May 1, 2016


Here’s the Lawsuit Against a State Anti-Lgbt Law You Aren’t Hearing About

Here’s The Lawsuit Against A State Anti-LGBT Law You Aren’t Hearing About by Zack Ford May 10, 2016 1:31 pm CREDIT: AP Photo/Emily Wagster Pettus Jennifer Riley-Collins, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Mississippi, introduces the lawsuit, flanked by attorney Oliver Diaz, and plaintiffs Nykolas Alford and Stephen Thomas. North Carolina’s anti-LGBT law HB2 isn’t the …


Bundy Accuses Obama of Conspiracy to Snatch His Land in Bizarre Lawsuit

The suit, which names Sen. Harry Reid (R-NV), his son, Rory, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro and President Obama as defendants, calls for Bundy to be released from federal custody and awarded $50 million in damages. In the complaint, Bundy alleges Reid deployed “the equivalent of federal storm-troopers” to meet Bundy’s “peaceful cowboys” defending their grazing rights on public lands. The …



Why a White Woman’s Discrimination Lawsuit Against the Getty Is No Joke and Could Set a Precedent

The case of Samantha Niemann vs. the Getty Foundation has generated all manner of headlines and Internet jabs after the white university student claimed she had been deterred from applying for an internship program geared toward underrepresented minorities. Boing Boing responded with a tearful emoji under the headline “White woman wants minority internship, sues Getty Foundation.” The arts …


Judge Refuses to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Crowdfunded ‘Star Trek’ Film

A California federal judge is allowing Paramount Pictures and CBS to boldly go where no Star Trek rights holder has gone before. The two studios are suing over Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, a short film, as well as Axanar, a proposed feature-length picture that’s been raising money on Kickstarter and other crowdfunding platforms. In response to the lawsuit, Alec Peters’ Axanar Productions …


Coach Settles Overtime Lawsuit, Agrees to Pay $1.75 Million in Damages to Employees

Coach has agreed to settle a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit, in which it was accused of deliberately failing to compensate store employees for the time they spent getting their bags checked after the completion of their shifts. In the lawsuit, which was filed over a year ago in California federal court, former Coach employee Eve Miranda alleged that the American fashion brand failed …



Can Facebook Store Your Facial Biometrics? Lawsuit Says No

It’s well-known that Facebook uses an algorithm that can recognise a person based on information in photographs. It’s a little creepy, sure, but is it illegal? Earlier this week, a court ruled against Facebook in a lawsuit that alleged the company unlawfully collected biometric data pertaining to faces in photos without users’ consent, according to CNET.


Sanders Drops Lawsuit Against DNC

The move came Friday after an independent investigation into Democratic presidential campaigns’ handling of party voter data. “An independent investigation of the firewall failures in the DNC’s shared voter file database has definitively confirmed that the original claims by the DNC and the Clinton campaign were wholly inaccurate,” the campaign …