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The federal government last week said it is suing Uber for allegedly discriminating against passengers with disabilities. The Department of Justice said Uber drivers routinely refuse to serve individuals with disabilities, including those with service dogs. Uber is the largest ride-hailing company in the United States. The lawsuit alleges that Uber drivers have charged illegal [...]
WACO, Texas (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh says the genius of the American system of government is that no one should have too much power, even as he and some other justices on the Supreme Court are facing criticism for deferring repeatedly to President Donald Trump. Invoking the list of grievances against [...]
BENSENVILLE, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents seized hundreds of thousands of illegal vaping products in raids across the country last week as the Trump administration moved to crack down on devices that are regularly used by teens in the United States after being smuggled in from China. Attorney General Pam Bondi, Health and Human Services [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge this week skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally pirated to train chatbots, raising the specter that the case could still end up going to trial. After spending nearly an hour mostly lambasting [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot. The settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as this week, could mark a turning point in [...]
A $21 million jury verdict against Vail Resorts for a paralyzing ski lift fall shows that liability waivers — those documents often written in legalese that people must sign before taking part in an activity— aren’t ironclad legal protection for businesses in the recreation industry, according to attorneys with experience in similar cases. If a [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal jury has ordered Google to pay $425.7 million for improperly snooping on people’s smartphones during a nearly decade-long period of intrusions. The verdict reached last week in San Francisco federal court followed a more than two-week trial in a class-action case covering about 98 million smartphones operating in the [...]
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Carrying photos of their loved ones into court last week, family members of victims killed in Boeing 737 Max crashes urged a judge to reject a deal that would spare the company from criminal prosecution. Some of the relatives of the 346 victims — killed in crashes off the coast [...]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The developer of an offshore wind farm that would power 350,000 homes in Rhode Island and Connecticut last week sued the Trump administration for halting its construction. Danish energy company Orsted said it filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia arguing that the administration lacks the [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge earlier this week ordered a shake-up of Google’s search engine in an attempt to curb the power of an illegal monopoly while rebuffing the federal government’s attempt to break up the company and impose other restraints. Analysts say the 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta [...]