A federal judge in San Francisco has granted final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose copyrighted books were downloaded from pirate libraries as the artificial intelligence company built the systems behind its Claude chatbot.U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved the agreement Monday, resolving class claims... Read More »
The House voted Tuesday to make daylight saving time permanent across most of the United States, advancing a measure that would end the twice-yearly clock change and keep the later hour in place year-round.The Sunshine Protection Act passed 308 to 117, with support from members of both parties, and now... Read More »
Langham Hotels Pacific Corporation has agreed to pay $320,000 and refund at least $216,795 to guests to settle allegations that its Pasadena hotel raised room rates beyond California’s legal limit during the emergency caused by the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires.The agreement resolves a consumer protection lawsuit filed by the... Read More »
Twelve Division I athletes have filed a federal class action lawsuit challenging an NCAA eligibility rule that excludes them from a fifth season of college sports while extending that opportunity to other athletes.The lawsuit, filed July 8 in federal court in Colorado, claims the NCAA unlawfully restricted the athletes’ access... Read More »
California and 11 other states sued Monday to block Paramount Skydance Corp.’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, arguing the deal would reduce competition across major parts of the film and television business.The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims the... Read More »
Apple has sued OpenAI and two former employees, accusing the artificial intelligence company of using stolen trade secrets to speed the development of its first consumer hardware product.The lawsuit, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, claims OpenAI encouraged Apple workers it was recruiting... Read More »
United Airlines must face a proposed class action in California federal court over claims that it charged passengers extra for seats labeled as window seats even though some allegedly had no windows, a federal judge ruled.U.S. District Judge James Donato denied the airline’s request to dismiss the lawsuit, allowing breach... Read More »
Amazon has agreed to pay $2.25 million to settle federal allegations that it denied identity theft victims access to business records they needed to investigate fraudulent transactions made with their personal information.The Justice Department filed the case June 29 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after... Read More »
California drivers have filed a proposed class action accusing major gas station operators and a fuel-pricing software company of using artificial intelligence to keep gas prices higher than they would be in a competitive market.The lawsuit, filed June 22 in federal court in Sacramento, names Kalibrate, the company behind an... Read More »
Two rooftoppers known for scaling skyscrapers were arraigned in New York on felony charges after prosecutors said they unlawfully accessed the Empire State Building’s restricted antenna area, unfurled a banner, and forced emergency officers to climb high above Manhattan to intercept them.Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus, who were identified in... Read More »
Coach and its parent company, Tapestry, have ended a federal lawsuit accusing Quince of selling lower-priced handbags that allegedly copied the look of two Coach designs.The companies filed a joint stipulation on June 23 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, agreeing to dismiss all claims... Read More »
Carl Erik Rinsch, the director of 47 Ronin, was sentenced Monday to 30 months in federal prison for defrauding Netflix out of $11 million that was supposed to help finish an unreleased science fiction series.A Manhattan jury convicted Rinsch in December of wire fraud, money laundering, and five counts of... Read More »
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained a robbery suspect’s Google Location History data through a geofence warrant, a decision that strengthens privacy protections for cell-phone location records while leaving key questions about the warrant itself unresolved.In a 5-4 decision, the Court... Read More »
Pfizer has been dismissed from a broad antitrust lawsuit accusing dozens of drugmakers and executives of fixing prices in the generic drug industry, a ruling that removes the company from one part of a larger case brought by most U.S. states.Chief Judge Michael Shea of the U.S. District Court in... Read More »
The Supreme Court on Monday gave presidents broader power to fire leaders of independent federal agencies, but drew a major line around the Federal Reserve, allowing Governor Lisa Cook to remain in office while she challenges President Donald Trump’s attempt to remove her.The Court’s broader decision weakens long-standing job protections... Read More »
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