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MIAMI (AP) — Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners. A six-person jury in Palm Beach County earlier this week found that the Nicklaus Companies had damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ridicule, hatred, mistrust, [...]
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s antitrust watchdog this week targeted Google and Apple for their “strategic” roles in mobile ecosystems, opening the door for regulators to impose changes to their business practices to improve competition. The Competition and Markets Authority escalated scrutiny of the two American tech companies by labeling them with “strategic market status.” It [...]
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio common pleas judge this week granted a temporary restraining order which would allow high school athletes in the state to enter into deals that profit off their talent. Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Jaiza Page issued her order that could allow all students who are part of the 818 [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the justices to revive a case against a Texas man charged with a felony [...]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California has ramped up its efforts to curb plastic pollution, suing three plastic-bag makers the state accuses of falsely claiming their products were recyclable. State Attorney General Rob Bonta said companies Novolex Holdings, Inteplast Group and Mettler Packaging violated a state law passed in 2014 that banned plastic bags at grocery [...]
A Florida judge this week temporarily blocked the planned transfer of downtown Miami land for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library. The move by Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz came after a Miami activist alleged that officials at a local college violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted the real estate to the state, which [...]
Three years after the federal government listed a tiny Nevada toad on the endangered species list, a geothermal company seeking to develop a project near the toad’s only known habitat in northern Nevada is suing the government over the listing. Ormat Technologies, headquartered in Reno, is suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court this week refused to protect Google from a year-old order requiring a major makeover of its Android app store that’s designed to unleash more competition against a system that a jury declared an illegal monopoly. The rebuff, delivered in a one-sentence decision by the Supreme Court, means Google will soon have [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is suing Zillow and Redfin, accusing the real estate companies of entering what the regulator says is an illegal deal to suppress competition in online rental advertising. In a lawsuit filed earlier this week, the FTC alleges that the agreement started in February — when Zillow [...]
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A firearms industry trade and lobbying organization secretly built a database containing the personal information of millions of gun owners and used the data to reach gun rights supporters with political ads dating back to the 2000 elections, according to a new lawsuit. The suit against the National Shooting Sports Foundation, [...]