#lawsuits — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lawsuits, aggregated by home.social.
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Judge orders Postal Service to keep its regime-tainted fingers away from mail-in voting in November
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-orders-postal-service-keep-its-regime-tainted-fingers-away-mail -
Judge orders Postal Service to keep its regime-tainted fingers away from mail-in voting in November
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-orders-postal-service-keep-its-regime-tainted-fingers-away-mail -
Dispute over fruity beverages bubbles into lawsuit by Newton company
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/dispute-over-fruity-beverages-bubbles-lawsuit-newton-company -
Dispute over fruity beverages bubbles into lawsuit by Newton company
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/dispute-over-fruity-beverages-bubbles-lawsuit-newton-company -
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco ruled that thousands of lawsuits targeting Meta Platforms, TikTok and other social media outlets over claims that social media is harmful and addictive can proceed.
If legal precedent is established and social media addiction is determined to be real, Meta and others could face an existential business threat. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-faces-a-raft-of-social-media-addiction-lawsuits/827518/ #SocialMedia #Meta #TikTok #Lawsuits #LegalPrecedent #SocialMediaAddiction #9thCircuitCourt #LegalAppeal #FederalCourt
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Appeals Court in San Francisco ruled that thousands of lawsuits targeting Meta Platforms, TikTok and other social media outlets over claims that social media is harmful and addictive can proceed.
If legal precedent is established and social media addiction is determined to be real, Meta and others could face an existential business threat. https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/meta-faces-a-raft-of-social-media-addiction-lawsuits/827518/ #SocialMedia #Meta #TikTok #Lawsuits #LegalPrecedent #SocialMediaAddiction #9thCircuitCourt #LegalAppeal #FederalCourt
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#SupremeCourt sets date for blockbuster #climate case
Suncor v. Boulder could determine dozens of lawsuits filed by cities and states against #oil and #gas
Trump admin, which is siding with #fossilfuel, has asked for 10 min of argument time.
“Such suits severely interfere with the federal government’s constitutional and statutory responsibilities,” Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris said, noting administration has filed challenges against several climate #lawsuits.
https://www.eenews.net/articles/supreme-court-sets-date-for-blockbuster-climate-case/ -
#SupremeCourt sets date for blockbuster #climate case
Suncor v. Boulder could determine dozens of lawsuits filed by cities and states against #oil and #gas
Trump admin, which is siding with #fossilfuel, has asked for 10 min of argument time.
“Such suits severely interfere with the federal government’s constitutional and statutory responsibilities,” Deputy Solicitor General Sarah Harris said, noting administration has filed challenges against several climate #lawsuits.
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The Nevada Independent: Could Nevada’s tech epicenter run out of water? That’s the big question in an ongoing suit. “A bitter legal battle has emerged over water availability in Nevada’s technology epicenter, raising questions about whether companies critical to diversifying the state economy have enough water to survive into the future.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/10/the-nevada-independent-could-nevadas-tech-epicenter-run-out-of-water-thats-the-big-question-in-an-ongoing-suit/ -
The Nevada Independent: Could Nevada’s tech epicenter run out of water? That’s the big question in an ongoing suit. “A bitter legal battle has emerged over water availability in Nevada’s technology epicenter, raising questions about whether companies critical to diversifying the state economy have enough water to survive into the future.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/10/the-nevada-independent-could-nevadas-tech-epicenter-run-out-of-water-thats-the-big-question-in-an-ongoing-suit/ -
Reuters: US court rules Meta, other tech companies must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction. “The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in the litigation.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/10/reuters-us-court-rules-meta-other-tech-companies-must-face-thousands-of-lawsuits-over-social-media-addiction/ -
Reuters: US court rules Meta, other tech companies must face thousands of lawsuits over social media addiction. “The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face more than 3,000 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court, concluding that the appeal came too early in the litigation.”
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ICYMI: What did the first week of August change in digital advertising?: A $2.15 billion acquisition, a brutal earnings split, fresh lawsuits and forced automation reshaped digital advertising between August 3 and August 8, 2026. https://ppc.land/what-did-the-first-week-of-august-change-in-digital-advertising/ #DigitalAdvertising #Acquisition #EarningsReport #Lawsuits #Automation
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PetaPixel: Apple Faces $32.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition in iPhone Photos App. “Apple is facing a lawsuit seeking up to $32.5 billion over claims its iPhone Photos app illegally collected users’ biometric information. The iPhone is widely known for using Face ID as a biometric security feature to help protect users’ privacy. However, a class action lawsuit in Illinois alleges […]
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PetaPixel: Apple Faces $32.5 Billion Lawsuit Over Facial Recognition in iPhone Photos App. “Apple is facing a lawsuit seeking up to $32.5 billion over claims its iPhone Photos app illegally collected users’ biometric information. The iPhone is widely known for using Face ID as a biometric security feature to help protect users’ privacy. However, a class action lawsuit in Illinois alleges […]
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Ars Technica: X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge. “Elon Musk’s X is trying to revive a lawsuit against advertisers it’s accusing of illegally boycotting the social media platform, despite previously reaching a settlement to end litigation against an ad-industry trade group.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/07/ars-technica-x-wants-to-keep-suing-advertisers-asks-5th-circuit-to-overrule-district-judge/ -
Ars Technica: X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge. “Elon Musk’s X is trying to revive a lawsuit against advertisers it’s accusing of illegally boycotting the social media platform, despite previously reaching a settlement to end litigation against an ad-industry trade group.”
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The New Mexico First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe just doubled down on Meta ordering the company to pay $567M into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms. This second ruling is in addition to a previous ruling ordering Meta to pay a $375M fine. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta #Meta #SocialMedia #Facebook #Instagram #Fine #Safety #ChildSexualExploitation #Internet #Lawsuits #mentalHealth #NewMexico #ChildSafety
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The New Mexico First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe just doubled down on Meta ordering the company to pay $567M into a fund aimed at redressing adverse mental health impacts from the social media giant’s platforms. This second ruling is in addition to a previous ruling ordering Meta to pay a $375M fine. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/06/new-mexico-court-meta #Meta #SocialMedia #Facebook #Instagram #Fine #Safety #ChildSexualExploitation #Internet #Lawsuits #mentalHealth #NewMexico #ChildSafety
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Judge orders #ICE to free an immigrant it had freed earlier on his orders then re-arrested
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-orders-ice-free-immigrant-it-had-freed-earlier-his-orders-then -
Judge orders #ICE to free an immigrant it had freed earlier on his orders then re-arrested
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/judge-orders-ice-free-immigrant-it-had-freed-earlier-his-orders-then -
Reuters: TikTok settling three teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial. “TikTok has agreed to settle three lawsuits brought by young people who accuse social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive and harming their mental health, a plaintiffs’ lawyer said Monday.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/06/reuters-tiktok-settling-three-teen-social-media-lawsuits-ahead-of-trial/ -
Reuters: TikTok settling three teen social media lawsuits ahead of trial. “TikTok has agreed to settle three lawsuits brought by young people who accuse social media companies of designing their platforms to be addictive and harming their mental health, a plaintiffs’ lawyer said Monday.”
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Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #AI #lawsuits #Perplexity
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Appeals Court Agrees with EFF that Building a Web Browser Doesn’t Violate the CFAA www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #AI #lawsuits #Perplexity
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Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet
#siteblocking #domainnames #clienthold #Cloudflare #Lawsuits #florida
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Broadcaster Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don’t Exist Yet
#siteblocking #domainnames #clienthold #Cloudflare #Lawsuits #florida
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Civil-rights group sues police, DA over bodycam footage of man an officer shot to death
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/civil-rights-group-sues-police-da-over-bodycam-footage-man-officer -
Civil-rights group sues police, DA over bodycam footage of man an officer shot to death
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/civil-rights-group-sues-police-da-over-bodycam-footage-man-officer -
PBS: Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles
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PBS: Southern California Edison equipment blamed for 2025 Eaton fire in Los Angeles
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MediaPost: Google, Meta Seek Dismissal Of Voice Actors’ Suits. “Google and Meta are urging federal judges to dismiss lawsuits by book narrators and others who allege that their voices were used to develop artificial intelligence systems or other voice-related technology.”
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MediaPost: Google, Meta Seek Dismissal Of Voice Actors’ Suits. “Google and Meta are urging federal judges to dismiss lawsuits by book narrators and others who allege that their voices were used to develop artificial intelligence systems or other voice-related technology.”
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David Ellison’s Bid To Control Warner Bros. Hits The Rocks
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://defector.com/david-ellisons-bid-to-control-warner-bros-hits-the-rocks
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Courthouse News Network: Feds face multistate lawsuit over bid to release low-income assistance records. “A coalition of 24 states and Washington, D.C. sued the Trump administration on Monday, challenging a decision authorizing the disclosure of personal information for individuals participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. According to the coalition, the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/04/courthouse-news-network-feds-face-multistate-lawsuit-over-bid-to-release-low-income-assistance-records/ -
Courthouse News Network: Feds face multistate lawsuit over bid to release low-income assistance records. “A coalition of 24 states and Washington, D.C. sued the Trump administration on Monday, challenging a decision authorizing the disclosure of personal information for individuals participating in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. According to the coalition, the […]
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Woman raped by visiting Irish firefighter sues Court TV for showing her name during its coverage of his trial
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/woman-raped-visiting-irish-firefighter-sues-court-tv-showing-her-name -
Woman raped by visiting Irish firefighter sues Court TV for showing her name during its coverage of his trial
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/woman-raped-visiting-irish-firefighter-sues-court-tv-showing-her-name -
Handful of NBA Draft Picks Could Return to College After Ruling https://www.rawchili.com/nba/802977/ #Basketball #centerpiece #CollegeBasketball #CollegeSports #Lawsuits #NBA #NBADraft
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Ars Technica: Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive. “On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/03/ars-technica-reddit-keeps-its-strange-dmca-fight-over-google-search-results-alive/ -
Ars Technica: Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive. “On Friday, a judge largely denied a motion to dismiss from a web scraper, SerpApi, which is accused of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from Google search results.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/03/ars-technica-reddit-keeps-its-strange-dmca-fight-over-google-search-results-alive/ -
"In 2019, during his first term, Trump sued Capital One and Deutsche Bank to prevent them from sharing financial records with the US Congress as part of a probe led by Democratic lawmakers. Anti-money laundering professionals at Deutsche Bank reportedly flagged a set of transactions, but executives ignored them; Deutsche Bank denied the report at the time."
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/2/capital-one-cites-anti-money-laundering-concerns-in-trump-organization-case #TACO #Trump #fraud #corruption #moneylaundering #lawsuits #CapitalOne #Bank #DeutscheBank
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"In 2019, during his first term, Trump sued Capital One and Deutsche Bank to prevent them from sharing financial records with the US Congress as part of a probe led by Democratic lawmakers. Anti-money laundering professionals at Deutsche Bank reportedly flagged a set of transactions, but executives ignored them; Deutsche Bank denied the report at the time."
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/8/2/capital-one-cites-anti-money-laundering-concerns-in-trump-organization-case #TACO #Trump #fraud #corruption #moneylaundering #lawsuits #CapitalOne #Bank #DeutscheBank
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If you didn't know that already ...
"You know how we’re always saying that Trump likes to drop his lawsuits before they get to discovery? Well, he failed to do that here, and now the entire world knows that hundreds of Trump businesses - including a winery, a golf course, bottled water, a payroll company, and a real estate firm - were front companies for money laundering."
https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-capital-one-closed-hundreds-of #TACO #Trump #fraud #corruption #moneylaundering #lawsuits #CapitalOne #Bank
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Record Labels Offer to Abandon $46.8 Million Piracy Case Against Grande
https://torrentfreak.com/record-labels-offer-to-abandon-46-8-million-piracy-case-against-grande/
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Denver Post: 70 years of St. Louis history is stuck in a Denver data center, PBS station claims. “A St. Louis PBS station says its 70-year archive of programming is stuck in a Denver data center after a cloud storage company cut off the TV station’s access to the 50 terabytes of data this spring. Nine PBS filed a lawsuit Tuesday in Denver District Court seeking the safe return of the data, […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/02/denver-post-70-years-of-st-louis-history-is-stuck-in-a-denver-data-center-pbs-station-claims/ -
Reuters: New York sues Kalshi, says its prediction markets are illegal gambling. “New York’s attorney general sued Kalshi on Friday, claiming that its prediction market platform violates state laws against illegal gambling. The case, brought by Attorney General Letitia James, escalates a rapidly expanding battle, including a flurry of lawsuits and countersuits, over whether individual […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/02/reuters-new-york-sues-kalshi-says-its-prediction-markets-are-illegal-gambling/ -
New York Times: A TV Judge and an R&B Singer Fought Online Trolls. They Didn’t Get Far.. “The attention economy, the Lattimores found, is structured to reward the most eye-catching claims, allowing sensationalist but baseless narratives to spread and perpetually resurrect with little resistance from social media platforms. Their grueling, 16-month lesson in modern disinformation underscored […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/02/new-york-times-a-tv-judge-and-an-rb-singer-fought-online-trolls-they-didnt-get-far/ -
NBC News: Judge denies request by Elon Musk’s xAI to pause Minnesota nudification ban . “A federal judge on Friday denied a request from Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI to block a Minnesota law that will be the first in the nation to ban nudification technology.”
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TechSpot: Meta is bragging about how its AI keeps people on Instagram, while facing lawsuits over addiction. “Social media addiction has been a subject of public debate for years, but time spent on apps like TikTok and Instagram keeps climbing. Meta has now confirmed it’s using AI to personalize the Instagram feed, and that shift is driving a sharp increase in the amount of time users spend on […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/31/techspot-meta-is-bragging-about-how-its-ai-keeps-people-on-instagram-while-facing-lawsuits-over-addiction/ -
Appeals court tosses Covid-era curbside-dining lawsuit by North End restaurants, but throws them one slim possible lifeline
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/appeals-court-tosses-covid-era-curbside-dining-lawsuit-north-end