A coalition of industry groups representing internet service providers sued Vermont on Thursday in an effort to overturn its recently enacted net neutrality rules requiring all internet traffic to be treated equally.
Read moreChina’s former internet censor, who once held high-profile meetings with industry leaders such as Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, was standing trial Friday on corruption allegations, state media reported.
Read moreA German man who blamed a family member for illegally uploading an audiobook to a file-sharing service cannot duck civil liability since the internet connection used is in his name, the European Court of Justice ruled Thursday.
Read moreLegal scholar Richard Epstein will discuss the clash between labor regulations and the rapidly developing gig economy Wednesday, in “Regulating Hours and Wages in the Age of Uber,” at Clemson University.
Read moreThe Sixth Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a case brought by liberal political commentators and conservative activists challenging the constitutionality of Ohio’s law against online harassment, claiming it criminalizes protected speech.
Read moreLeonard Williams (Tower of Power) filed a class action against Warner Music Group, claiming it uses Hollywood accounting to defraud musicians of royalties from international streaming, in L.A. Superior Court.
Read moreThe D.C. Circuit struggled Friday over a suit that would hold search engines like Google liable for letting disreputable locksmiths manipulate their map results.
Read moreA shareholder class action claims that shares of Pinduoduo fell below its July IPO price of $19 (for a total of $1.6 billion) after China announced it was investigating the Chinese e-commerce company for selling counterfeit goods and violating copyright.
Read moreA state court ought to decide if Grubhub must prove its delivery driver was an independent contractor and not an employee under a new game-changing state labor standard, a federal judge said Thursday.
Read moreIt has been seven years since Mary Kay Beckman was brutally stabbed and left for dead by a man she met on Match.com, and the courts still have not decided whether the dating website had a duty to warn her it had paired her with a violent maniac.
Read moreThe administrator of one of the world’s largest dark web marketplaces for narcotics was sentenced to 20 years in prison Tuesday, having previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute controlled substances and money laundering.
Read moreThe EU’s top court set the parameters Thursday for consumer-protection authorities to go after an internet seller whose refusal to issue a refund ticked off a customer.
Read moreA woman who was blinded from an accident with a retractable dog leash urged the Third Circuit on Wednesday to revive her claims against Amazon for marketing a defective product.
Read moreRight-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones hit PayPal with a federal lawsuit Monday, claiming bias against conservative views guided its decision to block his company from earning money through the platform.
Read moreShareholders say in a federal derivative complaint that directors of the airline internet-service company Gogo misled investors about technical problems with its 2Ku antenna system.
Read moreThe parents of a homeless 17-year-old brought a federal complaint Monday over their son’s recent school expulsion, which they contend was based on a doctored Snapchat.
Read moreYou won’t be able use PayPal anymore to buy fluoride-free toothpaste or a bottle of The Real Red Pill Plus from right-wing conspiracy promulgator Alex Jones.
Read moreBritish lawmakers have backed calls for greater regulation of cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin in order to bring an element of control to a market that more resembles the “Wild West.”
Read moreFormer Oklahoma state Senator Ralph Shortey was sentenced Monday to 15 years in federal prison for soliciting a teenage boy online for sex last year.
Read moreThe FTC brought a federal complaint against Apartment Hunters Inc. dba WeTakeSection8.com dba ApartmentHunterz.com dba FeaturedRentals.com, saying it sells information about apartments that are mostly not available for rent and do not accept Section 8 renters.
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