A federal judge upheld a $105 million award in favor of VidStream LLC in its long-running patent infringement suit against Twitter Inc., now X Corp., over technology for sharing videos online. In April, a jury determined that X willfully infringed one claim of VidStream’s patent but determined that the five other patent claims were invalid. Both parties contested the jury’s findings, but the federal judge saw no reason to upend the verdict. He did, however, find that VidStream is entitled to both prejudgment and post-judgment interest on the award.

A federal judge granted certification to a class of around 1.2 million Illinois Alexa users who say that Amazon violated the state’s biometric privacy law by creating “voiceprints” through its Voice ID feature without first obtaining informed, written consent. Amazon’s argument that it does not share or sell customers’ Voice ID information goes to the merits of the case and is not relevant at the class certification stage. The class will be limited to users in Illinois for whom Amazon created a voiceprint on or after June 27, 2014.

A New Jersey dairy company lost its lawsuit challenging a Pennsylvania law that requires milk dealers to post an annual bond to buy milk from the state’s milk producers. Biazzo Dairy Products Inc. argued that it is forced to pay more than $500,000 to continue purchasing milk from Pennsylvania producers and had to fire 10 employees as a result. A federal judge threw out the company’s dormant Commerce Clause claims because both in-state and out-of-state milk dealers “shoulder the same burden.”

The Eleventh Circuit rejected President Trump’s attempt to revive his defamation lawsuit against CNN over its use of the phrase “Big Lie” to describe Trump’s claims that the 2020 election had been stolen. The three-judge panel rejected Trump’s argument that the network’s use of the phrase was an attempt to associate him with Hitler and Nazi propaganda and agreed with the lower court that Trump failed to prove the falsity of CNN’s statements.

A Las Vegas jury convicted former porn star Devyn Michaels in the first-degree murder of her children's father. Jonathan Willette's decapitated body was found in 2023. Prosecutors said Michaels killed Willette and burned his body with chemicals. Michaels admitted to striking the fatal blow, but not to decapitating him. His head was never recovered. Michaels previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, but recanted in July, prompting her first-degree murder charge and November trial.

Full-time workers in the European Union saw their salaries rise an average of 5.2% in 2024, Eurostat reported this week.

A contractor for Hawaii's "Skyline" light rail project says the city agency overseeing the construction mismanaged the project, costing the contractor at least $320 million.

European households saw natural gas prices dip 8.1% in the first half of 2025, which Eurostat said was actually a return to normal seasonal fluctuations for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine and sent energy prices skyrocketing.

Kentucky residents and businesses filed a class action to hold the UPS, General Electric and Boeing liable for injury, lost business and property damage stemming from a Nov. 4 plane crash of a UPS cargo plane. At least 12 people were killed in the crash.