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The International Military Tribunal read its judgment in Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice: nineteen of the twenty-two defendants were convicted, twelve were sentenced to death and three were acquitted. It was the first time the leaders of a state were tried by an international court for waging aggressive war and for crimes against humanity.

A unanimous US Supreme Court held that state laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white children violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment - "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" - partially overruling Plessy v. Ferguson and its separate-but-equal doctrine.

After 56 days of trial and six days of deliberation, a federal jury in Houston convicted Enron's two former chief executives. Kenneth Lay was found guilty on all six counts he faced; Jeffrey Skilling was convicted on conspiracy, securities fraud, false statements and insider trading counts, closing the criminal case over the largest US corporate collapse of its time.

A twelve-member jury found the former Minneapolis police officer guilty on all three counts - unintentional second-degree murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter - in the death of George Floyd during an arrest on 25 May 2020. The verdict came after about ten hours of deliberation.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Prosecutors charged former TSMC engineer Chen Li-ming, by then at Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit, and two serving TSMC engineers with stealing 2nm trade secrets, seeking 14, 9 and 7 years in Taiwan's first indictment for theft of a national core key technology.

Le juge Thomas Anderle, de la Cour supérieure de Santa Barbara, a confirmé sa décision provisoire contre Sable Offshore : les travaux de réparation menés par l'entreprise sur 121 sites le long de son oléoduc de 135 miles sur la côte de Gaviota nécessitaient des permis d'aménagement de la California Coastal Commission et ont enfreint le Coastal Act. La décision maintient l'injonction qui suspend toute nouvelle réparation et laisse ouverte la question de l'amende de 18 millions de dollars infligée par la Commission.

A Baltimore City jury awarded Cherie Craft $59.84 million in compensatory and $1.5 billion in punitive damages, finding J&J's talc baby powder exposed her to the asbestos behind her peritoneal mesothelioma - the largest talc verdict for a single plaintiff. J&J said it would appeal.

Une formation de deux juges de la cour d'appel du neuvième circuit a rejeté le recours d'urgence de l'Environmental Defense Center et du Center for Biological Diversity visant à bloquer le permis fédéral de redémarrage accordé aux oléoducs de la Santa Ynez Unit de Sable Offshore, faisant bondir l'action de l'entreprise. La brève ordonnance du 31 décembre ne clôt pas l'affaire : la cour a fixé un calendrier accéléré, dont la première échéance tombait le 26 janvier.

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to at least half a dozen Microsoft rivals, asking whether its licensing hobbles Windows and Office on other clouds and how it bundles AI, security and identity software.

Une Cour supérieure de Santa Barbara a maintenu son injonction préliminaire de juillet interdisant à Sable Offshore Corp. de redémarrer le réseau d'oléoducs terrestres de Las Flores, qui s'était rompu à Refugio State Beach en 2015, et imposant un préavis de 10 jours ouvrables judiciaires avant tout redémarrage. La décision précise aussi que la prise de contrôle du réseau par l'administration Trump en décembre et son permis spécial d'urgence n'affectent pas la décision antérieure du tribunal.

La juge Donna Geck, du comté de Santa Barbara, a refusé de lever l'injonction interdisant à Sable Offshore Corp. de redémarrer les oléoducs de sa Santa Ynez Unit, rejetant pour la première fois l'argument de l'entreprise selon lequel un ordre fédéral pris au titre du Defense Production Act l'emporte sur le droit californien. Elle a fixé au 22 mai une audience pour déterminer si Sable, qui a recommencé à transporter du pétrole en mars, doit être reconnue coupable d'outrage au tribunal.

Taiwan's Intellectual Property and Commercial Court jailed Chen Li-ming for 10 years, three TSMC engineers for 2 to 6 years, and fined Tokyo Electron's Taiwan unit NT$150 million - the first verdict under the National Security Act's core-technology clause.

Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.

Judge P. Casey Pitts entered the consent decree clearing HPE's Juniper Networks deal in a 41-page order that found DOJ leadership overrode its own antitrust staff, but held that 12 states and DC had not shown the Instant On sale and Mist source-code licence were against the public interest.

Le tribunal fédéral du district central de Californie a rejeté la demande de la Californie de suspendre un ordre pris au titre du Defense Production Act imposant l'exploitation du Santa Ynez Pipeline de Sable Offshore, jugeant que l'ordre fédéral prime légalement sur les tentatives de l'État de le fermer. Le tribunal a aussi transféré la supervision de la sécurité de l'oléoduc prévue par le décret de consentement de l'Office of the State Fire Marshal de Californie à l'agence fédérale de sécurité des pipelines et des matières dangereuses (PHMSA).

Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected the DOJ's bid to make Google sell its AdX ad exchange, ordering behavioral remedies overseen by a Monitor and Technical Committee instead. Google still stands found liable for monopolizing ad tech.

Google and the Justice Department must file one jointly proposed Final Judgment in the ad tech antitrust case by 2 October 2026, writing Judge Brinkema's behavioral remedies into an order that takes effect 60 days after she enters it.

Le premier lundi d'octobre, la Cour suprême examine la tentative de Suncor et d'ExxonMobil de mettre fin à la plainte de Boulder, fondée sur le droit de l'État, réclamant des dommages liés au changement climatique. La décision déterminera si le droit fédéral fait obstacle à plus de deux douzaines de plaintes similaires déposées par des villes, des comtés et des États.

Twelve state attorneys general led by California's Rob Bonta, and separately the Writers Guild of America, get their day in court against Paramount Skydance's $111bn acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin set 12 court days, and the merger is on hold behind the result.

The FTC and state attorneys general take Amazon to a bench trial before Judge John Chun over claims it illegally keeps its online marketplace monopoly by overcharging sellers and punishing those who offer lower prices elsewhere. The trial has slipped twice from its original October 2026 date.