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LONDON (AP) — Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry. The trial could last for three weeks. Stability, based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week unanimously decided to toss out a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the United States that claimed the companies’ business practices were helping fuel cartel violence plaguing the country. In a victory for the firearm industry, the ruling tossed out the case under [...]
Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, confirmed it has begun [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A three-judge appeals panel rejected Apple’s request to pause an April 30 order banning the company from charging a fee on in-app iPhone transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system in a two-page decision issued last week. The setback threatens to divert billions of dollars in revenue away from Apple while [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza and in the West Bank. The State Department said last week it would freeze any assets the ICC judges, who come [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was demoted because she is heterosexual. The justices’ decision last week affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, [...]
An Ohio appellate panel reversed a municipal court’s ruling that denied a Lancaster woman’s effort to seal the eviction record filed against her by the owner of a rental property. A three-judge panel of the Fifth District Court of Appeals reversed the Fairfield County Municipal Court holding that the rules governing the sealing of court [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A split Supreme Court earlier this week rejected a pair of gun-rights cases, though one justice predicted the court would soon consider whether assault weapons bans are constitutional. The majority did not explain its reasoning in turning down the cases over high-capacity magazines and state bans on guns such as the AR-15, [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department has formally moved to dismiss a criminal fraud charge against Boeing and has asked a judge to cancel an upcoming trial connected to two plane crashes that killed 346 people off the coast of Indonesia and in Ethiopia, according to court documents filed late last week. The deal [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week narrowed the scope of environmental reviews required for major infrastructure projects in a ruling that could accelerate development of railroads, highways and pipelines around the country. The 8-0 decision follows an appeal to the high court from backers of a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion project in Utah, [...]