Shannon Kent is the elected coroner for Lake County who recently agreed to cease operations of his six funeral home businesses in Colorado including this one in Gypsum and is facing at least one civil lawsuit and being investigated for possible violations of state mortuary codes.
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Criminal charges against Lake County’s embattled coroner, Shannon Kent, can proceed within Colorado’s 5th Judicial District, despite Kent’s concerns he cannot receive a fair trial because of bad blood between himself and District Attorney Bruce Brown, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled this December. overturns an earlier decision by Lake County District Court Judge Catherine J. Cheroutes. She ordered charges against Kent to be handled by a special prosecutor, noting “there is something personal about the case” for Brown, the prosecutor for Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit counties since 2012.
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Our Securities Litigation Group examines the path of a securities case coming before the Supreme Court that could change the dynamics of evidence of price impact at the class certification stage.
Overview of the presumption of reliance
Summary of the case on appeal
Potential impact of the Court’s ruling
On December 11, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition for writ of certiorari in the case
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc., et al., Petitioners v. Arkansas Teacher Retirement System, et al., No. 20-222. The certiorari petition asked the Court to decide whether a defendant in a securities class action may rebut the presumption of classwide reliance that sometimes exists in federal securities cases by pointing to the generic nature of the underlying alleged misrepresentations and thereby show that the statements at issue had no ability to impact the trading price of the security.
This combination photo shows Wade Robson, left, and James Safechuck who appear in the Michael Jackson documentary “Leaving Neverland.” (Photo by Taylor Jewell/Invision/AP)
(CN) Michael Jackson’s estate won its quest to pull HBO into arbitration to settle claims the 2019 documentary “Leaving Neverland” disparaged the pop legend with child abuse allegations.
The two-part documentary by director Dan Reed centers on the accounts of two men, Wade Robson and James Safechuck, who claim they were sexually abused by Jackson over several years when they were children.
Jackson’s estate sued for damages and to force arbitration, saying Home Box Office informally called HBO produced a “one-sided” documentary that violated a nondisparagement clause from a 1992 agreement between the parties.