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 »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal pesticide law bars a Missouri man’s failure-to-warn claim against Monsanto over Roundup, a decision that gives the company a major win in litigation over cancer warnings on the widely used weed killer.In a 7-2 decision, the Court reversed a Missouri appeals court... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an asylum policy that limited how many migrants could be processed each day at the U.S.-Mexico border, ruling that people stopped on the Mexico side of a port of entry have not yet “arrived in... Read More »
A California appeals court upheld Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles rape and sexual assault conviction Friday, but ordered a new sentencing hearing because the trial judge relied in part on New York convictions that were later overturned.The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel of California’s 2nd District Court of Appeal leaves... Read More »
A federal judge declared a mistrial Friday in the arson case against Jonathan Rinderknecht and set an Oct. 19 retrial after jurors deadlocked over whether prosecutors proved he started a New Year’s fire that later became the deadly Palisades Fire in Los Angeles.U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang ordered Rinderknecht held... Read More »
The Ohio Supreme Court declined to hear Mackenzie Shirilla’s latest appeal Tuesday, leaving in place a ruling that barred her postconviction challenge because it was filed one day late.A brief entry from the state’s high court said the justices declined to accept jurisdiction in State of Ohio v. Mackenzie Shirilla... Read More »
A coalition of 17 states and a national wholesalers trade group sued California in federal court Monday to block a packaging recycling law they say unlawfully forces companies across the country to follow California’s environmental rules.The lawsuit, led by Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers, was filed in the U.S. District... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Louisiana prison officers cannot be sued personally for money damages under a federal religious liberty law by a Rastafarian man who says they forcibly shaved his head in violation of his faith.In a six-to-three decision, the Court affirmed a ruling by the U.S.... Read More »
The U.S. Supreme Court reinstated Pedro Hernandez’s 2017 murder and kidnapping conviction Monday in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, reversing a federal appeals court ruling that had ordered New York to retry or release him.In an unsigned decision, the justices ruled six to three that the U.S. Court... Read More »
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued TikTok, ByteDance, and related entities, accusing the company of violating a new state law that restricts minors’ social media accounts and misleading parents about the app’s safety for young users.The complaint, filed June 15 in St. Lucie County Circuit Court, claims TikTok continues... Read More »
