Gamma Media Holdings, the music company founded by Larry Jackson, has filed a lawsuit in New York seeking to identify the anonymous person or people it says created websites and social media accounts to spread false claims about the company and its chief executive.The complaint, filed in New York State... Read More »
Three women have joined a lawsuit challenging Maine’s policy of housing inmates based on gender identity, adding new allegations involving sexual harassment, threats, and retaliation at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham.Jennifer Albert, Michaela Sargent, and Danielle Foster joined original plaintiff Katie Mountain in the lawsuit against Maine Department of... Read More »
A Google engineer is facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors alleged he used confidential company data to place a series of highly profitable online wagers, earning more than $1.2 million by betting on the outcome of Google’s annual Year in Search rankings before the information became public.According to a criminal... Read More »
A federal judge has ruled that the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts cannot be officially renamed after President Donald Trump, concluding that the institution's governing board lacked the legal authority to make the change.In a decision issued Friday, U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper declared that Congress named... Read More »
Kenneth Iwamasa, the live-in assistant who injected Matthew Perry with fatal doses of ketamine and left the actor alone in his backyard jacuzzi on the night he died, was sentenced on Tuesday to three years and five months in federal prison. The hearing brought together Perry's family members and business... Read More »
A federal judge in Virginia has temporarily halted the operation of the Justice Department's newly created $1.776 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund while a lawsuit challenging the program's legality moves forward in court.U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema issued the order on May 29, barring federal officials from transferring money into the fund,... Read More »
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Discord, accusing the popular communications platform of misleading parents and users about its safety features while failing to adequately protect children from online predators. Filed in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, the lawsuit alleges Discord falsely marketed itself... Read More »
Former President Joe Biden sued the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday to block the planned release of audio recordings and transcripts tied to Special Counsel Robert Hur’s classified documents investigation, arguing the department unlawfully reversed its earlier position that the materials were too sensitive to disclose. Filed in federal... Read More »
A Delaware judge has ruled that a small beach town may continue allowing corporations and other legal entities to vote in municipal elections, rejecting a constitutional challenge brought by the American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware over what the group described as “non-human artificial entities” participating in local government. Delaware... Read More »
A federal class-action lawsuit filed in Michigan accuses Alliance Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data Inc., of creating excessive industrial noise from its Dowagiac artificial intelligence and cloud computing data center, with nearby residents arguing the facility has disrupted the use of their homes.The lawsuit, filed in the... Read More »
A New Jersey high school teacher has filed a $1 million defamation lawsuit accusing a student and her family of spreading explicit images taken from his private Instagram account and falsely linking him to allegations of sexual misconduct involving a student. Daniel Torsiello, a history teacher at Central Regional High... Read More »
A coalition of more than 20 states has sued the U.S. Department of Education over a new rule that narrows which graduate degree programs qualify for higher federal student loan limits. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Maryland, challenges a May 1 final rule issued by the Department of... Read More »
Social media companies, including Meta, TikTok, Snap, and YouTube, have reached settlements with a Kentucky school district in one of the first cases selected to test a growing wave of lawsuits accusing major tech platforms of contributing to a youth mental health crisis through addictive social media design. The agreements... Read More »
A federal judge in Wisconsin has dismissed a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit seeking access to the state’s unredacted voter registration database, ruling that a Civil Rights Act provision dating back to the 1960s does not give the federal government authority to compel production of the records. In a decision... Read More »
A tenured Portland State University professor has filed a $7 million lawsuit against the university and its president, alleging she was falsely portrayed as aligned with terrorism after a video from an off-campus pro-Palestinian protest circulated online. The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court by professor Yasmeen Hanoosh, accuses... Read More »
