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- Justice Department releases names of 3 people the FBI once called Jeffrey Epstein ‘co-conspirators’
News Report · 2026
NBC News
NBC, February 2026: the Justice Department unredacted three more names in a 2019 FBI document that listed eight people as Epstein co-conspirators. Maxwell is the only…
- Justice Department: Former Credit Suisse Managing Director Sentenced to 30 Months (2013)
Government Record · 2013
U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney SDNY
U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, November 2013: Kareem Serageldin, Credit Suisse's former head of structured credit trading, was sentenced to 30 months in prison…
- Justice Department: Statement on the Microsoft Settlement (2001)
Government Record · 2001
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Assistant Attorney General Charles James, November 2001: the Justice Department's own account of why it settled the Microsoft case instead of seeking a breakup. The department…
- Justice Department: U.S. v. Microsoft Settlement Information
Court Filing
U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
Justice Department case page: the November 2001 settlement, public comment period, and the final judgment entered in November 2002.
- Kaiser to halt gender-affirming surgery for patients under 19 across the US (2025)
News Report · 2025
Oregon Public Broadcasting
OPB reports Kaiser’s pause on gender-affirming surgery for patients under 19, citing federal actions, while nonsurgical care continued.
- Kid Rock Claims Support for Trump Canceled Corporate Deals
News Report · 2026
Parade / Yahoo Entertainment
Kid Rock, October 2026: says his support for Trump cost him corporate deals and invitations. His own claim.
- Kirkland & Ellis: Robert Khuzami Joins the Firm (2013)
Corporate Filing · 2013
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kirkland & Ellis, July 2013: the firm's own announcement that former SEC enforcement director Robert Khuzami was joining as a partner.
- Kisor v. Wilkie (2019)
Court Filing · 2019
Supreme Court of the United States (Kagan, J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, June 2019: kept 'Auer deference,' where courts accept an agency's reading of its own unclear regulation, but narrowed it. The 2024 Loper Bright…
- Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret: COVID-19, The Great Reset (2020)
Document · 2020
Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret
Schwab and Malleret's 2020 book says the pandemic moment must be seized to take advantage of a unique window of opportunity to redesign the economy.
- Klaus Schwab: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, What It Means, How to Respond (2016)
Document · 2016
Klaus Schwab
Schwab describes a fusion of technologies blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres, and says it will change not only what we do…
- Krueger et al. v. Petrak et al., No. 1:2022cv01016
Court Filing · 2022
U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois
The federal lawsuit by Jacob and Patti Krueger against Dr. Channing Petrak, OSF HealthCare and Illinois DCFS defendants. The court dismissed some claims and let others…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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."
- 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…