Deposition

Republicans are trying to spin the Biden impeachment inquiry forward after an hours-long deposition with his son Hunter Biden on Wednesday. It’s proving difficult, as the closed-door hearing doesn’t seem to have yielded many revelatory details. Some Republicans are even conceding that Biden performed well under questioning. “I think when the transcript comes out, it’s gonna read well for him, because they did a great job prepping,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Thursday. GOP Rep.…

You want your lawyer to be on your side. The more passionate they are, the better. If they’re so passionate they can’t control their emotions, though, you might be in trouble. That’s exactly what happened to Elon Musk in a recent court case. Todd Maron, former General Counsel for Tesla and the billionaire’s former divorce attorney, broke down crying over his love for Elon during a deposition about how much the billionaire got paid. Did Elon Musk Regret Buying Twitter? | Walter Isaacson InterviewThe waterworks came amidst…

Image Source : FILE Mark Zuckerberg to give deposition in Texas lawsuit over facial recognition A US judge has ruled that Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta must participate in a deposition as part of an ongoing lawsuit in Texas concerning the company's face recognition technology. According to a ruling made by Justice Jeff Rambin, the state court has rejected…

Eminem’s trademark dispute with Real Housewives of Potomac stars Gizelle Bryant and Robyn Dixon over their “Reasonably Shady” podcast (and other ventures) has descended into a back-and-forth over whether the rapper should have to sit for a deposition. Earlier this month, Bryant and Dixon filed a motion trying to compel Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) to sit for a deposition, which the rapper promptly rebuffed in a Dec. 15 filing (first reported by AllHipHop). Mathers’ lawyer also sought to secure a protective…

Roddy Ricch must pay $2,125 in sanctions and answer questions under oath in an expedited deposition linked to a car crash lawsuit that’s set to go on trial next month, a judge ruled Monday. The Grammy-winning rapper allegedly was behind the wheel of a Dodge Charger in June 2019 when the muscle car slammed into the rear of another man’s vehicle on a ramp of the 110 freeway in Los Angeles. The driver of the other car, Chu Shin Kim, claims he suffered “significant injuries.” He sued the musician for negligence in…

Twitter is asking a federal court to rein in an investigation of the company by the Federal Trade Commission, claiming the probe “has spiraled out of control and become tainted by bias.” It also seeks to have an order by the agency that limits its data security practices thrown out. The company, now officially known as X Corp., also asked the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to block the FTC from deposing owner Elon Musk, claiming that its goal in questioning the billionaire “derives…

Figure shows the application of ALD in the manufacturing and interfacial control of advanced catalytic and energy materials, including the interfacial performance control of the automotive exhaust and hydrogen fuel cell electrode catalysts, as well as the electronic/ion transport property control in lithium-ion battery and hydrogen fuel cell electrodes. Credit: By Xiao Liu, Yu Su and Rong Chen. Atomic layer deposition (ALD)…

By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology April 30, 2023In the process called initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD), Heated wires (pink cylinders) cause “initiator” molecules (red) to split, and they then interact with the monomers (purple) used for coating, causing them to collect on the cooler surface below, where they react to form a polymer chain as they build up in a uniform coating (bottom right). Credit: Illustration courtesy of Karen GleasonTechnique enables production of pure, uniform…

A California judge presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit against Tesla Inc. found it “deeply troubling” that the electric-car maker claims videos of Elon Musk touting Autopilot may not actually be real.Confronted with Tesla's suggestion that some clips could be digitally altered deep fakes and therefore not suitable as evidence, the judge came up with an elegant solution: Put the billionaire entrepreneur and artificial intelligence enthusiast under oath and have him testify as to which statements coming out of his…

Elon Musk may have to answer detailed questions regarding a fatal 2018 Tesla crash where Autopilot was involved. Judge Evette Pennypacker has ordered Musk to give a three-hour deposition in a lawsuit over the crash, which killed Apple engineer Walter Huang when his Model X plowed into a highway median south of San Francisco. Attorneys for Huang's family want to grill the tech CEO over statements he made about Autopilot's capabilities in the years before the incident. Most notably, the plaintiffs point to a 2016 Code…