The court refused to hear the case brought by the National Coalition for Men and supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), instead upholding a ruling by a lower court which maintains the Pentagon policy. The challengers behind the initial lawsuit had hoped that the Supreme Court would overrule …
Read More »Going green on Elon: Tesla hit with second Solar Roof lawsuit as customer says price was more than DOUBLED after contract signed
The lawsuit, which was filed in California this week, is led by Matthew Amans, an associate professor of clinical radiology at the University of California San Francisco. Amans had ordered the company’s Solar Roof for his home in June 2020, according to his suit. He agreed to pay $71,662.06, but …
Read More »EU to hit AstraZeneca with second lawsuit over Covid-19 vaccine delivery delays, spokesperson says
“Tomorrow, the case against AstraZeneca on the merits [of the proposed lawsuit] will be introduced before the Belgian court,” the spokesperson told a news briefing on Monday. This second round of legal action against the Anglo-Swedish drugs manufacturer is mostly procedural, according to Reuters, but could allow the bloc to …
Read More »Minneapolis settles lawsuit from George Floyd estate for $27mn ahead of Derek Chauvin trial
The settlement includes $500,000 to be sent to the neighborhood where Floyd died during his arrest in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020. The $27 million payment marks the largest pre-trial settlement in a civil rights wrongful death case in US history. “That the largest pre-trial settlement in a wrongful death …
Read More »Michigan health department hit with lawsuit over its refusal to share nursing home data amid comparisons to Cuomo’s cover-up
Journalist Charlie LeDuff launched a Freedom of Information suit against the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday, accusing the agency of withholding data linked to coronavirus deaths in nursing homes without legal basis. “Not only does the public have the right to know this information, we have …
Read More »RT’s German-language service prepares lawsuit after notorious tabloid ‘Bild’ falsely accuses its journalists in Berlin of SPYING
In the article published on Tuesday, reporter Julian Roepcke, who has previously been aligned with the ‘Disinformation Portal’ of NATO’s Atlantic Council adjunct, claims that, according to Bild’s information, President Vladimir Putin ordered a spy op on his “public enemy number one.” It allegedly targeted opposition figure Alexey Navalny and two of his …
Read More »Ground control to major lawsuit? Dubai launches ‘space court’ to settle celestial corporate disputes
While lawyers themselves won’t actually be floating around in zero gravity, the new court, launched under the auspices of the Dubai International Financial Centre, will settle commercial disputes and violations of bi- and multilateral space-related treaties. The DIFC, an independent arbitration center, is modeled after British common law and already …
Read More »The Parler precedent? Lawsuit calls on Google to drop Telegram from app store, a week after Apple was targeted in the same way
Filed by Marc Ginsberg, a former US ambassador to Morocco, the lawsuit claims that the popular app is used to spread violence, extremism and anti-Semitism. Ginsberg’s non-profit, Coalition for a Safer Web (CSW), was also listed as a plaintiff. The complaint notes that Google suspended Parler, a Twitter-like conservative microblogging …
Read More »Texas lawyer files bizarre lawsuit seeking to reinstate Trump, dissolve ENTIRE Congress & ban Mark Zuckerberg from public office
Filed in the Waco Division of the Western District of Texas this week, Paul Davis’ suit also requests the FBI and Justice Department be barred from arresting him unless they can prove he committed “some overt and intentional act of violence that directly resulted in substantial injury to the person …
Read More »Not required to host ‘incendiary speech’: Judge REJECTS Parler’s lawsuit to restore Amazon service
US District Judge Barbara Rothstein has sided with Amazon in the dispute, saying it is within the company’s right to suspend hosting services to the social media platform, which had become relatively popular with conservatives and Donald Trump supporters for its hands-off approach to moderating content. “The Court rejects any …
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