The Evidence Record
- KSL: Second Lawsuit Filed Against Tim Ballard (2023)
News Report · 2023
KSL
KSL, October 2023: a second lawsuit filed against Tim Ballard alleging sexual misconduct. Ballard denies the allegations.
- Labor Force Participation: What Has Happened Since the Peak?
Government Record · 2016
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Labor Statistics: work rates for men aged 25 to 54 peaked at 97.4 percent in the mid-1950s and fell to about 88 percent by…
- Labor Unions and the U.S. Economy
Government Record · 2023
Laura Feiveson, U.S. Department of the Treasury
U.S. Treasury, 2023: union membership peaked in the 1950s at about one-third of the workforce. Today it is 10 percent.
- Lady Gaga’s “Born This Way” Promo: Bobby Campbell Interview
News Report · 2021
Billboard
Billboard, 2021: the "change culture and the world" line about Lady Gaga's Born This Way campaign was said by her marketer Bobby Campbell, not Gaga.
- Lafferty v. Jones: Connecticut Appellate Court Summary (2024)
Court Filing · 2024
Connecticut Appellate Court
Connecticut Appellate Court, December 2024: in the Sandy Hook case Lafferty v. Jones, it rejected most of Jones's challenges and kept liability, but reversed the $150…
- Lancaster County Farm Enjoined from Continued Misbranding of Meat/Poultry Products and Evasion of Federal Inspection
Government Record · 2019
U.S. Attorney’s Office, E.D. Pa.
The federal action concerned meat and poultry inspection, not a general federal raw-milk prohibition. Membership-association status did not exempt the operation from federal food-safety law.
- Lancet Global Health: Gaza Mortality Survey (2026)
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2026
The Lancet Global Health / Gaza Mortality Survey authors
The Lancet Global Health, 2026: a household survey of 2,000 Gaza homes estimated 75,200 violent deaths to January 2025. The Ministry of Health count of 49,090…
- LAPD Automated License Plate Reader Systems, BPC #26-184
Government Record · 2026
Los Angeles Police Department Office of Inspector General
LAPD Inspector General, July 2026: the department lacked formal agreements covering data security, privacy and access for its plate readers, and recommended suspending new deployments.
- Larry Fink’s 2020 Letter to CEOs: A Fundamental Reshaping of Finance
Document · 2020
Laurence D. Fink / BlackRock
The letter calls climate change a defining factor in long-term prospects and puts sustainability at the center of BlackRock’s investment approach. It also expressly distinguishes client…
- Larry Fink’s 2023 Annual Chairman’s Letter
Document · 2023
Laurence D. Fink / BlackRock
The 2023 letter continues climate-risk language. It does not itself contain the later “weaponized” remark, so it does not establish a wholesale repudiation of ESG or…
- Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 452 U.S. 18
Court Filing · 1981
Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court held that the Constitution does not guarantee a lawyer to every parent facing termination of parental rights; courts decide case by case. Many…
- Late Rapper FBG Duck’s Mother Sues Lil Durk for Deadly 2020 Shooting
News Report · 2024
Block Club Chicago
Block Club Chicago, October 2024: FBG Duck's mother sued Lil Durk and record companies, claiming they fueled and profited from violent drill music. Lawsuit allegations.
- Law Enforcement Use of Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) Update (Chapter 720, 2025)
Government Record · 2026
Virginia State Crime Commission
Virginia State Crime Commission's 2026 report on the state's new plate reader law: 21-day purge, use limits, and incomplete agency compliance. VDOT issued 215 permits after…
- Law360: Texas Supreme Court Rejects Sandy Hook Families Infowars Appeal (2026)
News Report · 2026
Law360
Law360, September 2026: reports the Texas Supreme Court left in place orders blocking a receiver from taking over Infowars and leasing its intellectual property to The…
- Lawyers for Epstein Associate Jean-Luc Brunel Demand Probe Into His Death (2024)
News Report · 2024
RFI / AFP
RFI, January 2024: Jean-Luc Brunel was found hanged in his Paris prison cell in February 2022 before trial. His lawyers demanded an inquiry into failures by…
- Lawyers say settlement reached in Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew
News Report · 2022
Associated Press / PBS NewsHour
AP, February 2022: Giuffre and Prince Andrew reached an out-of-court settlement with an undisclosed amount, including a donation to her victims' charity. Andrew did not admit…
- Leading Law Firms Partner to Achieve a Landmark Victory: $485 Million Verdict
Document · 2023
Law firms' case release
The plaintiffs' lawyers' release on the $485 million New Mexico foster care verdict, identifying the case (D-117-CV-2019-00136, Rio Arriba County).
- Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Section 33(a) (2011)
Government Record · 2011
Congress of the United States
Federal law since 2011: "no patent may issue on a claim directed to or encompassing a human organism."
- Leaked TikTok Moderation Rules: Deleted, Visible to Self, Not for Feed (2019)
News Report · 2019
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review, November 2019: leaked TikTok moderation rules sorted content into "deleted," "visible to self," "not recommended" and "not for feed," meaning posts could be…
- Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2016
Steven F. Maier and Martin E. P. Seligman
The review rejects the original claim that passivity itself is learned. It instead describes passivity as the unlearned default response and learning control as the process…
- Learning from 9/11: Understanding the Collapse of the World Trade Center — House Committee on Science Hearing
Transcript
U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Science
Full transcript of the March 6, 2002 hearing before the House Committee on Science, Serial No. 107-46, published in two volumes. Contains Chairman Sherwood Boehlert’s opening…
- Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump (2026): Supreme Court Ruling on IEEPA Tariffs
Court Filing · 2026
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court, February 20, 2026: the emergency powers law (IEEPA) does not let the President impose tariffs. The steel, aluminum and China tariffs under other laws…
- Leave the World Behind: Release Date, Photos and Cast
Document · 2023
Netflix Tudum
Netflix: Leave the World Behind was executive produced by the Obamas' company, Higher Ground.
- Leaving the Door Wide Open: Flock Surveillance Systems Expose Washington Data to Immigration Enforcement
Peer-Reviewed Study · 2025
University of Washington Center for Human Rights
University of Washington Center for Human Rights report: public records from 31 Washington agencies show Border Patrol searched the data of at least ten departments that…