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723Uber Faces Millions In Liabilities If Drivers Become Employees
A 2017 deposition is giving insight into Uber‘s legal strategy when fighting back against driver-related lawsuits. Legal documents related to an Atlanta...
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829Google’s EU Antitrust Appeal Hearings Scheduled For Feb.
Google’s appeal against a $2.64 billion fine for antitrust practices in the EU will be heard by a court over a three-day...
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2.6KCalibra Faces Trademark Infringement Suit Over Logo
Adding another possible legal showdown to the Libra crypto project, and potentially adding to its list of challenges, Facebook’s Calibra is facing...
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1.8KNY Lawsuit Claims Online Retailers Selling eCigs To Underage Buyers
More than 20 online eCigarette retailers are being sued by New York City for allegedly selling to children. Bloomberg is reporting that...
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2.0KDomino’s Supreme Court Decision Spotlights Online Web Accessibility
When it comes to QSR and mobile innovation, pizza seller Domino’s has earned itself a leading position. Now, thanks to a court...
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1.3KLawsuit Against Google Gets Green Light From London Court
A U.K. lawsuit filed against Google by millions of iPhone users over data collection claims was given the green light by London...
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1.8KMA Vape Sales Ban Triggers Retailer Lawsuits
The state of Massachusetts is facing a lawsuit over a new temporary ban on vaping product sales. The owners of six vape...
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1.7KFacebook Investor Lawsuit Is Dismissed
A class-action lawsuit against Facebook from investors alleging they weren’t told about the impact of a privacy breach has been dismissed, according...
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1.8KNY AG Sues Dunkin’ Over Data Breaches, Theft
The attorney general of New York has filed a lawsuit against Dunkin’ Brands over a cyberattack that saw the theft of tens...
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2.3KIBM Lawsuit Accuses Zillow Of Patent Infringement
IBM has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zillow, claiming that the real estate company used key parts of IBM technology on...
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2.7KRipple Asks Court To Dismiss XRP Securities Lawsuit
Cryptocurrency exchange and remittance company Ripple has asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit against it on procedural grounds, according to...
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2.2KRussian Hacker To Plead Guilty In JPMorgan Case
A Russian hacker who perpetrated the financial data theft of over 80 million JPMorgan Chase & Co. clients will plead guilty to...
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2.3KCollege Scandal Sentencing Highlights Old-Fashioned Payments Fraud
Payments and commerce fraud comes in a variety of rancid flavors and uses a variety of tactics, many of them increasingly sophisticated,...
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1.8KIntel Unit Case Could Cost Big Tech $2B In Taxes
A tax dispute between Intel and the Internal Revenue Service could cost large technology companies billions of dollars, according to a report...
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2.0KEx-Google Engineer Charged With Selling Trade Secrets To Uber
Former Google engineer and self-driving pioneer Anthony Levandowski is being charged with stealing closely guarded secrets and selling them to Uber, The...
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3.2KJudge Denies Bail For Accused Capital One Hacker
The woman who was accused of hacking into Capital One’s cloud and swiping the information of more than 100 million people was...
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2.0KWells Fargo To Settle Navajo Nation Lawsuit For $6.5M
The Navajo Nation announced that it has settled its lawsuit against Wells Fargo & Co for $6.5 million. The Navajo Nation sued...
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1.8KDOJ Charges Nigerian Email Scammers
The U.S. Justice Department has announced charges against 80 people, most of them Nigerians, in a wide-ranging fraud and money laundering operation...
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3.7KLawsuits Pile Up For Cap One, Amazon Post Hack
Capital One and Amazon Web Services are being sued by customers due to the massive hack that impacted more than 106 million...
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2.6KKik Accuses SEC Of ‘Twisting Facts’ In Crypto Lawsuit
Canadian chat app Kik has filed an answer to a lawsuit by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) claiming that the company’s...
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2.5KeBay Files Suit Against Amazon For Soliciting Sellers
Online commerce platform eBay has filed a lawsuit against Amazon claiming the eCommerce giant was trying to steal its sellers through eBay’s...
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2.2KChinese Banks Held In Contempt By US
An appeals court in the U.S. has upheld the decision by a lower court to hold three Chinese banks in contempt for...
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2.9KIndia’s Lawmakers Recommend Crypto Ban
A panel of lawmakers in India prepared a report about cryptocurrency use in the country and is recommending a ban on all...
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3.8KAmazon Threatens Surescripts Over Blocking PillPack Patient Data Access
Amazon’s pharmacy arm PillPack could soon be blocked from accessing patients’ histories, pitting the online giant against Surescripts, an electronic prescribing company...
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2.1KCannabis Law Reform Gains Momentum In Congress
In a first-ever congressional hearing on marijuana law reform, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security convened July 10...
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1.7KEU Court Sets Date To Rule On Privacy Case Against Facebook
The latest twist in what could very well be a landmark ruling is set to unfold Dec. 12, when Europe’s top court...
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2.3KCourts Say Amazon Liable For Third-Party Seller Missteps
An appeals court has ruled that Amazon can be held liable for third-party sales on its site, according to reports. Amazon lets...
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3.1KEquifax’s Ex-CIO Will Do Time For Insider Trading
The United States Department of Justice has announced that Jun Ying, the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Equifax U.S. Information Solutions,...
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1.6KWalmart Sued By JetBlue For Jetblack Name
To force the world’s biggest retailer to stop using the Jetblack name for its personal shopping service, JetBlue Airways has sued Walmart...
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1.5KHuawei Sues US Over Detained Telecom Equipment
Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commerce Department over telecommunications equipment. The lawsuit centers on whether...
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3.2KBrazil Bribery Charges Cost Walmart $282M
Walmart will pay a total of $282 million to settle with the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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3.0KExpedia Sued By Nustay Over Antitrust Claims
Online travel booking startup Nustay has filed a complaint with the European Union’s antitrust regulator, the European Commission, accusing Expedia Group and...
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1.7KState AGs Sue To Block Sprint/T-Mobile Merger
Ten or more state attorneys general are reportedly gearing up to jointly file suit to block the $26 billion merger of Sprint...
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1.8KAirbnb Is Cooperating With A Subpoena From NYC
Airbnb is reportedly complying with a New York City subpoena that wants information about some of its listings, according to reports. The...
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3.2KWalmart, Wearables And The Murky Future For Marketplaces In India
While it might not look like much at first glance, an escalating legal spat between Walmart-owned, Indian eCommerce marketplace Flipkart and a...
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2.6KUS Judge: Facebook May Have Improperly Handled Data Breaches
Vice Chancellor Joseph Slights of the Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that there’s a “credible basis” to infer that Facebook may have...
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1.3KStudent Loan Scammer Settles With FTC For $11M
The leader of a student loan debt relief scheme has agreed to settle with the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) charges that he...
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3.1KFirst American Financial Customers Sue Over Data Breach
First American Financial Corp., the title insurance company that exposed the data on hundreds of millions of mortgages dating as far back...
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2.7KHuawei Files Motion To Toss Out Federal Ban
Huawei, the Chinese telecom company that landed on a blacklist in the U.S., has filed a motion in U.S. court aiming to...
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3.3KBank of Chicago CEO Indicted For Bribing Manafort
Stephen Calk, the founder of the Federal Savings Bank of Chicago, a mortgage lender and a former economic adviser to President Trump’s...
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2.0KCongress Supports Facial Recognition Regulation
Members of Congress supported a plan to draft legislation aimed at the use of facial recognition software by law enforcement on Wednesday...
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3.6KAllied Wallet Settles With FTC Over Fraudulent Payment Allegations
Payment company Allied Wallet and its owner, Ahmad Khawaja, as well as two officers, Mohammad Diab and Amy Rountree, have settled with...
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2.1KAmazon Prevails In Domain Name Fight With LATAM
Amazon has won a lengthy fight against eight Latin American countries for the provisional ability to use the .amazon domain name, according...
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3.0KLyft Gets Hit With Class-Action Investor Lawsuit
Lyft’s stock inched lower in trading Monday (May 20) after investors filed a class action lawsuit against the ride-hailing startup. According to...
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3.3KCFPB Sues Debt-Collection Agency Over Deception Allegations
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Friday (May 17) that it has filed a lawsuit in federal court against a debt-collection agency...
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2.1KPew Blasts CFPB Payday Lending Proposal
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) wades through the public comments about rules regarding payday lending, The Pew Charitable Trusts has...
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3.6KBattle Over Payday Lending Shifts To Public Comments
The battle over payday lending — specifically, how tough U.S. federal rule will be in governing the industry — is heating up as an...
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2.0KAutonomy’s Ex-CFO Gets Five Years For Accounting Fraud
The former CFO of Autonomy has been sentenced to five years in prison for accounting fraud. Sushovan Hussain was convicted on 16...
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4.5KSupremes Greenlight Consumer Apple App Store Lawsuit
Apple was dealt a blow on Monday (May 13) after the Supreme Court ruled that an antitrust lawsuit over its App Store...
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2.5KChinese National Charged In Anthem Data Breach
U.S. prosecutors have charged a Chinese national for his alleged involvement in the 2015 data breach at health insurance company Anthem, which...
