Deutsche Bank has reached a $ 75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by women who claimed they were victims of sexual abuse by financier Jeffrey Epstein, Jonathan Stempel reports for Reuters. The settlement resolves a proposed class action and accusations that the German bank facilitated Epstein’s sex trafficking. Epstein, a former client of Deutsche Bank, died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges. The settlement still needs approval by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff. Similar … Read the rest
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The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.
This Friday’s conference represents a significant date in the Supreme Court’s schedule: Based on the schedule prescribed by the court’s rules, it is the last conference at which a cert petition can be granted and the case heard during the court’s April sitting. Because it appears that sitting is mostly empty at … Read the rest
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning added two cases — one involving the Bank Secrecy Act, the other involving the government’s power to dismiss fraud claims — to its 2022-23 docket. In a list of orders from the justices’ private conference last week, the justices also turned down – over a dissent from Justice Clarence Thomas that was joined by Justice Samuel Alito – a request from Ohio to reinstate the conviction and death sentence of an inmate who … Read the rest
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This week we highlight cert petitions that ask the Supreme Court to consider, among other things, the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for health care workers, and a Turkish bank’s immunity claim.
In Missouri v. Biden, the justices face a petition asking them to review on the merits the Biden administration’s vaccine policy for health care workers. The mandate requires nearly all health care workers at facilities that participate in Medicare and Medicaid to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 … Read the rest