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Seth Rich lawsuit: Fox News sued over WikiLeaks-DNC claims
The parents of late DNC staffer Seth Rich have sued Fox News over a retracted report claiming their son was in contact with WikiLeaks and leaked the DNC emails to the whistleblowing organization. Joel and Mary Rich filed the suit in Federal District Court in Manhattan on Tuesday, accusing the network of fabricating a conspiracy […]
Walmart, Dick’s sued for age discrimination over gun sale policy change
Just weeks after two of America’s biggest retailers changed their policies to sell guns only to people aged 21 and over, they’re facing an age discrimination lawsuit. The changes were made following the Parkland school shooting. Oregon man Tyler Watson filed lawsuits against both Dick’s Sporting Goods and Walmart after he was refused service when […]
IBM sued Microsoft for hiring its chief diversity officer — and it could be a new kind of ‘trade secret’
Thomson Reuters When IBM lost its female chief diversity officer to rival Microsoft earlier this month, Big Blue went to court to stop her working for a year. It seems that ways to recruit talented women, then retain and promote them, have become proprietary business data, just like more traditional trade secrets. Employers competing to […]
Appeals court: Twitter can’t be sued for “material support” of terrorism
Enlarge (credit: Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) An appeals court has ruled that Twitter is not liable for the deaths of two American military contractors who were killed in Jordan in 2015. In a Wednesday decision, the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court’s ruling in 2016 for dismissal of the […]
US professor sued for dropping ‘Nazi’ bomb in spat with German airport police
An American professor is being sued for slander by German police who allege she called their colleague a ‘f**king Nazi’ during a heated argument about carry-on liquids at Frankfurt International Airport. C. Christine Fair, an associate professor at Georgetown University, got into the argument when airport police told her she had too many liquids in […]
What it’s really like to be sued by a patent troll — and how to stop it
GUEST: Patent trolls, more formally known as Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs), are entities that acquire patents for the sole purpose of suing companies in order to monetize them. They also happen to make a habit of piling on a tremendous amount of added work, expense, and stress onto legitimate operating companies. Preparing for possible litigation […]
Uber sued over non-payment of ‘fraudulent’ mobile ads
(Reuters) — A British mobile advertising agency has sued Uber to force the ride-hailing company to pay millions of dollars of bills that Uber had refused to pay after claiming that ads being generated were fraudulent. Fetch Media filed its lawsuit on Tuesday in the same California federal court where Uber had sued Fetch in […]
AT&T sued over layoffs—after promising more investment because of tax cut
Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart) AT&T was sued last week by a workers’ union that is trying to stop the telco from instituting what it calls a “massive layoff.” Thousands of employees are reportedly being laid off by the company, which reported $ 39.7 billion in revenue and $ 6.4 billion in operating income last quarter. […]
AT&T sued over layoffs—after promising more investment because of tax cut
Enlarge (credit: Mike Mozart) AT&T was sued last week by a workers’ union that is trying to stop the telco from instituting what it calls a “massive layoff.” Thousands of employees are reportedly being laid off by the company, which reported $ 39.7 billion in revenue and $ 6.4 billion in operating income last quarter. […]
