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Idiom:  pay a visit

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Idiom:  pay a visit to someone/something (pay someone/something a visit)

  • to go see someone or something

Example sentences

  • I haven’t heard from my father in two weeks so I’m going to pay him a visit and make sure he’s okay.
  • There are very few doctors who will pay a visit to patients' homes these days.
  • It's been a few months since we've seen my mother-in-law so we need to pay a visit this weekend.
  • My best friend was in town and decided to pay a visit but we were at the shopping mall so I missed her.
  • Let's pay a visit to the cemetery on Veterans Day and lay down some flowers at my grandfather's grave.
  • You'll be paying the dentist a visit  soon if you don't stop drinking so many sodas and eating those sugary candies.
  • If you have a chance to pay a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial while you're in the Dakotas you will not regret it.
  • A couple of police officers paid our office a visit this afternoon and I'm dying to know what they questioned my boss about.
  • Every Memorial Day we pay a visit to my uncle's grave to pay our respects.
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Example sentences pay a visit

Just pay a visit to the link below.
Few politicians have dared to pay a visit to a concentration camp during their re-election campaign.
If you've been feeling low for more than a couple of weeks pay a visit to your doc.
Pay a visit to the newspaper editor and treat him to a knuckle sandwich?
Contact your local environmental health or planning department and ask it to pay a visit .

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pay a visit ( third-person singular simple present pays a visit , present participle paying a visit , simple past and past participle paid a visit )

  • 2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters ‎ [1] , Reuters, retrieved 2020-09-25 : Some protesters say the constitution also gives too much power to the king, who paid a rare visit to Thailand on Thursday for ceremonies honouring his grandfather, Prince Mahidol Adulyadej. The king has spent most of his time in Europe since taking the throne nearly four years ago.
  • 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL , number 970 , page 55 : Brighton station is awash with people paying a visit to the seaside.
  • ( idiomatic , euphemistic ) To go to the toilet .

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pay a visit

collocation pattern: verb + noun

to visit someone or something

For example

  • You should pay your lawyer a visit and get some advice.
  • If you have time, pay a visit to the science museum while you're here.

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What's the origin of "to pay a visit"?  

I don't know the origin, but it's a good question. "Pay" can be seen as a form of "give", as in "pay attention " or "pay a salary".So "pay a visit" can be related to "give" or "offer a visit".  

Further thought... therefore, "pay" need not mean to give in remuneration. But it could. "You'll pay for this!"... You'll give something (like your well-being) as a result. Or simply pay a price for some article. But "pay" need not imply an exchange.  

Lis48

The word "pay" comes from pax or peace, as in the sense of settling hostilities. So if you "pay a visit" it comes from the sense of a visit being due, an obligation. In the old days you would pay a penny in the door to use a public toilet. Hence, "pay a visit" today is a euphemism for going to the bathroom.  

zaffy

  • Sep 6, 2020

Does either work? I guess they both sound fine, right? -John paid his aunt a visit. -John paid a visit to his aunt. And what if I wanted to add the whereabouts? Which of these works? -John paid his aunt in Houston a visit. -John paid his aunt a visit in Houston. -John paid a visit to his aunt in Houston.  

velisarius

zaffy said: Does either work? I guess they both sound fine, right? -John paid his aunt a visit. -John paid a visit to his aunt. And what if I wanted to add the whereabouts? Which of these works? -John paid his aunt in Houston a visit. -John paid his aunt a visit in Houston. -John paid a visit to his aunt in Houston. Click to expand...

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Yes, they're both fine.  

And these are also fine, right? A: How is your grandma? B: Don't really know. Haven't seen her for ages. A: Oh, when did you last visit her? / When did you last pay her a visit?  

Yes.  

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I don’t think I’ve ever used “pay a visit” in conversation.  

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Definition of visit

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transitive verb

intransitive verb

Definition of visit  (Entry 2 of 2)

  • call (on or upon)
  • drop in (on)

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Word History

Middle English, from Anglo-French visiter , from Latin visitare , frequentative of visere to go to see, frequentative of vidēre to see

13th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 3d

1621, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

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Middle English visiten "to go to a person especially to give comfort," from early French visiter (same meaning), derived from Latin visere "to go to see," from vidēre "to see" — related to vision

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When the Supreme Court Rules on Colorado’s Ballot, Pay Attention to What It Doesn’t Say

A guide to understanding what the ruling could mean, and what the media will simplify it into meaning..

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court opted to hear the Jan. 6 immunity challenge from the District of Columbia this spring, a matter they could and should have summarily affirmed weeks earlier. The effect will be to roll the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection trial, which ought to have started this week, into early fall. Last month, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a separate case, seeking to remove the former president from the Colorado ballot as a result of his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021. We are currently awaiting a decision in that case—one that could come as soon as tomorrow—but it will affect the ballots in Maine and Illinois as well as other states.

In neither election-related case, however, is the Supreme Court likely to rule on the central issue: the question of Donald Trump’s culpability for his participation in an insurrection against the United States. In the immunity case, the issue before the court is a broader question about presidential untouchability and separation of powers. And oral argument in the ballot access case strongly suggests that the court’s ruling will ultimately focus on one or more legal technicalities about who decides ballot access questions and how. (Oddly enough, the only real discussion of the underlying issue of the insurrection at arguments was initiated by Trump’s own lawyer, Jonathan Mitchell, who described the events as “ a riot … shameful, criminal, violent.”) But the fact that the court may be silent on the insurrection itself does not mean it won’t send a signal about Trump’s conduct in connection with the events of that day. The real question is whether our media will be savvy enough to hear it.

Courts and other legal actors have a way of saying one thing with their legal conclusion and another with the way they reach it. James Comey, for example, absolved Hillary Clinton of legal violations with respect to her email server, while sending a very different signal about his views of her conduct more broadly. More recently, special counsel Robert Hur absolved President Joe Biden of legal liability in the classified documents matter he was tasked with investigating but used his report to let it be known his personal and even medical-via-a-lawyer-not-a-doctor views of the mental acuity of the president.

The Supreme Court itself has a famous history of ruling for one party on the legal bottom line even in cases that deliver a broader loss to the legal winner. Take one of the most famous Supreme Court cases of all time, Marbury v. Madison , in which the court technically ruled for the incoming Jefferson administration in thwarting the outgoing Adams administration’s attempt to pack the courts, while in fact dealing the Jeffersonians a more consequential loss by seizing to the court itself the power to overrule laws.

When the Supreme Court issues its opinion in the ballot access case, therefore, smart court watchers will be looking for not only the legal bottom line on whether Trump can stay on the ballot, but also what signal the court sends the public about Trump’s underlying conduct. Because pending before it is a case in which the Colorado courts expressly found that Trump did engage in an insurrection. In fact, every entity that has ruled on the merits of that question—from the Colorado courts, to the Maine secretary of state, to now the Illinois judiciary, to the findings of the Jan. 6 committee and the House impeachment inquiry—have so agreed. Will the court reject all those conclusions? Will the court take this opportunity to absolve Trump of insurrection? If the court declines to do that, it will speak more loudly than whatever it formally holds on the technical legal arcana it seems likely to focus on in its opinion.

That doesn’t mean everyone will hear it. If history is any guide, one likely reaction from the press will be a host of “Trump exculpated!” stories, in much the same way the Mueller report was treated as a blanket exoneration. It’s a forgivable error. Technical legal arcana is technical and arcane, and “Trump exculpated!” is journalistic dopamine. But that doesn’t mean that reporters should knock over the proverbial phone booths in rushing, en masse, to announce that Trump has “won” or “lost” the case once the opinion is released. Journalism focused on the horse race and not the stakes will be unlikely to capture the fact that the court may not dispute Trump’s participation in an insurrection when presented with the chance to do so, although that latter is the headline as well as a fact more relevant to the things voters will need to weigh come November. To our minds, “Court Rules Trump Can Remain on Ballot, Declines to Absolve Him of Insurrection” feels like a more accurate framing of the actual stakes of the Colorado case, assuming that the case goes how we anticipate.

One might wonder why it is that when it’s Donald Trump openly committing crimes and evading responsibility, the default media narrative is that he didn’t commit crimes, yet when Democrats are found to have committed no crimes, the story becomes that they are still sufficiently crime-adjacent to be maximally crimey. The coverage of the Comey and Hur reports focused orders of magnitude more on their non-conclusion details than the decision not to press charges. Whereas our press largely fell for Attorney General Bill Barr and Trump’s efforts to spin the Mueller report into an “exoneration” at the expense of the damning facts about obstruction of justice that were laid out in its pages.

Maybe it’s just that everyone, reporters included, already knows that Trump commits crimes. We all saw Trump’s followers carry his banner into the Capitol, overrunning police barricades, smashing windows, and bludgeoning law enforcement, in acts many of them have said, in court, during their own prosecutions, they did at Trump’s direction. And perhaps reporters are less sure about all that legal jargon and technical conclusions than they are of the non-legal assertions made by Comey and Hur. “But Her Emails” or “Biden So Old!” thus become more newsy than legal conclusions—because shiny objects are gonna shiny. But that’s not an evenhanded approach, and it’s certainly not the approach a self-governing citizenry needs from its Fourth Estate, with democracy itself on the line.

Maybe this is all unfair. Maybe we can expect better. Maybe if the Supreme Court issues an opinion ruling for Trump on technicalities while still remaining silent on the lower court’s finding that he engaged in insurrection, we’ll see headlines and reporting capturing the dual nature of such a ruling and the momentous implications of a court that seems to accept that he did what we know he did. But we’re not holding our breath.

We all know Jan. 6 happened because we witnessed it, we impeached him for it, a select committee exhaustively reported on it, in sessions that were televised. Hundreds of participants have been sentenced for participating in it. The only material question for the high court is whether he will be allowed to get away with it. What the media should be reporting when these cases come down would not so much be about picking the “winner” or “loser” in a highly technical appeal around ballot access. Instead, it would be repurposing the old punchline: We know exactly what Donald Trump is. Now we’re just haggling about the price.

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Who Will Pay For Maui Fire Property Damage? Look For A ‘Fund 2’

Hawaiian Electric Industries' president and chief executive has said the company may look at "shareholder contributions" and new fees on customers to help cover claims.

Hawaiian Electric Industries’ president and chief executive has said the company may look at “shareholder contributions” and new fees on customers to help cover claims.

The state of Hawaii and its largest utility holding company, Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc., will still face massive potential liabilities from the Maui wildfires even if all eligible wrongful death and personal injury victims opt in to a settlement fund that Gov. Josh Green is expected to launch this week. 

The looming question is how state and local governments and businesses will fill a larger pool of cash needed to pay billions of dollars in property damage claims — and what role will the public be expected to play. 

Crews clear Front Street in Lahania town Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023, in Maui. A wildfire destroyed the historic town two days earlier. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2023)

The $175 million settlement fund set to go live this week, which includes $75 million from the utility company and $65 million from taxpayers, will offer $1.5 million each to families of the 101 people killed in the August blazes that destroyed much of Lahaina. It also includes money for people injured but not killed.

Green is expected to announce more details on Tuesday ahead of the fund’s Friday launch date. 

But government officials and corporate executives have only begun to publicly address the bigger issue: how to deal with liabilities related to property damage facing the state, Maui County, Hawaiian Electric Industries, Kamehameha Schools and other landowners and utilities. Some estimates peg those costs at $5 billion, which would include claims for destroyed homes, commercial property, merchandise and business interruptions, among other things.

Insurance companies had paid out more than $1 billion for residential property damage claims alone as of Nov. 30, according to the latest available data for the state Insurance Division, and more than 100 insurance companies have filed suit against the state , utilities and landowners for reimbursement. Government officials and legal experts expect the claims could be many times higher when counting people who were uninsured or underinsured, along with commercial property and business losses.

HEI’s liability insurance, meanwhile, amounted to $165 million, of which $75 million has been paid to the death and injury victims’ fund and $34.9 million had been used for legal fees.

“You’ve got to realize that the death cases are a tiny fraction of the lawsuits that will be filed because there are thousands and thousands of property damage claims,” said Mark Davis, a Honolulu trial lawyer who is part of a liaison committee of lawyers representing victims. “The value of these claims will be staggering compared to the amount of what’s been put aside in this settlement fund.” 

Utility Parent Considering ‘Securitization’ To Pay Claims

In a statement, Green said the first phase of the One Ohana Fund was “deeply personal to me” and that he “wanted to create it for humanitarian reasons.” As a result much attention has focused on that fund, designed to get money to people who need it quickly or who want to settle claims and move on with their lives rather than waiting years to resolve litigation that could produce nothing for them.

But officials are also looking ahead to the next chapter, the creation of what some are referring to as “Fund 2.”

“We are actively working to develop Phase Two of the fund, that will address property damage from the fires,” Green added. “We’ll share more about that in coming weeks.”

In the meantime, Hawaiian Electric Industries has offered some insights into how it might raise money to pay wildfire claims. While HEI and its Hawaiian Electric Co. utility subsidiary aren’t the only corporate defendants, they’re at the center of the litigation because fallen live power lines are alleged to have sparked the fires. The vast majority of Hawaii residents are HECO customers, so any increase in electric bills to cover wildfire property damage claims would be passed on to them – analogous to a tax increase.

One tool the utility is considering, HEI’s presidents and chief executive Scott Seu told investors during a recent earnings call, is “securitization.” That’s finance jargon for what’s essentially a fee tacked on to utility bills to pay off bonds issued by companies to raise cash.

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The company has drafted bills submitted in the Legislature to legalize utility fee securitization. Green also includes securitization as part of sweeping wildfire mitigation bills in his legislative package. 

While the measures all envision using funds raised from securitization to cover costs related to wildfire mitigation in the future, Seu earlier this month told Wall Street investment analysts that the company also is eye-balling such money as part of a second fund to cover wildfire property damage.

There are “active discussions happening right now with respect to claims dealing with property damage, business losses and the like,” Seu said during the Feb. 13 earnings call. “So the long and short of it is the bills are predominantly forward-looking, albeit there is still capacity to think about funds, securitization and the like, which could possibly apply towards past claims.” 

Seu added that funds raised through securitization might be used to finance a second One Ohana fund for property claims, which he referred to as “Fund 2.” 

“There are any number of options available when you consider what the sources of funding might be, which could include, for example, anything ranging from securitization if it’s deemed appropriate,” he said. 

In an email, Jim Kelly, HECO’s vice president for government and community relations and corporate communications, said, “Asking customers to contribute would be one of the last options.”

The House of Representatives Nicole Lowen recognizes people in the gallery during the opening of the legislative session Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in Honolulu. (Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024)

Lawmakers are also reluctant to allow the utility to saddle ratepayers with the cost of wildfire claims. A  Hawaii Senate committee recently tacked on a slew of requirements  HECO would have to meet, including a major restructuring, if the company were allowed to impose new fees on its 460,000 customers to raise money through securitization.

Rep. Nicole Lowen, who chairs the House Energy and Environmental Protection Committee, is also concerned about customers footing the bill for wildfire damage claims. 

“I think now more than ever our job is to protect the ratepayer and act in the public interest,” she said.

Lowen said she had been frustrated that utility executives won’t say how much extra customers could expect to pay. At the very least, she said, the company should be able to provide a schedule showing how much securitization would cost customers under various scenarios.

“We should be able to know, if the bond is ‘X’ amount, then the impact on ratepayers should be ‘Y,’” she said.

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Hawaiian Electric also is considering “shareholder contributions” to raise money for Fund 2, Seu said. That would likely mean raising cash by issuing new shares of HEI stock. The move could spare customers the costs of new fees. But diluting the stock would likely further drive down the value of existing HEI shares, which have lost about two thirds of their value since before fires. HEI shares closed at $12.66 on Friday compared to $37.36 on Aug. 7, the day before the fires.

HEI is still figuring out funding sources for Fund 2. 

“It could include use of insurance funds,” Seu told investors. “Governor has also mentioned potential philanthropy. So I’d say that for Fund 2 … we’re working through a number of different options.”

Some say the company needs to take a bolder step, such as the one Hawaiian Airlines took when it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2003 and  emerged stronger less than two years later .

Utilities have many options for raising cash, says  Ed Neiger , co-managing partner partner with the law firm ASK LLP. A former lawyer with the bankruptcy law powerhouse Weil, Gotshal & Manges , Neiger also helped negotiate a $12 billion settlement for victims of the Paradise wildfires in California.

Neiger said that a utility holding company like HEI typically can raise money through loans, an equity investor or a sale of assets. But HEI’s options now are limited because of the lawsuits it faces, Neiger said.

Bills pending in the Legislature could help shore up HEI’s financial profile and reduce liabilities from future catastrophic wildfires, which could make it easier for the company to raise cash from private parties.

For example, a proposed Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund could be infused with cash from the state as well as major landowners and utilities and used to pay for catastrophic wildfire damages. Laying out the need for such a fund, the bill paints the grim scenario now facing Hawaii.

“Litigation regarding wildfire damages can impose massive costs, including on the State, counties, utilities, landowners, and other defendants that may be alleged to have contributed to catastrophic wildfires,” it says. “Such costs can overwhelm these major institutions of the community, undermining their ability to make investments that the State needs.

“Even the possibility of litigation regarding a future catastrophic wildfire can create a cloud of uncertainty that threatens to impair the ability of these entities to attract capital on reasonable terms — capital that is vital to make investments in wildfire prevention, among other priorities,” it adds. “Such an outcome harms everyone.”

Still, some say such policy solutions will only go so far in shoring up the financial and risk profiles of entities like HECO to a point where it can attract new private money. Neiger said a holistic restructuring under the protection of a federal bankruptcy court with plaintiffs at the table along with creditors and an independent trustee could provide the best option for finding a new investor. 

“If you know how to use bankruptcy, it really is a good tool,” he said. 

Davis agreed.

“These issues will never be resolved until there’s new money coming in,” he said. “And that will never happen until there’s a bankruptcy petition.”

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IR-2024-53, Feb. 28, 2024

WASHINGTON — With millions of tax refunds going out each week, the Internal Revenue Service reminded taxpayers today that recent improvements to Where's My Refund? on IRS.gov provide more information and remains the best way to check the status of a refund.

The Where’s My Refund? tool provides taxpayers with three key pieces of information: IRS confirmation of receiving a federal tax return, approval of the tax refund and issuing date of the approved tax refund. Information for returns from tax years 2023, 2022 and 2021 is available.

During this busy part of filing season, millions of taxpayers are anticipating refunds. In the second of the weekly Tax Time Guide series, the IRS highlights important details about Where’s My Refund? that can help taxpayers quickly get the information they need without calling the IRS.

The improvements to the heavily used tool follow Inflation Reduction Act funding, which is providing for a variety of IRS technological advances and upgrades designed to help taxpayers and transform agency operations.

Where’s My Refund? enhancements

In filing season 2024, taxpayers will benefit from important updates that reduce the need for many taxpayers to call the IRS and include:

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  • Three to four days after receipt of an e-filed tax year 2022 or 2021 return.
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Taxpayers should note that the IRS updates the tool once a day, usually overnight, so there's no need to check more often. The IRS reminds taxpayers that the fastest way to get a refund is by filing electronically and using direct deposit .

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If a taxpayer refund isn't what is expected, it may be due to changes made by the IRS. These changes could include corrections to the Child Tax Credit or EITC amounts or an offset from all or part of the refund amount to pay past-due tax or debts. More information about reduced refunds is available on IRS.gov.

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Taxpayers should make IRS.gov their first stop to get information on filing a tax return. There is information on Choosing a tax professional , IRS Free File , Answers to tax questions and Tips on filing a return .

Taxpayers who file electronically and choose direct deposit typically get their refund in less than 21 days. Taxpayers who don't have a bank account can find out how to open a bank account at a FDIC-insured bank or the National Credit Union Locator Tool .

Refund information for amended tax returns is not available on Where’s My Refund? Use Where’s My Amended Return?  to get the status of an amended return.

The deadline for most taxpayers to file a tax return, pay any tax due or request an extension to file is Monday, April 15.

This news release is part of a series called the Tax Time Guide , a resource designed to help taxpayers file an accurate tax return. Additional help is available in Publication 17, Your Federal Income Tax (For Individuals) PDF .

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Lawyers seek nearly $6 billion in Tesla stock after getting Musk pay package struck down

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Lawyers asked a Delaware judge to award them Tesla stock worth nearly $6 billion as of Friday as their fee for successfully arguing that CEO Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package was unlawful.

The fee would dwarf records for attorney paydays if a judge approves it. Lawyers who worked on Enron-related class actions were awarded $688 million in fees in 2008.

The lawyers had earlier convinced the Delaware chancery court to revoke Musk’s $56 billion pay package from 2018, with the judge ruling that Tesla’s board of directors failed to prove it was fair to shareholders.

On Friday, in a petition for fees and expense reimbursement filed to that court, the attorneys argued that the fee would be justified given how much value they delivered to Tesla shareholders. The lawyers represent former heavy metal drummer Richard Tornetta, who filed the suit on behalf of his fellow Tesla investors.

The lawyers are asking for just over 11% of the Tesla shares that would have gone to Musk, or slightly more than 29.4 million shares. Tesla’s stock closed Friday at $202.64 per share, meaning the fee would be worth about $5.96 billion.

Taking their pay in Tesla shares demonstrates they are prepared to “eat our cooking,” the lawyers wrote.

They added: “This structure has the benefit of linking the award directly to the benefit created and avoids taking even one cent from the Tesla balance sheet to pay fees. It is also tax-deductible by Tesla.”

The shares they’re asking for would be freely tradeable, they noted, while Musk’s stock options included a five-year holding period starting from when he exercised them.

Still, the lawyers described the nearly $6 billion in shares as “conservative” under Delaware law, which they said entitles them to 33% of the “quantifiable conferred benefit.”

“Nevertheless, in an effort to be conservative, Plaintiff’s Counsel does not seek the 33%” warranted by previous cases, they wrote.

They noted that they took the case on a contingency basis and would have gotten nothing if they had lost.

“Plaintiff’s Counsel have not been paid for their work, nor have any of their costs or expenses been reimbursed, and litigating this Action required the allocation of a substantial amount of Plaintiff’s Counsel’s time and resources over six years, including considerable out-of-pocket expenses,” they wrote.

Greg Varallo, lead counsel for the plaintiffs and the lawyer who signed the brief, did not immediately respond to a request for further comment. He’s the head of the Delaware practice for the law firm Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. 

Representatives for Musk and Tesla also did not immediately respond to requests for comment. 

The lawyers wrote that throughout the history of the case, they collectively logged 19,499.95 hours — meaning that a nearly $6 billion award would equal a per-hour rate of $305,550. They argued, though, that the hours worked was of secondary importance, if it was worth considering at all.

“Delaware seeks to incentivize, not punish, efficient litigation,” they wrote.

The lawyers, based in Delaware and New York, are also asking for an expense reimbursement of $1.1 million.

Musk’s pay package was the largest ever disclosed in corporate America, according to Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick’s 200-page ruling . She said that the process leading to the package was “deeply flawed” in part because Musk drove the process for determining it, and it was agreed upon by Tesla board members “who were beholden to Musk.”

Musk is expected to appeal the ruling. The CEO and centibillionaire has also said he will seek to move Tesla’s site of incorporation to Texas .

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  • Boeing is in talks to buy back fuselage maker Spirit AeroSystems after spate of quality defects
  • OpenAI says in memo that Musk’s claims ‘stem from Elon’s regrets’ that he’s not part of company
  • Waymo approved by regulator to expand robotaxi service in Los Angeles, San Francisco Peninsula

David Ingram covers tech for NBC News.

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A Proclamation on Women’s History Month,   2024

     During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the courageous women who have helped our Nation build a fairer, more just society.       Throughout history, the vision and achievements of powerful women have strengthened our Nation and opened the doors of opportunity wider for all of us.  Though their stories too often go untold, all of us stand on the shoulders of these sung and unsung trailblazers — from the women who took a stand as suffragists, abolitionists, and labor leaders to pioneering scientists and engineers, groundbreaking artists, proud public servants, and brave members of our Armed Forces.

     Despite the progress that these visionaries have achieved, there is more work ahead to knock down the barriers that stand in the way of women and girls realizing their full potential — in a country founded on freedom and equality, nothing is more fundamental.  That is why my Administration has put women and girls at the heart of everything we do.  When I first came into office, I established the White House Gender Policy Council to advance their rights and opportunities across domestic and foreign policy.  I also released the Nation’s first-ever National Gender Strategy to advance gender equity and equality across my Administration — from women’s economic security and leadership opportunities to freedom from gender-based violence and equal access to education and health care.  Women are seated at every table where decisions are made in my Administration — from our first female Vice President, Kamala Harris, to a record number of female cabinet secretaries to the most diverse set of judges ever nominated to the Federal bench, including Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson.

     If we want to have the strongest economy in the world, we cannot leave women — half of our workforce — behind.  Since I have been in office, the economy has created nearly 15 million jobs, and we have seen the lowest unemployment rate among women in more than five decades.  As we implement major pieces of legislation like the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act, we are ensuring that women get their fair share of opportunities.  We are increasing their access to new jobs in sectors where women have been historically underrepresented, like manufacturing, construction, and clean energy.  We are championing equal pay, including issuing new regulations that advance pay equity and pay transparency for Federal workers and employees of Federal contractors.  

     We are making sure women have access to the resources they need to enter and remain in the workforce, including high-quality, affordable child care.  My Administration’s American Rescue Plan helped working mothers, especially during the most challenging times of the pandemic, by keeping the doors of 220,000 child care centers open — 90 percent of which are owned and staffed by women.  Our Child Tax Credit cut the number of children in poverty by 50 percent and provided breathing room for 65 million children and their families, and we will keep fighting to restore it.  I have also signed legislation that provides new protections for pregnant and postpartum workers. 

     To promote the health and wellness of women in America, under the leadership of Vice President Harris, we launched the Blueprint for Addressing the Maternal Health Crisis to combat the high incidence of maternal mortality — especially for Black, Native, and rural women — due to systemic inequities in quality health care.  We have expanded access to health care services for women veterans — the fastest growing group of veterans receiving services at the Department of Veterans Affairs.  Last fall, we launched the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research to change how we approach and fund women’s health research, and pioneer the next generation of discoveries in women’s health care.

     Further, Vice President Harris and I are fighting to protect women’s reproductive freedom.  In 2022, the Supreme Court made an extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade , reversing nearly five decades of recognizing a woman’s constitutional right to choose and make deeply personal decisions about her health care.  Now, tens of millions of women live in States with an extreme and dangerous abortion ban currently in effect.  Across the country, women are being turned away from emergency rooms, forced to go to court to seek permission for the medical attention they need, and made to travel hundreds of miles for care.  This is unacceptable.  That is why I have taken action to safeguard access to reproductive care, including abortion and contraception.  Vice President Harris and I will keep calling on the Congress to restore the protections of Roe v. Wade in Federal law — the only way to ensure women in every State have the right to choose.

     As we lift up women’s health and economic prosperity, we also have to protect their physical security.  As a United States Senator, I was proud to write the Violence Against Women Act, which helped change the culture of silence around the scourge of gender-based violence in America.  When we reauthorized the law, we increased our total investment in prevention and support to $700 million for 2023 alone — the highest funding ever to protect women from gender-based violence in nearly 30 years.  I have also spearheaded historic military justice reforms to better protect survivors and ensure that, in cases of gender-based violence, prosecutorial decisions are fully independent from the chain of command.  Last year, my Administration released the first-ever National Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, advancing a comprehensive Government-wide approach to preventing and addressing gender-based violence across the United States.

     Globally, my Administration is supporting initiatives that help expand access to child care, end gender-based violence, cut the digital gender divide in half, promote women’s leadership, and more.  Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Harris, we have galvanized more than $2.9 billion in investments to advance the economic status of women around the world and ensure they play a meaningful role in the industries of the future.  

     This Women’s History Month, may we recognize the long, storied history of great women helping to realize our Nation’s founding promise and highest aspirations.  May we all continue working to build a world worthy of the dreams and goals of all women and girls.

     NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 2024 as Women’s History Month.  I call upon all Americans to observe this month and to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2024, with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.  I also invite all Americans to visit WomensHistoryMonth.gov to learn more about the vital contributions of women to our Nation’s history.       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-ninth day of February, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-four, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-eighth.                                        JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

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