Blue states see 'shield laws' as bulwark against Republican efforts to restrict abortion and gender-affirming care
As Republican lawmakers have pushed restrictions on abortion and gender-affirming care in recent months, Democratic-led states have increasingly responded by passing so-called shield laws to protect people who undergo such care against the possibility they could one day face prosecution.
2023-07-14 03:56
Texas' TikTok ban hit with First Amendment lawsuit
Texas's TikTok ban violates the First Amendment. That's the basis of a lawsuit just filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University on behalf of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research.
2023-07-13 23:51
New lawsuit claims Elon Musk's Twitter owes more severance to former employees
A former Twitter employee on Wednesday filed a new lawsuit against Twitter and its owner, Elon Musk, alleging that the company failed to provide the full amount of severance it had promised employees prior to mass layoffs last November.
2023-07-13 06:51
Arizona man who joined Jan. 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally sues Fox News for defamation
By Helen Coster, Tom Hals and Jack Queen NEW YORK An Arizona man filed a defamation lawsuit against
2023-07-13 06:24
Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn must answer questions in Smartmatic US defamation case
By Jack Queen Steve Bannon and Michael Flynn, two allies of former U.S. President Donald Trump, must answer
2023-07-13 04:19
Justice Department takes unusual step to try to protect Trump from testifying in lawsuit over FBI firing
The Justice Department has taken an unusual step in court to try to protect former President Donald Trump from testifying under oath in a lawsuit from former FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page.
2023-07-12 06:57
Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools
Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent and violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its artificial intelligence products.
2023-07-12 05:17
US court revives lawsuit against Royal Caribbean over toddler's death
By Jonathan Stempel A federal appeals court on Tuesday revived a lawsuit against Royal Caribbean Cruises by the
2023-07-12 00:24
Amazon workers sue NYC union to force leadership vote
By Daniel Wiessner Dozens of Amazon.com Inc warehouse workers in New York City have sued their union, the
2023-07-11 23:19
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating possible resolution to lawsuit brought by 2 Georgia election workers
Rudy Giuliani is negotiating a possible resolution in his ongoing court dispute with former Georgia election workers Wandrea "Shaye" Moss and Ruby Freeman, after they accused him of defaming them following the 2020 election and already won nearly $90,000 from him for attorneys' fees.
2023-07-11 08:51
Survivors of the Tulsa race massacre are appealing a judge's decision to dismiss their case for reparations
The last three known survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre -- one of the country's deadliest acts of racial violence -- will appeal a judge's recent decision to dismiss their lawsuit seeking reparations to the state Supreme Court, their attorneys announced Monday.
2023-07-11 07:29
Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta alleging copyright infringement
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing Meta and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the companies' AI language models were trained on copyrighted materials from their books without their knowledge or consent.
2023-07-11 01:54