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A Fifth District Court of Appeals panel overruled a Newark man’s argument that the trial judge misinterpreted the experts’ conclusions of his insanity defense to charges of attempted murder and felonious assault. The three-judge panel affirmed 26-year-old Cameron Bernardo’s conviction on the charges resulting from a February 2024 incident in which he stabbed his mother [...]
COLUMBUS (AP) — A federal judge permanently struck down an Ohio law last week that would have required children and teens under 16 to receive parental consent to use social media apps. U.S. District Court Judge Algenon Marbley’s decision came in a lawsuit filed by NetChoice, a trade group representing TikTok, Snapchat, Meta and other [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. The ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Leonie [...]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge threw out a federal rule that would have capped credit card late fees after officials with President Donald Trump’s administration and a coalition of banking groups agreed that the rule was illegal. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth came a day after the Consumer [...]
The $2.8 billion legal settlement designed to reshape college sports is now before a federal judge for a final decision. Attorneys who hashed out the House settlement filed a brief that did not include changes urged by U.S. District Court Judge Claudia Wilken regarding team roster limits, saying such a late change to that rule [...]
Dozens of former student pilots who say they racked up tens of thousands of dollars in debt for tuition are suing United Airlines and its flight school in the Arizona desert, saying it didn’t have enough teachers or aircraft to properly train and graduate its students. The federal lawsuit accuses United and the school, United [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Bank of America to pay more than $540 million to resolve long-running litigation from a federal regulator that alleged the company underpaid mandatory assessments for deposit insurance. The order, reached March 31 and published publicly this week, arrives more than eight years after the Federal Deposit [...]
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese regulators have accused American tech giant Google of violating anti-monopoly laws, echoing similar moves in the United States and Europe. Google Japan said in a statement that it found the action “regrettable.” It said it has invested in Japan significantly to promote innovation as a technology leader. The Japan Fair Trade [...]
Many of the world’s largest shipping nations decided last week to impose a minimum fee of $100 for every ton of greenhouse gases emitted by ships above certain thresholds, in what is effectively the first global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. The International Maritime Organization estimates $11 billion to $13 billion in revenue annually from [...]
Meta Platforms Inc. faces an antitrust trial this week that could force the tech giant to break off Instagram and WhatsApp, startups it bought more than a decade ago that have since grown into social media powerhouses. The looming antitrust trial will be the first big test of President Donald Trump’s Federal Trade Commission’s ability [...]