Delaware judge basically forced him to buy the company. But those are still outliers.
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Barr warns companies might start to reincorporate their businesses outside Delaware. The same threat was made after the financial crisis, when the idea of a national charter briefly emerged, then faded.
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Laster counters that Delaware courts protect good-faith decisions by corporate directors, not progressive or conservative policies. Maybe ESG is good for the business?
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