Delaware Senator Chris Coons is poised to unveil legislation aimed at creating liability for people who create unauthorized digital replicas of others — as well as the platforms that host such misleading content.
Los Angeles attorney Keith Davidson testified that he tried to get model Karen McDougal a deal that would get her paid without having to share her story.
The Golden State is on the grow again, with a net gain of 67,000 people in 2023.
In a closely watched case, the International Court of Justice decided to let Germany continue sending weapons to Israel in its fight against Hamas.
The Danish government touted better knowledge about how much carbon dioxide trees absorb and the adoption of electric vehicles as reasons for the improved outlook.
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The newspaper publishers say the artificial intelligence companies siphon off news organizations’ revenues while benefiting from “mass copyright infringement.”
Rocky Mountain Classical Academy’s dress code permits girls, but not boys, to wear small earrings.
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Prosecutors asked for Trump to be sanctioned after he published a series of inflammatory social media posts.
Proposed legislation would require automakers to provide access to AM radio broadcasts in new vehicles, but industry advocates warn such a rule would stifle innovation and affect the development of electric cars.
Colorado rafting outfitters claimed the Biden administration's order to raise wages threatened to disrupt a decades-old tradition of trip-pay.
The justices’ order allows Texas to continue enforcing its anti-porn law requiring websites with adult content to verify a visitor's age.
Mark Alan Black admitted to enticing prepubescent girls online to livestream themselves engaging in sexually explicit conduct and then record it.
Keith Raniere, who's serving a 120-year sentence, tried to "manufacture new evidence ... to receive a second bite of the apple," a federal judge wrote.
The gas stations accused Costco of undercutting their business by selling gas below a statutory minimum price. The Seventh Circuit decided it wasn't so simple.
The Silicon Valley-born Roger Ver is accused of depriving the IRS of $48 million.
The "messy" case of a man who drew a machete against knife-wielding assailants is testing the duty to retreat Minnesota requires for self-defense defenses.
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U.S. District Judge Leslie Kobayashi handed a box of tissues to multiple people testifying about illnesses and lasting trauma they say their families endured after the leak.
The new rule, which implements provisions of last year's Fiscal Responsibility Act to expedite the environmental review process, was welcomed by environmental advocates but rebuked by the chair of the Senate Energy Committee.
Organizers at Northwestern University outside Chicago agreed to deescalate their protest while Columbia University students in New York City risked suspension to hold their ground Monday.
GOP lawmakers cited the Monday shooting of multiple officers in Charlotte in their argument for the bill that critics say may actually compromise law enforcement efforts.
A Brentwood cop can't use qualified immunity to avoid claims that he used excessive force in allowing his K9 to continue biting a woman for 40 seconds after she surrendered.
Police arrested over 100 people, mostly minors, after the Dolores Park Hill Bomb skateboarding event last summer.
The controversial presidential candidate will run as a third-party candidate in the state with the nation's largest electoral college.
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Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a motion with the Arizona Supreme Court requesting the high court to stay its mandate in Planned Parenthood v. Hazelrigg, which effectively implemented a near-total abortion ban, for 90 days. The attorney general’s office says it may ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review the Arizona Supreme Court’s decision.
The Texas Supreme Court holds that the state’s Pandemic Liability Protection Act retroactively applies to a former Southern Methodist University student’s lawsuit against the school for moving to online classes during the Covid-19 pandemic. Though the law was not on the books when the student was in school, the rules it created bar his contract claim.
The Fifth Circuit found that a bankruptcy court should not have denied the Electric Reliability Council of Texas’s motion to abstain in this dispute between ERCOT and an energy company, which couldn’t pay its nearly $300 million bill in the fallout of the 2021 winter storm in Texas. ERCOT is not entitled to immunity, but the Supreme Court requires abstention under guiding case law.
A federal court in Hawaii refused to dismiss a portion of a fired employee’s complaint against state deputy attorneys general, who informed his Japanese employer about his previous litigation history. One of the attorneys general does not enjoy qualified immunity, as there is evidence that she contacted the former employer and evidence of malice. The fired employee’s emotional distress claims fail, however, because this is not an “outrageous” act.
A federal court in Alabama declined to dismiss a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit filed against a man who directed his friend to a gun in the back of his car, which his friend used to shoot and kill someone he was arguing with in downtown Tuscaloosa. Though another person committed the shooting, the allegations leave enough room for members of a jury to disagree as to whether the injury was foreseeable.
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Hunter Biden filed an interlocutory appeal with the Ninth Circuit on Friday, arguing a federal judge improperly rejected his bid to dismiss tax evasion charges because a plea agreement barred the special counsel from charging him.
Airline passengers and former travel agents seek to stop Alaska Airlines from acquiring Hawaiian Airlines Inc., saying the deal creates a monopoly, shrinks competition in multiple passenger airline markets and threatens Hawaii's economy.
Popular Lunchables meal kits contain lead, cadmium and phthalates, two mothers say in a class action that accuses Kraft Heinz of deceiving customers. A recent report showed that Lunchables — often consumed by children — contained over 60% of the maximum allowed levels of the toxic chemicals that can cause brain damage and other health issues.
Mike Tyson punched out a fellow JetBlue passenger after he declined the former heavyweight boxing champ's offer of magic mushrooms on the flight, the passenger says in a lawsuit that looks to also hold the airline accountable for Tyson's behavior.
Those who are arrested in Travis County aren't provided counsel for initial bail hearings, one arrestee says in a class action that accuses the county of creating a "two-tier" system that favors those who can afford to hire an attorney.
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