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NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has ruled that The New York Times and other newspapers may proceed with a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using their stories to train artificial intelligence chatbots. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York dismissed some of the claims made [...]
Daily Reporter Staff Consumers who were charged too much for certain generic drugs may be eligible for compensation from a $49.1 million settlement between a majority of the states — including Ohio — and two manufacturers, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced. Apotex of Toronto and Heritage Pharmaceuticals of Eatontown, N.J., were accused of participating [...]
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Synthetic dyes used to make brightly colored cereals, drinks and candies are coming under scrutiny in states across the country, where lawmakers say the federal government has stalled in taking action despite evidence of harmful effects. West Virginia, which ranks at the bottom for many health metrics, last week became the [...]
An appellate panel reversed a Fairfield County Municipal Court ruling that excluded one of the previous OVI convictions of a Canal Winchester man from the trial that resulted from a subsequent OVI offense. The Fifth District Court of Appeals panel found that it was mistaken to not permit the prosecutor for the state to include [...]
Kroger is denying Albertsons’ claims that it didn’t do enough to ensure regulatory approval of the companies’ planned supermarket merger. In court papers filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery, Kroger said Albertsons disregarded the companies’ merger agreement and worked secretly with a partner, C&S Wholesalers, to try to force Kroger to divest more stores [...]
A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the federal government’s years-old conspiracy case against Boeing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor did not explain in the scheduling order he issued why he decided to [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week declined to hear a petition filed by young climate activists who argued that the federal government’s role in climate change violated their constitutional rights, ending a decadelong legal battle that saw many of the plaintiffs grow from children and teenagers into adults. The case [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States is halfway to the next once-a-decade census, but the Supreme Court is still dealing with lawsuits that grew out of the last census. The justices on Monday were scheduled to take up a challenge to Louisiana’s congressional map, which was drawn so that, for the first time, two of [...]
A Delaware judge has appointed two Ohio pension funds as co-lead plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit seeking accountability from Boeing’s board of directors for a pattern of safety and compliance failures that have harmed the company and its investors. Vice Chancellor Morgan Zurn of the Delaware Court of Chancery appointed Ohio Public Employees Retirement System [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — A jury in Georgia has ordered Monsanto parent Bayer to pay nearly $2.1 billion in damages to a man who says the company’s Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, according to attorneys representing the plaintiff. The verdict marks the latest in a long-running series of court battles Monsanto has faced over [...]