The Evidence Record
- Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust to Acquire Home Partners of America
Corporate Filing · 2021
Blackstone
Blackstone's June 2021 announcement of a $6 billion deal for Home Partners of America, owner of more than 17,000 homes. This is Blackstone, not BlackRock.
- Bloomberg Government Annual Top Lobbying Firms Report: $5.3 Billion Industry Spending in 2025
News Report · 2026
Bloomberg Government
Bloomberg Government release reporting total federal lobbying spending of about $5.3 billion in 2025, based on Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.
- Bloomberg L.P., Persons with significant control
Government Record · 2026
UK Companies House / Bloomberg L.P.
Official UK disclosure identifies Michael Rubens Bloomberg as a person with significant influence or control. It does not identify any Big Three manager as controller of…
- Bloomberg Law: Mary Jo White to Rejoin Debevoise (2017)
News Report · 2017
Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law, February 2017: former SEC Chair Mary Jo White went back to the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton. Her successor at the SEC was Jay…
- BLS: Employment Status by Age, Sex and Race (2025 annual averages)
Government Record · 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 89.4 percent of men aged 25 to 54 were in the labor force in 2025.
- BLS: Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2024
Government Record · 2025
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics: 298,790 machinists employed in May 2024.
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan 2025 Commercial PPO Quality Improvement Program Description (PGIP/VBR)
Document · 2025
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
BCBSM's Physician Group Incentive Program pays value-based reimbursement above standard fee schedules, with incentive payments only for measures meeting NCQA Quality Compass 75th/90th percentile benchmarks; Childhood…
- BMJ: Future Jobs of FDA Hematology-Oncology Reviewers (2016)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Jeffrey Bien and Vinay Prasad
BMJ, September 2016: study by Jeffrey Bien and Vinay Prasad on later jobs of FDA cancer drug reviewers. Only the PubMed listing was opened, so its…
- Bolloré: 2025 Business Report
Corporate Filing · 2026
Bolloré SE
Bolloré's 2025 report: it holds 29.3 percent of Vivendi and calls itself Vivendi's reference shareholder. BlackRock is not Vivendi's largest holder.
- Bondi says Epstein client list ‘sitting on my desk right now,’ reviewing JFK, MLK files
News Report · 2025
Fox News
Fox News, February 2025: Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Epstein client list was "sitting on my desk right now to review." A TV interview, not…
- Booz Allen Announces Partnership with Andreessen Horowitz to Accelerate and Scale Advanced Technology for Governments
Document · 2026
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton's January 2026 announcement that it became Andreessen Horowitz's first technology partner for governments, working across the a16z portfolio, which includes Flock.
- Bowman v. Monsanto Co., 569 U.S. 278 (2013)
Court Filing · 2013
U.S. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled a farmer could not reproduce Monsanto's patented soybeans by planting and harvesting them without permission.
- Bowsher v. Synar (1986)
Court Filing · 1986
Supreme Court of the United States (Burger, C.J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, July 1986: struck down part of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings budget law for giving executive power to an officer controlled by Congress. The Court quoted…
- Brantley v. Kuntz (2015)
Court Filing · 2015
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas (Sparks, J.)
Federal court in Texas, January 2015: struck down Texas rules forcing a hair-braiding school to install ten barber chairs and sinks its students were not even…
- Brian Deese OGE Form 278e Financial Disclosure
Government Record · 2021
Brian Deese; U.S. Office of Government Ethics form
Brian Deese's federal financial disclosure on entering the White House. It lists BlackRock employment from January 2018 to December 2020 as Managing Director, Global Head of…
- Brian Deese, Senior Leadership Biography
Government Record · 2026
Obama White House Archives
Documents Deese’s actual executive-branch posts as Senior Advisor, OMB Deputy Director, and NEC Deputy Director. The biography does not support reducing his government service to a…
- Brief for the City of Chicago, City of Chicago v. Fulton, No. 19-357
Court Filing · 2020
City of Chicago
The brief documents the historical boot threshold relevant to the Fulton record. It should not be presented as the current threshold without checking later reforms.
- Brief of the State of Alabama and 22 Other States as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, U.S. v. Skrmetti, No. 23-477 (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
State of Alabama et al. (Steve Marshall, AG)
Court filing compiling evidence from Boe v. Marshall (2:22-cv-184, M.D. Ala.) discovery: WPATH commissioned systematic reviews from a Johns Hopkins team, blocked publication of most, removed…
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light
Government Record · 2022
Federal Trade Commission staff
The staff report discusses design practices that induce false beliefs, hide or delay material information, impose unauthorized charges, or obscure privacy choices.
- Bringing Dark Patterns to Light: Staff Report
Government Record · 2022
Federal Trade Commission
FTC staff report, September 2022: "dark patterns" are design tricks that push users into choices they would not otherwise make, and the report shows how common…
- Britannica: The Bohemian Club and the Cremation of Care
Document
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica on the Bohemian Club: its owl totem, the large concrete owl built in 1929, and the Cremation of Care ceremony held since 1881, which…
- Brockman v. Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, C101451 (2025)
Court Filing · 2025
California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District
The appellate court affirmed denial of Kaiser’s petition to compel arbitration because Kaiser did not prove a valid, binding arbitration agreement. The opinion summarizes Cole’s allegations…
- Bruesewitz v. Wyeth LLC, 562 U.S. 223 (2011)
Court Filing · 2011
U.S. Supreme Court (Scalia, J., majority; Sotomayor, J., dissenting, joined by Ginsburg; Kagan recused)
The Supreme Court decision behind 'Can't hardly sue the company': after exhausting the Vaccine Court, plaintiffs may not bring state design-defect suits. The Sotomayor dissent warned…
- BT Achieves Significant Downward Variance: Probation Sentence for Former Portage Mayor James Snyder
Document · 2026
Barnes & Thornburg LLP
The defense firm reports that the bribery count was dismissed and the tax-obstruction conviction remained, producing probation on March 10, 2026. The underlying judgment and dismissal…