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1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Madlin Mekelburg |Bob Van Voris

California National Guard in Downtown Los Angeles. (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump can continue to use California National Guard troops to respond to protests in Los Angeles as a legal challenge over the deployment proceeds, a federal appeals court ruled. In a win for the White House, a three-judge panel in San Francisco on Thursday said the Trump administration can keep using the California National Guard to respond to protests over the president’s immigration raids.

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Madlin Mekelburg

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1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Madlin Mekelburg

Family members of people killed in two fatal crashes of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jets urged a federal judge to reject a proposed deal the company reached with US prosecutors that would allow the planemaker to avoid a criminal charge. Lawyers for 15 families argued Boeing should stand trial for criminal conspiracy as the government had originally planned, to hold the company more accountable for the deaths of 346 people, according to a court filing Wednesday.

1 week ago | bloomberg.com | Madlin Mekelburg

Relatives of crash victims have spent years fighting for harsher penalties for Boeing following two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jet in 2018 and 2019. (Bloomberg) -- Family members of people killed in two fatal crashes of Boeing Co.’s 737 Max jets urged a federal judge to reject a proposed deal the company reached with US prosecutors that would allow the planemaker to avoid a criminal charge.

1 week ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Madlin Mekelburg |Bob Van Voris

President Donald Trump’s continued use of California’s National Guard to respond to protests in Los Angeles faced fresh scrutiny on Tuesday in a high-stakes showdown over the limits of his executive authority. A three-judge panel in the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard arguments for lawyers from both the Justice Department and California over whether the president’s deployment of the troops without the state’s approval was illegal.