Jared Foretek

D.C. Courts Reporter for Law360.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has alerted Judge Xinis to Secretary Mullin's testimony yesterday in which he seemed to agree to deport Abrego to Costa Rica.

That's where Abrego is asking to go, despite admin attempts to send him to Africa. https://t.co/dh8XvbecSM

[Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein]

JUST IN: @newsguild sues WaPo as part of what appears to be a bid to try to get employee salary data with names (which the union has argued it needs to look at racial disparities). Doc: https://t.co/GH6jfe9uXy

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Worth noting that NOTUS apparently approached Efune and offered him $5k --- and then $50,000 --- for the mark, but Efune declined. His attorney said it was worth closer to $10 million.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

NEW: Judge Alston did, in fact, block NOTUS' launch of the rebranded "Star," slated for tomorrow. He said there would likely be market confusion given coverage explicitly framing the rebrand as a nod to the original Washington Star paper. NOTUS will have to stay NOTUS fow now.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

A Virginia federal judge could stop NOTUS' planned rebrand as The Star tomorrow. Dist. Judge Rossie Alston said he'd have a ruling on Conservative publisher Dovid Efune's injunction bid to stop the rebrand by close of business.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

At today's hearing, the lawyer for Dovid Efune (who registered the mark in 2024) said he planned to "revive" it as the "conservative voice in Washington."

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Efune, who owns the trademark for the old Washington Star, said he had plans to revive the old brand before NOTUS announced plans for its rebrand. Attorneys for NOTUS said in court Tuesday that Efune asked for $10 million for the mark and then sued for infringement.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

A Virginia federal judge could stop NOTUS' planned rebrand as The Star tomorrow. Dist. Judge Rossie Alston said he'd have a ruling on Conservative publisher Dovid Efune's injunction bid to stop the rebrand by close of business.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

The NPS decision was predicated on Trump's "Making D.C. Safe and Beautiful" EO. But Judge Jackson said that "there is not one sentence in the document that explains how this reversal of the 2025 decision to install the dedicated lanes advances that goal and makes the Mall safe."

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

BIG news for D.C. bikers: District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ruled Tuesday that the Trump admin's plan to remove the 15th St. cycle track was arbitrary and capricious under the APA, vacating the decision and blocking demolition scheduled for 4/23. @WABADC

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

NEW: Kash Patel filed his promised lawsuit against The Atlantic this morning, touting his claimed achievements as FBI director and claiming that the magazine "fabricated allegations ... to destroy [his] reputation and drive him from office." He's seeking $250 million in damages.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

@wmataGM Great, thanks Randy!

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Hey @wmata @wmataGM there's an ongoing issue at Greenbelt where the "Next Train" indicators at the platform don't seem to be in use anymore. People keep having to wait at the doors to be able to dart over to the other side if need be, others get left behind.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Cc @SarahMeyerDC

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

My sense is that it started around when some YL trains started going all the way to Greenbelt, but I don't use that station every day. Either way, it's pretty annoying for riders and would seemingly be pretty easy to fix?

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Goldstein was convicted on 12 of the 16 counts against him, including the sole count of tax evasion and all three mortgage counts. The jury took over two full work days to reach a verdict.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

BREAKING: SCOTUSblog founder and famed SC lawyer Thomas Goldstein was found guilty of tax evasion, aiding in false tax returns, failure timely to pay taxes and lying on loan applications by a Maryland federal jury Wednesday. @Law360

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

@Mottel @yajayah @bfurnas My aging parents have lived on Eastern Pkwy for 35 years. My grandmother lived in Brooklyn her entire life and w/o a car for the last 25 years of her life. The best change for my dad's mobility has been the new elevators at the EP subway. A car wouldnt improve their lives at all.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

@Metrorailinfo Is there any estimate for when this will be repaired? Is it going to take a few more hours or several days?

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

The government claims that Goldstein, who owed a significant poker debt to Safai, never reported the payment on his tax filings.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

Tobey Maguire appeared in Maryland federal court today to testify in SCOTUSblog founder Thomas Goldstein's tax fraud trial, telling the jury that Goldstein directed him to pay one of Goldstein's poker debtors for legal work Goldstein did, rather than pay his firm.

[Jared Foretek @JaredForetek]

But instead of paying Goldstein's firm directly for the work after he got Beal to pay, Maguire said he was asked to pay real estate magnate Bob Safai the $500,000 fee instead.