Eliza Labs, a San Francisco artificial intelligence startup, and its founder, Shaw Walters, have filed a federal lawsuit against X Corporation, formerly known as Twitter, accusing the company of fraud, antitrust violations, and unlawful deplatforming. The complaint, filed August 27 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of... Read More »
A federal judge in San Francisco has ruled that President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violated federal law by using thousands of California National Guard members and U.S. Marines to support law enforcement in Los Angeles during immigration operations in June. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer found the... Read More »
A federal appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump exceeded his authority when he invoked national emergency powers to impose sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every country, dealing a major blow to one of his signature economic policies. In a 7–4 decision issued on Friday, the U.S. Court... Read More »
A former Los Angeles film producer has been indicted on federal charges accusing him of defrauding victims of more than $12 million through schemes that prosecutors say involved Ponzi-style tactics, false COVID-19 testing invoices, and misappropriated film production funds. David Raymond Brown, 39, was arrested in South Carolina after a... Read More »
Amazon is facing a proposed class action lawsuit alleging that its Prime Video platform misleads customers into believing they permanently own movies and television shows purchased through the service, when in fact they receive limited licenses that can be revoked. The suit, filed August 21 in the U.S. District Court... Read More »
The parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine have sued OpenAI and chief executive officer Sam Altman, alleging that the company’s ChatGPT chatbot contributed to their son’s suicide by validating his harmful thoughts and giving detailed guidance on how to act on them. The complaint, filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court,... Read More »
A federal judge has ruled that Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, was unlawfully serving as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, concluding that her interim authority expired in early July and that subsequent attempts to keep her in the role were invalid under federal law.... Read More »
Sting is at the center of a new legal battle with his former Police bandmates, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland, who have filed a lawsuit in the London High Court over royalties tied to one of the band’s most famous songs, “Every Breath You Take.” The suit, first reported by... Read More »
Google has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing the company of collecting personal data from children on YouTube without parental consent and using the information to deliver targeted ads. The proposed settlement, filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, California, must be approved... Read More »
The Federal Trade Commission has filed a lawsuit against Key Investment Group and several affiliated companies, accusing them of using unlawful methods to buy hundreds of thousands of tickets to major live events, including Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour, and reselling them at higher prices. The complaint was filed Monday in... Read More »
