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  • Justice Served: California City Settles Wrongful Arrest Suit for $125,000, Officer Fired for Falsehoods

    In La Mesa, California, justice has been served as the city has agreed to settle a federal lawsuit filed by Amaurie Johnson for $125,000. The lawsuit stemmed from an incident in May 2020 where Johnson, a 23-year-old Black man, was unjustly arrested and subjected to excessive force by former police officer Matthew Dages. The settlement…

  • Apple Faces Skeptical Judge In App Store Antitrust Case

    Apple (AAPL.O) executives, aiming to avoid new court-ordered restrictions on the company’s lucrative App Store, have struggled to convince a California federal judge that they complied with reforms she ordered in 2021. Over multiple days, Oakland-based U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers grilled them on whether Apple skirted her directives. Judge Rogers convened the hearings…

  • Hershey Faces Larger Lawsuit Over Missing Designs On Reese’s Candies

    Hershey (HSY.N) faces a renewed, larger lawsuit claiming it misled consumers about the artistic detail on several Reese’s peanut butter candies after opening the packaging. On Friday, four Reese’s consumers in southern Florida filed a proposed class action, stating they felt “very disappointed” that the candies they bought late last year looked plain and lacked…

  • Ex-Trump Lawyer Eastman Pleads Not Guilty In Arizona Electors Case

    John Eastman, the first of 18 defendants accused of illegally seeking to claim Arizona’s 2020 electoral votes for then-U.S. President Donald Trump, appeared before a state judge and pleaded not guilty on Friday. Eastman, 64, joined others, including former Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani and former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, in plotting to…

  • Spotify Sued Over Millions In Allegedly Unpaid Music Royalties

    Spotify faces a lawsuit in New York federal court, accusing the streaming giant of underpaying songwriting royalties for tens of millions of songs. The royalty-gathering nonprofit Mechanical Licensing Collective filed the lawsuit late Thursday, alleging that Spotify underreported its revenue by nearly half to avoid paying millions of dollars owed to the group. The complaint…

  • Missouri Judge Allows Candidate With KKK Ties To Remain On Republican Ballot

    A Missouri gubernatorial candidate with alleged ties to the Ku Klux Klan will remain on the Republican primary ballot, according to a ruling by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Cotton Walker on Friday. The Missouri GOP had sought to remove Darrell McClanahan from the August primary, but Judge Walker denied the request, allowing McClanahan to…

  • Complaint Dismissed Against Trump Hush-Money Judge Who Donated To Biden

    The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct dismissed an ethics complaint against Justice Juan Merchan, who oversees the hush money criminal case against former U.S. President Donald Trump, a spokesperson for the judge confirmed. “Justice Merchan said the complaint, filed more than a year ago, was dismissed in July with a caution,” stated Al…

  • Judge To Rule Next Week On Baldwin Bid To Avoid ‘Rust’ Trial

    A New Mexico judge announced on Friday that she will rule next week on Alec Baldwin’s requests to dismiss charges against him in the shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Baldwin is trying to avoid an unprecedented Hollywood manslaughter trial for an on-set death. Baldwin’s lawyers filed motions to dismiss his indictment, alleging prosecutorial misconduct,…

  • Trump’s Lawyers Cite Cohen’s Insults To Undercut His Credibility

    On Thursday, Donald Trump’s lawyer accused star witness Michael Cohen of lying at the former U.S. president’s trial about a phone conversation he claimed to have had with Trump regarding a hush money payment to a porn star before the 2016 presidential election. Trump’s lawyer, Todd Blanche, asserted that the conversation was about harassment from…

  • Trump Ally, Powell Ready To Pay Sanctions After Ruling In Election Case

    Sidney Powell conceded defeat in her four-year-old lawsuit that claimed widespread voting fraud cost Donald Trump the 2020 election in Michigan. She took this step after a federal appeals court denied her latest attempt to avoid sanctions in the case. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled earlier on Thursday that Powell and other…