A lawsuit claiming that Twitter should take some responsibility for the rise of ISIS has been refiled with a revised complaint that the service’s direct messaging system is akin to providing jihadists with a satellite phone. It is the complainants third attempt in holding Twitter to account for the rampant extremism on the platform, with the lawsuit previously being …
Twice a year, Y Combinator, a startup accelerator based in Mountain View, California, holds what it calls a Demo Day, which is a showcase of the latest batch of new companies it has nurtured. In the past, those have included Dropbox, Airbnb, and Reddit (as well as a number of companies no one remembers). Last week, at the most recent Demo Day, Eva Shang took to the stage to talk about her …
this point, we’ve seen plenty of class-action lawsuits over internet giants pawing through our email to either snoop on us or target us with advertising. For example, Google got sued in 2014 for scanning millions of students’ emails to build up profiles of users’ interests so it could target advertising at them. The search giant was then hit again a few weeks ago over scanning email, …
The start of a program to equip 100 Boston police officers with body cameras has been delayed so a judge can consider a request from the city’s largest police union to temporarily halt the program. An agreement with Boston’s largest police union to have 100 officers wear body cameras was praised as a step toward greater accountability. But by Thursday’s scheduled rollout, not a single …
The latest round of class-action concussion lawsuits against the NCAA and major college football conferences were filed by former college football players from Florida State, Miami, Florida, Mississippi State, Kentucky, Louisville and Murray State. The lawsuits were filed in federal courts …
A local lawyer who told people they could legally grow marijuana despite a federal law saying the opposite now faces a lawsuit accusing him of profiting off crimes. Ian Christensen’s law firm told couples like the Yandells that if they medically needed marijuana, he could get them a doctor’s certificate that would protect them from arrest, according to Scott and Marsha Yandell’s lawsuit. After …
Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of purchasers of Signet Jewelers Limited securities (NYSE: SIG) from January 7, 2016 through June 3, 2016, inclusive (the “Class Period”). The lawsuit seeks to recover damages for Signet investors under the federal securities laws. To join the Signet class …
A $100-million class-action lawsuit has been leveled against Rabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel, the Georgetown rabbi arrested in 2014 for six acts of voyeurism. Freundel filmed women disrobing before immersing themselves in the National Capital Mikvah, constructed at his direction in 2005. A mikvah is a ritual bath that married Orthodox women use after their monthly menstruation.
Reports of data breaches have become commonplace, prompting U.S. courts to raise the bar on associated class action lawsuits. The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in early August declined to grant standing to a class action filed in the wake of a data breach at CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield. Hackers compromised health insurer CareFirst’s IT …
Two groups sued Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. in a proposed class-action lawsuit Monday, claiming the company’s relationship with specialty mail-order pharmacy Philidor Rx Services was illegal and allowed Valeant to overcharge and wrongly charge for prescription drugs, in violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. Much of the lawsuit focuses on the …