Law related news.
NEW YORK (AP) — The founder and former CEO of the failed cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network could face decades in prison after pleading guilty this week to federal fraud charges, admitting that he misled customers about the business. Alexander Mashinsky, 58, of Manhattan, entered the plea in New York federal court to commodities and [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The District of Columbia is suing Amazon, saying the company secretly stopped providing its fastest delivery service to residents who live in two predominantly black Washington neighborhoods but is still charging residents millions of dollars for a service that provides speedy deliveries. The complaint, filed in District of Columbia Superior Court, revolves [...]
Committee members in the Ohio House of Representatives heard from the sponsors of a bill that would require the state departments of Rehabilitation and Correction and Youth Services to equip eligible inmates with a state ID or temporary identification card before the inmates are released. Republican Sens. Nathan Manning of North Ridgeville and George Lang [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments to determine if federal regulators misled companies before refusing to allow them to sell sweet-flavored vaping products following a surge in teen e-cigarette use. The court raised questions about the Food and Drug Administration crackdown that included denials of more than a million nicotine [...]
Antitrust enforcers with the Federal Trade Commission have opened a wide-ranging investigation into Microsoft’s business practices, starting a legal project that an incoming Trump administration must take up or abandon. The FTC is investigating Microsoft’s cloud computing business and related product lines such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, according to a person who was not [...]
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware judge has reaffirmed her ruling that Tesla must revoke Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick denied a request by attorneys for Musk and Tesla’s corporate directors to vacate her ruling earlier this year requiring the company to rescind the unprecedented pay package. McCormick also rejected [...]
BANGKOK (AP) — China has announced that it is banning exports to the United States of gallium, germanium, antimony and other key high-tech materials with potential military applications, as a general principle, lashing back at United States limits on semiconductor-related exports. The Chinese Commerce Ministry announced the move after Washington expanded its list of Chinese [...]
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A coalition of Canadian news publishers, including The Canadian Press, Torstar, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and CBC/Radio-Canada, has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system. The outlets said in a joint statement that OpenAI regularly breaches copyright by scraping large amounts [...]
LINCOLN CITY, Ore. (AP) — Drumming made the floor vibrate and singing filled the conference room of the Chinook Winds Casino Resort in Lincoln City, on the Oregon coast, as hundreds in tribal regalia danced in a circle. For the last 47 years, the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians have held an annual powwow to [...]
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s antitrust watchdog last week said it is suing Google over alleged anticompetitive conduct in the tech giant’s online advertising business and wants the company to sell off two of its ad tech services and pay a penalty. The Competition Bureau said that such action is necessary because an investigation into Google [...]