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 »
Atlanta rapper Young Thug has scored a legal victory in his long-running YSL case, winning the right to reclaim cash, cars, and jewelry that were seized from him more than two years ago. On Monday, his attorney confirmed that a Fulton County judge granted the return of roughly $145,000 in... Read More »
The Louisiana Attorney General has filed a lawsuit against Roblox Corporation, claiming the online gaming company failed to protect children from sexual exploitation and misled parents about the platform’s safety. According to the petition, Roblox has long marketed itself as a safe and family-friendly service while allowing predators to contact... Read More »
The last defendant charged in connection with the death of Matthew Perry has agreed to plead guilty, concluding a year-long federal investigation into the actor’s fatal overdose. Jasveen Sangha, 42, admitted Monday that she supplied the ketamine that caused Perry’s death. According to prosecutors, Sangha will plead guilty to five... Read More »
Los Angeles Dodgers player Shohei Ohtani and his agent are the targets of a new lawsuit in Hawaii filed by a developer and real estate broker who allege they were removed from a major resort project after signing Ohtani as its celebrity endorser. The complaint, lodged in Hawaii Circuit Court... Read More »
Twenty states, along with the District of Columbia, have sued the U.S. Department of Justice, claiming that new immigration-related conditions on federal crime victim funding are unlawful. The case was filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. The plaintiffs claim the Justice Department is... Read More »
Newsmax has agreed to pay $67 million to resolve Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation lawsuit alleging the network aired false claims that its technology rigged the 2020 U.S. presidential election. The settlement was finalized on Aug. 15 and disclosed in an SEC filing made public Monday. According to the filing, Newsmax... Read More »
Ángel Del Villar, the founder and chief executive of influential música Mexicana label Del Records, was sentenced on Friday to four years in federal prison after being convicted of conducting business with a sanctioned drug trafficker in violation of the U.S. Kingpin Act. U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong handed... Read More »
Singer Sean Kingston has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for orchestrating a luxury goods fraud scheme that prosecutors say bilked multiple vendors out of more than $1 million. The sentence, handed down Friday by Judge David Leibowitz, comes after Kingston and his mother, Janice Turner, were convicted... Read More »
