#law-suits — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #law-suits, aggregated by home.social.
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The Guardian: Grindr pays £26m to settle UK lawsuit over allegedly sharing users’ HIV status. “Grindr will pay £26m to settle a lawsuit brought by thousands of users in the UK who allege that the US dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases their HIV status, with advertising companies.”
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Colorado Sun: New evidence shows Boulder climate lab was dismantled in act of political reprisal, lawsuit alleges. “New evidence shows overt political retaliation against Colorado is behind the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Center for Atmospheric Research lab in Boulder, according to new filings in a lawsuit by the lab’s university consortium managers.”
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Eversource, National Grid sue Quebec power supplier for not supplying power
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US government argues that fair use applies to OpenAI’s training of LLMs in key copyright caseHistorically, legislation and court decisions have always lagged behind technological change. But the gap between the two is even starker in the world of generative AI. The large language model (LLM) that kicked things off, ChatGPT, was only released in November 2022; the pace of development since then has been dizzying. Meanwhile, nearly 200 lawsuits have been brought against AI companies, […]
#andresGuadamuz #ani #chatgpt #competition #delhi #eff #eu #fairUse #genai #india #injunction #judge #law #lawsuits #licensing #llms #marketDilution #nationalSecurity #newYorkTimes #oligopoly #openai #privateUse #technollama #usConstitution #usDepartmentOfJustice https://walledculture.org/us-government-argues-that-fair-use-applies-to-openais-training-of-llms-in-key-copyright-case/ -
She flew to Boston to serve in a Tall Ships honor guard but instead got thrown in ICE's Burlington dungeon for ten days
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/she-flew-boston-serve-tall-ships-honor-guard-was-instead-stuck-ices -
House lawmaker sues to reverse Missouri Supreme Court decision to block GOP-friendly congressional map
Rep. Bob Onder (R-Mo.) is leading a lawsuit aimed at reversing the Missouri Supreme Court’s decision last week…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #Gerrymandering #Headlines #Lawsuits #MidtermElections(2026) #Missouri #Politics #SupremeCourt #TopStories #USNews #us-house-of-representatives
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IDScan Class Action Lawsuits Filed After Driver’s License Data Breach Claims - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/multiple-class-action-lawsuits-filed-against-idscan/
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Engadget: ‘Reasonable’ consumers know they don’t own digital downloads, Sony says. “As PlayStation players prepare for an all-digital future after January 2028, Sony is making no apologies to anyone confused about what that means for game ownership (or lack of it). In fact, the company has told a Californian court that no ‘reasonable’ consumer would be silly enough to think that purchasing a […]
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Investing.com: Seattle Times, Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft over AI training. “The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleges the companies scraped content from the newspapers’ websites, including articles behind paywalls, and incorporated the material into datasets used to train and operate AI products.”
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Lawsuit claims missed red flags before San Diego mosque mass shooting
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just days before two teenagers carried out a mass shooting at a San Diego…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CalebVazquez #California #Crime #Generalnews #Gunviolence #Lawsuits #Legalproceedings #Mentalhealth #Raceandethnicity #Religion #SanDiego #Schoolshootings #Shootings #Teens #U.S.FederalBureauofInvestigation #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Violence
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Sinema faces lawsuit under North Carolina ‘homewrecker’ law
PHOENIX (AP) — Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema can be sued under North Carolina’s homewrecker law over her…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #arizona #AZStateWire #DavidA.Bragdon #DomesticNews #Generalnews #HeatherAmmel #KyrstenSinema #Lawsuits #MatthewAmmel #NCStateWire #NorthCarolina #Politics #StevenEpstein #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washingtonnews
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The Guardian: It’s time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign from Meta. “Ushering in hope for the future of technology requires changing Meta’s leadership now, so that the future is collectively imagined and built upon a new reputation and commitment. Zuckerberg does not deserve another chance simply because he can afford it. We as a society ultimately pay for his mistakes. Now is the time for […]
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Judge extends block on Trump order aiming to limit mail voting
A federal judge on Friday extended her prohibition against the U.S. Postal Service implementing Presiden…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #BarackObama #Courts #DonaldTrump #Elections #Executiveorders #Generalnews #Governmentpolicy #IndiraTalwani #Lawsuits #Massachusetts #MidtermElections #NorthCarolina #Politics #U.S.news #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesgovernment #Us #USA #Voting #VotingRights #Washingtonnews
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Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors’ Payouts
This week, many authors who are part of the Anthropic copyright class action settlement began receiving notices like this one: Upon accessing the portal (which doesn’t seem to have a formal name, so I’ll call it the “disgreement portal”), many of those authors made an unwelcome discovery: their publishers are making claims on their allocations Read More
The post Anthropic Copyright Settlement: Publishers Are Making Incorrect Claims on Authors’ Payouts appeared first on Writer Beware.
https://writerbeware.blog/2026/09/04/anthropic-copyright-settlement-publishers-are-making-incorrect-claims-on-authors-payouts#Copyright #Anthropicsettlement #ArtificialIntelligence #Lawsuits
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U.S. Department of Justice Files Legal Brief Urging Court to Find AI Training to Be Fair Use
In a 20-page 'Statement of Interest," lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice told the judge presiding over a closely-watched lawsuit that requiring "paid licensing" would "put U.S. AI companies at a competitive disadvantage."
The post U.S. Department of Justice Files Legal Brief Urging Court to Find AI Training to Be Fair Use appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.
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Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific ‘John Doe’ Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
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OpenAI faces 30 more lawsuits tied to Tumbler Ridge shooting
Edelson PC, the law firm that filed seven lawsuits against OpenAI in April on behalf of victims and…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ChrisLehane #Lawsuits #massshooting #OpenAI #TumblerRidge #World
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Louisiana judge rules against NCAA in eligibility case
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Lane Ki…
#NewsBeep #News #Topstories #BlakeCotton #CollegeFootball #CollegeSports #Courts #DaeQuanWright #football #Generalnews #gregsankey #Headlines #JeffLandry #JocelynOllivierre #LAStateWire #LaneKiffin #Lawsuits #LizMurrill #Louisiana #NationalFootballLeague #nfl #SoutheasternConference #Sports #TonyClayton #TopStories #U.S.news #WadeRousse #WilliamJorden #ZxavianHarris
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Town that just wishes the rest of the world would leave it the hell alone wins legal battle against proposed Northeastern marine research facility
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NiemanLab: Trump administration says a New York Times win in OpenAI lawsuit would “threaten national security” and hurt small newsrooms. “On Wednesday, the Trump administration threw its support behind OpenAI, backing the AI giant in its ongoing litigation with The New York Times. The Department of Justice voiced its support through a statement of interest (SOI) filed with the Manhattan […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/03/niemanlab-trump-administration-says-a-new-york-times-win-in-openai-lawsuit-would-threaten-national-security-and-hurt-small-newsrooms/ -
Federal judge blocks Trump’s latest attempt to end birthright citizenship
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to limit birthright citizenship…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #citizenship #Courts #DeborahL.Boardman #DonaldTrump #Executiveorders #Generalnews #Governmentandpolitics #Immigration #JoeBiden #Lawsuits #Maryland #MDStateWire #Politics #ShanaKhader #SupremeCourtoftheUnitedStates #U.S.news #UnitedStates #Us #USA #Washingtonnews
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Ars Technica: Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says. “xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested.”
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New York Times: How Meta’s $17.1 Billion Social Media Settlement Came Together. “The settlement, one of the largest agreements between a company and a group of states embroiled in litigation, was announced on Wednesday. This account of how it came together is based on a dozen interviews with state leaders, former and current Meta executives, court documents and trial testimony.”
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OpenAI slapped with 30 additional lawsuits bringing the total to 37 filed on behalf of victims of the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia mass shooting.
OpenAI's safety team flagged the shooter’s account to executives eight months before the attack and OpenAI banned her account, but she was able to quickly create a new one, the suits claim. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/openai-lawsuits-tumbler-ridge-mass-shooting #OpenAI #Lawsuits #Canada #TumblerRidge #MassShooting #AISafety #Safety #SocialMedia #AI
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Stereogum: Jason Isbell, David Lowery, & More Sue Suno For Violating Rights Of Publicity. “Everyone hates Suno, except Mary J. Blige for some reason. Jason Isbell, David Lowery, and more musicians are now suing the AI music platform. The legal complaint was filed on Monday (Aug. 31). The class action lawsuit emphasizes that its claims don’t depend on copyright infringement, but that Sono’s […]
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RCN Urges Judge to Toss the Major Labels’ ‘Last’ Piracy Liability Lawsuit
https://torrentfreak.com/rcn-urges-judge-to-toss-the-major-labels-last-piracy-liability-lawsuit/
#CoxCommunications #RepeatInfringer #repeatinfringer #Lawsuits #cox #rcn
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Cambridge minister makes federal case out of Red Line delays; sues the T
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Los Angeles Times: Hollywood studios have sued over AI. Now Google is courting them to use its tools. “Google executives have approached representatives at Disney, Universal, Warner Bros. Discovery and other studios about licensing intellectual property to be used in AI models, according to three people familiar with the conversations who were not authorized to speak publicly about them. […]
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Freedom Fuel stations sold gas a distributor says went unpaid for
A Freedom Fuel Network gas station in Dresher, Pa., on Friday, July 10, 2026. Matt Rourke | AP…
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