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Ohio’s attorney general, Dave Yost, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday in pursuit of a novel effort to have Google declared a public utility and subject to government regulation. The lawsuit, which was filed in a Delaware County, Ohio court, seeks to use a law that’s over a century old to regulate Google by applying a legal designation historically used for railroads, electricity and the telephone to the search engine. “When you own the railroad or the electric company or the cellphone tower,… Source link

Chris Rock spoke to Insider in an interview about his former divorce lawyer, who is now representing Melinda Gates. Gilbert Carrasquillo/FilmMagic Chris Rock opened up about his experience with famed divorce lawyer Robert Stephan Cohen. Cohen is currently representing Melinda Gates, who could land the largest-ever divorce settlement. Rock said Cohen once told him the bitterest divorce disputes only amount to a fraction of what’s at stake. See more stories on Insider’s business page. In the worst… Source link

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected in his testimony before Congress on Wednesday morning to highlight new Department of Justice guidelines for investigations and cases related to domestic terrorism. The new guidelines, as outlined in a Justice Department memo obtained by Yahoo News, represent significant changes to how cases and investigations into domestic violent extremism are handled by federal prosecutors around the country, and put in place procedures for tracking those… Source link

Aaron Donald never assaulted the man who alleged he severely beat him, the Los Angeles Rams star’s lawyer claimed Friday morning. Casey White, the attorney Donald hired to represent him, made his first public comments in an interview with Pittsburgh radio station 93.7 The Fan. White told the station that DeVincent Spriggs instigated last weekend’s confrontation and that Donald went from being restrained by friends to actually coming to Spriggs’ rescue. “He goes to the pile where this… Source link

TipRanks These 2 Penny Stocks Could Rally All the Way to $11, Say Analysts At its January FOMC meeting, the Federal Reserve held interest rates steady – they are near rock-bottom now, and to no one’s surprise, the Fed is keeping them there. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell may have fed some market pessimism when he spoke after the meeting, and pointed out that unemployment, which has been rising in recent months. For market watchers seeking support, there is solace in the Fed’s monetary… Source link

By Jarrett Renshaw and Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) -President-elect Joe Biden will nominate federal appeals judge Merrick Garland to be the next U.S. attorney general, a Biden transition official said on Wednesday, a choice most Americans know as the Supreme Court nominee of President Barack Obama memorably blocked by Republicans. Garland, 68, serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, one of 13 federal appeals courts. Obama, a Democrat, nominated him to… Source link

The mass exodus of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s top staff over accusations of bribery against their former boss has left Paxton seeking $43 million in public funds to replace some of them with outside lawyers to lead a high-profile antitrust lawsuit against Google. Former Paxton aides told The Associated Press that before they reported him to the FBI in September and began resigning, the lawsuit against the search engine giant was set to be handled internally by what is one of the… Source link

This summer, Racine was among 20 state attorneys general who wrote to Facebook urging it to do more to crack down on hate and disinformation amid an advertiser boycott over the same issues. His office also has an ongoing lawsuit against the social network over the Cambridge Analytica data breach and signed on to the antitrust lawsuits filed this month against both Facebook and Google. “They react and change policy when they are under pressure,” Racine said. “Left to their own devices they… Source link

Sundar Pichai of Google testifies before the House Judiciary Committee as seen via YouTube on a laptop in Washington, DC on July 29, 2020. Carolyn Van Houten | The Washington Post | Getty Images Google is set to face a new antitrust lawsuit from a group of state attorneys general led by Texas, this time targeting its advertising technology services. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a video announcing the lawsuit that Google has used its alleged monopoly power to control pricing and… Source link

AUSTIN, Texas—Eight high-ranking employees of the Texas attorney general’s office reached out to law-enforcement authorities in September with a bold accusation, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. They claimed that their boss, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton, had illegally used his office to interfere with an FBI investigation into a campaign donor. In the weeks after the employees notified the attorney general’s office of their claims, all eight were… Source link