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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge sided with Facebook parent Meta Platforms in dismissing a copyright infringement lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the company of stealing their works to train its artificial intelligence technology. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco’s [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio has agreed to hear the appeal of a Kent property owner, who is challenging a zoning restriction that prohibits the use of a six-bedroom residence owned by the man to house individuals with disabilities. Landlord Reed Havel was able to convince a majority of the justices that the high court [...]
Federal traffic safety regulators are looking into suspected problems with Elon Musk’s test run of self-driving “robotaxis” in Texas after videos surfaced showing them braking suddenly or going straight through an intersection from a turning lane and driving down the wrong side of the road. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it has asked [...]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana has filed several lawsuits accusing pharmaceutical retailer CVS of abusing customer information and using its dominant market position to drive up drug costs and unfairly undermine independent pharmacies, the state’s attorney general said earlier this week. Attorney General Liz Murrill began investigating CVS after the company sent out mass text [...]
The professionalization of college sports has prompted concern among team physicians that they will be exposed to a greater risk of being sued by athletes who claim a poor outcome from treatment caused them to lose future earnings. Before July 2021, when college athletes were cleared to be compensated by third parties for the use [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release billions of dollars in funding for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states. U.S. District Judge Tana Lin in Washington state partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to free up the money approved under [...]
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s $7 billion-plus plan to settle thousands of lawsuits over the toll of opioids will be sent to local governments, people who became addicted to the drug and other impacted groups after a judge’s ruling last week. The nationwide settlement advanced by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Sean Lane was hammered out in negotiations [...]
LONDON (AP) — Google faced a setback last week in its attempt to overturn a multibillion-dollar European Union antitrust penalty involving Android after a top court’s legal adviser sided with regulators. The European Court of Justice’s advocate general, Juliane Kokott, recommended in a non-binding opinion that Google’s appeal against the fine worth more than $4.7 [...]
Safety analysts last week recommended that the engines on Boeing’s troubled 737 Max airplanes be modified quickly to prevent smoke from filling the cockpit or cabin after a safety feature is activated following a bird strike. The problem detailed by the National Transportation Safety Board emerged after two bird strikes involving Southwest Airlines planes in [...]
The Supreme Court of Ohio recently affirmed an appellate-court decision to make older court records in residential-eviction cases once again searchable on the Hamilton County clerk of courts website. Justices unanimously ruled that the First District Court of Appeals determination that Hamilton County Clerk of Courts Pavan Parikh’s desire to restrict online access to certain [...]