Suits and Litigation (Civil)

Disney and Universal Sue A.I. Firm Midjourney for Copyright Infringement
[ad_1] Disney and Universal sued a prominent artificial intelligence start-up for copyright infringement on Wednesday, bringing Hollywood belatedly into the increasingly intense legal battle over generative A.I.The movie companies sued...
23andMe Customers Did Not Expect Their DNA Data Would Be Sold, Lawsuit Claims
[ad_1] Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia have sued the genetic-testing company 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent.The suit, filed...
Musk-Tied Investor Clashes With One of World’s Biggest Asset Managers
[ad_1] A prominent Silicon Valley investor is in a bitter dispute with his former employer, one of the world’s largest asset managers, accusing it of fraud and attempted bribery.In a...
Fearing Trump, Some Law Firms Decline Pro Bono Immigration Cases
[ad_1] Hours after Donald J. Trump was sworn in for a second term, he issued an executive order laying the groundwork for mass deportations of immigrants and denying them legal...
UnitedHealth’s Move to End Cyberattack Loan Lifeline Upsets Medical Providers
[ad_1] Two independent medical practices in Minnesota once hoped to expand operations but have spent the past year struggling to recover from the cyberattack on a vast UnitedHealth Group payment...
Woman Says She Was Sexually Assaulted on American Airlines Flight
[ad_1] A woman has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines, saying a man sexually assaulted her during a red-eye flight from San Francisco to Dallas last year.Barbara Morgan, a California...
Microsoft Drops Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Law Firm
[ad_1] When big law firms attacked by President Trump decided to make a deal with him rather than fight, many did so because their leaders feared that clients would abandon...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting Sues White House to Block Board Firings
[ad_1] The Corporation for Public Broadcasting sued the Trump administration on Tuesday, accusing it of illegally trying to fire three members of the company’s board.In the lawsuit, filed in the...
Paramount Board Clears Possible Path For Settling Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Lawsuit
[ad_1] Lawyers for President Trump and Paramount, the parent of CBS News, are set to begin mediation on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by Mr. Trump that accuses “60 Minutes”...
New Details Emerge on Trump Officials’ Sprint to Gut Consumer Bureau Staff
[ad_1] Two weeks ago, a three-judge panel from the federal appeals court in Washington lifted a freeze on firing employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with some conditions. The...
Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI
[ad_1] Ziff Davis, the digital publisher behind tech sites like Mashable, PCMag and Lifehacker, sued OpenAI on Thursday, joining a wave of media companies accusing the artificial intelligence giant of...