- Jury selection is scheduled to begin in Manhattan federal court as a second civil trial gets underway over claims that Donald Trumpsexually abused former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll decades ago. A jury in May ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million, finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s, and defamed her by denying it in 2022. At the second trial, the jury must determine how much in additional damages Trump should pay for having defamed Carroll in a similar denial in 2019. Trump has claimed he had not known Carroll.
- On Wednesday, a 3rd Circuit panel will consider whether to revive claims against TikTok by a mother whose 10-year-old daughter died attempting a viral stunt on the social media platform called the “blackout challenge.” A trial judge dismissed the case against TikTok. The appeals court will consider whether Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act should shield TikTok and similar companies from any liability. Mayer Brown’s Andrew Pincus will argue for TikTok and face off against Jeffrey Goodman of Saltz Mongeluzzi & Bendesky.
- Also on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla in Manhattan will hear arguments in the SEC’s case accusing crypto platform Coinbase of making billions of dollars on transactions while evading disclosure requirements that are meant to protect investors. Coinbase general counsel Paul Grewal has said the company “demonstrated commitment to compliance.”
- On Thursday, the first of 28 accused customers of a high-end brothel network that operated out of apartment complexes in greater Boston and northern Virginia and catered to “wealthy and well-connected clientele” are scheduled to appear in Massachusetts court. Federal prosecutors in November charged three peoplewho they said operated a brothel network with customers who included elected officials, tech and pharmaceutical executives, lawyers, professors and military officers.
- On Friday, lawyers for cryptocurrency exchangeBinance will urge a D.C. federal judge to dismiss the SEC’s fraud case. The SEC in June suedBinance, its then-CEO Changpeng Zhao and the operator of its purportedly independent U.S. exchange for allegedly operating a “web of deception.” The case is before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.