The Duchess of Sussex’s lawsuit against the Daily Mail/Mail on Sunday continues this week. The trial is not until January, but there is some kind of hearing this week, which just means that everybody is dragging out what should have been an...
Matt Ventresca, Kathryn Henne
Science, The Americas
If Black lives matter, science — like the criminal justice system — needs to reckon with the fact that its struggles with racism are not a thing of the past.
The first week of the 2020...
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Unfortunately, it looks like Dr. Dre’s divorce isn’t going to get any easier any time soon.
According to reports from TMZ, the music industry mogul’s estranged wife, Nicole Young, has filed a lawsuit...
"The university also violated his due process rights under New York law and committed breach of contract"
The post Black Student Launches Lawsuit Claiming School Suspended Him After a Drunk White Girl Kissed Him first appeared on Le·gal...
Otis getting slammed with a lawsuit courtesy of The Miz and John Morrison on Friday's WWE SmackDown may have been the most fitting way for this week in wrestling to wrap up. Mr...
The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg just cut the odds of Obamacare’s survival in a lawsuit once dismissed as a longshot.
Before Ginsburg’s death Friday night, few legal observers thought that the Supreme Court was gearing up to overturn or...
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Five Years Ago
This week in 2015, we got a big, confusing mess of a ruling on fair use and the DMCA in the famous "dancing baby" video lawsuit. We also saw a loss for the Motion Picture Academy after its five-year crusade to make GoDaddy pay...
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Epic is hitting back at Apple’s claims that the developer’s lawsuit was just an attempt to revitalize sagging interest in Fortnite on iOS. In a newly-filed reply to Apple in a preliminary injunction request to keep Fortnite in the app store,...
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The 2020 general election ballots in Alaska will not indicate a candidate's party affiliation, only how they were nominated, after a lawsuit seeking an injunction failed.
Facebook said earlier that the underlying issue was a bug and that the app didn't actually use the camera.
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A federal judge's ruling that Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf's pandemic lockdown orders are unconstitutional offers hope not just to the beleaguered residents of that state, but to all Americans suffering under similar impositions. With public...
The couple's divorce keeps growing increasingly uglier.
Tesla Wins Lawsuit Against Former Employee And Whistleblower Martin Tripp
Tyler Durden
Fri, 09/18/2020 - 13:00
Update: Marty Tripp writes with the following note: "Tesla did not WIN their case, they were granted summary...
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Facebook is being sued by an Instagram user who claims the social media giant spied on users through their iPhone cameras.
Brittany Conditi, who filed the lawsuit, said Facebook accessed Instagram...
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[So holds Judge Virginia A. Phillips (C.D. Cal.) in Tracy Chapman's lawsuit against Nicki Minaj.]
The case is Chapman v. Maraj; first, the facts from NPR Marketplace (Sabri Ben-Achour):
Minaj's song "Sorry" obviously takes from Chapman's song "Baby C
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A group of COVID-19 survivors is suing the French prime minister, accusing him of misguided and contradictory management of the virus crisis
South Dakota's Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe is embroiled in a lawsuit with the federal government over highway checkpoints it set up around its territory to control spread of the coronavirus.
Tribal leaders across the US have looked to the government...
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A lawsuit accuses Bureau of Prisons officers of “repeatedly” sexually assaulting and abusing inmates the Federal Correctional Complex Coleman in Sumter County, Florida, the Tampa Bay Times reports. Female inmates, ranging in ages 26 to...
A judge has cleared Nicki Minaj of copyright infringement in her longstanding court case with Tracy Chapman. Their tense legal battle began back in 2018 with a song called “Sorry”. A collaboration with Nas, it was ultimately left off...
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