USA v. Holmes et al
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August 16, 2021
Ex-Theranos CEO Holmes Wants To Go Maskless During Trial
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' counsel asked a California federal judge Monday to allow her to go maskless in her monthslong criminal fraud trial that kicks off Aug. 31 over charges that her once high-flying blood-testing startup defrauded investors and patients.
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August 10, 2021
Ex-Theranos CEO Must Unseal Mental Health Docs
A California federal judge presiding over ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' criminal fraud trial on Tuesday gave defense counsel 10 days to redact sealed court documents related to Holmes' mental health sought by The Wall Street Journal's publisher, while noting that he's repeatedly expressed concerns about the "enormity" of the sealing.
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August 06, 2021
Holmes Wants Ex-Theranos Lab Director Excluded From Trial
Former Theranos Inc. CEO Elizabeth Holmes asked a California federal judge Thursday to prohibit prosecutors from calling ex-Theranos lab director Dr. Kingshuk Das as an expert in her upcoming criminal fraud jury trial, arguing that the government's disclosure of the expert was "clearly untimely" and insufficient.
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August 04, 2021
WilmerHale Attys Helped Lose Theranos Data, Judge Says
A California federal judge on Wednesday denied ex-Theranos Inc. CEO Elizabeth Holmes' eleventh-hour bid to exclude broad categories of evidence from her upcoming criminal fraud trial, saying that Theranos and WilmerHale attorneys — not prosecutors — caused the loss of a corporate database purportedly crucial to her defense.
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August 02, 2021
WSJ Publisher Asks To Unseal Elizabeth Holmes Docs
The Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones told a California federal judge that the First Amendment requires making public court records from Elizabeth Holmes' criminal fraud case that it says were "unjustifiably" sealed, including pleadings and transcripts related to the former Theranos CEO's mental health.
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July 07, 2021
Theranos Judge Mulls WilmerHale's Role In Losing Key Data
The California federal judge overseeing the upcoming criminal trial of ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Wednesday questioned her claim that prosecutors improperly failed to preserve a company database purportedly crucial to her defense.
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June 15, 2021
Elizabeth Holmes Can't Probe Jurors On Media Consumption
A California federal judge on Tuesday rejected ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' 45-page juror questionnaire for her upcoming criminal fraud trial that asked jurors to specify media outlets they follow, asking defense counsel "what does it matter" if jurors get information from "an online NPR article or an online Breitbart article?"
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June 09, 2021
Elizabeth Holmes' Privilege Loss 'A Cautionary Tale,' Attys Say
Ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes' recent attorney-client privilege loss in a pretrial dispute over her communications with Boies Schiller Flexner LLP serves as "a cautionary tale" to corporate attorneys that the predominant legal standard disfavors executives and that it's incumbent on lawyers to make clear who their clients are, according to legal experts.
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June 04, 2021
Feds Attack Ex-Theranos CEO's 45-Page Juror Questionnaire
The 45-page juror questionnaire proposed by ex-Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes for her impending fraud trial is "excessive, invasive, and unlikely" to help the California federal court select an impartial jury, federal prosecutors argued.
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June 03, 2021
Ex-Theranos CEO Can't Have Atty Privilege Via Boies Schiller
Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes can't claim attorney-client privilege to prevent federal prosecutors from using her communications with the company's attorneys at Boies Schiller Flexner LLP at her upcoming fraud trial, a California federal judge found Thursday.