Bloomberg Law
June 13, 2019, 11:52 AM UTC

Wake Up Call: Assange Extradition More Likely After U.K. Official Signs U.S. Warrant

  • WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took a step toward facing U.S. charges of conspiring to hack government computers and violating espionage law. The British home secretary, Sajid Javid, said today he has signed a warrant allowing Assange to be extradited to the U.S., and the decision now goes to the courts. A lawyer called the signature an “important though merely procedural step.” (Financial Times) (The Guardian)

  • Women suing Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in one of the era’s biggest Wall Street gender-discrimination lawsuits asked a federal judge this week to stop the bank from forcing more than 1,000 ...

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