Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill 1557, Parental Rights in Education, which impacts children from kindergarten to third grade. The bill follows on the heels of Florida’s 2022 Parents’ Bill of Rights. The controversial new law goes above and beyond classroom instruction, however. According to a press... Read More »
Meta, formerly known as the Facebook company, lent a much-needed helping hand to millions of victims plus a website called Revenge Porn Helpline, run by U.K.-based tech policy nonprofit SWGfL. Also called “Take It Down,” the site is open to children under the age of eighteen or their guardians. Revenge... Read More »
Vanessa Bryant, the widow of former Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant and mother of 13-year-old Gianna, who were both killed in a horrific helicopter crash, has settled her lawsuit claims for $28.85 million. A portion of the settlement, $15 million, was previously awarded to Ms. Bryant in August 2022... Read More »
A California couple, both worried about their genetic disposition to cancer, is accusing a fertility clinic of implanting the wrong embryo with a rare genetic cancer mutation and then covering up the information. Jason and Melissa Diaz filed the lawsuit Wednesday against HRC Fertility and Dr. Bradford Kolb in Los... Read More »
It isn’t often that right-wing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is questioned under oath, but neither is it often that a voting machinery company is suing a media corporation for defamation. Murdoch, the co-chairman of the Fox Corporation, the executive chairman of News Corp, and leader of a media empire including... Read More »
Social media giant Twitter just inhaled. Twitter recently announced it is allowing its advertisers to share, promote and offer content about CBD, THC, and cannabis products. It’s public knowledge that Elon Musk loves a marijuana tweet now and then, most often in his comments to tweets with “420 haha.” Now,... Read More »
When Malcolm X, the assassinated civil rights leader, was murdered on February 21, 1965, the crowd around him rushed to attempt to save his life, but to no avail. In the front row sat his pregnant wife and four daughters in the Audubon Ballroom, where he was the guest speaker.... Read More »
When the cloud-based Internet became the center of our real-world reality, many legal experts called it the Wild West. How would the law control the AI-built universe, where issues such as privacy, anti-trust issues, and hundreds of other US laws need to be enforced? The Internet, born in 1981, has... Read More »
A Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation into Apple, dating back to 2020, is reportedly being amped up. Numerous published sources are saying the DOJ is requesting more documentation from Apple and some of their hired consultants. The Wall Street Journal reported the escalation of the DOJ anti-trust lawsuit into Apple... Read More »
A Queens, New York, woman arrested and charged with trying to murder a woman who looked like her was found guilty. Viktoria Nasyrova, 47, laced a cheesecake with poison and attempted to kill her doppelgänger, 35-year-old Olga Tsvyk, and was found guilty of attempted murder by a jury. Nasyrova was... Read More »
The death of the famous musician and only child of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley, 54, shocked the world. Officials reported the cause of death was cardiac arrest. Days after her daughter’s death, Ms. Presley’s mother and ex-wife of the legendary musician Elvis Presley challenged the validity of their only... Read More »
A dress code in an Everett, Washington, ordinance said that bikini-clad baristas must cover up their bodies while on duty. But a federal ruling threw a bit of steamed milk on that controversial law recently, saying that the city’s dress code ordinance is unconstitutional. Simultaneously, experts expect numerous other US... Read More »
A District of Columbia resident is fed up with the smell of marijuana smoke wafting into her apartment from a neighboring unit and is suing both the city and the neighbor. Josefa Ippolito-Shepard, 76, who has lived in her apartment for thirty years, is asking her hometown city to make... Read More »
In a 55-page report, the DOJ seeks legal ways to solve the national disconnect between law enforcement and millions of citizens. A brutal, graphic video of 29-year-old Tyre Nichols being beaten to death by five Black police officers in Memphis is creating a cacophony of questions and investigations that once... Read More »
The family of Holocaust survivors Karl and Rosi Adler, who anxiously fled Nazi Germany in 1938 sued the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for a Picasso painting worth $200 million. The heirs’ demand, unlike the precious abstract work of art, is crystal clear: return the painting to the family. The lawsuit... Read More »
