The families of the Sandy Hook massacre victims claimed victory in Alex Jones’ bankruptcy case, accepting his proposal to sell his assets, including InfoWars, to partially pay the legal judgments for his lies about the 2012 U.S. school shooting. Seventeen months after filing for U.S. bankruptcy protection, Jones has abandoned efforts to negotiate a bankruptcy…
Hunter Biden’s daughter testified on Friday in her father’s defense, stating that he seemed to respond well to drug treatment in the weeks before he bought a gun that prosecutors allege he obtained illegally by not disclosing his addiction. Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, pleaded not guilty in federal court to felony…
Alphabet’s Google avoided a jury trial over its alleged digital advertising dominance after the company paid $2.3 million to cover the U.S. government’s claim for monetary damages, a federal judge ruled on Friday. Because judges directly hear non-monetary demands in antitrust cases, Google’s payment means it bypasses a jury trial. The company noted that this…
Tesla argued in court papers on Friday that the legal team voiding Elon Musk’s record Tesla pay package deserves only a tiny fraction of the $5.6 billion legal fee they requested, claiming their lawsuit provided almost no benefit to the company. Tesla (TSLA.O) stated that the legal team for Richard Tornetta, the shareholder whose lawsuit…
A law firm, which previously admitted to unknowingly submitting fake claims in a $5.6 billion settlement with Visa and MasterCard, informed a U.S. judge on Thursday that other parties also submitted fraudulent material in the case. New York-founded Milberg Coleman Bryson Phillips Grossman, responding to a request for more information from the Brooklyn judge overseeing…
A financial industry trade association has sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for information about the agency’s multibillion-dollar crackdown on how banks and other firms handle work-related communication on personal devices. The American Securities Association filed the lawsuit in Tampa federal court on Thursday, claiming that the SEC improperly rejected its request under…
On Thursday, Google (GOOGL.O) persuaded a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a proposed class action over its alleged misuse of personal and copyrighted data to train artificial-intelligence systems, including its chatbot Bard. U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin dismissed the case, citing concerns raised by another California judge in a related lawsuit against OpenAI…
Hunter Biden’s sister-in-law testified on Thursday that she found his gun and threw it away out of fear of his spiraling addiction. This testimony could bolster prosecutors’ case that President Joe Biden’s son broke a law barring illegal drug users from owning firearms. Jurors in the first criminal trial of a U.S. president’s child watched…
A government watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), on Wednesday urged the judiciary to rein in the recurring practice of conservative judges boycotting the hiring of law clerks from specific schools over protests and disruptions on their campuses. CREW, in a letter, urged the U.S. Judicial Conference to address the matter…
Hunter Biden’s former girlfriend testified about his near-constant crack cocaine use at lavish hotels during the criminal trial where prosecutors aim to prove that U.S. President Joe Biden’s son lied about his addiction to illegally buy a gun. Jurors heard that Hunter Biden prepared crack at the ritzy Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles or spent…
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