SiliconBeat reports Google has agreed to pay a $5.5 million settlement in a class-action suit that resulted from cookie placement that worked around Apple Safari do-not-track settings. The lawsuit suggested Google collected the user data to boost ad revenue. “Behaviorally targeted advertisements based on a user’s tracked internet activity generally sell for at least twice as much as non- …
Four Macomb County school districts have requested to join a lawsuit filed by East Detroit Public Schools against the State of Michigan — a lawsuit that seeks to block the appointment of a CEO to take over the academics at four East …
The court is rubbing salt in the wound, too. The previously scheduled trial will still go ahead in early September, but it’s now limited to Beats’ bid to recoup legal costs. In a sense, Monster’s sue-happy nature is coming back to haunt the company.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Waller County over its ban on guns at its courthouse. The suit, filed Monday afternoon in district court in Travis County, centers on a provision of Texas’ new open carry law, which took effect in January. The law, which allows Texans with licenses to openly carry handguns, has an exemption prohibiting …
The Corrections Corporation of America, the country’s second largest for-profit prison operator, is fighting to seal documents in a lawsuit that claims guards at a Tennessee prison required female visitors to undergo strip searches to prove they were menstruating. The lawsuit, filed by a woman in January 2015, alleges that as she passed through a security checkpoint on her way to visit a loved …
A federal judge in Kansas has thrown out a Muslim inmate’s lawsuit that accused a county jail and its administrators of violating the convicted killer’s religious rights. U.S. Magistrate Judge David J. Waxse dismissed Eddie Gordon Sr.’s case involving the Shawnee County Jail after Gordon missed a court-imposed deadline to submit any evidence the alleged misconduct harmed him …
A Lawrence police officer accused of using excessive force during the arrest of a local firefighter no longer works for the department, the city says. Tuesday was the last day of work for Lawrence Police Officer Frank McClelland, who is listed among the defendants in an excessive use of force lawsuit filed against the city, said Assistant City Manager Diane Stoddard. He began working for the …
The brother of a man who was strangled while being restrained by staff at the Caddo County Detention Center has filed a federal wrongful death lawsuit alleging jailers used excessive force and failed to provide the man with adequate medical care. Video of an incident that authorities say led to the death of a Caddo County inmate was released on Monday. The state medical examiner said the inmate …
A local family says JBLM is to blame for the shooting death of a teenager, according to a new federal lawsuit. Alex DeMello, 13, died after being shot in the face by a friend. Police investigators said he was shot after the boys snuck through a hole in a fence that is supposed to secure the military installation.
Nearly two years ago, the Federal Trade Commission sued AT&T for allegedly misleading wireless customers by charging them for “unlimited” data plans while simultaneously throttling their cellular connection speeds when they passed certain monthly thresholds. AT&T failed in 2015 to get the case dismissed in District Court, but yesterday succeeded in convincing a federal appeals court to throw …