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October 19, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday slammed the British Broadcasting Corp.'s subpoena to Jack Smith, who brought election interference and classified document-hoarding charges against the president, saying the former special counsel's testimony is "entirely irrelevant" to the $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the broadcaster's documentary on the 2021 U.S. Capital attack.
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October 19, 2026
An Israeli spyware company isn't going to be held in contempt on allegations it violated a court order restricting its use of WhatsApp because the order wasn't so specific that it banned the company from using accounts it already had, only restricted it from making new ones, a judge has ruled.
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October 19, 2026
A pair of insurers urged a Connecticut state judge Monday to order McCarter & English LLP to file a substituted post-trial brief in a more than $20 million malpractice case over commercial loan transactions, arguing the firm improperly quoted a report never admitted into evidence at trial this summer.
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October 19, 2026
A divided First Circuit panel upheld a decision to vacate a Venezuelan woman's drug conspiracy conviction because a lawyer incorrectly assured her that she could remain in the U.S. and "work out" her immigration status after she pled guilty.
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October 19, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has ruled that a man convicted of a weapons felony cannot suppress evidence from a warrantless search of his phone, because his girlfriend gave the password to his parole officers and allowed them to review photos stored on the device.
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