Technology company Google settled with the state of Arizona to pay $85 million in a lawsuit that accused the company of violating the Arizona Consumer Fraud Act by using “deceptive or unfair act[s] or practice[s]” in tracking users’ location data. Arizona is the most recent state to settle with the... Read More »
John Trenton Pendarvis of Dorchester County, South Carolina, filed a federal lawsuit on September 16th against three South Carolina state agencies for destroying his hemp crops in 2019. He claims that the agencies “conspired” to deny his due process rights because the legal process for seeking approval is not clear. ... Read More »
Last week, an Arizona judge ruled that a 19th-century law banning all abortions across the state, unless to save the life of the mother, was ruled to still be in effect following the overturn of the Supreme Court’s 1974 Roe v. Wade ruling. The 1864 law, enacted while Arizona was... Read More »
Mitsubishi Electric Corp agreed to pay $33 million to settle all Indirect Purchaser Plaintiff claims in an anti-trust class action lawsuit over an alleged price-fixing scheme of Cathode Ray Tube products (CRTs) with other competitor companies in the industry. The original complaint claimed that the company participated in an “international... Read More »
A federal judge in Florida issued a preliminary injunction after the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging Florida’s “Stop WOKE act” for allegedly violating the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The ACLU, joined by the ACLU of Florida and the Legal Defense Fund, accused the state of... Read More »
A nursing home in Pinellas County, Florida, was sued earlier this year over claims of negligence that resulted in the wrongful death of Loretta McMaster. Peter McMaster, the personal representative of her estate and her son, filed the lawsuit against Manor Care of Dunedin Florida, HCR III Healthcare, LLC, and... Read More »
Warby Parker successfully dodged a trademark infringement lawsuit brought by 1-800 Contacts claiming that Warby Parker was buying keywords to push their paid advertisements higher up on search engine result pages, diverting potential customers away from the 1-800 Contacts website. U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel ruled that the ads were... Read More »
In a proposed class-action lawsuit, the New York Department of Health (DOH) and the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD) are both accused of withholding services and statutory rights by leaving disabled individuals to “languish” in institutions. The complaint argues that New York has “failed to... Read More »
In a six-to-three vote, the Supreme Court ruled that states are barred from excluding religious schools from state-run tuition assistance programs if the states offer these programs to other private schools. This decision along with others recently published by the Court leads to questions on how far the First Amendment... Read More »
On Friday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law Senate Bill 1808 to further crackdown on illegal immigration in the state. The new law mandates law enforcement agencies that oversee detention facilities to work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). At the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office during an event named... Read More »
On Friday, the Iowa Supreme Court, made up mostly of Republican appointees, reversed an earlier ruling guaranteeing the right to abortion under the state’s constitution. Under this new decision, if the Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, Iowa would then have an easier, legal pathway to ban the procedure throughout... Read More »
Amazon’s Alexa, the smart speaker produced by the company, is under attack by a lawsuit filed earlier this week alleging that the company is using the information gathered by interactions with the smart speaker systems to produce targeted advertising without the consent of the users. The class-action suit heavily cites... Read More »
Mariah Carey was served with a lawsuit alleging both trademark and copyright infringement over her 1994 Christmas classic “All I want for Christmas is You.” The hit pop song is often referred to as the unofficial beginning of the holiday season and has only increased in popularity over the years.... Read More »
Applicants for green cards can no longer appeal denials after the Supreme Court limited federal court involvement in immigration court proceedings because they “lack jurisdiction” over cases involving Immigration Judges' discretion. The Supreme Court ruled in a split 5-4 decision that federal immigration law “precludes court review of decisions in... Read More »
A lawsuit filed earlier this week challenges the state of Oregon for its lack of access to legal counsel for criminal defendants across the state. The plaintiffs involved seek class-action status and allege that the state has violated the constitutional rights of criminal defendants who have no access to legal... Read More »
