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SAN JOSE, Calif. (CN) – A federal judge indicated she would grant preliminary approval of a $415 million class action settlement in a contentious wage dispute between software engineers and tech giants Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe. The settlement is $35 million more than what was offered and denied by U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh last
MANHATTAN (CN) – The U.S. government must submit to some jurisdictional discovery in its multimillion forfeiture action, a federal judge ruled. Uncle Sam filed the action in 2012, claiming that executives with Afghanistan-based Hikmat Shadman Logistics Services Co. bribed at least two people to win a supply-trucking subcontract from TOIFR Global Life Support Systems in October
CHICAGO (CN) – A Catholic diocese must fight sex-discrimination claims related to its firing of a teacher who underwent in vitro fertilization, the 7th Circuit ruled. Emily Herx taught language arts at the St. Vincent de Paul School in Fort Wayne, Ind., from 2003 to 2011. After she was diagnosed with a medical condition that causes infertility
CAMDEN, N.J. (CN) – Starbucks can pursue claims that it was supplied with poor-quality ham because of misrepresentations from its meat suppliers, a federal judge ruled. The complaint stems from revamped breakfast sandwiches that the coffee giant ordered from its supplier of one year, SK Food Group, in 2008. Relying on the results of a blind taste
(CN) – Because it costs the tech industry less to hire foreign nationals, U.S. scientists upset over the competition can challenge a visa program, a federal judge ruled. The U.S. scientists at issue belong to the Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, a collective-bargaining organization representing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workers. They filed suit earlier this
MILWAUKEE (CN) – A conservative advocacy group would not violate Wisconsin’s campaign-finance laws by highlighting candidates in the upcoming elections, a federal judge ruled. In a complaint filed earlier this month, Citizens for Responsible Government Advocates Inc. (CRG) explained that the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board had already come down on it over its plans for a
MINNEAPOLIS (CN) – A federal judge refused to dismiss a class action against a company that allegedly defrauds customers with expensive membership programs. Georgia resident Carol Maher claims in the complaint that she was sold the service when she called a number from an infomercial to order a dietary supplement. The representative processing Maher’s purchase offered her
(CN) – Johnson & Johnson and Wal-Mart must face claims from a woman whose baby vomited blood until he died after taking Infant’s Tylenol, a federal judge ruled. Stacy Sherfey says she gave 2-week-old Tracen recommended doses of Infant’s Tylenol in the morning and evening of Feb. 17, 2009, in Nevada, and that he soon began
(CN) – The CIA must face claims over withheld records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Sen. Robert Kennedy, a federal judge ruled. Anthony Bothwell sued the CIA in November 2013 for denying his records request under the Freedom of Information Act relating to five people who may have been
(CN) – A mother whose abusive ex-boyfriend threw their infant into an icy river can sue police officers who refused to intercede because of the President’s Day holiday, a federal judge ruled. Venetta Benjamin said her former boyfriend of several months, Shamsiddin Abdur-Raheem, started assaulting her in 2008 by threatening, spitting on, punching, kicking, slapping, and
OAKLAND, Calif. – Advanced Micro Devices misrepresented its financial outlook from October 2011-12, and the share price fell by nearly 25 percent when the truth came out, a class action claims in Federal Court.
(CN) – A Chicago-based investment firm and its co-founders agreed to pay more than $1 million to settle the SEC’s claim that they misled investors in two private equity offerings for an alternative energy company in Silicon Valley. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged registered broker-dealer and investment firm Advanced Equities and its co-founders, Dwight Badger
Dell and 21 other companies sell products that infringe on a patent that lets independent computer systems use HTTP-SOAP to communicate online across firewalls, Ganas LLC claims.USDC Eastern District of Texas
As the war in Ukraine rages on, Russian President Vladimir Putin went to Beijing to strengthen his relationship with Chinese President Xi Jinping in their struggle with the West.
Although most of the 4,000 shipwrecks in the Gulf of Mexico cannot be identified, researchers believe that some of them may hold valuable clues about the region's history.
The majority of Washington state’s Supreme Court agreed that overruling an unjust conviction from 1924 can redresses racist harm in a step toward reconciliation.
Senator Bob Menendez's co-defendants in his criminal corruption trial told jurors that there was not sufficient evidence to prove that gifts of gold bars and envelopes stuffed with cash found in the New Jersey senator's home had been exchanged for official acts.
Enforcing regulations against deepfakes is likely to be challenging, experts say.
The working group, led by Georgia Representative Hank Johnson, is aimed at clamping down on what the lawmaker framed as a high court corrupted by conservative political interests.
The Biden administration is taking increasingly restrictive measures to dissuade people from coming to the U.S.-Mexico border.
