The U.S. Justice Department has cleared Paramount Skydance Corporation’s planned acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, concluding that the roughly $110 billion media merger is unlikely to harm competition or American consumers.The Antitrust Division announced the decision Friday after an eight-month investigation and did not require Paramount to sell assets, accept... Read More »
A Massachusetts jury has convicted Alvin Campbell on 21 sex crime counts after prosecutors said he posed as a rideshare driver to target women outside bars and other locations in the Boston area.The charges involved assaults committed between 2017 and 2019. Jurors found the 45-year-old guilty on 21 of 22... Read More »
Louis Vuitton has sued Maryland Live! Casino & Hotel in federal court over look-alike bags and other giveaway items that allegedly copied the luxury brand’s designs and falsely suggested a connection between the two businesses.Filed June 1 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the lawsuit names... Read More »
A Florida family has sued The Campbell’s Company and Walmart, claiming a can of SpaghettiOs bought at a Walmart Supercenter contained moving worms or parasites that allegedly caused a mother and her young daughter to suffer parasitic infections and other health problems.Filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the... Read More »
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has sued UnitedHealthcare Insurance Company, accusing the insurer of receiving more than $100 million in improper MassHealth payments by allegedly overstating the care needs of seniors enrolled in a Medicaid managed-care program.The complaint, filed May 29 in Suffolk County Superior Court, claims UnitedHealthcare, doing... Read More »
Amazon is facing a class action lawsuit in federal court over claims that its Ring doorbell cameras used facial recognition technology to scan, identify, and store people’s faces without their consent.The complaint was filed on June 1 by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt in federal court in Seattle, where Amazon has... 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 »
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 proposed class action filed in federal court in California accuses fast-fashion retailer Fashion Nova of violating federal telemarketing laws by allegedly sending promotional text messages to consumers before the legally permitted 8 a.m. cutoff.The lawsuit was filed in April by Alameda County resident Charleen Shavies in the Northern District... Read More »
The Walt Disney Company is facing a $5 million class action lawsuit alleging Disneyland and Disney California Adventure failed to properly disclose the use of facial recognition technology at park entrances and collected sensitive biometric data from visitors, including children, without consent. The lawsuit, filed May 15 in federal court... Read More »
A federal appeals court has revived part of a lawsuit against American Airlines over the death of a 14-year-old passenger during a flight from Honduras to Florida, allowing claims tied to an allegedly malfunctioning onboard defibrillator to move forward toward trial. A May 14 decision from the U.S. Court of... Read More »
Former employees of Spirit Airlines have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit accusing the airline of violating the federal WARN Act by abruptly shutting down operations and laying off thousands of workers without advance notice. The lawsuit, filed May 12 in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York,... Read More »
Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges tied to the 2024 collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge as Maryland finalized a $2.25 billion settlement with the owner and operator of the cargo ship involved in the disaster. The charges announced Tuesday accuse Singapore-based Synergy Marine Pte Ltd., its affiliated maritime... Read More »
The family of a man killed during the 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a wrongful death lawsuit accusing OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot of helping the gunman plan and carry out the attack. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Florida, was brought by... Read More »
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California lawsuit accusing the automaker of improperly collecting and selling sensitive driver data gathered through its OnStar connected-vehicle system. California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced the settlement on Friday, alleging GM and OnStar disclosed drivers’ names, contact information, geolocation... Read More »
