Tribunal in London will hear claims Richard Branson’s airline used Covid redundancies to target older staff

In the October incident, a pedestrian crossing the road was struck by another vehicle before landing in front of the Cruise taxi. The robotaxi braked hard but ran over the person.

Federal prosecutors say a New Jersey businessman paid tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of Senator Bob Menendez after he was granted a monopoly of certifications of halal meat imported into Egypt from the United States.

The Tokyo District Court has dismissed a claim by an American engineer regarding an AI-generated invention, saying inventors provided for under the Patent Law are limited to natural persons.

​The U.S. Department of Justice charged two suspects for allegedly leading a crime ring that laundered at least $73 million from cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as "pig butchering."

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced yesterday to 14 years and seven months in prison for possessing deepfake child sexual abuse material (CSAM) depicting numerous child celebrities.

In a case that highlights the increasing prevalence of YouTube content for children, a jury found that one content creator had infringed the copyrights of another.

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About 60 flights cancelled after members of Letzte Generation glue themselves to ground at Munich

Lawsuit targets 2016 claim that all Tesla cars "have full self-driving hardware."

Case file: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.400427/gov.uscourts.cand.400427.96.0_1.pdf

Rebecca Joynes, 30, convicted of engaging in sexual activity with minors while in a position of trust

Alleged $6.8M conspiracy involved "laptop farm," identity theft, and résumé coaching.

Case file: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/media/1352191/dl

Bit of a weird one here. So, there’s the assumption made by all cops and most courts that any area visible to passersby does not have an expectation of privacy. That means front yards, open garages, etc. Courts and cops have mostly agreed this expectation of privacy does not suddenly appear no matter how long the government stares at publicly visible areas with unblinking eyes… like surveillance cameras mounted on nearby utility poles or what have you.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24658777/overlanders.pdf

World number one Scottie Scheffler is charged with assaulting a police officer hours before his second round at the US PGA Championship.

With new photographic and video evidence, an Indian court battle over the origins of the world famous butter chicken is set to get spicier.

Brothers charged in novel crypto scheme potentially face decades in prison.

Case file: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/US-v-Bueno-Sealed-Indictment-5-15-2024.pdf

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism in a challenge brought by the payday loan industry, handing a victory to President Joe Biden's administration and a setback to the agency's conservative critics.

Is there any law that Elon Musk actually understands? The latest is that he’s lost yet another lawsuit, this time (in part) for not understanding copyright law. There have been a variety of lawsuit…

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24658681/x-v-bright-data.pdf

You may recall last month’s hilarious story of lawyer Mike Dunforth’s response to a vexatious angry demand letter from IMG, representing the LAPD Foundation, claiming that a t-shirt with the following “Fuck the LAPD” logo violated its IP rights:

A federal court ordered on Tuesday that Elon Musk must testify again in the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation into his $44 billion takeover of Twitter.

Alexey Pertsev, one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency tumbler has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for his part in helping launder more than $2 billion worth of cryptocurrency.

Björn Höcke, party’s candidate to lead Thuringia state, found to have deliberately used SA slogan in 2021 speech

Galveston county appeals after its electoral maps were thrown out for ‘stark and jarring’ violations of Voting Rights Act

In California, Biden's charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors over at least $1.4 million in taxes he owed during between 2016 and 2019.

The Google subsidiary said it would comply with last week’s court order but said it was disappointed by the decision

The First Amendment claim is unlikely to go very far.

Case file: https://assets.nationbuilder.com/joinkennedy/pages/13783/attachments/original/1715624356/lawsuit-meta-kennedy-censorship.pdf?1715624356