From phones to children’s toys and speakers, just about everything can become a “smart” device today. Even vibrators. And just like all of the other devices, sex toys can also violate your privacy. …
On Tuesday night, pretty much unprecedented news story broke: “Modern Family” star Sofia Vergara was being sued by her own frozen embryos. The New York Post’s gossip section, Page Six was the first to report on the story. It’s something that can pretty much only happen in Louisiana, where the suit was filed, due to the state’s unique laws that define embryos as people in certain cases.
A lead attorney involved in Volkswagen AG’s diesel emissions-cheating scandal and $14.7 billion settlement will defend Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV against similar accusations. New York-based attorney Robert Giuffra Jr., a partner of …
A student group at Grand Valley State University has filed a federal lawsuit alleging the university unfairly restricts free speech on campus. The student group, …
The city of Chicago will pay more than $3.4 million to resolve a fatal police shooting lawsuit that sparked a review of how the city’s Law Department handles litigation involving allegations of serious officer misconduct, while paying $3 million for another fatal police shooting captured on video that began when a 17-year-old ran from a traffic stop carrying what turned out to be a black iPhone …
The publishers of Wikipedia and several civil rights groups will head to a federal appeals court Thursday to challenge a National Security Agency surveillance program that mines Americans’ internet communications. A key hurdle for the groups will be to provide convincing evidence that their emails and other communications are among those collected in bulk by the NSA. A lower court previously …
After months of calling Trump supporters racist, CNN now faces a multi-million dollar class action lawsuit alleging racism from their own black employees. Odd, considering how vigorously CNN leveled those same charges before and after the election. CNN host Van Jones called the election of Trump a “whitelash” against a black president, while a CNN contributor accused Trump of “a lack of …
Two African-American employees have filed a class-action lawsuit against CNN, Turner Broadcasting and its parent company, Time Warner, alleging racial discrimination. The two plaintiffs in the lawsuit are identified as Celeslie Henley and Ernest Colbert Jr. Henley is a former executive administrative assistant at CNN, while Colbert is still employed by Turner as a senior manager …
Losing between 25 and 40 million dollars in a legal settlement would be a crippling blow for virtually any company — but for satellite radio giant SiriusXM, which cut such a deal in November after a long battle with pop group The Turtles over pre-1972 royalty payments, it could turn out to be a triumph. For the past eight years SiriusXM has not been paying royalties on the music it plays that …
President Elect Donald Trump just got some more bad legal news. A federal judge rejected a request to throw out a class action lawsuit filed against his Trump National country club in Jupiter, Florida (formerly the Ritz-Carlton Golf Club & Spa). The lawsuit is over deposits that were deemed un-refundable after Trump bought the business, reports the Palm Beach Post .