#lawsuits — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lawsuits, aggregated by home.social.
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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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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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Planet Detroit: Gibraltar faces data center developer lawsuit after city passes moratorium. “The developers of a proposed 100-megawatt data center on the former McLouth Steel property in Gibraltar are suing the city over its one-year data center moratorium.”
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Reuters: Judge in Google privacy class action awards lawyers $147 million in legal fees. “A U.S. judge on Friday awarded nearly $147 million in legal fees to plaintiffs’ lawyers who won a $425 million jury verdict against Alphabet’s Google in a data privacy trial last year, while denying the company’s bid for an order rejecting the jury’s verdict.”
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CityAM: Google to pay £260m to settle ‘unfair’ pricing class action lawsuit. “The case, brought to the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) by competition law professor Barry Rodger on behalf of UK app developers, claimed Google abused its dominant market position by charging excessive commissions for transactions made through its Play Store to Android customers. The hearing was due to be […]
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Politico: Stars and Stripes journalists facing firing get one-week reprieve. “The Pentagon gave a one-week reprieve Friday to three staff members at Stars and Stripes facing imminent dismissal for speaking out about threats to editorial independence at a military news outlet that receives partial government funding. The delay was announced during a hastily-called hearing Friday in federal court […]
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Reuters: Google changes spam policy in EU to avert antitrust fine. “The EU said that its monitoring showed that Google’s spam policy demoted news media and other publishers’ websites and content in Google search results, when those websites include content from commercial partners. Google said that from August 30 any manual actions taken to demote sites would not apply to users in […]
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Music Business Worldwide: Now Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell sue Anthropic in multi-billion dollar lawsuit: ‘One of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history.’. “Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music have joined forces to sue Anthropic, home of Claude, over what the publishers call ‘one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/08/30/now-sony-music-publishing-and-warner-chappell-sue-anthropic-in-multi-billion-dollar-lawsuit-one-of-the-largest-and-most-blatant-ongoing-thefts-of-intellectual-property-in-history/ -
The Guardian: Key witness in Meta trial says terms of settlement insufficient to halt apps’ harms to teenagers. “The star witness in the US government’s landmark trial against Meta believes that a multibillion-dollar settlement reached on Wednesday does not go far enough to stop the social media giant’s harms to young users. ‘The limitations that are in the agreement are the equivalent of […]
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Reuters: Judge dismisses lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X challenging New York hate speech law. “A U.S. judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by Elon Musk’s X seeking to void a New York state law requiring social media companies to disclose how they monitor hate speech, extremism, harassment, foreign political interference and disinformation.”
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Tubefilter: Twitch and Amazon facing class-action lawsuit over scraping streamers’ content without their consent. “A Connecticut-based Twitch streamer has filed a class-action lawsuit against the platform over its recent announcement that creators’ content will automatically be used to train Amazon‘s AI products.”
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Ars Technica: Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts”. “Meta, which already uses ID checks and face analysis to verify user ages, said it agreed to impose on people under 18 a ‘default two-hour daily time limit that teens can only turn off with a parent’s permission,’ a default block between midnight and 6 am, and a school mode in which […]
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The Meta Settlement Will Put Limits on Instagram for Teens. They’re Still Vulnerable
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Massachusetts, other states file new suit to block orange-tainted Postal Service from taking over mail-in voting
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The Hill: Pennsylvania attorney general accuses Snapchat of failing to protect children in new lawsuit. “Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday (R) announced a lawsuit Tuesday, accusing Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, of failing to protect children from compulsively using its platform.”
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Meta Will Pay Up to $16.7 Billion to Settle Its Social Media Harms Case—and That’s Not All
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Judge rules regime violated her order to stop planning takeover of mail-in voting; her punishment is to keep her ban in place
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Parents sue Seaport hotel over scalding hot coffee their toddler poured into his lap after a server left the beverage on the table right in front of him
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March of the insurance brokers: Downtown brokerage sues archrival around the corner for loss of 18 employees in 44 minutes last Wednesday
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Ars Technica: Hidden Zillow listings created fake supply shock, raising NYC rents, lawsuit says. “This week, two New York City renters filed a class action complaint alleging that a brokerage business called Compass—which has been boycotting posting listings on free digital platforms like Zillow—has now delisted so many rental units that it has created a fake supply shock that is […]
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🚗🤦♂️ So, #China just realized that #Tesla door #handles are as #elusive as Bigfoot? This #recall is the #automotive equivalent of a Where's Waldo book, but with fewer stripes and more #lawsuits. 🙈🔍
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University of California San Francisco: New Firearms Industry Documents Archive and Fleet Farm Collection. “The University of California, San Francisco’s (UCSF) Industry Documents Library (IDL), has established the Firearms Industry Document Archive (FAIDA) with the Fleet Farm Collection consisting of 694 documents. The documents were obtained during Minnesota Attorney General Keith […]
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Postal Service to Boston federal judge: Drop dead
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Twitch faces a class action lawsuit over using streamers' content to train Amazon's AI
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Wendy’s meal allegedly caused foodborne illness, Chicago woman claims in lawsuit – NBC Chicago https://www.diningandcooking.com/restaurants/14450/ #Chicago #Food&Drink #lawsuits #Restaurant #Restaurants
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Racket Minnesota: 3M Paid Expert Witness $475/Hour to Use ChatGPT to Defend Company in Major Explosion Lawsuit. “Previous decisions against 3M and Watson Grinding have tallied more than $150 million, and more cases are working through the courts. ‘It’s David and Goliath, no doubt about it,’ Rob Kwok, a lawyer representing plaintiffs, tells ABC13 Houston. Turns out Goliath is relying on expert […]
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TikTok agrees to $400M settlement with US Department of Justice
TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Just…
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Mediaite: BREAKING: TikTok Coughs Up $400M to Settle DOJ Children’s Privacy Lawsuit. “The Justice Department reached a $400 million settlement with TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance, ending a lawsuit accusing the social media giant of illegally collecting children’s personal information without it having to admit wrongdoing or facing further litigation.”
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Prince Harry and 6 others must pay initial $13 million over failed invasion of privacy case
LONDON (AP) — Prince Harry and six others, in…
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Former cannabis head sues state treasurer over the way she was forced out
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/former-cannabis-head-sues-state-treasurer-over-way-she-was-forced-out